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Hidden in Plain Sight: Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Organ

Dr. Radhika Muzumdar discusses the endocrine role of adipose tissue, the effects of adipose tissue on health, and the role of adipose tissue dysregulation in obesity. MORE >

Cancer Chemotherapy: The Disappointing Past, The Optimistic Present, and The Exciting Future

Dr. Edward Prochownik reviews new concepts in the understanding of cancer, including how technology has impacted cancer diagnosis and treatment.  He also highlights the remaining challenges. MORE >

Active Treatment and Rehabilitation Approaches for Concussion

Experts from UPMC Sports Medicine discuss active treatment and rehabilitation approaches for concussion as part of UPMC's 2013 conference "Emerging Frontiers in Concussion." MORE >

In Sickness and in Health: The Importance of Exercise in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Disease

Dr. Jonathan Spahr reviews exercise physiology and how it pertains to the physiology of lung disease, different methods of exercise testing, and how it presents as a therapeutic option in lung disease. MORE >

Emerging Research in Concussion

Drs. Anthony P. Kontos, R.J. Elbin, David Okonkwo, and Barry Jordan each give presentations on emerging research in concussion. MORE >

In Office Evaluation of Concussion

Drs. Michael Collins and Philip Schatz disscuss on-field and in office evaluation of concussion in Part 2 of the new developments in Sports-related concussion conference. MORE >

Pre and Post Natal Hydronephrosis – What are the Associated Urologic Abnormalities?

Dr. Michael C. Ost defines hydronephrosis and gives an understanding of the diagnostic algorithms used to clarify suspected fetal urologic abnormalities. MORE >

Rehab Grand Rounds Winter 2013

Doctors Garcia and Houtrow discuss Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Encephalitis: Diagnostic and Treatment Information for the Physiatrist. MORE >

Triumph, Tribulations, and the Promise of Vitamin D

Dr. Kumaravel Rajakumar will discuss his research on the role of vitamin D in bone development. MORE >

Optimizing Outcomes In Pediatric Liver Transplant

Dr. George V. Mazariegos, discusses the  current state of pediatric liver transplant. The presentation provides a review of the determinants of early outcomes, surgical and medical factors that impact long term survival, and the assessment of the pediatric transplant recipient following surgery. MORE >

Brain Injury in the Premature Newborn

Dr. Toby Yanowitz discusses the pathogenesis and main forms of brain injury in the preterm infant, and identifys babies who may be at risk for neurodevelopmental squealae. MORE >

Neuroimaging of Pediatric Brain Tumors

Dr. Ashok Panigrahy discusses what you need to know when looking at an imaging study of a child that has a brain tumor. MORE >

Pediatric Lung Transplantation: Advances, Controversies, and Conundrums

In this presentation, Dr. Kurland discusses the major contraindications, chronic immunosuppressive medications, and limitations of long-term survival associated with pediatric lung transplantation. MORE >

The Prader-Willi Syndrome in the Age of Expanded Growth Hormone Availability

Dr. Luigi Garibaldi discuses the genetic, endocrine, and non-endocrine aspects of Prader-Willi Syndrome, as well as the new treatment paradigm that includes growth hormone therapy. MORE >

Everything That You Wanted to Know About Pediatric Dialysis but Were Afraid to Ask

Dr. Michael Mortiz provides an overview of the history, modalities, and complications of pediatric dialysis. MORE >

Current Diagnosis Strategies and Treatment Options for Mitochondrial Disease

Dr. Amy Goldstein discusses the current diagnosis strategies and treatment options for mitochondrial disease.s MORE >

Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in 2013 – The ADAPT Trial Questioning the Paradigm

Dr. Michael Bell discusses the current state of care for the child with severe traumatic brain injury and how we might advance in the future to improve outcomes. MORE >

Mitochondrial Disease – What Is It and What are the Potential Therapies Out There?

Dr. Amy Goldstein discusses Mitochondrial DNA inherited disease and some of the neurologic symptoms and syndromes that can be seen. MORE >

Hepatocyte Transplantations: Minimally Invasive Therapy for Life-Threatening Diseases

Kyle Ansel Soltys, MD discusses the evolution of Hepatocyte Transplantations as well as methods and strategies for pediatric liver transplantation. MORE >

Pediatric Grand Rounds: Cystic Fibrosis 2012

David Orenstein, MD, provides an overview of the history of Cystic Fibrosis. He discusses the drug development process, discontinued drugs, and the effects of the newest drug: Ivacaftor. The financial aspect of the drug is also touched on. MORE >

Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology: In Pittsburgh and Beyond

Peter Shaw, MD, defines an AYA Oncology Patient and provides an overview of its prevalence and survival rates. He discusses a variety of groups and organizations involved with adolescent and young adult oncology, advocacy and awareness, and the results that they drive for research and clinical trials. Collaboration with medical oncologists and their successful results in patients is also covered. MORE >

Quality: Raising the Bar- Implications for Performance

Francis Solano, MD, discusses the shift in medicine from volume-based health care to a system based on quality metrics, cost, and value. This presentation was part of the 2011 Update in Internal Medicine: Evidence Based Approaches to Common Medical Problems. MORE >

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