Medicine Grand Rounds: Infections, Cancer and Global Inequity – An Opportunity for Action and Investigation

When:
May 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2015-05-20T08:00:00-07:00
2015-05-20T09:00:00-07:00
Where:
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Paul Berg Hall B&C, 2nd Floor
Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Department of Medicine
650-721-1166
Medicine Grand Rounds: Infections, Cancer and Global Inequity - An Opportunity for Action and Investigation @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Paul Berg Hall B&C, 2nd Floor  | Stanford | California | United States

Presenter: Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology), and Genetics
Stanford University

Dr. Bhatt is an Assistant Professor of Medicine & Genetics at Stanford University. She received her MD and PhD (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) at UCSF. There she received the Fineberg Award for Excellence in Teaching and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha.  She completed residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and was a fellow in Hematology/Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Thereafter, she carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Dr. Bhatt seeks to improve outcomes in patients with hematological malignancies by exhaustively characterizing the dynamics of the microbiome in immunocompromised individuals, and exploring how changes in the microbiome are associated with idiopathic diseases in this population. Her recent work, demonstrating the discovery of a novel bacterium using sequence-based analysis of a diseased human tissue (Bhatt et al, NEJM, 2013), was first presented as a Late-breaking abstract at ASH 2012 and has subsequently been presented nationally and internationally.

In addition to her academic efforts, Dr. Bhatt is committed to improving cancer care, education and research in resource-limited settings. She is the Director of Global Oncology for the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University and has served as a visiting lecturer at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and the University of Botswana. She, along with Franklin Huang, is a co-founder and co-president of the non-profit organization Global Oncology (www.globaonc.org). This all-volunteer organization spearheads creative, multi-disciplinary projects focused on improving cancer outcomes in impoverished settings.