Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, October 3, 2014 for the presentation titled:

“Development and Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis: Definitions and Implications”

By

Kevin Brown, MD

Vice Chair, Department of Medicine

Professor, Department of Medicine

National Jewish Health

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by The Section of Pulmonary Medicine and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

• Diagnose Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
• Classify and distinguish among causes of pulmonary fibrosis
• Assess the impact of the diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis

Kevin Brown

Dr. Brown is a Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Medicine at National Jewish Health. He has had a long-standing interest in the clinical and biologic aspects of fibrosing lung disease and has directed National Jewish’s Interstitial Lung Disease Program for more than a decade. Dr. Brown has leadership positions in a number of national and international pulmonary organizations, and serves on the steering and protocol development committees of multiple national and international multi-centered treatment trials in lung fibrosis.  Named as one of the nation’s top physicians for more than a decade, he has an active clinical practice as well as an NIH-funded translational research program focused on the development, progression, and control of fibrosing lung diseases.

Kevin Brown, MD has stated that he has financial interests/arrangements with NHLBI, Actelion, Almiral, Altitude Pharma, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Biogen/Stromedix, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Celgene, Centocor, Fibrogen, Galecto, Gilead, Glaxco Smith Kline, Medimmune, Novartis, Pfizer, Promedior, Roche/Genentech, Sanofi/Genzyme, Veractye.

Cook, Eat, Learn: Skills to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Partnerships with Patients—This year-long nutrition and culinary curriculum is open to all members of the Department of Medicine and rotating students. Join the DH Culinary Medicine Program staff at 7:30a every Friday before Medical Grand Rounds in the lobby outside Auditorium E and F for:

• A healthful and delicious breakfast

• Cooking demonstrations and hands-on cooking stations
• Recipes
• Easily digestible summaries of the nutrition literature
• Lifestyle medicine resources for providers
• Lifestyle medicine resources for patients
• Weekly trivia question with prizes

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