Demystifying Medicine

Speaker Profiles for 2011

1. January 11 - Sleep: mechanisms, disorders and circadian rhythm            
   David Dinges (U Penn)
   Michael Menaker (UVA, Charlottesville) - BioSketch

2. January 18 - Helicobacter phylori: the organism, peptic ulcers and cancer     
   Steven Czinn (U Maryland) - BioSketch
   Scott Merrell (USUHS) - BioSketch

3. January 25 - Staphylococcus: why and how does it still kill?    
   Frank DeLeo (NIAID)
   Alexandra Freeman (NIAID) - BioSketch

4. February 1 - Estrogens: mood and postpartum depression
   Peter Schmidt (NIMH) - BioSketch
   Alan DeCherney (NICHD) - BioSketch

5. February 8 - Malaria: Struggles to understand a major killer
   Patrick Duffy (NIAID) - Biosketch
   Gray Heppner (US Army, WRAIR) - Biosketch

6. February 15 - VZV: a case of shingles
   Adriana Marques (NIAID) - Biosketch
   Jeffrey Cohen (NIAID) - Biosketch

7. February 22 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Is there a virus?
   Shyh-Ching Lo (FDA)
   Fred Gill (CC)
   Harvey Alter (CC)

8. March 1 - Multiple scleroisis: an autoimmune dilemma
   Bibi Bielekova (NINDS) - Biosketch
   Joan Ohayon (NINDS)

9. March 8 - Inflammation: mechanisms and diseases
   John I. Gallin (CC) - Biosketch
   Douglas B Kuhns (CC) - Biosketch

10. March 15 - Diabetes: mechanisms and fatty liver
    Rebecca Brown (NIDDK) - Biosketch
    Yaron Rotman (NIDDK) - Biosketch

11. March 22 - HIV/AIDS: Ongoing epidemic and new treatments
    Chris Lane (NIAID) - Biosketch
    John Coffin (NCI) - Biosketch

13. March 29 - CANCELED: Hypersocial, hyperverbal kids (Williams Disease) in the genomic era
    Karen Berman (NIMH)
    

14. April 5 - Cardiovascular disease in the eras of imaging and stem cells
    Bob Balaban (NHLBI) - Biosketch
    Manfred Boehm (NHLBI) - Biosketch
    

15. April 12 - Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Mechanisms and Stem Cells
    Snorri Thorgeirsson (NCI)
    Win Arias (NICHD)
    

16. April 19 - Prostate Cancer: Challenge in mechanism and treatment
    James Gulley (NCI)
    Kathleen Kelly (NCI)
    Paul Hynes (NCI) - Dr. Paul Hynes received his PhD degree in Reproductive Biology from the National University of Ireland, Galway.  Dr. Hynes joined Dr. Kelly’s laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in February 2008.  His primary interest is studying cells responsible for prostate cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis.

17. April 26 - Cushing's syndrome: adrenocortical hormone regulation and function
    Lynnette Nieman (NICHD)
    Gordon Hager (NCI) - BioSketch

18. May 3 - Hearing: Mechanisms and loss
    John Niparko (Johns Hopkins) - Biosketch
    Thomas Friedman (NIDCD) - Biosketch
    James Battey (NIDCD) - Biosketch

19. May 10 - Alzheimer's Disease: where do things stand?
    Mark Mattson (NIA) - Biosketch
    Laurie Ryan (NIA)

20. May 17 - Finale
    To Be Named
    

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