Events
Events
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Maya Jerath, “Alpha-Gal Allergy Update”
Dr. Jerath has a special interest in a novel condition known as “alpha-gal food allergy,” which causes some patients to experience allergic symptoms when they eat mammalian meat such as pork and beef. She has a cohort of patients with this condition and, together with her UNC colleagues, is trying to understand this condition at … Read more
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Grand Rounds: Kamal Henderson, MD. Advancing Cardiovascular Health Outcomes with Social Determinants of Health
Speaker: Kamal Henderson, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: "Advancing Cardiovascular Health Outcomes with Social Determinants of Health"
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Darren DeWalt “Healthcare Payment and Changing Healthcare Delivery: What is an Accountable Care Organization?”
As of the beginning of this year, UNC Senior Alliance, our Accountable Care Organization (ACO), is responsible for the total cost of care for approximately 24,000 attributed Medicare beneficiaries in the Triangle and Caldwell service areas, regardless of where they receive care. Our ACO rewards coordinated care across settings and provides us with flexibility to … Read more
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Gary Winzelberg “Medications for Dementia and Its Complications: Are We Treating Patients or Ourselves?”
Dementia (Alzheimer’s disease and other major neurocognitive disorders) affects 15% of the United States’ population older than age 65 and is the sixth leading cause of deaths among all adults. Despite the impact of dementia on patients, families and society, the last FDA-approved treatment was in 2003. In this presentation, Dr. Winzelberg will share evidence-based … Read more
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Genetics Chair Seminar Series: Laurie Boyer, PhD, “Mending a Broken Heart”
Speaker: Laurie Boyer, PhD, Departments of Biology & Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTopic: Mending a Broken Heart
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Suk-Won Jin, PhD, ” Context-dependent outcomes of BMP signaling in vasculature”
Speaker: Dr. Suk-Won Jin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, KoreaTopic: Context-dependent outcomes of BMP signaling in vasculature
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Whitehead Lecture: Dr. Brian Jensen, “Patience is a Prickly Virtue”
Dr. Brian Jensen will be giving this year's annual Whitehead Lecture.
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Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Michael Bode, “Protease-activated Receptors in Cardiac Disease”
Speaker: Michael Bode, MD. Cardiology Fellow, UNCTopic: Protease-activated Receptors in Cardiac Disease