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The Medical Center Hour: Can Adolescents Refuse Medical Treatment? 9/10/08 - he news media regularly highlight incidents in which adolescents with serious, even
life-threatening, illnesses challenge medical recommendations and refuse efficacious life-saving
treatment. Such cases, aside from their celebrity, often represent wrenching, potentially divisive dilemmas for families and pose difficult ethical and legal challenges to health professionals and health care systems. |
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Is the Cure Coming? Embarking on a New Era in Cancer Treatment6/7/08 - In the coming years, our understanding of the molecular and cellular bases of cancer will give doctors new tools to attack the isease with an unprecedented level of precision and effectiveness. On June 7, 2008, leading physicians with U.Va's Cancer Center discussed the future of cancer care. |
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Biomedical Engineering at U.Va: A Global Model for Translating New Discoveries to Human Health 6/6/08 - Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest growing disciplines of the new millenium. Assistant Professor Jason Papin, one of the newest members of U.Va's growing biomedical department, explains the basic science involved, and how the field is reshaping medical imaging, regenerative medicine and systems bioengineering. This event was recorded as part of Reunions Weekend 2008. |
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Virginia and Volunteering: A Panel Conversation 6/6/08 - U.Va is consistently recognized for its outstanding community service programs. Every year the University serves more than one million people through more than 450 public service and outreach programs. This panel features a discussion about the volunteer experience at U.Va, and the participants are: Dr. Marcus Martin, immediate past chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine; Dr. Ross Isaacs, assistant professor of clinical internal medicine; and Dr. Audrey Snyder of the School of Nursing. The moderator is Kelly Eplee, the executive director of Madison House. |
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Alternative Procedures and Medicine at U.Va. 6/6/08 - Eighty percent of the world's population uses traditional and indigenous medical practices for an important part of health care. Increasingly, Americans are seeking these same techniques as supplements to their own care. Dr. Ann Gill Taylor is the Director of the Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, and in this lecture, she describes some of the studies currently underway at the Center. |
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Tips for Being an Informed Patient 4/24/08 - Jeanette Lancaster, the outgoing Dean of the U.Va School of Nursing, tells a crowd at in Williamsburg about how they can become active patients while in the hospital to prevent medical errors. Dean Lancaster suggests that medical error prevention is a joint effort through education and advocacy. This lecture is part of the Engaging the Mind series. |
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Miller Center Debate: Health Care4/9/08 - JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Regina Herzlinger, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, spoke in favor of the resolution. Dick Armey, Chairman of FreedomWorks and former House Majority Leader, and Richard Epstein, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, argued against. Susan Dentzer, Health Correspondent for PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, moderated the debate. |
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Last Lecture: Dr. Valentina Brashers, M.D. 4/2/08 - The Last Lecture Series is an annual tradition at the University and provides a forum for distinguished professors to lecture to students as if it were their last time to do so. Here Dr. Valentina Brashers, Professor of Nursing and an Attending Physician in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, presents her last lecture at the Rotunda on Wednesday April 2. |
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