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Clinical Center Grand Rounds
January 1997
Schedule of Topics and Speakers
Wednesday, January 1
12 noon - 1 p.m.
No Grand Rounds Today in Observance of the New Year's Day Holiday
Wednesday, January 8
12 noon - 1:00 p.m
Bench to Bedside
Rethinking Anti-Inflammatory Therapies in Sepsis
Peter Eichacker, M.D., Head, Critical Care Medicine Section,
Critical Care Medicine Department, CC (Benchwork)
and Anthony Suffredini, M.D., Senior Investigator, Critical Care Medicine
Department, CC
(Bedside Implementation)
Wednesday, January 15
12 noon - 1:30 p.m.
The Pathogenesis and Treatment of Zoster and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
Stephen E. Straus, M.D., Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NINDS
Make No Bones About It: Skeletal Dysplasias and Fibroblast Growth
Factor Receptor 3 Mutations
Clair A. Francomano, M.D., Chief, Medical Genetics Branch and
Clinical Director, NCHGR
(A Live Video Conference Broadcast to 50 Medical Schools - No Late Arrivals
- Overflow in Masur Auditorium)
Wednesday, January 22
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
A New Look at the Structure of the Human Brain Using Diffusion
Tensor MR Imaging
Carlo Pierpaoli, M.D., Visiting Associate, Neuroimaging Branch,
NINDS
Autoimmunity and the Immunotherapy of Cancer: Targeting the "Self"
to Destroy the "Other"
Nicholas P. Restifo, M.D., Senior Investigator, Surgery Branch,
NCI
Wednesday, January 29
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
CLINICAL STAFF CONFERENCE
Cytokine Questions and Cytokine Answers in Experimental/Clinical Crohn's
Disease
Warren Strober, M.D., Head, Section on Mucosal Immunity, Laboratory
of Clinical Investigation, NIAID, Moderator
All health care
professionals are invited to CC Grand Rounds. Lectures will be held in the
Lipsett Amphitheater, First Floor, Clinic Building, (ACRF), Clinical
Center, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD.
Parking is very limited on the NIH campus, but Medical Center Metro Station
on the Red line is within a 10-minute walk of the Clinical Center.
Metrobuses J2 and J3, and Montgomery County Ride-On Bus #35 all stop right
in front of the Clinical Center.
If you must drive, please park in the overflow lot (see map and directions
on back). This is Mid-Pike Plaza, located north of NIH at Montrose Rd. and
Rockville Pike. This lot is served by shuttle buses, which run to the
Clinical Center every 20 minutes. For permits or shuttle schedules, call
the Clinical Center Special Events Section at 496-3475. Parking in the P-3
level of the ACRF garage is intended for patients, their visitors, and
staff members with handicap-parking stickers.
The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences/National Institutes
of Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences/National Institutes
of Health designates this continuing medical education activity for 1
credit hour in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the
American Medical Association.
Questions about rounds? Call Clinical Center Communications, 301-496-2563. Comments on this site? webmaster@cc.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Warren Grant MagnusonClinical Center (CC) Bethesda, Maryland 20892. Updated 4/22/98
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