Demystifying Medicine

Speaker Profiles for 2012

January 10 – Global Infections: The Great Challenge

• Anthony Fauci (NIAID)
• John Coffin (NCI) - Biosketch

January 17 - Stem Cells: The New Frontier in Biology and Medicine

• Mahendra Rao (NIAMS) - Biosketch
• Ronald Gress (NCI) - Biosketch

January 24 - Parkinson's Disease: From Genes to Surgery

• Codrin Lungu (NINDS)
• Kareem Zaghloul (NINDS)

January 31 - Genomics and Undiagnosed Disease

• Eric Green (NHGRI) - Biosketch
• William Gahl (NHGRI) - Biosketch

February 7 - Stuttering: A Medical Disease?

• Dennis Drayna (NIDCD) - Biosketch
• Donna Krasnewich (NIGMS) - Biosketch
• Penny Friedman (CC)

February 14 - Legionella: More than Only Veterans

• Matthias Machner (NICHD) - Biosketch
• Tara Palmore (NIAID)

February 21 - Taste: Good and Bad

• Nicholas Ryba (NIDCR)
• Robert Henkin (Taste and Smell Clinic)

February 28 - No Lecture

March 6 - Aging Gracefully

• Toren Finkel (NHLBI) - Biosketch
• Luigi Ferrucci (NIA) - Biosketch

March 13 - Hepatocellular Cancer: A Global Disease

• Jean Pierre Gillet (NCI) - Biosketch
• Win Arias (NICHD) - Biosketch

March 20 - Head and Neck Cancer: New Paradigms and Treatment

• Silvio Gutkind (NIDCR) - Biosketch
• Barbara Conley (NCI) - Biosketch

March 27 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease: New Biologic and Therapeutic Players

• Warren Strober (NIAID)
• Michael Yao (NIAID) - Biosketch

April 3 - Addictions: Are They All the Same?

• Antonello Bonci (NIDA) - Biosketch
• David Goldman (NIAAA)

April 10 - Diarrheal Diseases: Deadly Events

• Roger Glass (FIC) - Biosketch
• Mark Donowitz (Johns Hopkins) - Modified WebSite Description; Biosketch

April 17 - Autism: Progress Continues

• Susan Swedo (NIMH) - Biosketch
• Audrey Thurm (NIMH) - Biosketch

April 24 - Gluten Enteropathy: An Expanding Disease

• Bana Jabri (U of Chicago) - Biosketch
• Irwin Rosenberg (Tufts) - Biosketch

May 1 - Finale: Present and Future Status for Careers in Biomedical Research

• Michael Gottesman (NIH)
• Kathryn Zoon (NIAID)
• Irwin Arias (NICHD)

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