2003 Mini-Med Topics

February 12, 2003

It Starts with the Story

Begin Mini-Medical School the same way UW Medical students begin their training. Hear how students adopt an understanding of the core values of the profession of medicine from their first day of medical school through their last.

Edward A. Walker, M.D.
Medical Director, UW Medical Center and Associate Dean, UW School of Medicine

Erika Goldstein, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.C.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Attending Physician, Harborview Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine

February 19, 2003

The Imaging Revolution: Redefining the Treatment of Disease

There has been a revolution in the imaging sciences that has established new standards in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. These advances are the result of new imaging devices which can "see" down to several millimeters in resolution and provide real-time physiologic information. This revolution is clearly evident in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and stroke.

Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., M.D., M.H.S.
Professor and Chair, Radiology Department

Janet Eary, M.D.
Professor of Radiology, Director of the Nuclear Medicine Program, Director of Molecular Imaging Center

February 26, 2003

Fat Chance in a Slim World: Understanding and Treating Obesity

Overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in this country and now pose a serious health threat to people of all ages. Learn about current research shedding light on the causes of obesity and helping in the development of new drugs for this condition. Hear about the history of effective surgical techniques for the treatment of severe obesity and what type of surgery is performed at the UW.

D. Scott Weigle, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Brant K. Oelschlager, M.D.
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the UW Swallowing Center

E. Patchen Dellinger, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery and Chief of Division of General Surgery

March 5, 2003

Mending a Broken Heart: From "Healthy" Executive to Transplant Patient

Hear the story of an active businessman who has his first heart attack, and then suffers complications. Learn about new medical, interventional and surgical approaches to heart disease, as well as treatment of life-threatening cardiac rhythm disturbances, novel therapies for cardiac pump failure, transplant of the human heart and the direction of cardiac care in the next decade.

Richard L. Page, M.D.
Robert A. Bruce Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Cardiology

Edward D. Verrier, M.D.
Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery and Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Department of Surgery

March 12, 2003

UW Medicine: Think Locally, Heal Globally

Hear how UW physicians, scientists and researchers are using cutting-edge technology to impact social and health issues in underdeveloped parts of the world and how DNA is used to identify victims of terror.

Charles Mock, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Surgery, Harborview Medical Center

Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine

Wesley Van Voorhis, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Co-Director, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Clinic, UWMC

March 19, 2003

State of Emergency: Are We Prepared for the Worst?

Get an inside view of the work that goes on in our area's only Level I Trauma and Burn Center. Hear what you can do, and how prepared we currently are in King County and in Washington for the "everyday personal emergencies" as well as catastrophic natural and unnatural disasters.

Nicole Gibran, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery and Director of the Burn Center at Harborview Medical Center

Gregory Jerome "Jerry" Jurkovich, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington, Chief of Trauma and Director of Emergency Surgical Services at Harborview Medical Center and Associate Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

Michael Copass, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Medical Director of Harborview's Emergency Trauma Center

March 26, 2003

A Kinder Cut: Nintendo Surgery/ Graduation!

Learn about the evolution of surgery including the development of "minimally invasive techniques" and the impact of performing those operations using robotics. Watch how "Zeus" a state-of-the-art robot, performs an operation under the guidance and direction of a UW surgeon. Then try your hand at being an anesthesiologist as you help "Chris," a robotic patient, undergo preparation for surgery. Graduation!

Brian Ross, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Residency Program Director, Director of Obstetrical Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology and Director of the Patient Simulation Center

Carlos Pellegrini, M.D.
Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery