Course information for the 2007 AMS

GW Faculty Presenters

Course Director:
Jim Scott, MD, FACEP
Dean, Professor of Emergency Medicine

Speakers:

Jeffrey Akman, MD ’81, GME ‘85
Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Leon Yochelson Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Benjamin Blatt, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Vincent Chiappinelli, PhD
The Ralph E. Loewy Professor
Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology

Robert Hawley, PhD
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine

Patricia Latham, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology

George Mandel, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology

Tim McCaffery, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Raymond Walsh, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

John F. Williams, MD ’79, EdD ’96, MPH
Provost and Vice President for Health Affairs

Note: All presentations and presenters are subject to change without notice. 

Class Descriptions:

Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases – What’s new?  Unfortunately, many diseases like hookworm, tuberculosis, malaria and smallpox are still of concern to us.  Learn about GW’s efforts in new vaccines and our role in the AIDS epidemic.

Genomics – Explore how genomics may change medicine in the next 10 years.

Gross Anatomy Technology – See how combining computed tomography and digital imagery enhance classic cadaver dissection.

Pathology Without a Microscope – Find out how pathology is being taught in 2007 as it moves from the microscope to digital technology.

Pharmacology – With 10 times the number of drugs that there were just 20 years ago, get the latest updates on current drug therapies.

Simulation-Based Education – See how students use medical and surgical simulators to practice everything from cardiology to resuscitation skills.

Standardized Patients – Tour the clinical learning skills center and see how standardized patients help students to practice and improve interviewing skills.

Stem Cell Research – Discover how stem cell science may be used in the treatment of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.