Events
Events
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Sidney Smith “Key Messages from the 2018 Guidelines for the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol”
Sidney Smith is a professor of medicine, an active clinical cardiologist and a clinical researcher. He is a past president of the American Heart Association and a world-recognized expert on developing national and international guidelines for assessment of cardiovascular risk and for treatment of cardiovascular disorders including hypertension, cholesterol abnormalities, and acute coronary syndromes. At … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Ann Murphy
Speaker: Dr. Ann Murphy, Johns Hopkins University
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Hyman Muss “Personalizing Care for the Older Cancer Patient”
Dr. Muss is a translational researcher who is involved in the design and of both clinical trials that contain collaborative trials involving both laboratory and health services research. His major interest is in cancer in older patients with a focus on the treatment of breast cancer in older women. Breast cancer is a disease of … Read more
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Laurence E. Earley Lecture: Cornelia Dean “Doctors and Patients: Ignorance, Irrationality and Risk”
When ordinary people attempt to understand scientific, medical or other technical information, they may find themselves hampered by ignorance, irrational patterns of thinking and erroneous ideas about risk. These problems are always unfortunate, but when the information people are trying to understand relates to their own health, they are particularly unfortunate.Clinicians can do a lot … Read more
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Timothy Ives “Medical Uses of Cannabinoids”
This presentation will cover the current medical uses of cannabinoids, such as those found in marijuana or hemp products. The action of these agents, as well as a review the evidence-based literature for their use for common medical conditions will also be provided. Dr. Timothy Ives is the Director of Pain Management Service, Division of … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Young-sup Yoon, M.D., Ph.D
Speaker: Young-sup Yoon, M.D., Ph.D, Emory University
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Patricia Rivera and Jason Akulian “Empyema Thoracis: Diagnostic Challenges and New Insights into an Old Disease”
This lecture will review the epidemiology, pathogenesis, microbiology and morbidity and mortality of thoracic empyema. Two cases will be used as examples to highlight pitfalls in the diagnosis of empyema. The role of non-invasive studies including thoracic ultrasound and the approach to pleural drainage and interpleural therapy with tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and DNase will … Read more
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Bryan Roth, “G-Coupled Protein Receptors”
Bryan Roth is the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Translational Proteomics in the Department of Pharmacology. He is a world-renowned scientist best known for creating an innovative scientific method that allows neuroscientists to manipulate and study brain circuits in health and disease. G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent one of the most evolutionarily … Read more
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Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Failing Fontan Circulation in Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Speaker: Mahesh Sharma, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UNC; Chief, Section of Congenital Cardiac Surgery; and Co-Director, North Carolina Children's Heart CenterTopic: Failing Fontan Circulation in Adult Congenital Heart Disease