September 2009
Carr Auditorium, 12:00 - 1:00 pm

September 1	Computerizing the Human Studyome Ida Sim, MD, PhD Associate Professor, UCSF
September 8	HIV primary care Monica Gandhi
September 15	TBA David Ginsburg, M.D. James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor Departments of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Medical School
September 22	Should we give statins to persons at low short-term cardiovascular risk? Mark Pletcher, MD Assistant Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Medicine Understand the rationale for the risk-based prescribing of statins Discuss the three primary flaws with risk-based statin prescribing Know the price/pill at which widespread treatment with statin (for everyone with LDL > 130) becomes cost-saving Identify and discuss the limitations to the evidence base supporting this finding
September 25	PRIMARY CARE: Canceled
September 29	HIV and Cardiovascular Disease: 2009 Update Priscilla Hsue, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF

 

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