Medicine Grand Rounds - Friday, June 14

Scott E. Plevy, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of North Carolina School of Medicine "Advances in IBD Pathogenesis: Translating Biology into the Clinic"

June 14, 2013
8 am - 9 am
Location
Auditorium E, DHMC
Sponsored by
Geisel School of Medicine
Audience
Public
More information
Lara Judd
603-650-6722

Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, June 14, 2013 for the presentation titled:

Advances in IBD Pathogenesis: Translating Biology into the Clinic

By

Scott E. Plevy, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the Section of Gastroenterology and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

  1. Review recent advances in pathogenesis of the human inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)
  2. Understand how these advances have led to the identification of new therapeutic targets in IBD
  3. Appreciate the clinical heterogeneity in human IBD and how molecular biomarkers will stratify clinically important subgroups of diseases

Scott E. Plevy, MD

Dr. Plevy received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.  He completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.  He subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and postdoctoral research fellowships at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Plevy was formerly Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Plevy has received recognition for the care of people with inflammatory bowel disease including Physician of the Year, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter in 2004. He was recently recognized in 2011 by U.S. News and World Report as a “Top Doctor” in his subspecialty.

Please join the Department of Medicine in welcoming Dr. Scott E. Plevy to Medicine Grand Rounds.

If you are unable to attend and would like to either view Grand Rounds live on your computer or if you would like to view it another time, please use this link.

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

*PLEASE NOTE:  Credit will only be awarded for written evaluations submitted within 1 week of conference date.*

** The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education programs for physicians.**

*** The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ***

 

 

 

 

Location
Auditorium E, DHMC
Sponsored by
Geisel School of Medicine
Audience
Public
More information
Lara Judd
603-650-6722