Through his roles as medical director of hospital epidemiology and associate chief medical officer of UNC Health Care, Dr. Weber works to prevent hospital-acquired infections in patients and staff at UNC Hospitals. Watch the video
Speaker, Gregory Sprung, MD, UNC Cardiology Fellow
Speaker: Dr. Matthias Nahrendorf, Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard UniversityTopic: Myeloid cells in cardiovascular disease
Dr. Ron Falk, Chair of the Department of Medicine, will provide updates on the department. Dr. Wesley Burks, Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, also will make a presentation. This meeting replaces Medicine Grand Rounds and is for faculty, fellows and residents. A boxed lunch will be served. Watch the video
Dr. Raj Kasthuri is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and is the Director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence. He is a member of the UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. Dr. Kasthuri's clinical and research interests are in bleeding and clotting disorders, … Read more
Speaker: Dr. Matthew C Zimmerman, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. Routine screening mammography is recommended by most groups issuing breast cancer screening guidelines. There are, however, important considerations for who should be screened, when screening should start, how often they should be screened, and … Read more
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Cascio, EPA
Speaker: Da-zhi Wang, Harvard University