PHOENIX – Avoiding medical errors, Gross Anatomy 101 and how music affects memory will all be addressed this spring at lecture/discussion events being presented by the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.
The downtown Phoenix medical school plays host to two regular lecture series held in central Phoenix locations – the “Start Smart” breakfast series and “Science Café” series held in the evenings.
The morning Start Smart breakfast series lectures – all at 7:30 a.m. at the University of Arizona Phoenix Plaza building, 714 E. Van Buren, will feature cancer prevention, care-giving for the aging and how music affects memory.
Start Smart
· Feb. 16 -- “Personalized Cancer Prevention: Fact or Fantasy?” with Peter Lance, MD, a research professor at the UA Cancer Center.
· March 15 -- “The Role of the Medical Examiner’s Office in Maricopa County,” with Mark Fischione, chief medical examiner of Maricopa County.
· April 12 -- “Aging, Caregiving and Health,” with Georgia Hall, PhD, an acknowledged expert in geriatrics.
· May 11 – “Music, Memory and Aging,” with fourth-year medical student Alan Wang, who spent a year on a neurological research fellowship studying the topic.
The evening Science Café events are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Public Market, 14 E. Pierce. The topics will include valley fever, anatomy and avoiding medical errors.
Science Café
· Feb. 27 -- “Valley Fever, It’s Not Your Father’s Disease Anymore,” with John Galgiani, MD, director of the UA Valley Fever Center of Excellence.
· March 26 -- “Gross Anatomy: Top 10 Weird and Wonderful Facts about the Human Body,” with Rebecca Fisher, PhD, a faculty member of the College of Medicine - Phoenix.
· April 18 -- “You Bet Your Life: Your Role at the Table in Avoiding Deadly or Crippling Medical Errors,” with Ronald Weinstein, MD, director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program.
· May 21 -- “Asking the Hard Questions: Medical Ethics in the Third World,” with David Beyda, MD, a pediatric critical care physician at Phoenix Children’s Hospital who has been around the world on humanitarian missions.
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The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix admitted its first class of first-year medical students in August 2007. The College of Medicine – Phoenix has 192 students training to be physicians. The college seeks to promote health and improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease for the people of Arizona and beyond through education, research and patient care.
