Calendar of Events
MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS
April 2014
Tuesdays at 12:00 Noon - URIS AUDITORIUM
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
"Informing AML Therapy Via Genomic Strategies"
Duane Hassane, PhD
2012 Seed Grant Winner
Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
"Zebrafish: A New Tool for Cancer Genetics"
Yariv Houvras, MD, PhD
2012 Seed Grant Winner
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Developmental Biology
Departments of Surgery and Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
"Innovation in communication about end-of-life care:
Using videos and system-level change to improve care"
Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
"Molecularly Targeted Therapy of Lymphoma Based on Genomics"
Louis Staudt, MD, PhD
2014 Sass Foundation Visiting Professor
Director, Center for Cancer Genomics, NCI, NIH
Co-Chief, Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, CCR, NCI, NIH
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Andrew I. Schafer, MD Symposium:
"What is the Future of Academic Medicine?"
(12:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
With Guest Speakers:
Paul Klotman, MD
President and CEO
Baylor College of Medicine
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
George E. Thibault, MD
President, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Medicine Grand Rounds Lectures Are Now Videotaped and Available Online.
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Statement of Need
Advances in these fields need to be presented to Weill Cornell faculty and other physicians on a regular basis as one means of promoting state-of-the-art health care for patients.Target Audience Physicians in this specialty and others interested as one means of promoting state-of-the-art health care for patients.
Course Objectives Physicians attending this conference regularly should be apprised of recent advances in medicine that will lead to improved patient care.
CME Accreditation Weill Cornell Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.Weill Cornell Medical College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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All disclosures will be made at the time of this CME activity.