Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, October 10, 2014 for the presentation titled:

“Opportunities and Anxieties of the Incidental Pancreatic Cyst”

The Hans Fromm Memorial Lecture

as part of the

Thirteenth Annual Dartmouth Conference on Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Diseases

By

Walter Park, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical Director of the Pancreas Clinic

Stanford University Medical Center

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

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

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Please note that this Medicine Grand Rounds is part of the Annual Dartmouth Conference on Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Diseases.

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

• Identify the 2 pancreatic cysts that recognized precursors to pancreatic adenocarcinoma
• Define the current consensus criteria for recommending surgical resection of pancreas cysts
• List currently available cyst fluid-based tests to diagnose pancreas cysts.

Walter Park

Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and Medical Director of the Pancreas Clinic within Stanford University Hospital and Clinics.  He received his undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  He completed his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, where he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Health Services Research.  His primary research interests focus on clinical and translational research in pancreatic diseases with a specific interest in identify and translating novel pancreatic cyst biomarkers from the laboratory to the patient. Clinically, Dr. Park oversees a multi-disciplinary pancreas clinic where he cares for patients with a spectrum of pancreatic diseases.

Walter Park, MD, MS has stated that he does not have financial interests/arrangements.

Please join the Department of Medicine in welcoming Dr. Walter Park to Medicine Grand Rounds.