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2023 - 2024 Medical Scholar Lectures

Archived Medical Scholars Lectures

2017 - 2018 Academic Year

2016 - 2017 Academic Year

  • A Neural Circuitry Basis for the Core Clinical Features of Schizophrenia
    April 7, 2017  |  David Lewis, M.D.
  • Integrins and the Kidney
    Feb. 10, 2017  |  Roy Zent, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Advances in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer through Irreversible Electroporation and Enhanced Chemotherapy Delivery
    Feb. 3, 2017  |  Robert Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Unmet Clinical Need and Identification of Novel Therapeutics
    Nov. 11, 2016  |  Brian Annex, M.D.
  • Macrophage Apoptosis and Efferocytosis in Atherosclerosis (Watch Lecture)
    Oct. 21, 2016  |  MacRae F. Linton, M.D.
  • Thymus Transplantation
    Sept. 16, 2016  |  M. Louise Markert, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Individualized Anatomical ACL Reconstruction (Watch Lecture)
    Sept. 1, 2016  |  Freddie Fu, M.D.

2015 - 2016 Academic Year

  • Stress Urinary Incontinence: Pathophysiology, Spectrum of Treatment and Outcomes
    Mar. 25, 2016  |  Holly Richter, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG, FACS
  • Chronic Metabolic Acidosis: The Progression From Scientific Concept to Clinical Importance to Therapy (Watch Lecture)
    Jan. 29, 2016  |  Robert J. Alpern, M.D.
  • An Electrostatic Mechanism for Ca2+-Mediated Regulation of Gap Junction Channels
    Dec. 4, 2015  |  Mark Yeager, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Advances in Fetal and Neonatal Neuroimaging
    Nov. 13, 2015  |  P. Ellen Grant, M.D., M.Sc.
  • Melanoma and Brain Metastases: Can Immunotherapy Cure a Disease that Arises in the Skin and Kills in the Brain? 
    Sept. 11, 2015  |  Kim Margolin, M.D.
  • Gaucher Disease and Parkinsonism: Insights from a Rare Disorder
    Sept. 4, 2015  |  Ellen Sidransky, M.D.

2014 - 2015 Academic Year

  • Neuromodulation of the Sensorimotor Network in Parkinson's Disease
    April 3, 2015  |  Helen Bronte-Stewart, M.D.
  • Nucleotide Repeat Expansions: Inflammation, Neurodegeneration, and the Role of MicroRNA in Pathogenesis
    Mar. 20, 2015  |  Erin Pennock Foff, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease: New Insights Reveal Provocative Complexities
    Feb. 20, 2015  |  Lisa Guay-Woodford, M.D.
  • Hepatopulmonary Syndrome: Bedside to Bench and Back Again
    Feb. 6, 2015  |  Michael Fallon, M.D. 
  • Pulmonary Hypertension: Has It Become a "Forgettable" Disease?
    Nov. 21, 2014  |  Robert Bourge, M.D.
  • Immunological Mechanisms of Allergic Diseases and Asthma
    Oct. 24, 2014  |  Hirohito Kita, M.D.
  • Clinical Genomics = Personal Genomes + Clan Genomics
    Sept. 19, 2014  |  James Lupski, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Hypothesis-Generating Research and Predictive Medicine
    Sept. 12, 2014  |  Les Biesecker, M.D.

2013 - 2014 Academic Year

  • The Congenital Cranial Dysinnervation Disorders
    April 18, 2014  |  Elizabeth Engle, M.D.
  • Conducting Mechanism-Based Clinical Trials for Genetic Disorders: Neurofibromatosis Type 1
    Mar. 21, 2014  |  Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Risks of Pegylated Interferon Therapies for HCV Infections in Patients with Cirrhosis
    Feb. 28, 2014  |  John Vierling, M.D.
  • Oxidative Stress: The Prime Cause of Disease and Disability in the Second Half of Life?
    Jan. 10, 2014  |  Christopher Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Influenza: Impact and Prevention
    Dec. 6, 2013  |  Kathryn Edwards, M.D. 
  • Calcium and Sudden Cardiac Death: From Genes to Teens to Finding Better Drugs
    Nov. 8, 2013  |  Bjorn Knollmann, M.D., Ph.D.  
  • HIV/AIDS and HLA B*57: Insights from Rules and Exceptions
    Sept. 13, 2013  |  Richard Kaslow, M.D., Ph.D.

2012 - 2013 Academic Year

  • Holoprosencephaly and Fatty Liver: From Rare Diseases to Common Health Problems
    Aug. 23, 2013  |  Maximilian Muenke, M.D.
  • The Changing Medical View of Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease
    May 3, 2013  |  Rachelle S. Doody, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Muscle Protein Metabolism in Chronic Kidney Disease
    Jan. 25, 2013  |  William Mitch, M.D.
  • Developing Treatment for Hereditary Neuromuscular Diseases
    Nov. 9, 2012  |  Kenneth Fischbeck, M.D.
  • The Cardiac Conduction System: From Development to Disease
    Oct. 19, 2012  |  Glenn I. Fishman, M.D. 
  • Rare Disease Discovery in the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program
    Sept. 7, 2012  |  William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Progress in Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research
    Aug. 31, 2012  |  Eric Sorscher, M.D.