Dec
5
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer @ LKSC Berg Hall
Dec 5 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Electron Kebebew, MD

Harry Oberhelman Jr. and Mark Welton Professor of Surgery

Electron Kebebew, MD, is an internationally recognized expert in Endocrine Oncology and Surgery. He has performed more than three thousand operations on the adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid glands, and for neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas.

Kebebew has published over 400 articles, chapters and textbooks, and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for 54 biomedical journals. He has received awards from the American Cancer Society, American Association for Cancer Research, American Thyroid Association, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, and International Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

Oct
22
Tue
“My Surgical Success” A Digital Behavioral Pain Medicine Intervention @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room LK120 
Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

“My Surgical Success” shows the impact of a digital behavioral pain medicine intervention on time to opioid cessation after breast cancer surgery. Beth Darnall, PhD and Principal Investigator of the Stanford PCORI Project on Opioid and Pain Reduction (the EMPOWER study) will discuss how digital solutions are expanding access to behavioral pain management through tools like virtual reality and helping to reduce opioid dependence.