Events

Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center Aortic aneurysms – or balloon-like dilations of the largest blood vessel in the body – represent an acute threat to the life of a patient, a threat that physicians have recognized and struggled to treat for centuries. With aneurysms an identifiable pathology whose … Read more

This interdisciplinary symposium presents a broad look at narrative medicine with opening and closing keynote lectures, break-outs and workshops,and a theatre plenary session. Led by faculty, staff, and students at Wake Forest University, Forsyth Hospital, and UNC Chapel Hill, sessions will fall under three categories: narrative in clinical practice, curriculum and teaching, and honing practices … Read more

Farr Curlin, MD, Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Humanities and History of Medicine, Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School. Clinicians’ religious characteristics may strongly shape practice, particularly with respect to morally controversial interventions. Religion-associated differences may then expose the limits of what we know as “medical ethics” and … Read more

The advent of new technologies that allow analysis of entire genomes presents many challenges to the researcher. A great deal of information is obtained through genomic sequencing and such information is highly heterogeneous, ranging from frankly uninterpretable to highly informative regarding the risk for future health conditions. Dr. Evans will discuss some of these challenges … Read more

Sex Bias in Biomedical ResearchMelina R. Kibbe, MD Chair, Department of Surgery UNC School of Medicine