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 For immediate release:
May 22, 2006
Contact: Jennifer Day
(313) 577-1058

Seminar series on interdisciplinary research to kick off Tuesday

In keeping with Dean Robert M. Mentzer's vision for expanding the School of Medicine's research portfolio, the Office of the Dean has initiated a series of special seminars on interdisciplinary and translational research. The program will kick off at this Tuesday, May 23, with a seminar on translational cardiovascular research, "Reperfusion: A Major Fulcrum of Post-ischemic Injury and Salvage."

The talk will be presented by Jakob Vinten-Johansen, Ph.D., director of the Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory at Emory University's Carlyle Fraser Heart Center. Dr. Vinten-Johansen, a professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has concentrated his research in the mechanisms and treatment of surgical and non-surgical myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.

The seminar will be from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, in Karmanos Cancer Institute's 2 Wertz Auditorium. Lunch will be provided.

With more than 1,000 students, the Wayne State University School of Medicine is the nation's third largest medical school. Together with its clinical partners, the Wayne State University Physician Group, the Detroit Medical Center and other area health-care providers, the school is a leader in medical research and patient care with emphases on cancer; maternal-child health; neurosciences; and population studies and urban health.

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He is married to Monika Mentzer. Robert and Monika have two adult sons, Markus and Stefan, and recently became proud grandparents of their first grandson, Ethan James.

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