January 2020
Joint Anesthesia Conference
Grand Rounds Lecture Series
Mondays at 7:00 A.M
Location: Weill Cornell Medical College, Conference Room A-950 (unless otherwise noted)
January 6, 2020
“Managing the Inpatient with Cirrhosis: Time is of the Essence”
Arun Jesudian, M.D.
Assisant Professor of Medicine
Director of Inpatient Liver Services
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
January 13, 2020
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Invited Guest Speaker
“Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Is It Really An Acute and Localized Disease?”
Jean-Francois Pittet, M.D., DEAA
David H. Chestnut Professor of Anesthesiology
Divisions of Critical Care and Division of Molecular and Translational Biomedicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Professor of Surgery
Investigator, Center for Lung Injury and Repair
Investigator, Alabama Resuscitation Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
January 20, 2020
No Grand Rounds in observance of Martin Luther King Day
January 27, 2020
“Infectious Disease Transmission in the Anesthesia Workstation; sliming ourselves & our patients; Real, Imagined or Academia Gone Wild?”
Chuck Biddle, PhD., CRNA
Director of Research
Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
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Statement of Need: Advances in this field need to be presented to Weill Cornell faculty and other physicians on a regular basis as one means of promoting state-of-the-art health care for patients.
Target Audience: Weill-Cornell physicians in Anesthesiology, other interested physicians and health care providers, and students.
Course Objectives: Weill Cornell CME Activities are intended to lead to improved patient care and safety. By the conclusion of this series, physicians should have a better understanding of recent developments in Anesthesiology which in turn should lead to improvements in clinical practice.
Weill Cornell Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Weill Cornell Medical College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
It is the policy of Weill Cornell Medical College to adhere to ACCME Essential Areas, Policies, and Standards for Commercial Support and content validation in order to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored programs. All faculty participating in sponsored programs are expected to disclose to the audience any potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest related to their contribution to the activity, and any discussions of off-label or investigational uses of any commercial products or devices not yet approved in the United States. All disclosures will be made to attendees prior to each presentation.
WCMC is accessible for individuals with disabilities or special needs. Participants with special needs are requested to contact the Office of CME at 212.746.2631.