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Lessons in Scientific Leadership Seminar Series for NIH Trainees, Investigators and Scientific Staff - Dr. Ben Muneta
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Natcher (Bldg. 45) / Rooms F1 &F2
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Start Date: |
12/13/2007 2:00 PM
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12/13/2007 3:00 PM
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| Event Details: |
The Office of Intramural Training and Education invites you to attend our first Lessons in Scientific Leadership Seminar Series for NIH trainees, investigators and scientific staff. We are pleased to host Dr. Ben Muneta who will share his work on Hantavirus in the American Southwest and will share his experiences as a physician-scientist and member of the Navajo Nation.
Dr. Muneta¹s talk, and an opportunity for dialogue with the NIH community, will take place at 2:00 p.m. on December 13, 2007, at Natcher, Bldg. 45, Rooms F1 &F2.
Dr. Muneta is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and recently retired from the Indian Health Service where he served as a chronic disease epidemiologist. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley in
1976 with his B.A. and received his medical degree from Stanford School of Medicine in 1980.
In the summer of 1993, an outbreak of an unidentified strain of hantavirus killed 42 people in the American Southwest. With a team of medical professionals and researchers, Dr. Muneta, a medical epidemiologist, helped characterize this hantavirus strain. He discovered that traditional Navajo healers maintain a knowledge of hantavirus that predates the Western discovery by hundreds of years. By investigating Navajo methods for avoiding this disease, Dr. Muneta was able to identify the host vector and the means of transmission of hantavirus.
There will be an opportunity for trainees to have lunch and chat with Dr.
Muneta from 12:00 1:30 p.m. If you are interested you must be one of the first 25 to register at this link: Register Me
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Yolanda Mock Hawkins at 301-435-8014. |