Demystifying Medicine
Tuesdays: January 7 through May 12
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Building 50 / Conference Room 1227
(unless otherwise noted)
Main Page
Course Materials
Speaker Profiles
Topic Introductions
Demystifying Medicine Flyer
Final Examination
Until further notice, onsite attendance is not encouraged.
You are encouraged to view the presentation line by visiting https://videocast.nih.gov/.
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January 7 |
Canceled Due to Weather | ||
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January 14 |
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Ebola: Then, Now and the NIH |
Daniel Chertow, MD, MPH (CC) Vincent Munster, PhD (NIAID) Nancy Sullivan, PhD (NIAID) |
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January 21 |
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Biophotonics: From Light Pulses to Heart Pulses: Viewing Life on the Inside | Bruce Tromberg, PhD (NIBIB) and colleague |
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January 28 |
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Taxol: Discovery, Mechanism and Cancer Treatment |
Susan Band Horwitz, PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Jung-Min Lee, MD (NCI) |
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February 4 |
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HIV: Latest Challenges in Mechanism and Management
Location: Building 10 / Lipsett Amphitheater |
John Coffin, PhD (NCI/Tufts) Frank Maldarelli, MD, PhD (NCI) |
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February 11 |
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Encephalitis and the Immune System |
Avindra Nath, MD (NINDS) Bryan Smith, MD (NINDS) |
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February 18 |
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Addiction and Pain:Are They Inseparable? |
Nora Volkow, MD, PhD (NIDA) Catherine Bushnell, PhD (NCCIH) |
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February 25 |
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Tracing Memories from Clinical Manifestations to Molecular Footprints |
Lorna Role, PhD (NINDS) Dimitrios Kapogiannis, MD (NIA) |
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March 3 |
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Sickle Cell Anemia: Treatable and/or Curable? |
John Tisdale, MD (NHLBI) Alan Schechter, MD (NIDDK) |
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March 10 |
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Challenges of Childhood Disorders of Mood and Attention |
Philip Shaw, PhD (NHGRI) Argyris Stringaris, MD, PhD (NIMH) |
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March 17 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Diversity and Disease in the Genomic Era |
Gary Gibbons, MD (NHLBI) Anne Sumner, MD (NIDDK) |
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March 24 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Bone Marrow Based Therapies |
Cynthia Dunbar, MD (NHLBI) Harry Malech, MD (NIAID) |
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March 31 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Viruses and Immunodeficiency: Mechanisms and Management |
Philip Murphy, MD, PhD (NIAID) Heidi Kong, MD (NIAMS) |
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April 7 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Multiple Sclerosis: Advances in Pathogenesis and Treatment |
Bibiana Bielekova, MD (NIAID) Alison Wichman, MD (NIAID) |
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April 14 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Autophagy: Mechanisms and Neurodegenerative Disease |
Anna Marie Cuervo, MD, PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Michael Ward, MD, PhD (NINDS) |
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April 21 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Role of the Microbiome in Nutrition Inflammation and Cancer |
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD (NIAID) Giorgio Trinchieri, MD (NCI) |
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April 28 |
~POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE~ Biomedical Challenges in Space: Human Biology, the International Space Station and Beyond |
Mark Shelhamer, DSc, (Johns Hopkins (former Chief Scientist: NASA Human Research Program)) Christopher Wanjek, MS (Science and Health Writer) |
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May 5 |
RNA Viruses: How They Do What They Do |
Karla Kirkegaard, PhD (Stanford University) Nihal Altan Bonnet, PhD (NHLBI) |
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May 12 |
~The Challenge of Pandemic Preparedness ~Current Status of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases |
Anthony Fauci, MD (NIAID) Roger Glass, MD, PhD (FIC) |
THE COURSE: The 2020 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 7th and includes the presentation of patients, pathology, diagnosis and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward Ph.D. students, clinicians and program managers, the course is designed to help bridge the