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Reversing Heart Disease
Feb. 27
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Comprehensive Stroke Care
March 14—March 16
Virtual Medicine Symposium
March 28—March 29
Surgery Grand Rounds
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In This Issue:
- Affiliation of Cedars-Sinai and Torrance Memorial Official
- Two Minutes With …
- $50 Million Gift Goes to Create Smidt Heart Institute
- Easier, More Meaningful Advance Healthcare Directive
- Study Looks at Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Young People
- Transplant Saves Bishop at the Heart of His Community
- Stop the Bleed Class Trains its 500th Student
- Cardiac Surgery Resident Awarded Traveling Fellowship
- Hosting Summer Research Interns
- Circle of Friends Honorees for January
- Stenting System Benefits Certain Stroke Patients
- FDA Updates Warning About Antidepressant Pristiq
- FDA Issues Warning About Incorrect Dosing of Obeticholic Acid
- CS-Link Tip: Refilling Prescriptions
Mark Your Calendar
Reversing Heart Disease
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, and Chrisandra L. Shufelt, MD, MS, will speak about heart disease and new findings from the 2017 meeting of the American Heart Association. Bairey Merz is medical director of the Cedars Sinai Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center and of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center. Information and registration
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Comprehensive Stroke Care
The Cedars-Sinai Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Comprehensive Stroke Care course includes lectures and hands-on sessions from experts in the field, and provides broad exposure to the theory, application, practice and interpretation of TCD studies. Topics covered include ultrasound physics, waveform analysis, vasospasm detection, intraoperative monitoring, screening in sickle cell anemia, PFO detection, vasomotor reactivity and evaluation for cerebral circulatory arrest. Information and registration
Virtual Medicine Symposium
Registration has opened for a symposium and hands-on workshop March 28-29 that will focus on how to integrate virtual reality technology into patient care. The symposium, "Virtual Medicine: Best Practices in Medical Virtual Reality," was developed by the virtual reality clinical research team at Cedars-Sinai through the Division of Health Services Research. The event will convene top experts to discuss the rapid advances in delivering low-cost, portable, high-quality virtual reality experiences to patients. Information and registration