NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS
Episode 2011-16
Time: 01:05:02
Recorded April 27, 2011

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Etiology, Epidemiology and Advances in Diagnosis
Kenneth R. Warren, PhD
Acting Director, NIAAA

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

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Welcome to the NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, recorded April 27, 2011 at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland—an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Our speaker today is Dr. Kenneth Warren, acting director of the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. He will present "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Etiology, Epidemiology, and Advances in Diagnosis." Today he will address improved technologies for diagnosis, along with findings on the current understanding of the epidemiology of fetal alcohol syndrome.

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 the NIH Clinical Center, America's clinical research hospital, log onto clinicalcenter.nih.gov.

And now we take you to the Lipsett amphitheater at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda Maryland, for today's presentation.

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