NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS
Episode 2010-21
Time: 05:39
Recorded June 9, 2010

Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers
Seventh Annual John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture
Hospital Infections: Rumors and Reality
Tara Palmore, MD
Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist
CC and Staff Clinician, NIAID

ANNOUNCER: Discussing Outstanding Science of the Past, Present and Future - this is NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds.

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Greetings and welcome to NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, recorded June 9th, 2010 at America's Clinical Research Hospital, the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. We have a special presentation today, the seventh annual John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture, featuring the 2009 Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award winner, Dr. Tara Palmore, Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist at the NIH Clinical Center and Staff Clinician at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Her topic will be "Hospital Infections: Rumors and Reality."

You can see a closed-captioned videocast of this lecture by logging onto http://videocast.nih.gov -- click the "Past Events" link -- or by clicking the "View Videocast" link on the podcast homepage at www.cc.nih.gov/podcast. The NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS podcast is a presentation of the NIH Clinical Center, Office of Communications, Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison. For more information about clinical research going on every day at the NIH Clinical Center, log on to http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov.

We take you to the Lipsett Ampitheater at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland for today's presentation.

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