UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
AT DALLAS
Endocrine Grand Rounds Schedule
Spring 2007
Wednesday, 7:30-8:30am, Y6.224
• January 3
No Meeting
• January 10
“Pediatric Indications for Aromatase inhibitors”
Annie Wang, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• January 17
“Metabolic Substrate Partitioning, Insulin Sensitivity, and Body Weight Regulation”
Bob H. Eckel, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Physiology & Biophysics
Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis
Program Director, Adult General Clinical Research Center
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Director Lipid Clinic, University Hospital
• January 24
“Ectopic TG Levels in Early Pathogenesis of T2D: In Vivo Human Studies”
Lidia Szczepaniak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Hypertension
• January 31
“New Frontiers in Bone Remodeling: OPG/RANK/ RANKL”
Damaris Vega, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• February 7
“Renal Artery Stenosis and Hypertension: current Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach”
Wanpen Vongpatanasin, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Hypertension
• February 14
“The Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet: An Update”
Soumya Adhikari, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• February 21
“Obesity and Insulin Resistance”
Manisha Chandalia, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
• February 28
“Management of Dyslipidemia in Obese Children and Adolescents”
Jill Goldfarb, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• March 7
“Genetics of Coronary Heart Disease”
Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center
C. Vincent Prothro Chair in Human Nutrition Research
Eugene McDermott Center for Growth and Development
• March 14
“IGF-1 Therapy in Pediatrics”
Shuchi Shah, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• March 21
“Hypothalamic Obesity Due to SIM1 Mutation: An Update”
Andrew Zinn, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine – Clinical Genetics
Eugene McDermott Center For Growth and Development
• March 28
“Anti-Obesity Therapies – Are There Effects Beyond Weight Loss?”
Polina Kaloyanova, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• April 4
“Hormone Regulation of Reproduction & Metabolism: Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor Paradigm from Worm to Man”
David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Professor & Chairman of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• April 11
No Meeting
• April 18
“The TSH Receptor in Thyroid Disease”
Basil Rapoport, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Director of the Autoimmune Disease Unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• April 25
"21-Hydroxylase Deficiency in Adults"
Hans Ghayee, D.O.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• May 2
"The Role of NPC1L1 in Cholesterol Absorption"
Saleemah Fahmi, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• May 9
“Genetics of Coronary Heart Disease: From Genes to Public Health”
Helen Hobbs, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine – Clinical Genetics
Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair for the Study of Human Growth and Development
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Center Director, Internal Medicine Molecular Genetics
• May 16
"Vitamin D: Lore, Current Status and Speculation"
Neil C. Binkley, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
• May 23
“Adipokines: Impact on Insulin Sensitivity, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer”
Philipp Scherer, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine – VA Diabetes
Director, Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research
• May 30
“The Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis in Reproductive Aging”
Lisa Halvorson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lead Doctor of Reproductive Endocrinology
• June 6
No meeting
• June 13
"Physiology of leptin and its emerging clinical applications"
Vani Kotha, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• June 20
No meeting
• June 27
"Bile Acid Metabolism in Hepatic Steatosis"
Lalitha Subramanyam, M.D.
Endocrinology Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center
This concludes the Spring season for Endocrinology Grand Rounds, which will resume in September.
Updated 04/27/2007
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
Off-Label Uses: Because this course is meant to educate physicians with what is currently in use and what may be available in the future, there may be "off-label" or unapproved uses discussed in the presentations.
Conflict of Interest: It is UT Southwestern's policy that participants in CME activities should be made aware of any affiliation or financial interest that may affect the speaker's presentations. Each speaker has been requested to complete a conflict of interest statement. The names of faculty members declaring potential conflict of interest will be shown in the course syllabus.
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