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Alvin Tarlov, MD, MACP, Gives Second Annual Gregory Lecture
On May 22, Alvin Tarlov, MD, MACP presented "The Boundaries of Medicine: Revisions Needed" at the Second Annual Lloyd Gregory, Jr, MD Lecture in Medical Professionalism. The lecture series honors the legacy of Dr. Gregory, former Medical Director of the Dunn Foundation. Dr. Tarlov is professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, and a distinguished medical researcher and educator.
Dacso Featured on Science & Society
Each week, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY presents interviews with trendsetting and groundbreaking researchers, industry-leading executives, and senior government officials, providing in-depth coverage of the publication's core areas. Listen to the podcast of the interview with Cliff Dacso, MD.
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Issa Awarded Greenwall Foundation Grant
Amalia Issa, PhD, Director of Personalized Medicine and Targeted Therapeutics for the Center, received a grant for over $100,000 from the Greenwall Foundation. The grant, entitled "Evaluating Patient Decision-Making and Preferences for Personalized Medicine," will support her analysis of patient preferences and trade-offs as they make decisions about genetically tailored treatments.
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Click to Credible Health
Click to Credible Health: Sorting Fiction from Fact on the Internet
As more Americans come online, more rely on the internet for important health information. Eighty percent of American internet users, or some 113 million adults, have searched for health information on the web. (Pew Charitable Trust, 2006)
How do you know which sites have current, trustworthy information?
Cliff Dacso discussed how to assess the reliability of health websites at the Women's Fund for Health Education and Research on November 8, 2006.
Here are online resources you can trust: For health information on almost any topic, start with medlineplus, from the National Library of Medicine and the NIH. For cancer information and support, the Center has compiled a comprehensive list of quality sites. read more...
Center Members Present at International Meetings
Yakov Ben-Haim, PhD; Clifford Dacso, MD; Jon Carrasco; and Nithin Rajan presented a research poster entitled "Robust-Satisficing Decision Making Under Severe Uncertainty Illuminates Patient Choice" at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, October 14-18 in Boston.
On October 10, Amalia Issa, PhD, spoke on "The Role of Pharmacogenomics in Drug Development: Economic and Regulatory Considerations" at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Human Genomics in New Orleans. |