The Library is looking for photographs, publications and unpublished material which document the history of UT Southwestern, including the work and lives of notable faculty and administrators. If you have materials which depict significant aspects of UT Southwestern’s history, please contact the Library’s Archivist, Bill Maina, by email; or by phone at 214-648-2629.

 Examples of materials wanted include:

• Photographs
• Publications of the campus (especially need campus phone books from 1988 to 1996)
• Publications about UT Southwestern and notable members of the campus community

Materials added to the UT Southwestern Archives will be preserved for posterity in a safe, controlled environment, and made available to the campus community.

The Library is sponsoring a special presentation by Carol Tamminga, M.D., entitled A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession. This presentation, which will be held on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, from 12 to 1 p.m. in McDermott Lecture Hall D1.602, focuses on the many changes that have affected clinical research and practice in psychiatry over the years.

For example, the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, 1952) had 130 pages and included 106 mental disorders. The current edition (DSM-IV-TR, 2000), describes 287 conditions in more than 900 pages. A fifth edition is expected to be published next year. From its psychoanalytic premises, dominant in the immediate Post-war Era, to its emerging approaches in neurobiology and genetics, psychiatry has undergone a sea-change in the past half century, responding to profound changes in society (e.g., removal of homosexuality from the category of disorders) and to progress in neuroscience (e.g., neuroimaging).

Dr. Tamminga is Chair of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia at UT Southwestern. She holds the Communities Foundation of Texas Chair in Brain Science along with the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair and the McKenzie Chair in Psychiatry.

Dr. Tamminga’s lecture will be hosted by Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

The program is free and open to all. Pre-registration is not required. A light lunch will be served; come early!  For more information, please contact John Fullinwider by phone at 214-648-3801 or by email at john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu.

Monday – April 23:OvidSP Trainer Glenn McAlpine will be conducting the following Monday training sessions on both South and North campuses. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.
9:30-11 a.m. – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: MEDLINE & PsycINFO Databases.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine, Training Manager, Wolters Kluwer Heath Medical Research.

11 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
OvidSP: Advanced MEDLINE searching.
Presenter:  Glenn McAlpine.

2-3 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to PsycINFO Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

3-4 p.m. – NL3.120 Graduate School Lecture Hall
OvidSP: Introduction to MEDLINE Database.
Presenter: Glenn McAlpine.

Tuesday – April 24:
11:00 a.m.-12 noon – Library Classroom (E2.310A)
Designing Your Best Academic Poster.
Presenter: Jane Scott, Design and Promotion Specialist, UT Southwestern Medical Center Library.

Learn a step-by-step process for creating a poster: evaluate software pros and cons, identify effective basic principles of design, explore formatting tips and tricks for easy graphics and table creation within a poster. Evaluate sample posters for effective use of design principles, readability and impact. Bring your poster samples and questions for technical troubleshooting and individual assistance. Registration is recommended. Space is limited.

Wednesday – April 25:
12 noon-1 p.m. – D1.602
A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession.
Presenter: Carol Tamminga, MD, Chairman of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia, UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Host: Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

Dr. Tamminga will explore the rise of neuroscience as the basis for psychiatry and the policy/practice dilemmas that have emerged as a result.  DSM revisions occurring this year, reported shortages of Ritalin and other drugs, and recent research controversies fuel changes in the profession.

Monday, April 2, 2012
Global Public Health
Elizabeth Race, M.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Ignaz Semmelweis & The History of Epidemiology
Robert Haley, M.D.
Room D1.100, 12-1 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Dallas: Making a Difference Locally
Wendy Chung, M.D.
Room D1.106, 12-1 p.m.

Thursday, April 5, 2012
Improving the Development of Children: A Public Health Perspective
Margaret Caughy, Sc.D.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Friday, April 6, 2012
Bioterrorism, Disaster Preparedness & Public Health
John T. Carlo, M.D., M.S.
Room C2.106, 12-1 p.m.

Everyone is invited. For more information, please contact David Bennett Grinsfelder by email at david.grinsfelder@utsouthwestern.edu or by phone at 214-226-0668.

A traveling banner exhibition, and online exhibition with education resources developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health will be on display for a limited engagement at the South Campus (main) Library from March 19 – April 28, 2012.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) created characters that are among the richest and most humanly recognizable in all of literature. Yet Shakespeare understood human personality in the terms available to his age—that of the now-discarded theory of the four bodily humors –blood, bile, melancholy, and phlegm. These four humors were thought to define peoples’ physical and mental health, and determined their personalities, as well.

The language of the four humors pervades Shakespeare’s plays, and their influence is felt above all in a belief that emotional states are physically determined. Carried by the bloodstream, the four humors bred the core passions of anger, grief, hope, and fear—the emotions conveyed so powerfully in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies.

“And there’s the humor of it” Shakespeare and the four humors explores these themes in a special display featuring images of rare books and incunables from the collection of the National Library of Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Curated by Gail Kern Paster, PhD and Theodore Brown, PhD and exhibition design by Riggs Ward Design.

The exhibit is sponsored by the UT Southwestern Chapter of the Student National Medical Association along in conjunction with the Office of Minority Student Affairs and the Office of Faculty Diversity and Development.  It will remain throughout the month of February.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the world’s first degree in medical illustration, which was awarded by Southwestern Medical College in 1947. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the program will close in July of 2013.

St. Paul began in 1896 in a frame cottage on Hall Street that was both a 10-bed hospital and home to a few Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul sisters. From this modest beginning, St. Paul grew rapidly. In 1898, a new 110-bed hospital building opened on Bryan Street, and substantial additions were made in 1916 and 1952. A School of Nursing was begun in 1900, and would operate until 1971. In 1964, St. Paul moved to a new state-of-the-art building on Harry Hines Blvd., where it remains today. These milestones are all reflected in the photographs on display.

A humorous, illustrated essay from 1923 titled “Evolution of a Uniform: 1903-1913-1923” is included in the exhibit and traces the radical changes in nurses uniforms over that twenty-year period.

The exhibit will be on display for at least two months.

The exhibit coincides with the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s Ida M. Green Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Honoring Women in Science and Medicine. This year’s honoree is Judith Kimble, Ph.D., who is the Henry Vilas Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.