Feb
21
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Electronic Cigarettes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly @ LKSC, Berg Hall
Feb 21 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Electronic Cigarettes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly @ LKSC, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Robert Jackler, MD
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, and by courtesy, of Neurosurgery and Surgery
Stanford University
Robert Jackler, MD, was raised in Waterville, Maine, attended college and medical school in Boston, and moved west to the University of California, San Francisco for residency in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. After taking a Neurotology fellowship at the House Ear Clinic (1985),  Jackler joined the faculty at UCSF where he remained until 2003 when he become the Sewall Professor and Chair of the Department at OHNS and professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Jackler is an otologist-neurotologist who specializes in complex ear diseases. He has a special interest in tumors of the lateral and posterior cranial base and has written numerous analytical papers derived from his microsurgical series. A long standing collaboration with medical artist Chirstine Gralapp has produced over 1500 original illustrations of a wide variety of cranial base and ear microsurgical approaches (http://med.stanford.edu/ohns/atlas_sb/). For over 25 years Jackler has directed a fellowship program in neurotology & skull base surgery which has trained a number of academic leaders in the field.

Jackler has authored over 150 peer reviewed papers, over 35 textbook chapters, numerous editorials, published three books Neurotology (1994, 2004), Atlas of Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery –(1996, 2008), and Tumors of the Ear and Temporal Bone – 2000). Dr. Jackler leads the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss whose mission is to create biological cures for major forms of inner ear hearing loss through a research effort that is sustained, large-scale, multidisciplinary, focused, goal–oriented, and transformational (http://hearinglosscure.stanford.edu).

In 2007, Jackler and his wife Laurie founded the interdisciplinary research group SRITA (Stanford Research Into The Impact of Tobacco Advertising). SRITA conducts research the ways the tobacco industry targets teens, women, and African Americans as well as how recently introduced products such as electronic cigarettes are marketed. While the Jackler collection of over 30,000 original tobacco advertisements now resides in the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, SRITA maintains an annotated online digital collection of over 28,000 tobacco advertisement for use by scholars (tobacco.stanford.edu) and offers a traveling museum exhibit.

 

May
2
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Looking Back and Moving Forward: Perspectives on Palliative Care @ LKSC, Berg Hall
May 2 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Looking Back and Moving Forward: Perspectives on Palliative Care @ LKSC, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenters: Karl Lorenz, MD
Stephanie Harman, MD

Lorenz: Professor of Primary Care and Population Health
Harman: Clinical Associate Professor of Primary Care and Population Health
Stanford University

Dr. Karl Lorenz, MD MSHS is a general internal medicine and palliative care physician, and Section chief of the VA Palo Alto-Stanford Palliative Care Program. Formerly at the VA Greater Los Angeles, Lorenz directed palliative care research at the VA Center for Innovation to Implementation and served on the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine. Lorenz is a member of the VA’s national Hospice and Palliative Care Program (HPC) leadership team, director of the operational palliative care Quality Improvement Resource Center (QuIRC), and adjunct facility staff member at RAND. Dr. Lorenz’s work and leadership has been influential to the field of palliative care research. Under Lorenz’s leadership, since 2009 the Quality Improvement Resource Center (QuIRC) has served as one of three national leadership Centers responsible for strategic and operational support of the VA’s national hospice and palliative care programs. QuIRC develops and implements provider facing electronic tools for the VA’s national electronic medical record to improve the quality of palliative care. In that role, Lorenz participates with the national leadership team in strategic planning, policy development, and providing resources to support operational efforts. Lorenz has contributed to the field of global palliative care, serving the World Health Organization in its development of Palliative Care for Older People and leading methods for Palliative Care Essential Medications.

Stephanie Harman graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Palliative Care fellowship at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford program before joining the faculty at Stanford. She is the founding medical director of Palliative Care Services for Stanford Health Care and a 2017 Cambia Sojourns Scholar Leader Awardee. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and a faculty member in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She serves as the clinical section chief of Palliative Care in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health and co-chairs the Stanford Health Care Ethics Committee. Her research and educational interests include communication training in healthcare, bioethics in end-of-life care, and the application of machine learning to improve access to palliative care.

 

Jun
18
Tue
ID Lecture Series: “HIV: Opportunistic Infections” @ Li Ka Shing Center, LK304/5
Jun 18 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am

 

Presenter: Phil Grant, MD;Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Stanford University Medical Center. Zoom Meeting ID: 790 915 319