Mar
29
Wed
21st Thomas Merigan Jr. Lecture/Medicine Grand Rounds – Surveillance at the Molecular Level: The Good, The Bad, and the Evil @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor
Mar 29 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
21st Thomas Merigan Jr. Lecture/Medicine Grand Rounds - Surveillance at the Molecular Level: The Good, The Bad, and the Evil @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor | Stanford | California | United States

Presenters: David Heymann, MD
Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

About the Thomas Merigan Jr. Lectureship:
 

The Thomas Merigan Jr. Lectureship was set up in recognition of Dr. Merigan’s four decades of devotion to research, teaching, patient care, and his lifelong commitment to understanding hostpathogen interactions in order to improve health. The lectureship brings scholars to Stanford University, who, like Dr. Merigan, have devoted their professional life to understanding the interface between infectious diseases, the host, and their environment.


 About David Heymann:
 

David Heymann is currently professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London; and chairman of Public Health England, UK.

Previously he was the World Health Organization’s assistant director-general for Health Security and Environment, and representative of the director-general for polio eradication.

From 1998 to 2003 he was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster, during which he headed the global response to SARS, and prior to that was director for the WHO programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases.

Earlier experiences at WHO include chief of research activities in the WHO global programme on AIDS. Before joining WHO he worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa, on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he participated in the first and second outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, and supported ministries of health in research aimed at better control of malaria, measles, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.

Prior to joining CDC he worked in India for two years as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO smallpox eradication programme. He is an elected fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (US) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), and has been awarded several public health awards that have provided funding for the establishment of an on-going mentorship programme at the International Association of Public Health Institutes (IANPHI).

In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for service to global public health.

 

Sep
6
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: From Bagram Airfield to Baghdad and Back Again… @ LKSC, Paul Berg Hall
Sep 6 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: From Bagram Airfield to Baghdad and Back Again... @ LKSC, Paul Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Dean Winslow, MD
Professor of Hospital Medicine
Stanford University

Dean Winslow specializes in infectious diseases and hospital-based internal medicine. He has practiced medicine for more than 40 years. Dr. Winslow has a special interest in bedside teaching of medical students, residents and fellows.

Apr
19
Thu
ID Grand Rounds: “Missed Diagnoses and Misdiagnoses of Infectious Diseases in HCT: A 15-year Autopsy Study” @ Lane Building, L154 Conference Room
Apr 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Presenter: Dora Ho, MD; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases). Zoom Meeting ID: 858-696-854

Jun
6
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Atrial Fibrillation: Rethinking Screening, Risk Stratification, and Treatment in a Digital World @ LKSC, Berg Hall
Jun 6 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Atrial Fibrillation: Rethinking Screening, Risk Stratification, and Treatment in a Digital World @ LKSC, Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

Mintu Turakhia M.D. M.A.S. is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and clinical trialist. Dr. Turakhia has an active, highly-funded multidisciplinary program in atrial fibrillation, where uses large datasets to examine quality, outcomes, and risk prediction for heart rhythm disorders. As the Executive Director of Stanford’s new Center for Digital Health, he is the principal investigator of several multi-center trials to test digital health tools and wearable devices to screen and manage heart rhythm disorders. In his clinical role as Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at the VA, Dr. Turakhia performs invasive procedures such as catheter ablation and device implantation to treat heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Turakhia is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society.