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/.
| Date | Video | Title | Speakers |
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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 |
~CANCELED~ | Diversity and Disease in the Genomic Era |
Gary Gibbons, MD (NHLBI) Anne Sumner, MD (NIDDK) |
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March 24 |
~CANCELED~ | Bone Marrow Based Therapies |
Cynthia Dunbar, MD (NHLBI) Harry Malech, MD (NIAID) |
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March 31 |
~CANCELED~ | Viruses and Immunodeficiency: Mechanisms and Management |
Philip Murphy, MD, PhD (NIAID) Heidi Kong, MD (NIAMS) |
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April 7 |
~CANCELED~ | Multiple Sclerosis: Advances in Pathogenesis and Treatment |
Bibiana Bielekova, MD (NIAID) Alison Wichman, MD (NIAID) |
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April 14 |
~CANCELED~ | 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 |
~CANCELED~ | Role of the Microbiome in Nutrition Inflammation and Cancer |
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD (NIAID) Giorgio Trinchieri, MD (NCI) |
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April 28 |
~CANCELED~ | 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 |
~CANCELED~ | RNA Viruses: How They Do What They Do |
Karla Kirkegaard, PhD (Stanford University) Nihal Altan Bonnet, PhD (NHLBI) |
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May 12 |
~CANCELED~ |
~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 gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. Each session includes clinical and basic science components presented by NIH staff and invitees. All students, fellows and staff are welcome, as well.
SIGN UP: Register through the course email list. To subscribe to this email list, send an e-mail message to this address: [email protected]. Substituting your name for Jan Doe’s, the body of your message should say: Subscribe DeMystifyingMed Jan Doe. Alternatively, you may sign up for Demystifying Medicine through the ListServ website, and enter your name and email address.
COURSE INFORMATION: Each presentation will be held from 4:00-5:30pm every Tuesday from January 7th through May 12th in the ground floor auditorium of Building 50 on the NIH campus, unless otherwise indicated. Recommended readings, presentation notes and other information will be distributed through the Demystifying Medicine website and email list. Registrants who attend at least 10 sessions and pass a computerized final exam will receive a certificate. Classes will be available at http://videocast.nih.gov.
Please contact Dr. Win Arias at [email protected] for further course information.
For additional information, sign language interpretation, or accommodations for disabilities, please contact the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339)
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