Mayo Clinic Heritage Film Premiere

EVENT POSTPONED

While we are eager to celebrate the Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and the release of the Mayo Clinic Heritage Film, "A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones," we are taking proactive precautions for the wellbeing of our community. The previously scheduled April 21
event will be postponed until a later date, likely in Fall 2020.

Please contact healthinstitute@illinois.edu with questions.

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Join Mayo Clinic and Illinois leadership and friends for a joint simulcast celebration of the Mayo Clinic and University of Illinois Alliance and premiere of a Mayo Clinic Heritage Film documentary. This special event will highlight the collaboration of our two world-class institutions to transform healthcare and change lives through innovative research activities and unique education programs.

About the film, A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones

Mayo Clinic has a long history of collaborations that led to important new medical knowledge and treatments, Now, research at Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois is suggesting new possibilities for treating and preventing painful kidney stones.

This film tells the story of how the team pursued their line of inquiry. They found leads in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, the world of microbes that live in the kidney and the most detailed pictures ever taken of a kidney stone – images that are strikingly beautiful and unexpectedly informative. Another important clue lay in plain sight: the travertine stone used extensively in the buildings of Mayo Clinic.

A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones is made possible with leadership support from Steven E. Brown and Anne M. Huber.

About Mayo Clinic Heritage Films

Mayo Clinic Heritage Films is a collection of more than twenty films presenting the history and culture of Mayo Clinic.  Award-winning documentaries and fictional films tell the stories of remarkable people and noteworthy events from Mayo’s +150-year history.  Mayo Clinic Heritage Films are designed to be relevant and engaging for employees, patients and visitors -- anyone with an interest in the history of medicine and Mayo Clinic.  The films are made possible with the generous support of Mayo Clinic benefactors.

Program for the evening (Illinois):
5:45 p.m.     Gather; appetizers and beverages served
6:00 p.m.     Joint simulcast begins; opening remarks 
6:05 p.m.     Showing of film: "A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones"
6:25 p.m.     Joint simulcast panel discussion: Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance
7:00 p.m.     Closing remarks and end of simulcast
7:05 p.m.     Dessert reception

Program for the evening (Mayo Clinic):
5:45 p.m.     Gather; boxed meals and beverages served
6:00 p.m.     Joint simulcast begins; opening remarks
6:05 p.m.     Showing of film: "A World in a Grain of Sand: New Discoveries in Kidney Stones"
6:25 p.m.     Joint simulcast panel discussion: Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance
7:00 p.m.     Closing remarks and end of simulcast
7:05 p.m.     Walk-about led by University of Illinois Professor Bruce Fouke (begin in Landow Atrium): "Stones of Mayo Clinic," followed by a dessert reception in Mathews Grand Lobby

Fluorescence micrograph of a human kidney stone from the Mayo Clinic
Image provided by Mayandi Sivaguru, Jessica Saw from Bruce Fouke Lab, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, U. of I.

“We're combining geology and biology and applying it directly to the human kidney.”
Bruce Fouke, Ph.D., University of Illinois

“Interdisciplinary work is the absolute joy of life. When that happens … magic happens.”
Nicholas Chia, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic