SparkTalks | April 4, 2024

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What:

Igniting the thoughts and solutions of influential UIC changemakers to inspire and create a better world.

  • 15 presenters
  • 3-minute talks
  • 1 hour of inspiration

When:

Thursday, April 4, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Where:

UIC Dorin Forum (725 W Roosevelt Rd.),
GHI Meeting Rooms

This event has reached capacity and no additional RSVP’s can be accepted.

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Schedule of events subject to change.
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Chancellor's Welcome
SparkTalks Presentations
See below for a complete list of presentations!
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Light Refreshments

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  1. Terry Vanden Hoek, MD, FACEP | Transforming Cardiac Arrest Care
  2. Decoteau J. Irby, PhD | Five Organizational Conditions to Advance Racial Equity
  3. Melissa Martin, PhD | Innovative Research in Management Accounting: Control Systems and Contracting
  4. Daniel Borzutzky, MFA | “The Murmuring Grief of the Americas,” poems
  5. Lisa Powell, PhD | Fiscal Policies for Health
  6. Debra Tonetti, PhD | Translational Opportunities in Breast Cancer: From Bench to Bedside
  7. Wonhwa Cho, PhD | Cholesterol-targeting Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Drugs
  8. Amita Shetty | Break Through Tech Chicago
  9. Sara Beeler, PhD, LCSW, MPA | Building Equitable and Responsive Systems of Care for Persons who use Drugs and Alcohol
  10. John Monaghan, PhD | The Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing
  11. Mary Khetani, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA | What Surrounds Us, Shapes Us
  12. Paul Carlier, PhD | UICentre: UIC’s catalyst for campus-wide, collaborative and community-responsive drug discovery
  13. Charu Thakral, PhD | Inclusive Education Scholars Certificate Program
  14. Tanvi Bhatt, PhD, MS, PT | Are Falls Inevitable or Preventable?
  15. Jamie Chriqui, PhD, MHS | What Gets Measured, Gets Changed: The Art and Science of Policy Surveillance in Examining the Impacts of Public Policies

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Complimentary and relocation parking (current UIC Hang Tag) is available in Lot 5, 1135 S. Morgan Street.

Please pull a ticket, and complimentary parking coupons will be distributed at check-in.

When guests arrive, signs and staff will be present to help individuals toward the check-in table in the lobby.

All guests will be required to register in advance and will be asked to check in upon arrival.

CART captions will be provided. Should you require additional accommodations to participate, please contact provost@uic.edu.

Questions or concerns? Please contact Tyler Nielsen, pniels2@uic.edu.

Employees may be released from work without loss of pay to attend such events and meetings whenever operations permit. As long as supervisors receive adequate notice of such approved events and meetings and coverage can be arranged, every effort should be made by departments to release employees to attend.