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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century holds a meeting.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9:15 a.m. - The Relationship Between the University and Academic Health Centers

9:30 a.m. - Dr. Judith Rodin, President, University of Pennsylvania

10:30 a.m. - Dr. Lee Bollinger, President-Elect, Columbia University and former President, University of Michigan

11:30 a.m. - Mr. Leonard Sandridge, Executive Vice President, University of Virginia

1 p.m. - Kenneth Shine, M.D., President, IOM -- Comments to the Committee

Relationship Between the University and Academic Health Centers (cont'd)

1:30 p.m. - Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President, George Washington University

DATE: April 17, 2002

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LOCATION: National Academies building, 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND THE ANTITRUST DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE hold joint hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy."

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition? 1 p.m. - Robert Potter, Chief, Legal Policy Section, Antitrust Division--Opening Remarks

Garrard R. Beeney, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell

Jeffery Fromm, Senior Managing Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company

Baryn Futa, Manager and Chief Executive Officer, MPEG LA

Peter Grindley, Senior Managing Economist, LECG, Ltd, London

Christopher J. Kelly, Special Counsel, Litigation Department, Kaye Scholer LLP

James Kulbaski, Partner, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

David McGowan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law

M. Howard Morse, Partner, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP

Joshua Newberg, Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Jonathan Putnam, Assistant Professor of the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property, University of Toronto School of Law

Lawrence M. Sung, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore

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DATE: April 11, 2001

LOCATION: Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-326-2180

WEB ADDRESS: ftc.gov

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine holds a meeting on the Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control: Exploring the Consequences and Opportunities.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. - Opening Remarks/Day One Summary

Stanley Lemon, Vice Chair, Forum on Emerging Infections

Session III: Creating Opportunities from Globalization: A Framework for Progress

Michael Zeilinger, U.S. Agency for International Development

9:15 a.m. - Globalization and Health: a framework for analysis and action

Douglas Klaucke, World Health Organization

9:35 a.m. - Closing the Gap of Health Inequalities: Science with Humanity

Patty Stonesifer, Gates Foundation (invited)

9:55 a.m. - Partnering for Success: The Role of Private-Public Sector Collaboration

Roy Widdus, Initiative for Public-Private Partnerships for Health, Geneva

10:15 a.m. - The Current Situation and Perspectives of International Collaboration in the Field of Biomedical Sciences: The Example of the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, VECTOR

Sergei Netesov, VECTOR Laboratories, Koltsovo, Russia

10:35 a.m. - Protecting the Nation's Health in an Era of Globalization, CDC's Global Infectious Disease Strategy

Eric Mintz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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10:55 a.m. - The Global Fund: A Brave New World

William Steiger, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

11:30 a.m. - Considerations for Shaping the Agenda

Dean Jamison, UCLA and Fogarty International Center

Jerry Coovadia, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa (invited)

Mark Miller, Fogarty International Center

Ralph Timperi, Chair, APHL Global Health Committee

Jean Lanjouw, Yale University (invited)

1 p.m. - Session IV: The Global Application of Tools, Technology, and Knowledge to

Counter the Consequences of Infectious Diseases

LOCATION: 2100 C St. NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION holds its Recall Round-Up of Deadly products news conference.

DATE: April 17, 2002

LOCATION: 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301-504-0580

WEB ADDRESS: cpsc.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION National Air and Space Museum presents aeronautics curator Dik Daso discussing the Doolittle Raid. This April 1942 air attack on Japan--launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle--was the most daring operation undertaken by the United States in early days of war in the Pacific.

DATE: April 17, 2002

LOCATION: Meet at the museum seal, Washington, DC

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CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents a lecture and Booksigning with the son of Lt. Col. James F. Quirk, who was the public affairs officer for George S. Patton, Jr.'s Third U.S. Army, and was in a unique position to observe the general and his army in their roll across France and into Germany.

DATE: April 17, 2001

LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,

CONTACT: 202-501-5000

WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS LECTURE SERIES presents:

Emerging Protective Roles of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Aggressive and Depressive Disorders

Dr. Joseph R. Hibbein, Chief, Outpatient Clinic, Section of Nutritional Neurosciences, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, NIAAA

Imaging the Effect of Medical and Interventional Therapies in Patients with Heart Failure

DATE: April 17, 2001

LOCATION: Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301 496-2563

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 2001-2002 DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES presents "Molecular Microbial Ecology: in Hot Springs and Human Disease," with Dr. Norman R. Pace, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder.

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DATE: April 17, 2001

LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301-594-5595

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents celebrated photographer Patrick Lichfield, 5th Earl of Lichfield and cousin of Queen Elizabeth, relating his experiences photographing his cousin and the British Royal Family. He has also photographed every royal family in Europe.

DATE: April 17, 2002

LOCATION: Natural History, Baird Auditorium, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 6:45 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Center for the Book's Book & Beyond author series, co-sponsored with the Washington chapter of the Women's National Book Association present 100 One-Night Reads highlighting 100 books "that can be read with great enjoyment in the course of a single evening." For each of their recommended one-night reads, the authors provide a concise essay about the book and its author that emphasizes "what we think is truly special about the book.

DATE: April 17, 2002

LOCATION: LC, Mumford Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-7544

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov

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