Mark Your Calendar
Bioinformatics Grand Rounds
March 1
4 – 5:30 p.m., New Research Building, HIM Lecture Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Troyen Brennan, MD, MPH, former president and CEO of the BWPO, senior vice president and chief medical officer, Aetna Inc., presents “An Insurer’s View of the World: Health Informatics & Personalized Medicine.” All are welcome. For more information, contact Barbara Mawn at 617-525-4467 or bmawn@partners.org
Schwartz Center Rounds:
“Do I Know You? Coping and Compassion in the Face of Deception”
March 6
12:15 - 1 p.m., Carrie Hall
Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Pamela Galowitz at ext. 2-8590).
Quality Rounds:
“Delivering Better Care, to More People, with Less Effort and Cost”
March 13
Noon – 1 p.m., Anesthesia Conference Room, L1
Presentation by Steve Spear, DBA, MS, senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m. Physicians, nurses, physician assistants, administrators and staff are invited to attend. Approved for CME category 2 credit, Risk Management credit and CEU - 1.2 contact hours for nurses.
Quality Rounds:
“Surgical Disparities in Surgical Care”
April 10
Noon – 1 p.m., Anesthesia Conference Room, L1
Presentation by Selwyn Rogers, MD, MPH, director, Surgical Critical Care, BWH. Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m. Physicians, nurses, physician assistants, administrators and staff are invited to attend. Approved for CME category 2 credit, Risk Management credit and CEU - 1.2 contact hours for nurses.
World Health Forum Series
Dr. Tadataka Yamada, president of Global Health Program, Bill and Melina Gates Foundation, presents “Perspectives on Global Health” on Thursday, Feb. 22, 12:30 – 2 p.m., in the Armenise Building Amphitheater, HMS, 210 Longwood Ave. Register by Monday, Feb. 19, to 617-432-2645 or daisy_fung@hms.harvard.edu
Medical Grand Rounds
Fridays at noon, Bornstein Amphitheater
Feb. 23: “Update in Clinical Genetics for Internists.” Presentation by Michael Murray, MD
March 2: Clinical Case of the Month. Presentation by Charles Morris, MD
March 9: “Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Clots and More.” Presentation by Bonnie Bermas, MD
March 16: TBA. Presentation by Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, chief of Allergy, U Va
March 23: “Thrombopoietin in normal and neoplastic hematopoiesis.” Presentation by Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, professor and chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
March 30: “Prostate Cancer.” Presentation by Philip Kantoff, MD, Anthony D’Amico, MD, Jerome Richie, MD