NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS
Episode 2011-22
Time: 00:48:00
Recorded June 8, 2011

Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers
Eighth Annual John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture
Childhood Growth: New Concepts, New Treatments
Jeffrey Baron, MD
Chief, Section on Growth and Development, NICHD

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 June 8th 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. Today's presentation is the Eighth Annual John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture and part of our Contemporary Clinical Medicine Great Teachers series. This annual presentation honors the legacy of Dr. John Decker, who served as Clinical Center director from 1983 to 1990. Presenting today is Dr. Jeffrey Baron, chief of the section on growth and development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His topic is, "Childhood Growth: New Concepts, New Treatments."

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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