An NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series Event

From the Rivers of Babylon to the Coronary Blood Stream

Speaker: Barry S. Coller, M.D.
David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine
Head, Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology
Physician-in-Chief, The Rockefeller University Hospital
Vice President for Medical Affairs

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
3:00-4:00 p.m.

Masur Auditorium
Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health

Videocast of lecture

For information and accommodations, call Gloria Hairston at (301) 594-6747.

Sign language interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to participate in the lecture should call (301) 594-5595 five days ahead or contact the Federal Relay Service (TTY) at 1 (800) 877-8339.

Accreditation: The NIH/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for 1 credit per session up to a maximum of 45 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits actually spent in the educational activity.

The CME educational objective for this activity is to enable participants to: 1) Identify key questions in the speaker's area of investigation, and 2) Identify approaches used by the speaker to answer these questions.

 

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