Past Colloquia – 2008 – UCSD Medical Scientist Education Program
Wednesday, November 5
Patricia Finn, MD, Chief, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care
Stuart Kornfeld, MD, professor of biochemistry/biophysics medicine, Washington U. School of Medicine, St. Louis, former editor, J. of Clinical Investigation, former president, Assoc. American doctors
Biomedical magazine review: NK T Cells and Asthma: Controversies in the New England Journal of Medicine
Invariant T cell receptor CD4++ natural killer T cells in bronchial asthma. Akbari O, et al. N Engl J Med 2006;354:1117-29.
Invariant natural killer T cells in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Vijayanand P, et al. N Engl J Med 2007;356:1410-22.
Speaker on Career Opportunities
tuesday september 30
Kirk Knowlton, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Div. of Cardiology
Richard S. Kornbluth, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Div. infectious diseases
Noel Weidner, MD, Director of Anatomical Pathology
Biomedical Magazine Review
Career opportunities : Discussion of Judah Folkman’s careerJudah Folkman, MD (Director, Vascular Biology Program at Children’s Hospital Boston and Andrus Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School 1933 – 2008)
Wednesday July 30
David Easter, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Surgical Residency Director, UCSD SOM
Elaine Muchmore, MD, Professor, Clinical Medicine, Director, Internal Medicine Residency, UCSD SOM
Sidney Zisook, MD, professor of psychiatry, director, residency training, UCSD SOM
summer series – Program directors discuss residency and life after medical school
Organized by SOM students: Robert DeConde, Kent Lam, Adnan Majid
Wednesday May 21
Edward Koo, MD, Professor of Neuroscience
Robert Terry, MD, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Pathology and Neuroscience
Biomedical Magazine Review
Speaker on Career Opportunities: Alzheimer’s disease research
Thursday March 27
Barbara Jung, MD, Asst. Professor, Department of Medicine
David Bailey, MD, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Irvine
Biomedical magazine review: JAMA Article: Prevalence of non-polypoid (flat and depressed) colorectal neoplasms in asymptomatic and symptomatic adults
Speaker on Career Opportunities: Pathology
Wednesday February 27
Steven D. Chessler, MD, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Department of Medicine
Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, 1985 Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, Regent Professor and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Biomedical Magazine Review
Speaker on Career Opportunities
