ID Grand Rounds: August/September

Thursday – 12:00pm to 1:00 pm Presented in A-2200 of Medical Center North (MCN) with Video Teleconferencing (VTC) to the 5th Floor Conference Room at 100 Oaks. August 14 W. David Hardy, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA “HIV and Reproductive Health” September 4 Sten Vermund, MD Amos Christie Chair and Professor of Pediatrics Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health “Circumcision for HIV prevention: where are we and where do we need to go?”

Grant bolsters biomedical ethics efforts in Mozambique

Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen research ethics capacity in Mozambique.

Vanderbilt International Journal Club: 2014 Meeting Dates

2014 Meeting Dates Global Pain March 10, 2014, 6:30 pm Hosted by Dr. Tracy Jackson and the Anesthesiology Division of Pain Medicine Global Trauma June 16, 2014, 6:30 pm Hosted by Dr. Addison May and the Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care OB in Global Health September 8, 2014, 6:30 pm Hosted by Dr. Melinda New and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Growing Appropriate ICU Care in Low Income Countries December 15, 2014, 6:30 pm Hosted by Dr.

Fogarty Fellow, Kasia Lipska, M.D., M.H.S., shares her insight on the global diabetes epidemic in this opinion from today’s online issue of the New York Times

Twelve years ago, my husband and I packed up all of our belongings and moved to Trivandrum — a steamy, tropical town at the southern tip of India in Kerala. At the time, I was a medical student interested in studying stroke. For the next six months I dressed in a sari and walked to work on jungle roads. At the hospital, I immediately began seeing a steady stream of young patients affected by strokes, many of whom were so severely disabled that they were unable to work.