Local Event for Researchers & Clinicians

Sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroscience Center (Departments of Neurology, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Critical Care)

William W. Seeley, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology at University of California - San Francisco, will present the latest research on neurodegenerative disease from noon to 1pm.

The sponsor of this lecture is the Harvard Catalyst colloquium Series (http://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/colloquiumseries.html).

Mel B. Feany, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology of the Harvard Medical School will present her research in human neurodegenerative diseases using Drosophila as a model organism.

The talk will be held on Monday, July 20, 2009 from 4:30pm - 5:30pm.

This event is sponsored by the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and will be held from 1pm - 2pm.

Dr. George P. Choursos, MD, MACP, MACE, FRCP (London) will present. Dr. Chrousos is a professor and chairman of the First Department of Pediatrics at the University of Athens Medical School in Athens, Greece. He is currently the President of the European Society of Clinical Investigation and the Greek College of Pediatrics.

The research of Dr. Chrousos has led to improved understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of the stress response at the neuroendocrine, cellular and molecular levels. He has also advanced the study of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis diseases and has made major contributions to the understanding of nuclear receptor signaling systems.  Dr. Chrousos' work has a broad inter-disciplinary following, and is fundamental for the disciplines of internal medicine, pediatrics, immunology, reproductive medicine, psychiatry and psychology as well as the basic sciences of biology and biochemistry.

This lecture is sponsored by the Hebrew SeniorLife and will be presented by J. David Hoglund, FAIA. Mr. Hoglund is the Principal and Director of Perkins Eastman Architects, the firm that planned and designed NewBridge on the Charles.

Registration and breakfast will begin at 8:30am.

More information and directions to the lecture may be found at www.newbridgeonthecharles.org/design

Planned and sponsored by the Ethics in Clinical Practice & Diversity Committees of the Massachusetts General Hospital Patient Care Services Department. The Massachusetts ADRC administrator, Liang Yap, PhD, sits on the planning subcommittee of this event.

This event will be held on Friday, October 23, 2009 from 8:00am - 4:30pm. Pre-registration is required.

The purpose of this symposium is to increase knowledge about the interaction between ethics and diversity in health care in order to promote the best possible patient outcomes and to reduce moral distress among providers.  All clinicians who are interested in health care ethics are invited to attend.

Sponsored by the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroscience Center (Departments of Neurology, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Critical Care)

G. William Rebeck, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University, will present his latest research findings on Alzheimer's disease from noon to 1pm.

Sponsored by the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife

This workshop is targeted to researchers interested in general latent variable methods in applied longitudinal data analysis in aging. The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview and opportunity for first-hand experience doing analyses using Mplus software.  Methods of emphasis include latent growth modeling, re-test effect modeling, dual-change score modeling, and latent growth mixture modeling.

Workshops will take place from 9am - 4pm. More information & registration may be found at:  http://groups.google.com/group/LVMWorkshop

Sponsored by the Research in Progress Seminar at the Institute for Aging Research at HebrewSeniorLife.

This seminar will be presented by Rochelle E. Tractenberg, PhD, MPH, Director of the Collaborative for Research on Outcomes & Metrics at Georgetown University. Dr. Tractenberg is also an assistant professor of neurology, psychiatry, biostatistics, bioinformatics & biomathematics at Georgetown.

Refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by The Mental Health & Aging Research Group at the Institute on Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLIfe.

This event will take place on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 from 3pm-4pm and will be presented by Dr. Rochelle E. Tractenberg, an Assistant of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics at Georgetown University. Dr. Tractenberg is also the Director of Collaborative for Research on Outcome & Measures at Georgetown.

There is free valet parking and refreshments will be served.