12th Annual Glaucoma Symposium
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of global blindness, which affects nearly 2.5 million Americans. In the past decade, new advances in diagnostic, medical, and surgical treatments have led to greater patient awareness and demand for increased quality of care. This course is designed to educate clinicians regarding innovative techniques to improve care to patients afflicted with this disease.
September 5, 2008
Course Director(s): James Tsai MD & Bruce Sheilds MD
3rd ADHD Symposium
Department of Psychiatry
Recent research findings have produced significant changes in the understanding of the essential nature of ADHD. What was formerly seen as a disruptive behavior disorder in children is now recognized as developmental impairment of the executive functions of the brain. Considerable data indicate impairments of ADHD persist into adulthood for approximately 70% of those affected. Despite the new research, much misunderstanding about ADHD persists among professionals and the public. Currently, concerns about safety and risks of abuse of medications used to treat ADHD increase the need for professionals and patients to be well informed about safe and effective treatments for this disorder.
Course Director(s): Donald Quinlan MD & Thomas Brown MD
6th Annual Pediatric Update
Department of Pediatrics
This conference serves as the preeminent general pediatric CME course in the region. Our renowned faculty will provide important updates on a variety of pediatric topics of importance to practitioners who care for children.
September 19, 2008
Course Director(s): Linda Arnold MD
7th Therapeutic ERCP/EUS Workshop
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases
Therapeutic ERCP/EUS is a developing and important part of gastroenterology. Most gastroenterologists in practice have had limited training and exposure in this procedure and this unique forum enables participants to see experts utilize complex techniques to evaluate and manage disorders. This type of course is popular around the country but only available in some centers. The Yale University School of Medicine is proud to bring this to you.
10/22/08
Course Director(s): Priya Jamidar MD
Weighing In: Psychiatry, Eating Disorders and the Obesity Crisis
Department of Psychiatry
10/03/2008
Course Director(s): Catherine Chiles MD
1st Breast Cancer Program Symposium
This course will provide current clinical education for multidisciplinary attending physicians involved in the care of patients being evaluated, diagnosed or treated for breast cancer.
Course Director(s): Donald Lannin MD & Lyndsay Harris MD
2nd Neuro-Oncology Update
Department of Neurosurgery
This symposium is intended to provide a comprehensive and concise update on the management of patients with primary brain tumors and common neurological complications of cancer.
Course Director(s): Joachim Baehring MD & Joseph Piepmeier MD
Malaria is one of the foremost examples of a contemporary "reemerging disease" that causes an enormous burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic cost on some of the poorest and most vulnerable nations on the planet. As in the case of other emerging and resurgent diseases, economic, social, biological, and environmental factors suggest that the problem could well be on the point of worsening significantly, particularly in view of the synergy between malaria on the one hand and the pandemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis on the other.
A variety of factors place vast populations at severe and growing risk. These factors include drug resistance, the adaptation of vectors to urban habitats, environmental degradation, population displacement and refugees, the proliferation of developmental schemes such as dam construction that create breeding opportunities for anopheline mosquitoes, lack of access to medical care, poverty, and substandard housing.
This conference will take a "big picture" interdisciplinary look at the background to the present global malaria crisis. It will then examine the epidemiology of the disease; the research strategies of scientists to develop new weapons (medications, genetic engineering, DDT, and a vaccine); the planning of the World Health Organization, of national programs, and of NGOs; the lessons of countries that either successfully eradicate the disease or attempted to do so and failed; and the problem of drug resistance.
A special feature of the conference will be the gathering of specialists from a variety of disciplines -- historians of medicine, clinicians, public health officials, research scientists, public health officials, and representatives of NGOs -- to contribute their insights.
November 7-9, 2008
16 Category 1 Credits
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
New Haven, CT
24th Annual Ella T. Grasso Memorial Conference
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
This is the 24th Annual Conference to be held in Connecticut. Advances in clinical Gynecologic Oncology are important for practicing physicians.
More information to follow...
November 19, 2008
