Great Teachers: Fifth Annual John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture - Solving the Inflammation Puzzle One Patient at a Time
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Author/Sponsor: John I. Gallin, MD, Director, CC

Great Teachers: Cancer Screening: The Intuition Versus the Science
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Author/Sponsor: Barnett Kramer, MD, MPH, Associate Director for Disease Prevention, NIH

Great Teachers: Mysterious Cases
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Author/Sponsor: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Great Teachers: The Modern World of Foodborne Disease
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Author/Sponsor: Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy, University of Minnesota

Great Teachers: New Viral Vaccines: The Shingles and the Human Papillomavirus Vaccines
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Author/Sponsor: Anne Gershon, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Great Teachers: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Author/Sponsor: John F. DiPersio, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine

Great Teachers: Anemia: Mechanistic Considerations
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Author/Sponsor: William Zinkham, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Great Teachers: Contemporary Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Eugene Braunwald, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Great Teachers: The Osteoporosis Revolution
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Lawrence G. Raisz, M.D., University of Connecticut Center for Osteoporosis, University of Connecticut Health Center

Great Teachers: The Vocation of Medicine: Lessons from Real and Imagined Doctors
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Paul H. Plotz, M.D, Chief, Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, NIAMS

Great Teachers: John Laws Decker Memorial Lecture - The Microscope as a Tool for Disease Discovery
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Elaine S. Jaffe, M.D., Acting Chief, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI

Great Teachers - The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Listening for the Self-Telling Body
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University

Great Teachers - Mysterious Cases
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Author/Sponsor: Lawrence M. Tierney Jr., M.D., University of California at San Francisco

Great Teachers - Translation, Replication, and Credibility of Research Findings
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Author/Sponsor: John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., Ph.D, University of Ioannina School of Medicine

Great Teachers - Insulin Action and Developmental Genes in Adipose Tissue and Aging
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Author/Sponsor: C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Harvard Medical School

Great Teachers - Drug Addiction: Neurobiology of Disrupted Free Will
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Nora D. Volkow, M.D., NIDA

Great Teachers – Influenza: Past Pandemics and Future Threats
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., NIAID

Great Teachers – Parables and Pearls: Interesting Cases in the Management of Hematologic Malignancies
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Eric Seifter, M.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine

Great Teachers – Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, NIAID

Great Teachers – Designing Clinical Studies: Lessons from Cushing's Syndrome
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Lynnette Nieman, M.D., Senior Investigator, Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, NICHD

Great Teachers – Mysterious Cases
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Faith Fitzgerald, M.D., Assistant Dean of the Humanities and Bioethics, University of California, Davis

Great Teachers – Alzheimer's Disease
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh

Great Teachers – Zoonoses: Where the Wild Things Are
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Arnold N. Weinberg, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Great Teachers - Suicidal Risk in Adolescents: Assessment and Treatment
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Author/Sponsor: David A. Brent, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Great Teachers - Improving the Quality of Health Care
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Author/Sponsor: Donald M. Berwick, M.D. Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Great Teachers - Friendly Fire in the War Against Cancer: Why Screening is a Double-Edge Sword
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Author/Sponsor: H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H., Dartmouth Medical School

Great Teachers - Hematology and Herpetology: Adventures in Hemostatis
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Craig Kitchens, M.D., University of Florida

Great Teachers - Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Ian M. Thompson, M.D. University of Texas Health Science Center

Great Teachers - Hormone Therapy
Wednesday September 14, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Deborah Grady, M.D., University of California

Great Teachers - Patients as Teachers: The Development of Cancer Immunotherapy
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., National Cancer Institute

Great Teachers: The Women's Health Study: What We Have Learned About Aspirin, Vitamin E, Heart Disease, and Cancer
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Julie E. Buring, D.Sc., Professor of Epidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Great Teachers - Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Scourge of Elderly, Hope for Future
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Stuart L. Fine, M.D., University of Pennsylvania Health System

Great Teachers - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Author/Sponsor: King K. Holmes, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington

Great Teachers - An Internist Encounters Addiction
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Jeffrey Samet, M.D., Boston University School Of Medicine

Great Teachers - We Must Prevent HIV Infection in Children!
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Author/Sponsor: Catherine Wilfert, M.D., Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Great Teachers - Who Wants to be a Radiologist? Watch One at Work
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Donald Resnick, M.D., University of California

Great Teachers - Graves' Disease: The Eyes Have It
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Len Wartofsky, M.D., Washington Hospital Center

Great Teachers - How Far Away is the Future for Patients with Lupus?
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Bevra H. Hahn, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Great Teachers - Breast Cancer Research and Treatment: In Transits
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Bernard Fisher, M.D., University of Pittsburgh

Great Teachers - Caution - Socratic Surgeon at Work
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Murray E. Brennan, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Great Teachers - The Natural and Unnatural History of Hepatitis C - Prolific Payoffs from the Perfect Patient
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Harvey Alter, M.D., M.A.C.P., NIH CC

Great Teachers - The End of Life
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Richard Payne, M.D., Duke University Divinity School

Great Teachers - Managing Heart Failure: Taking the Congestion Out of Congestive Heart Failure
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Lynne Stevenson, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Great Teachers - Optimizing Antimicrobial Treatment: When More Is Better…When Less Is Best
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., Director, CDC

Great Teachers - Obesity: A Disease, Not a Character Flaw
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Author/Sponsor: Rudolph Leibel, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Head, Division of Molecular Genetics and Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University

Great Teachers - A Near Fatal Emission: Notes of a Medical Detective
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Thomas Duffy, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Great Teachers - Cancer, Ulcer, and Helicobacter: To Have or to Have Not?
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Martin Blaser, M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Great Teachers - Voodoo Death: The Modern Lessons of Neurocardiology
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Martin Samuels, M.D., Harvard Medical School

Great Teachers - Genomics Meets Gynecology and Infertility
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Linda Giudice, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine

Great Teachers - Death from Burning Fat: Too Little, Hypoglycemia. Too Much, Ketoacidosis
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Daniel Foster, M.D., University of Texas

Great Teachers - Thinking about Infectious Disease
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Author/Sponsor: John Bennett, M.D., NIAID

Great Teachers - Heartache and Heartbreak: Important Interactions of Depression and Cardiovascular Disease
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Charles Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University

Great Teachers - Fluid Electrolytes: Practical Cases
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Author/Sponsor: Robert Narins, M.D., American Society of Nephrology