Jul 16, 2009  •  5:00PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Peter L. Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI; Center for Biomedical Informatics ;Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Chronic care monitoring and clinical decision support to be practical need to be connected to the workflow of the clinical practice. Fully automated electronic quality monitoring fueled by data extracted from clinical records now has high accuracy and a common data infrastructure capable of supporting epidemiological investigation, clinical decision support and chronic disease management. Dr. Elkin will discuss Mount Sinia's efforts in this area of Public Health Informatics and will demonstrate Sinai's web services approach to standardized public health and clinical data.
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Aug 12 - 14, 2009  •  See event description for schedule

Speakers: Jo Ivey Boufford MD, New York Academy of Medicine; Jean Slutsky PA, MSPH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Ian Graham PhD, Canadian Institutes for Health Research; Rita Charon MD, PhD, Columbia University

The TEACH program is aimed at physicians and other health care professionals from all disciplines and specialties. This first-of-its kind experience will be comprised of three interconnected tracks: Forming Recommendations Using GRADE (The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system), Implementing Clinical Evidence in Care Settings and Evidence Based Individualized Care.
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Sep 14 - 15, 2009  •  See event description for schedule

A National Forum on HIV/AIDS for Health Professionals Who Provide Care for Latinos

Sep 16, 2009  •  6:00PM - 8:00PM

Speakers: Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH Jenkins/Pokempner Director of Preventive & Alternative Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center (Department of Urology)

Co-Director of the New Men's Health Program, Mark A. Moyad, MD, will speak at the Section on Urology's Update on the Use of Complementary Medicine in Urology.
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Sep 22, 2009  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Jerome Lowenstein, MD

Henderson’s Equation focuses on the relationship between Lawrence J. Henderson, a brilliant physician-scientist, and his student Aaron Weiss, a son of Jewish immigrants. This historical novel is set against the backdrop of World War I and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. The relationship is repeatedly tested by the differences in their respective backgrounds, and the way each reacts to these powerful events.
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Oct 3 - 4, 2009  •  See event description for schedule

Speakers: See schedule of events below.

In 1909, Sigmund Freud made his only visit to the United States. He arrived in New York, spent much time there, and departed from New York. This symposium will meet in New York exactly one hundred years after his arrival back in Vienna to consider what happened to his ideas and his networks in America in the century after he left.

Registration will open June 1, 2009. There will be no registration fee for the conference, but advanced registration is strongly advised. For information contact: fleinhardt@nyam.org.

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Oct 5, 2009  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Elizabeth Reis

What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. Bodies in Doubt traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present day.
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Oct 19, 2009  •  5:30PM - 7:00PM

Speakers: Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, CHES

Women’s Global Health and Human Rights serves as an overview of the challenges faced by women in different regions of the world. Ideal as a tool for both professionals and students, this book discusses the similarities and differences in health and human rights challenges that are faced by women globally. Best practices and success stories are also included in this timely and important text.
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Oct 26, 2009  •  5:30PM - 7:30PM

Speakers: Mark W. Kline, MD Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital

The Brock Lecture, Award and Visiting Professorship in Pediatrics was established by Millie and Richard Brock in 1995 on the 100th anniversary of NYAM’s Section on Pediatrics to sponsor a nationally recognized leader in pediatrics to engage in a one to two day visiting professorship at a New York-area pediatrics training program, to deliver the annual Brock Lecture, and to receive the Brock Award for distinguished contributions to pediatrics. This year's lecture features Dr. Mark W. Kline presenting his lecture on Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart.
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Nov 5, 2009  •  5:00PM - 8:00PM

Speakers: Jane White, PhD, RD; Rita Batheja, MS, RD, CDN; Nichola Davis, MD, MS

Dr. Jane White will speak on the topic of "Coding, Coverage and Compensation for Medical Nutrition Therapy". A panel discussion and Q&A with Dr. White and Nichola Davis, MD, MS and Rita Batheja, MS, RD, CDN will follow.
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Dec 3, 2009  •  8:00PM - 9:30PM

Speakers: Lecturer: Michael S Gazzaniga, PhD, Director, SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Medalist: Myrna Weissman, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the School of Public Health at Columbia University, Chief of the Department in Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute

Lecture Title: "Brain Science and the Law: Did My Brain Make Me Do This?"
The Thomas William Salmon Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a prominent specialist in psychiatry, neurology or mental hygiene. The Thomas William Salmon Lecturer, chosen from among the nation’s most talented investigators, is invited to share his or her research with the New York-area psychiatric community.
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