November 18, 2009 – Wednesday at 7:00 pm Kellogg Center, Centennial A
Invited Speaker - Paul Stein, MD
Paul D Stein, MD is a newly appointed Visiting Professor in the Dept. of Internal Medicine in the College of Osteopathic Medicine.
He Directs the Venous Thromboembolism Research Unit at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac and also serves as the Director of Research Education there.
Dr. Stein initiated a national collaborative study funded by the NIH Lung and Blood Institute. He is the principal investigator and chairperson of the steering committee. This aim of this research is to determine the accuracy of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in combination with venous phase magnetic resonance venography for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). This procedure reduces the proportion of patients with negative tests at no loss in evaluation of sensitivity and specificity.
Dr. Stein has published over 130 articles on pulmonary embolism from among 460 peer reviewed articles. He is a past president of the Laennec Society and of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor reserved for those who have made a significant contribution to the field of mechanical engineering. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate, the Laureate Award of the American College of Physicians, Michigan Chapter and he is a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Dr. Stein received his MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Following residencies in internal medicine, he took fellowships in cardiology at the University of Cincinnati under Dr. Noble O. Fowler, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York (now Mt. Sinai Medical School) under Dr. Charles K. Fiedberg and at Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) under Dr. Lewis Dexter. Dr. Dexter was a leader among early investigations of pulmonary embolism.
Following the fellowships, Dr. Stein became associate director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, and then he became director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and assistant professor of medicine at Creighton University. He later moved to the University of Oklahoma where he was director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and eventually Professor of Research Medicine. He moved to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1976, as Director of Cardiovascular Research, and in 1994 became Medical Director of the Henry Ford Cardiac Wellness Center. He was also Professor of Medicine (Henry Ford Hospital) at Case Western University and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Oakland University. Dr. Stein moved to St. Joseph Mercy-Oakland in August 2000.
Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm Kellogg Center
Invited Speaker - Jeffrey C. Murray, MD
Dr. Murray is Professor of Neonatology and Genetics and Professor of Biological Sciences, Dentistry, and Epidemiology in the College of Public Health. Dr. Murray’s laboratory studies birth defects and prematurity. One project includes strategies to identify and characterize genes involved in cleft lip and palate, an inherited human birth defect. They have identified several genes involved in facial development and are studying their environmental covariates and clinical impact. His research in human molecular genetics incorporates basic science, clinical, and epidemiologic approaches to the identification of genes and environmental factors involved in birth defects. Prematurity, causes 3 million deaths worldwide each year, and Dr. Murray and his colleagues study thousands of individuals for millions of gene variants using large population and epidemiologic studies of children, particularly from the Philippines, Japan, Denmark, and Brazil, and work in close collaboration with investigators in these countries.
Jeffrey C. Murray has a B.S. in biology from M.I.T. and received his M.D. from Tufts Medical School. He completed a pediatric residency at the Boston Floating Hospital and a Medical Genetics fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Murray joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1984. In 1997, Professor Murray received the American Pediatric Society's E. Mead Johnson award for outstanding pediatrics research and the William Geis Award from the International Association of Dental Research in recognition of his outstanding research contributions. Dr. Murray was director of the former Cooperative Human Linkage Center, a Human Genome Center based at the University of Iowa, and continues to be actively concerned with ethical issues surrounding the Human Genome Project. He has also directed the Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center in the Departments of Pediatrics, Biological Sciences, Otolaryngology and Physiology and has recently established a Comprehensive Oral Health Research Center of Discovery, one of six in the nation funded by the National Institute of Dental Research.
April 16, 2010, Friday - University Club
DO-PhD Graduation Dinner
6:30 - 9:30
Eric Marrotte, PhD, Stacie Demel, PhD
Kelly Janis, PhD
