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GRAND ROUNDS FALL 2008

Archived Presentations: Spring 2008 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2007

Sep		Name	Title	Organization	Title of Talk
5		Tom Dilts	Administrator	VCUHS Pathology	"A Management Blitz: Fourteen Critical Objectives for Managing a Pathology Department"
12		Dr. Norbert F. Voelkel	Professor	VCUHS Internal Medicine	"Severe angioproliferative pulmonary hypertension: a group of diseases between autoimmunity & cancer"
19		Dr. Shunlin Ren	Associate Professor and GI Oncology Initiative Faculty	Dept of Veterans Affairs, McGuire Medical Center	"Discovery of a Novel Nuclear Oxysterol-Its Metabolic Pathway and Relevance to Hepatic Lipid Metabolism and Cancer"
26		Dr. Alphonse Poklis	Professor	VCUHS Pathology	"Sex, Arsenic and Rock & Roll: Hubris in Place of Justice"
Oct		Name	Title	Organization	Title of Talk
3		Dr. Aron Lichtman	Associate Professor	VCUHS Pharmacology and Toxicology	"Endocannabinoid Regulation of Pain and Inflammation: Emerging Therapeutic Targets"
10		Dr. Betty Forbes	Professor	VCUHS Pathology	"S. Lugdunensis: Not Just Another of Your Typical Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci"
17		Dr. Olga Volpert	Associate Professor	Department of Urology Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine	"Regulation of cellular senescence by androgen receptor"
24		John E. Wiley, PhD	Professor - Pediatrics Genetics (Clinical Cytogenetics)	The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University	"Evolution, Cytogenetics, Sex and Gray Treefrogs: The Saga"
31		Dr. Ross Mikkelsen	Professor / Chair of Molecular Radiobiology	VCU - Massey Cancer Center	"Nitric Oxide and Oxidative Stress Signal Transduction"
Nov		Name	Title	Organization	Title of Talk
7		Brian Freeman, PhD	Assistant Professor, Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology	Dept of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Illinois	“Molecular chaperones mediate telomere-protein dynamics”
14		Danny Welch, PhD	Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pathology	University of Alabama-Birmingham	“Does the mechanism of action of metastasis suppressors identify targets for cancer therapeutics?”
21		Dr. Jonathan Ben-Ezra	Professor, Director of Hematology Labs	VCUHS Pathology	"Polycythemia Vera and Jak-2"
28	THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec		Name	Title	Organization	Title of Talk
5		Robert Dufour, MD	Emeritus Professor of Pathology	George Washington University, Veterans Affairs Medical Center	"The Changing Face of Viral Hepatitis"
12		Dr. McPherson	Chair of the Division of Clinical Pathology, Director of Clinical Pathology Services	VCUHS Pathology	"Phlebotomy Training for M-III Students: Statistical Analysis of Test Results"
		Dr. Sanford	Assistant Professor Department of Pathology Associate Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine	VCUHS Pathology	“Transitioning from pathology resident to community pathologist"

For information regarding Pathology Grand Rounds please contact the Angel Tillman at 804.828.4802 or atillman@mcvh-vcu.edu

Updated January 19, 2009