NOON-TIME SEMINAR SPEAKERS 2007-08
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DINNER TIME SEMINAR SPEAKERS 2007-08
March 13, 2008
Suite 300 CSN
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD
Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor Director, Neurofibromatosis Center Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine “What Mouse Models Can Teach Us about Human Brain Tumors ”
January 8, 2008
303 CSN(840 S Wood, Yellow Elevator)
Robert Bailey, PhD, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health
"Male circumcision: On the cutting edge of HIV Prevention, Research and Practice"
November 13, 2007
MBRB Auditorium (by invitation only)
Peter Agre, MD
Nobel Laureate Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology Director, MSTP, Duke University “Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine”
October 16. 2007
Suite 300 CSN (yellow elevator)
David Eddington, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Biopharmaceutical Sciences Dept. of Bioengineering “Microsystems for Medicine and Biology”
Monday, April 16 , 2007
Suite 303 CSN Eric Svensson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine Co-Director, Physician Scientist Development Program The University of Chicago “The Role of FOG Proteins in Cardiovascular Development ”
Monday, February 12, 2007
Suite 300 CSN
Sue Carter Porges, PhD Stephen Porges, PhD
Professors of Psychiatry Dept. of Psychiatry “The Love Code: The Neurobiology of Engagement and Bonding”
Monday, January 29, 2007
303 CSN
John W. Christman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Chief, Section of Pumonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago “Macrophage Gene Expression in Systemic and Pulmonary Inflammation”
Monday, December 4, 2006
5:30 P.M. Suite 300 CSN
Andrew Mesecar, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Biopharmaceutical Technology Institute for Tuberculosis Research University of Illinois at Chicago “Drug Discovery in Biodefense: Our Progress at UIC”
Monday, October 30, 2006
5:30 P.M. Suite 300 CSN
Alan McLachlan, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology University of Illinois at Chicago “Is chronic HBV infection really curable?”
MSTP Grand Rounds
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:30 p.m. - 221 CMW
“HPV and Cervical Cancer”
Presented by MSTP students
Masa Nanamori, Sheila Barry, Juliana Choi
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:30p.m. 303 CSN
"Novel Antimitotic Therapies in the Treatment of Malignant Neoplasma"
Presented by Ronald Jackups, Rahul Dave and Even Osmundson
Click here for a list of Grand Rounds Seminars for 2007-08
2007 Retreat
August 12-13-2007
Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center
Breakout Session I: 2:00-3:15
Brain On The Stand Facilitator: Scott
Participants: Brad, Christina, Ina, Janai, Joe Z, Lexie, Marisa, Roy, Tammy, Yalda
"The Brain on The Stand" by Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times 2007-03-11
Optional: Fresh Air Interview with Jeffrey Rosen by Terry Gross, NPR 2007-03-13
Concierge Medicine Facilitator: Evan
Participants: Ajay, Andrew, Irene, Jake, Juliana, Lila, Pete, Senta, Vanessa
Concierge medicine gaining ground: competition forces medical center into "boutique' business-
Inovation" by John Kirkpatrick, ACPE 2002
"One Doctor's Journey into Concierge Medicine" by Julie Silver, Unique Opportunities 2003-09
"A New Health Care Gimmick: Concierge Medicine" by Sidney Wolfe, Health Letter 2003-10
Should you consider consider concierge medicine? "by Vasilious J. Kalogredis, Physicians'
News Digest 2004-02
Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research Facilitator: Joel
Participants: David, Ike, Jen, Mark, Rahul, Ren, Sachin
"Financial Conflicts of Interest and the NIH" by Robert Steinbrook, NEJM 2004-01-22
Conflicts of Interest at the NIH - Resolving the Problem" by Robert Steinbrook, NEJM 2004-09-02
"Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest" by Brennan et al., JAMA 2006-01-25
Academic Medical Centers and Medical Research: The Challenges Ahead Facilitator: Ananda
Participants: Arpita, Ben, Jacob, Joe K, Jon, Sheila, Terry
"From bench to beside and back?" by Diane Gershon, Nature 2001-06-21
Science as a Way of LIfe: Perplexities of a Physician-Scientist" by Floyd E. Bloom, Science 2003-06-13
"From bench to beside and back?" by Karen Kreeger, Nature 2003-08-28
Academic Medical Centers and Medical Research: The Challenges Ahead" by Jordan J. Cohen and
Elisa K. Siegel, JAMA 20005-09-21
Optional: "Promoting Translational and Clinical Science:
The Critical Role of Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals" by AAMC Task Force, AAMC 2006
Breakout Session II: 3:30-4:45
Intro To The M3 Year
Facilitators: Jake & Terry
Participants: Ajay, Evan O, Irene, Mark, Rahul, Roy, Sheila
Drug-Related Deaths Facilitator: Vanessa Participants: Ben, Brad, Lila, Marisa, Pete, Tammy, Anil
Overdose deaths attributed to methadone and heroin in New York City, 1990–1998" by
Bryant et al., Addiction 2004
"Unintentional methadone-related overdose death in New Mexico (USA) and
implications for surveillance, 1998–2002" by Shah et al., Addiction 2005
"Circumstances of witnessed drug overdose in New York City: implications for intervention" by
Bryant et al., Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2005
Medical Research Activities, Funding, and Creativity in Europe: Comparison With
Research in the United States Facilitator: Lexie
Participants: Andrew, Ananda, Evan S, Ike, Janai, Sachin
"A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences"
by Owen-Smith et al., JAMA 2005-09-21
Pharmaceutical companies' and Media's impacts on medical practice and patient education
Facilitator: David Participants: Christina, Jacob, Joe Z., Juliana, Rahul, Ren, Senta, Yalda
"Direct Marketing of Pharmaceuticals to Consumers" by Alan Lyles, Annu. Rev. Public Health 2002
"Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering" by Moynihan et al.,
BMJ 2002-04-13
"Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs" narrated by Amy Goodman, Video
Stem Cell Research: Paths to Cancer Therapies and Regenerative Medicine
Facilitator: Ina Participants: Arpita, Jen, Joe K, Joel, Jon W, Scott
"Stem Cell Research: Paths to Cancer Therapies and Regenerative Medicine" by Irving Weissman, JAMA 2005-09-21
"Key Moments in the Stem Cell Debate" NPR 2007-06-20
2006 Retreat
Breakout Session I: 2:00-3:15
Alternative Medicine
Facilitator: Rahul
Participants: Jennifer, Jon, Michelle, Mike, Nick, Ninh, Pete, Thomas
"How might acupuncture work? A systematic review of physiologic rationales from clinical trials" by Howard H Moffet, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006-07-07
"Effectiveness of Acupuncture as Adjunctive Therapy in Osteoarthritis of the Knee" by Brian M. Berman, Annals of Internal Medicine 2004-12-21
"Applying Evidence-Based Medicine to Traditional Chinese Medicine: Debate and Strategy" by Jeanne L. Shea, The Journal Of Alternative And Complementary Medicine 2006
Healthcare & Obesity
Facilitators: David R, Vanessa
Participants: Ben, Christina, David M, Jake, Joe Z, Sarah, Senta, Yalda
"Making Fun of Patients: Medical Students’ Perceptions and Use of Derogatory and Cynical Humor in Clinical Settings" by Delese Wear, Academic Medicine 2006-05
"Obesity: America’s Epidemic" by Judi Daniels, AJN 2006-01
"Surgery for Obesity: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?" by Rahul Pannala, Digestive Surgery 2006-04
Insurance Reform/Healthcare and the Poor
Facilitator: Scott
Participants: Arpita, Evan O, Ina, Joe K, Mark, Masa, Roy, Sachin
"Relatively Deprived" by John Cassidy, The New Yorker 2006-04-03 & "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker 2005-08-29
"The Health of Nations" by Arnold S. Relman, The New Republic 2005-03-07
Medicine and the Media
Facilitator: Irene
Participants: Ajay, Alexandra, Ananda, Evan S, Janai, Joel, Lila, Sheila, Terry
"Influence of Patients’ Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Antidepressants" by Richard L. Kravitz, JAMA 2005-04-27
"Direct-To-Consumer Advertising — Strengthening Our Health Care System" by Alan F. Holmer, New England Journal of Medicine 2002-02-14
Optional: "How does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) affect prescribing? A survey in primary care environments with and without legal DTCA" by Barbara Mintzes, CMAJ 2003-09-02
Optional: "What Are the Roles and Responsibilities of the Media in Disseminating Health Information?" by Gary Schwitzer, PLoS Medicine 2005-07
Breakout Session II: 3:30-4:45
Gene Therapy
Facilitator: Ina
Participants: David M, Evan S, Irene, Jake, Joe K, Joel, Michelle, Scott
"Germ-Line Genetic Enhancement and Rawlsian Primary Goods" by Fritz Allhoff, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2005
"Last Word: Imagining the Future" by Ronald M. Green, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2005
"Confronting the Issues of Therapeutic Misconception, Enrollment Decisions, and Personal Motives in Genetic Medicine-Based Clinical Research Studies for Fatal Disorders" by Lisa M. Arkin, Human Gene Therapy 2005-09
Intellectual Property
Facilitator: Yalda
Participants: Ajay, Arpita, Dave R, Jennifer, Jon, Lila, Mark, Terry
"University-Based Science and Biotechnology Products: Defining the Boundaries of Intellectual Property" by Aaron S. Kesselheim, JAMA 2005-02-16
"A US perspective on technologytransfer: the changing role of the university" by Lita L. Nelsen, Nature Reviews: Molecular Cell Biology 2004-03
Multi Drug Resistance in the Treatment of Illness
Facilitators: Mike, Sheila
Participants: Alexndra, Ananda, Ben, Evan O, Janai, Pete, Sachin, Thomas, Vanessa
"Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the community setting" by E. Yoko Furuya, Nature Reviews 2006-01
"MRSA—the tip of the iceberg" by P. C. Appelbaum, Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2006
Stigma of Mental Illness
Facilitator: Christina
Participants: Joe Z, Masa, Ninh, Nick, Sarah, Senta, Rahul, Roy
"Subjective experiences of stigma. A focus group study of schizophrenic patients, their relatives and mental health professionals" by Beate Schulze, Social Science & Medicine 2003
