Mark Your Calendar
When Is the Patient Dead? (Ethics Noon Conference)
Dec. 21
Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women
Jan. 6
Surgery Grand Rounds
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Grand Rounds
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Education Schedule
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Surgery Scheduling
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In This Issue:
- Human Rights Activist to Speak at King Day Celebration
- Key Changes Coming to Medicare Payment Model
- Priselac Speaks About Healthcare Change to Civic Group
- New Scientists and Clinicians Join Cancer Institute
- Trauma Program Holds Advanced Courses
- Researchers Win Grant to Expand Cardiac Cell Study
- Scientist Gives on Giving Tuesday in Honor of Mother's Care
- Circle of Friends Honorees for November
- CS-Link Tip: Accessing the National Record Locator Services
Surgery Grand Rounds
- Wednesday, Dec. 21, 7-8 a.m., PEC 6-7: "Robotic Pancreas Surgery: Is It Worth the Hype?" presented by Amer H. Zureikat, MD, assistant professor of Surgery and co-director of the UPMC Pancreatic Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. This is the Rose and Samuel Pollock Lectureship.
- Wednesday, Dec. 28, 7-8 a.m., PEC 6-7: "Update on Minimally Invasive Bariatric Options," presented by Scott Cunneen, MD, director of Cedars-Sinai Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7-8 a.m., Harvey Morse 4-6: "Physician Burnout," presented by Ilana Cass, MD, vice chair of the Cedars-Sinai Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Wednesday, Jan. 18, 7-8 a.m., PEC 6-7: "The Urinary Microbiome: A New Paradigm for Bladder Hypersensitivity Syndromes," presented by
Lenore A. Ackerman, MD, candidate assistant professor and adjunct assistant professor, Cedars-Sinai - Wednesday, Jan. 25, 7-8 a.m., Harvey Morse 4-6: "Embracing the Digital Age in Modern Surgical Practice," presented by Timothy J. Daskivich, MD, Cedars-Sinai