April 2012

Oil Spill 2 years later

The 2 year anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill?á(pdf) was earlier this week.?á There are a number of studies being performed to determine the long term issues relating to the spill and it’s clean up.?á

LSUHSC is a member of the Deepwater Horizon Research Consortium, a network of community and university partnerships that will conduct research on the gulf coast over the next 5 years. Specifically, the LSUHSC School of Public Health is conducting the Women and their ChildrenÔÇÖs Health (WATCH) study, which will investigate the short and long term physical, mental and community health effects resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Additionally, LSU Baton Rouge is involved in measuring the economic and ecological impact of the spill.

Books Featured for Occupational Therapy Month

The Isch?®?áLibrary and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) are?ácelebrating April as Occupational Therapy Month. The Library has a group of important books on the subject of OT currently displayed on the third floor next to the Library elevator.

These titles include:

1. Cole, MB. Group dynamics in occupational therapy: the theoretical basis and practice application of group intervention (2005; 2012 edition is also available on Reserve).
2. Stein, F, & Cutler, SK. Psychosocial occupational therapy: a holistic approach (2002).
3. Hemphill-Pearson, BJ. Assessments in occupational therapy mental health: an integrative approach (2008).
4. Willard, HS, & edited by EB Crepeau, ES Cohn, BA Boyt Schell; 104 contributors. Willard & Spackman’s occupational therapy (2003; 2012 edition is also available on Reserve).
5. Christiansen, CH, CM Baum, & J Bass-Haugen. Occupational therapy: performance, participation, and well-being (2005; 2009 edition is also available on Reserve).
6. Law, M, C Baum, & W Dunn. Measuring occupational performance: supporting best practice in occupational therapy (2005).
7. Letts, L, P Rigby, & D Stewart. Using environments to enable occupational performance (2003).
8. Law, L, & MA McColl. Interventions, effects, and outcomes in occupational therapy: adults and older adults (2010).
9. Moyers, PA, & LM Dale. The guide to occupational therapy practice (2007).
10. Wilcock, AA. An occupational perspective of health (2006).
11. McCormack, GL, EG Jaffe, & M Goodman-Lavey. The occupational therapy manager (2003).
12. Jacobs, K. Ergonomics for therapists (2007).
13. Fazio, LS. Developing occupation-centered programs for the community (2008).
14. Kielhofner, G. A model of human occupation: theory and application (2002).
15. Radomski, MV, & CA Trombly Latham. Occupational therapy for physical dysfunction (2008).

Don’t forget to also investigate the Library’s occupational therapy eBooks: an assortment is available through online resources such as the R2 Digital Library, Stat!Ref, and Books@Ovid.

More info about Occupational Therapy Month and the OT profession is available on the Association’s website at www.aota.org.

Historical Anatomies from NLM

Interested in the history of anatomy? Or just want to see some cool old anatomical illustrations? Take a look at the National Library of Medicine‘s Historical Anatomies on the Web collection digitized for your enjoyment.

The collection covers the 15th through 20th centuries and currently includes over 40 titles.

AccessMedicine downtime (4-11)

We are sorry to inform all you late night cram session fans that AccessMedicine will be down for maintenance the early morning of Thursday, 12 April, during a migration of all sites to new, upgraded servers. The migration is scheduled to start at 11pm on the 11 April 2012. Expect AccessMedicine, AccessSurgery and AccessEmergencyMedicine to be unavailable during that time.

From the press release:

We want to inform you of scheduled downtime that AccessMedicine will experience in the early morning of Thursday, 12 April, during a migration of all sites to new, upgraded servers. The migration is scheduled to start at midnight (12:00am EDT 12 April 2012).

This upgrade is being undertaken to ensure that the testing and live environments for all McGraw-Hill sites are enhanced and synchronized for maximum performance.

Due to this upgrade, AccessMedicine will be unavailable to users, possibly for up to 2 hours, but we do not expect the process to exceed 2 hours. Users who visit the sites during this time will be presented with a page alerting them that the site is undergoing scheduled maintenance and to check back soon.

During downtime, please check our list of ebook providers?áfor alternative resources.

LSUHSC Students – OT Awareness Video

edit: as of today, Weds. April 11, the video has been removed. Sorry!

The Occupational Therapy students have created a video and posted it on YouTube to get the attention of Ellen Degeneres and promote OT Awareness. April is OT Awareness Month.
Enjoy!

Louisiana Named – 330 years ago

A color reproduction of a 17th Century map by Jean Baptiste Louis, Franquelin entitled Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle.

Happy Name Day to the entire former Louisiana Territory.

Libraries Closed for Easter

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Both the Isch?® and Dental Libraries are closed for Easter today, tomorrow and Sunday (April 6th – 8th). Both will reopen on Monday morning at 8 am.

Recent Faculty Publishings

Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the Library’s Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the Library’s Faculty Publications Database.

The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 – present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a PDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.

LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:

1. Ballif B, Rosenfeld J, Traylor R, Theisen A, Bader P, Ladda R, Sell S, Steinraths M, Surti U, McGuire M, Williams S, Farrell S, Filiano J, Schnur R, Coffey L, Tervo R, Stroud T, Marble M, Netzloff M, Hanson K. ÔÇ£High-resolution array CGH defines critical regions and candidate genes for microcephaly, abnormalities of the corpus callosum, and seizure phenotypes in patients with microdeletions of 1q43q44.ÔÇØ Human Genetics. 2012; 131(1): 145-156.
2. Cole L, Polfus L, Peters ES. ÔÇ£Examining the incidence of human papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancers by race and ethnicity in the U.S., 1995-2005.ÔÇØ PLoS One. 2012; 7(3): e32657.
3. Fitzgerald-DeJean D, Rubin SS, Carson RL. ÔÇ£An application of the experience sampling method to the study of aphasia: A case report.ÔÇØ Aphasiology. 2012; 26(2): 234-251.
4. Geisz-Everson MA, Bennett MJ, Dodd-McCue D, Biddle C. ÔÇ£Disrupted by disaster: Shared experiences of student registered nurse anesthetists affected by Hurricane Katrina.ÔÇØ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing. 2012; 50(1): 32-38.
5. Hsieh M-C, Velasco C, Wu X-C, Pareti LA, Andrews PA, Chen VW. ÔÇ£Influence of socioeconomic status and hospital type on disparities of lymph node evaluation in colon cancer patients.ÔÇØ Cancer. 2012; 118(6): 1675- 1683.
6. Martin DH. ÔÇ£The microbiota of the vagina and its influence on women’s health and disease.ÔÇØ American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 2012; 343 (1): 2-9.
7. Zolochevska O, Xia X, Williams BJ, Ramsay A, Li S, Figueiredo ML. ÔÇ£Sonoporation delivery of interleukin-27 gene therapy efficiently reduces prostate tumor cell growth in vivo.ÔÇØ Human Gene Therapy. 2011; 22(12): 1537-1550.

Also Featured: Conference abstracts of the February 2012 Southern Regional Meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research, which was held in New Orleans. Various LSUHSC authors.

Louisiana’s most senior politician = SoM graduate

A feature on WVUE Fox 8 News last night featured Dr. I. C. Turnley. At 85, he’s the most senior elected official in the state, serving as coroner for Lasalle Parish since 1959.

Dr. Turnley is a graduate of LSU School of Medicine in 1956. In fact, it’s indisputable. You can see his name in the graduation record – it’s part of our digital collection of Graduation Programs in the Louisiana Digital Library. Wondering what the life of a medical students was like in that era? Peruse our digital collection of Tiger Rag student newspapers, and you may happen upon his name as well.

Student Worker Needed

The Library is looking for a part-time student worker for evenings and weekends. Pick up an application at the Circulation Desk.

Health Care For the First Freedpeople

Contraband camp, Richmond, Va, 1865, image courtesy of the US National Archives

Here’s a great post about the first US sponsored hospital for African Americans from Jill L. Newmark, exhibition specialist in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

On a parcel of swampy land in northwest Washington, D.C. bounded by 12th, 13th, R and S Streets N.W., a tented camp and hospital once stood that served thousands of escaped slaves and black soldiers during the American Civil War. Known as Contraband Camp, it contained one of the few hospitals that treated blacks in Washington, D.C. during the war and whose staff, including nurses and surgeons, were largely African American.

Read more: Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople

Easter Library Hours

Merlin Chocolate Bunny

Both the Isch?® and Dental Libraries will close at 8 pm on Thursday, April 5th and will remain closed through Sunday, April 8th. Both Libraries will reopen Monday morning at 8 am.