Health Professions Speaker Series
Spring 2010
Varying Days, 5 to 7 pm
Hensill Hall, Room 501
Coordinators
Erron Titus (errontitus@gmail.com) & Yuri Ito (yito43@gmail.com)
| Date | Speaker |
Monday, February 1 |
Gerard Jenkins, MD
"Medical and Dental School Admission Process from Perspective of A Graduate" Gerard completed his medical school training at Venderbilt in 2008, and pharmacogenomics research training from UCSF in 2009. He founded his own company, G&C Company, LLC Part-Parnership, which provides consulation advice for professional and graduate admissions and applications. |
Monday, February 8 |
Renee Y. Hsia, M.D., M.Sc. “Why does a broken rib cost more than a car? Healthcare in the United States and implications for all Americans” Education BA: Princeton University MD: Harvard Medical School MSc: London School of Economics/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Training: Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Board Certification: Emergency Medicine Research and Academic Interests Dr. Hsia is Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, and is an emergency physician at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on barriers to access to emergency care for vulnerable populations, as well as reimbursement and financing within health care systems. She has published on health services research both domestically and internationally and has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. In addition to her research, she is currently developing the areas of concentration of global health within the UCSF Emergency Medicine Residency, and also serves on the Federal Government Legislative Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Her international experience includes work with a wide range of organizations, ranging from private, non-governmental organizations (International Rescue Committee in Rwanda), academic groups (Harvard AIDS Institute in Senegal and South Africa), as well as healthcare consulting (McKinsey & Company as an associate in Brussels, Belgium). She has also spent time with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as conducted basic life support skills training overseas. Clinically, she has worked in Hong Kong, China, Guatemala, Eritrea, the United Kingdom, and France. She speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, and Spanish fluently. |
Monday, March 1 |
Henry C. Sanchez, MD (no talk title yet) Professor of Clinical Pathology Specialty Area: Autopsy pathology and medical education Dr. Sanchez's research projects involve studying the therapeutic effects of quinacrine and new therapeutic agents in patients afflicted with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He is also working on developing diagnostic tests on extra CNS tissues for prion diseases. He instructs residents, post-sophomore fellows, and rotating medical students in the field of autopsy pathology. He is actively involved in teaching and curriculum design in the schools of dentistry, medicine and pharmacy. |
Monday, March 8 |
Chris Watts, Representative from ECELA Spanish Schools
CELA is a Spanish language school with 9 years of experience in South America with 5 locations in Chile, Argentina, and Peru. They have a Medical Shadowing program in Chile, Argentina, and Peru where pre-med, medical, and nursing students can take medical Spanish classes, and shadow doctors in all different kinds of fields to get real life experience. www.ecela.com/services_medical.php ECELA will also be sponsoring a program in Buenos Aires in the Summer where pre-med, medical and nursing students will work with medical professionals to distribute vaccines and other medical services to people with less resources. |
Monday, March 22 |
Ron Dieckmann, MD MPH, Kids Care Everywhere Chairperson Dr. Dieckmann was educated at Harvard, Stanford Medical School, and the Berkeley School of Public Health and is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at University of California, San Francisco and Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. He is triple board certified in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and general emergency medicine. Dr. Dieckmann has edited eight medical textbooks, is a frequent speaker at national and international medical conferences, and has received numerous national awards for his service to American medical education and training. In 2003, he co-founded a medical software company with Dr. Rob Pitt in Australia that has created "PEMSoft-The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software" - a decision-support software program for the care of ill and injured children worldwide. He travels frequently with his wife and three daughters to the developed and developing world. Through KidsCareEverywhere, Dr. Dieckmann is dedicated to bringing first world medical software to the third world to improve training of doctors and care of children. |
Monday, April 19 |
Issac Yang, MD, Chief Resident, UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery
Dr. Isaac Yang is a chief resident in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery. Originally from Lodi, California, Isaac’s interest in neurobiology started as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley graduating with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa. As a medical student at the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Yang was mentored in the brain tumor lab of Linda Liau MD,PhD, and was awarded Dean’s Outstanding Thesis Award and Lasky Memorial Research Award. As a neurosurgery resident at UCSF, Isaac was awarded an NRSA postdoctoral grant in the research lab of Andrew Parsa MD,PhD. His research awards include the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Dandy Clinical Research Fellowship, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Leksell Award, the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons Resident Research Award, and a UCSF Translational Scientist Training Research Grant. Dr. Isaac Yang is dedicated to improving the care and treatment of patients with brain tumors and is deeply indebted to all of his teachers and mentors who have guided him on this path. After residency, he plans to continue his passion for academic neurosurgery, brain tumor research, and skull base tumors and hopes to contribute to the field of neurosurgery and neuro-oncology in a manner worthy of his teachers, mentors, and training. Dr. Yang will be speaking about neuroscience and neurosurgical medicine. |
Wednesday, April 26 |
Paul Linde, MD Dr. Linde is clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine,and has worked in several high-intensity psychiatric settings over the years including San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Department. His first book, Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2002. Linde has also written for JAMA, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and DoubleTake magazine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and a rambunctious one-eyed dog. Dr. Linde Dr. Linde has a broad set of interests as a general adult psychiatrist and enjoys working in clinically challenging settings. His second book, about my work as a psychiatrist in San Francisco, called "Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an Emergency Psychiatrist" was published in January 2010. For more information on Dr. Linde: Dr. Linde's homepage, Interview on KQED Forum with Dave Iverson. To purchase the book "Danger to Self", click here. |
If you have any suggestions for a speaker please let us know.
If you are a health professions organization (AMSA, PBSO, HEAL, SHAC, PHSC, Pre-Dental Club, Pre-Pharm Club, Pre-Opto Club, etc.) and would like to sponsor an event, please contact us. We will hold this weekly Health Professions Speaker Series every fall and spring semester.
