The Harvard Medical School
Combined Pathology Grand Rounds

September 2001-May 2002

DATE
SPEAKER
TITLE
Sept. 24 BWH John P. Glaser, Ph.D.
Vice-President Chief Information Officer
Partners Information Systems
Partners IT strategies and its implications for the Department of Pathology
Oct. 1 BIDMC Sherman Auditorium
William J. Muller, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine McMaster University
Ontario, Canada
Oncogene-mediated signal transduction in transgenic mouse models of human breast cancer
Oct. 8 Columbus Day Holiday - No Grand Rounds  
Oct.15 BWH
Peter G. Isaacson, MD
Professor and Head
Department of Histopathology
Royal Free and University College Medical School London, United Kingdom
Lymphomas related to the B cell follicle
Oct. 22 CH
Michael Klagsbrun, PhD
Professor of Surgery (Pathology)
Harvard Medical School
Neuropilins are mediators of angiogenesis
Oct. 29 BWH
Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD
President and CEO
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Protein 4.1 - one protein, many functions
Nov. 5 BIDMC Sherman Auditorium
Shahin Rafii, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Cornell Medical School
New York
The essential role of bone marrow precursors in post-natal angiogenesis
Nov. 12 BWH
Linda G. Griffith, PhD
Karl Van Tassel Career Development
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manipulation of ligand-receptor interactions to engineer cell behavior and tissue structure and function
Nov. 19 BIDMC Trustman Boardroom (Stoneman 208)
TBA
 
Nov. 26 CH
Stephen C. Blacklow, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Atomic pathology: Insights from the structural biology of the LDL receptor
Dec. 3 BIDMC Pathology Conference Room
TBA
 
Dec. 10 BWH
Laurence R. Young
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Overcoming the physiological challenges to long-duration spaceflight
Dec. 17 BIDMC Trustman Boardroom (Stoneman 208)
TBA
 
Dec. 24
Day before Christmas - No Grand Rounds
 
Dec. 31
Day before New Year - No Grand Rounds
 
Jan. 7
2002
BWH
Tucker Collins, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Pathology
Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
NK-kB: New insights into the role of this transcription factor in inflammation
Jan. 14 BIDMC
Diane Solomon, M.D
Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention National Cancer Institute
Results of the ASCUS/LSIL Triage Study (ALTS)
Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Holiday - No Grand Rounds  
Jan. 28 CH
Craig J. Gerard, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Complement and chemokines: Functional analysis
Feb. 4 BIDMC
TBA
 
Feb. 11 BWH
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Associate in Medicine (Endocrinology)
Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Pathology at the center of new medicine: A bioinformatics perspective
Feb. 18 President's Day Holiday - No Grand Rounds  
Feb. 25 USCAP Meeting - No Grand Rounds  
Mar. 4 BIDMC
David A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gene transfer of factor VIII for hemophilia A
Mar. 11 BWH
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD
Interim Director, Institute on Aging Co-Director Center of Neurodegenerative Disease Research Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Synucleins: The good, the bad and the degenerative
Mar. 18 CH
Paul K. Kleinman, MD
Professor of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School Director, Pediatric Radiology
Children’s HospitalMarch
Radiologic-histopathologic correlates in infant abuse
Mar. 25 BWH
Bruce R. Rosen, MD, PhD
Director, MGH-NMR Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Functional imaging: Non-invasive evaluation of tissue structure and physiology
April 1 BWH
Helmut Rennke, MD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Director, Renal Pathology Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Renal pathology
April 8 CH
Donald Ingber, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Cellular mechanotransduction and control of angiogenesis
April 15 Patriot's Day - No Grand Rounds  
April 22 BIDMC
TBA
 
April 29 BWH
Amiel G. Cooper, MD, FCAP
Chief of Pathology
Faulkner Hospital
Molecular prognostic factors in breast cancer
May 6 CH
Mark T. Keating, MD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Cardiology
Children’s Hospital
Mechanisms of cellular dedifferentiation and regeneration
May 13 BWH
Vinay Kumar, MD
Chairman, Department of Pathology
Professor of Pathology
University of Chicago
Natural killer cell receptors
May 19 BIDMC (Peter S. Ciano Memorial Lecture) Fred G. Silva, M.D.
Executive Director and Secretary-Treasurer
United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology Augusta, Georgia
Genetics and ethics issues
May 26 Memorial Day Holiday - No Grand Rounds