Dr. Andrew Greganti will review the clinical course of a patient who initially presented with a polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome and whose prolonged illness was complicated by a cardiomyopathy of unclear pathogenesis. Dr. Anil Gehi is an electrophysiologist in the UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care specializing in pacemaker and defibrillator implantation, device extraction, catheter … Read more
Speakers: Dr. M. Andrew Greganti (Vice Chair, Department of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine) and Dr. Anil Gehi (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology)Topic: Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Speaker: Mark Kahn, MD (Edward Cooper, MD and Norman Roosevelt & Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine)Topic: Cerebral Cavernous Malformation: From Mechanism to Therapy
Speaker: Walter Koch, PhDTopic: Targeting GRK2 in The Failing Heart
The US is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and so have sales of these prescription drugs. Efforts to address the opioid epidemic have focused mainly on reducing non-medical opiate use. Overprescribing of opiate agents has led to a sharp increase in the prevalence … Read more
"Gut Feelings for Eating Disorders: The role of enteric microbial communities in anorexia nervosa" by Ian M. Carroll, Ph.D.
Dr. Anne Cappola is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Center and Director of Clinical Research for the Department of Medicine. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. … Read more
