Demystifying Medicine

Course Materials for 2010

1. January 12: Tuberculosis: the great white plague           
   • Steven Holland (CC) presentation
   • Clifton Barry (NIAID) presentation
   • Readings
2. January 19: Hepatitis C: a global time bomb           
   • Harvey alter (CC) presentation
   • Patrizia Farci (NAID) presentation
   • Readings
3. January 26: HIV: getting better and worse           
   • John Coffin (NCI) presentation
   • Henry Masur (CC) presentation
   • Readings
4. February 2 : Swine and other Flues: an epidemic/pandemic?           
   • Jeffrey Taubenberger (NIAID) presentation
   • Gary Nabel (NIAID) presentation
   • Readings
5. February 9 : Diarrheal diseases: global killers at all ages           
   • Roger Glass (FC) presentation
   • John Robbins (NICHD) presentation
   • Readings
6. February 16: Horror Autoinflammaticus: Expanding spectrum of inherited disorders of inflammation           
• Daniel Kastner (NIAMS) presentation
• Ivona Aksentijevich (NIAMS) presentation
• Readings
7. February 23: Schizophrenia in the genomic age           
• Daniel Weinberger (NIMH) presentation
• Joseph Apud (NIMH) presentation
• Readings
8. March 2 : Drug addiction: marihuana and stronger stuff           
• Nora Volkow (NIDA) presentation
• George Kunos (NIAAA) presentation
• Readings
9. March 9 : Friederich’s Ataxia: n iron link           
• Kenneh Fischbeck (NINDS) presentation
• Tracey Rouault (NICHD) presentation
• Readings
10. March 16: Natural products: Keys to treating cancer and infection           
    • Carole Bewley (NIDDK) presentation
    • David Newman (NCI) presentation
    • Readings
11. March 23: Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis           
• Warren Strober (NIDDK) presentation
• Michael Yao (NIDDK) presentation
• Readings
12. March 30: Holiday (Passover)
13. April 6 : Prostate cancer: mechanisms, ? epidemic, ? treatment           
• Kathleen Kelly (NCI) presentation
• William Dahut (NCI) presentation
• Readings
14. April 13: Breast cancer: genetic and other mechanisms           
• Lawrence Brody (NHGRI) presentation
• Kathleen Calzone (NCI) presentation
• Readings
15. April 20: Diabetes: autoimmunity and therapeutic challenges           
• Abner Louis Notkins (NIDCR) presentation
• Jean-Marc Guettier (NIDDK) presentation
• Readings
16. April 27: Stem cells: where do we stand?           
• Ronald McKay (NINDS) presentation
• Cynthia Dunbar (NHLBI) presentation
• Readings
17. May 4 : Autism: what do we know?           
• Tom Insel (NIMH) presentation
• Readings
18. May 11: FINALE: What does the future hold for PhDs?           
• Michael Gottesman (OD) presentation
• Jonathan Yewdell (NIAID) presentation
• William Galey (HHMI) presentation
• Win Arias (NICHD) presentation
• Readings

This web page was last modified on October 17, 2009. For questions about the course, please contact ariasi@mail.nih.gov.