EyeWorld Today is the official daily of the ASCRS Symposium & Congress. Each issue provides comprehensive coverage editorial coverage of meeting presentations, events, and breaking news
Issue link: https://daily.eyeworld.org/i/124062
ASCRS SYMPOSIUM, SAN DIEGO 2011 ASCRS•ASOA SYMPOSIUM & CONGRESS, SAN FRANCISCO 2013 EW SHOW DAILY 7 Two Harvard medical school faculty to deliver 2013 ASCRS Science and Medicine Lecture by Cindy Sebrell ASCRS•ASOA Director of Public Affairs T wo well-known authors and members of the Harvard Medical School faculty will co-deliver the annual Science and Medicine Lecture. Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, will deliver the lecture, titled "When Experts Disagree: A New Approach to Medical Decision Making," today at 10 a.m. Dr. Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Dr. Groopman has authored numerous editorials on policy issues in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and the Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker. His first popular book, The Measure of Our Days, (1997) explores the spiritual lives of patients with serious illness and served as the basis for the ABC Television series "Gideon's Crossing." His other books include Second Opinions (2000), The Anatomy of Hope (2004), and How Doctors Think (2007), two of which were New York Times bestsellers. Dr. Groopman and Dr. Hartzband are co-authors of Your Medical Mind, a 2011 release that explains how patients can cut through the myriad of information from doctors, drug companies, and friends to arrive at positive medical decisions. They also co-author a bimonthly column for ACP Internist, the publication of the American College of Physicians, which is read by 150,000 internal medicine physicians in the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Groopman's research has focused on blood development, cancer, and AIDS. Currently, his basic laboratory research involves understanding how blood and vascular cells grow, communicate, and migrate. He is also studying how viruses cause immune deficiency and cancer, the role of endocannabinoids in hematopoiesis, mechanisms of liver injury due to hepatitis C virus, and the effects of novel cell cycle inhibitors against mantle cell lymphoma. He received his B.A. from Columbia College summa cum Pamela Hartzband, MD, and Jerome Groopman, MD, will deliver the annual Science and Medicine lecture titled "When Experts Disagree: A New Approach to Medical Decision Making." laude and his MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and his specialty fellowships in hematology and oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Children's Hospital/Sidney Farber Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Hartzband is a member of the faculty at the Harvard Medical School and the Division of Endocrinology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hartzband is a noted endocrinologist and educator specializing in disorders of the thyroid, adrenal and pituitary glands, and in women's health. She is regularly featured among America's Best Doctors. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and Harvard Medical School, she has authored articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on the impact of electronic records, uniform practice guidelines, monetary incentives, and the internet on the culture of clinical care. The Science and Medicine Lecture was established by ASCRS as a forum for expanding and enriching appreciation of the fields of science and medicine outside the field of ophthalmology. The annual Science and Medical Lecture aims to encourage attendees to think about larger issues in the practice of medicine and honors those whose curiosity and constant striving for innovation have led them to investigate aspects of medicine and science that broaden, enliven, and inspire. Previous authors and thought leaders who have presented this lecture include: • (2012) Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH: Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe • (2011) Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer • (2010) John D. Banja, PhD: Managing Medical Errors: How to Talk with Your Patient and Live with Yourself • (2009) Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD: The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older • (2008) Michael M. Merzenich, PhD: Cortical Plasticity in Infant, Child and Adult Brains EW