Pregame HokieTalks: Grad Dean Karen Depauw, Medical Student Mustafa Rasheed & Prof. Kevin Lahmers
Venue: Holtzman Alumni Center, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2018
Time: 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
presents Pregame HokieTalks: Grad Dean Karen Depauw, Medical Student Mustafa Rasheed & Prof. Kevin Lahmers on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at Assembly Hall within the Holtzman Alumni Center.

Schedule of Talks:
• 9:30 am: Graduate School Dean Karen DePauw
• 9:50 am: Third Year Medical Student at VT Carilion School of Medicine Mustafa Rasheed
• 10:10 am: VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Kevin Lahmers

Graduate School Dean Karen DePauw presents "3 I's = T: 21st Century Graduate Education Isn't What It Used To Be".

Mustafa Rasheed, a third year medical student at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, will focus on the medical student perspective and discuss the domains and development of VTC that makes it unique in molding student doctors for the future. He will also discuss the partnership between of the School of Medicine, Carilion, and the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, where medical students have the opportunity to design and execute research projects with mentors.

Kevin Lahmers, a clinical associate professor in anatomic pathology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, will present "One Health: How it helped identify a new tick-borne threat coming soon to an area near you". The talk will discuss ticks and their pathogens including a rare tick species he recently discovered in our area.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Parking is free and available on a first-come, first-served basis in the Holtzman Alumni Center lot. Enter through The Inn at the Virginia Tech entrance from Prices Fork Road. Parking lots open at 7:00 am.

Notify the parking attendant you plan to attend this event at the Alumni Association to receive free parking.

For more information, visit: https://www.alumni.vt.edu/football/pregame-hokietalks18/1006.html.

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