WALS J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture: The Promises and Perils of AI in Biomedical Research and Health Care Delivery
Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he contributes to global policy development and continued standardization and spread of the Internet. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.From 1994 to 2005, Cerf served as the senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI ’ s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineer...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Hearing loss & dementia – from epidemiological insights to the ACHIEVE trial and public policy in the U.S.
Frank R. Lin, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Otolaryngology, Medicine, Mental Health, and Epidemiology and director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, a research center based at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Lin completed his medical education, residency in Otolaryngology, and Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation, all at Johns Hopkins. He completed further otologic fellowship training in Lucerne, Switzerland. Dr. Lin's clinical practice is dedicated to otology and the medical and surgical management of hearing loss. His public health research focuses on understanding how hearing loss affects the h...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
TREM2 signaling in neurodegeneration and cancer
IIG Seminar
Dr. Marco Colonna was born in Parma, Italy, received his medical degree and specialization in internal medicine at Parma University (Parma, Italy) and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). He became a scientific member of the Basel Institute for Immunology (Basel, Switzerland). Since 2001 he has been a Professor of Pathology& Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA. Since 2019 Dr. Colonna is a member of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Colonna ’ s research focuses on immunoreceptors. In this field his accomplishm...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
IIG Seminar
Dr. Marco Colonna was born in Parma, Italy, received his medical degree and specialization in internal medicine at Parma University (Parma, Italy) and completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). He became a scientific member of the Basel Institute for Immunology (Basel, Switzerland). Since 2001 he has been a Professor of Pathology& Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA. Since 2019 Dr. Colonna is a member of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Colonna ’ s research focuses on immunoreceptors. In this field his accomplishments encompa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The Swiss Matterhorn sways to its own sweet music.
Standing at an elevation of 14,692 feet, Switzerland's towering The Matterhorn appears immovable. But an international team of researchers discovered it sways back and forth, about once every two seconds. This perpetual motion creates a monumental waltz caused by seismic energy deep in the earth, ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 19, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: video
A new algorithm could help first responders quickly locate people lost at sea.
The unforgiving, turbulent, ever-changing conditions out here can make successfully locating a missing person difficult, if not impossible. That’s why National Science Foundation-funded researchers from MIT collaborated with Woods Hole, Virginia Tech, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - June 23, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Hereditary Cancer Mutation and Drug Development
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Pamela Munster is Co-Director of the Center for BRCA Research, a BRCA-focused clinical and research program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She received her medical degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland; completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Indiana University Medical Center then moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York for her oncology and hematology fellowship. Dr. Munster served at Memorial Sloan Kettering as a faculty member in the breast cancer progra...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 3, 2020 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
API expands health data into risk scores, but are consumers ready for it?
Matt Park, the general manager of the Swiss-based company Dacadoo Americas, explains how the company ’s health scoring app works and their bet consumers also want to calculate their real time health risks with a new component of the open API. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 21, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Analytics Connected Health Mobile Patient Engagement Source Type: video
Innate Immunity in Neurodegeneration
NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Marco Colonna received his medical degree with honors from the School of Medicine at Parma University in 1983, and completed his specialization in Internal Medicine at Parma University in 1988. He began his postdoctoral training as a Research Fellow at the Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro in Genova, Italy, followed by work as a Research Affiliate in the Department of Molecular Immunology at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York and as a Research Fellow in Pathology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. He then became a ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 25, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
