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Dr. Benjamin M. Rigor
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A Different Kind of Diplomacy - Medical Missions to the Third World Countries
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This presentation emphasizes our duties and obligations to people of third world countries.
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Dr. Jesse H. Wright
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Advances in Psychopharmacology for Depression
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Description of new medications for depression, applications, and side effects
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Dr. Benjamin M. Rigor
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Alternative and Complementary Care
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Use of other modalities of care in medicine, i.e. massage therapy, herbal medicine, yoga, etc.
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Joseph C. Parker
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Alzheimer's Disease
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What is it, how does it occur?
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James W. Snyder
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Bioterrorism: Role of the Microbiology Laboratory
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Discussion of targeted biological agents and their defection, and identification in the laboratory
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Joseph C. Parker
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Brain Tumors
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Origins, types, effects
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Joseph C. Parker
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C-J Disease
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Discussion about Mad Cow Disease
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Dr. Zafrulla Khan
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Craniofacial Implants in Head and Neck Prosthetic Rehabilitation
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Head and neck prosthetic restorations are enhanced with implants - a new novel approach
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Dr. John W. Gamel
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Diabetic Retinopathy
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Changes in the eye secondary to diabetes mellitus
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Dr. Michael B. Flynn
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Hyperparathyroidism
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Incidence, etiology, diagnosis and treatment of the most common denudation causing hypercalcemia in the United States
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Dr. Steven Lippmann
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Insomnia Treatment
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Interface between Neurology, Medicine, and Psychiatry
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Dr. Eleanor Lederer
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Kidney Disease in the Population
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Discussion about the people at risk, how and when to suspect you have kidney disease
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Dr. Michael B. Flynn
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Management of Tumor in the Head and Neck Region
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Types of tumors occurring in the head and neck region; frequency, diagnosis, selection of treatment, and outcome
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Kerri S. Remmel
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Managing Risk Factors for Stroke Prevention
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Hypertension, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, heart disease, atrial fibrillation are discussed, including data regarding high risk population such as African American
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Frank B. Miller
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Medical Experience in Developing Countries
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Discuss medical problems in developing countries from personal experience and some things the medical community in Louisville is doing to help
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Susan Barnett
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Medical Outcomes of Sinus Disease
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Quality of life and the outcome following sinus surgery
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Demetra Antimisiaris PharmD, CGP, FASCP
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Not the usual suspects
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Deals with the side effects or effects of medications that people don't expect
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Scott Whittemore
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Overview of the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
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Describe the KSCIRC, its faculty goals, the problems of spinal cord injury and how we approach solutions to those problems
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David W. Hein
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Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics in Medicine
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Drug therapy is changing from the "one drug fits all model" to "personalized medicine tailored to each patient"
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Dr. Zafrulla Khan
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Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Head and Neck Cancer and Trauma Patients
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Restoration when patients lack their own tissue
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James W. Snyder
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Re-emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance
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Discussion of the increasing problem and sources of antibiotic resistance
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Theo Hagg
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Rescuing the injured Spinal cord
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Overview of what goes wrong after a spinal cord injury, current treatments and scientific research that shows a glimmer of hope that people with new spinal cord injuries might be able to have much better outcomes with new types of experimental treatments.
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Alfred B. Jenson
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Small Pox and Vaccinia, the Vaccine
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Historical aspects of small pox vaccination, 175 years of history that relates trials and tribulations of the founder, Edward Jenner, and the controversy that has always followed the use of the vaccine, especially today.
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Scott Whittemore
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Stem Cell Therapy for CNS Repair
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Discuss the properties of stem cells and their potential for being used in the treatment of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease
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