Metabolic Barriers to Effective Cancer Immunotherapy
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Delgoffe is a tenured Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center. Dr. Delgoffe graduated summa cum laude from Western Michigan University in 2004 before completing doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2010. His Ph.D research, under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Powell, made seminal discoveries regarding the role of nutrient sensing in T cell function and fate, resulting in several first-author contributions in high impact journals...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Girl in the Lion Cage: Regulating Hypnotism in Nineteenth Century France
NLM History of Medicine
In 1890 in the southern French town of Beziers, a ” carnival hypnotizer ” put a sleeping young girl, one “ Miss Sperling, ” in a lion ’ s cage, in an effort to demonstrate how profound – and authentic – her hypnotic trance was. The awe of the assembled crowd soon turned to horror, however, as the lion seized “ Miss Sperling ” in its jaws, parading her around the cage. The victim was eventually extracted and taken to the hospital but soon died from the injuries she sustained. This incident was just one of a number of stories circulating in the French press in the late nineteenth cen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
New Drugs, Old Problems: The Sulfonamide Revolution and Children ’ s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 1933-1949
Using pediatric patient records housed at the National Library of Medicine, Dr. Cynthia Connolly explore the transformation wrought by the sulfonamides in medical and nursing practice at Baltimore ’ s Sydenham Hospital. Published articles, oral histories, and physician memoirs reveal only part of the story of one of the twentieth century ’ s most pivotal scientific breakthroughs. Through patient records, which rarely survive intact, it is possible to appreciate the ways in which the new therapeutics demanded more intense bedside care, enhanced laboratory facilities, and new levels of cooperation. It also reveals how an...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 22, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Quality is what matters when collecting health data
Dr. Rashmee Shah of the University of Utah Hospital says that in an age of countless sensors and data streams, what ' s needed is the collection and analysis of less, but more focused, patient data. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Data Warehousing Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Source Type: video
Combating AI cyberattacks that learn as they go
Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera, says hospitals have seconds to respond using defensive AI to recognize algorithm transformations taking place is suspected malware. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Artificial Intelligence Privacy & amp; Security Source Type: video
Informing Health Policy through Science to Improve Healthcare for Older Adults
NINR Director's Lecture
Patricia W. Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Centennial Professor in Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing. She earned a PhD from the University of Rochester and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University. Dr. Stone ’ s research aims to enhance the quality of care for older adults including preventing healthcare-associated infection and improving infection management and end-of-life care. Her program of research has contributed to policy changes, such as state and federal legislative mandates that hospitals report infections. Dr. Stone ’ s passion is teaching the next gen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Tech's role in managing high demand for care
Increased demand is changing the business of hospital management; tech advances around supply chain and machine learning can help, says Peter Faulkner, CEO of Bendigo Health, a large regional health service in Victoria, Australia. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: video
Fixing the global healthcare workforce crisis
Ian MacIntyre, head of digital at NHS Leadership Academy, says the dialogue of fear around technology is changing as the culture is increasingly inclusive of tech teams within hospitals. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 1, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workforce Source Type: video
Biorithm empowering pregnant women with remote fetal monitoring
Biorithm co-founder and CEO Amrish Nair describes how his company ' s sensors take care out of the hospital to wherever the expectant mom is. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 24, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices Mobile Patient Engagement Telehealth Source Type: video
S-Patch Cardio brings ECG monitoring outside the hospital
Wellysis ' device can provide data to can help patients and doctors make better healthcare decisions, says co-founder and CEO Young Juhn. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Mobile Patient Engagement Telehealth Source Type: video
Getting nurses the right technology
Helen Balsdon, assistant director of nursing informatics at Cambridge University Hospitals, says just because the technology exists doesn ' t mean that it ' s the right technology for clinicians. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices Workforce Source Type: video
Now is the time to KonMari healthcare
Reducing administrative burden is an often-overlooked first step to innovation, says Santosh Mohan, managing director of the Digital Health Innovation Hub at the Brigham and Women ' s Hospital. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Innovation Pulse Workflow Source Type: video
Clinical Center Research Hospital Board Meeting - October 2019
Clinical Center Advisory Board MeetingFor more information go tohttps://ccrhb.od.nih.govAir date: 10/18/2019 9:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Health 2.0 Launch! winner is tapping value of supply chain data
OMNY Health co-founder and COO Sunny Grewal, whose 3.5-minute elevator pitch was the audience ' s top pick at the " Shark Tank " -like competition, explains how his distributed ledger tech can help hospitals monetize mounds of unused data. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Compliance & amp; Legal Data Warehousing Decision Support Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: video
