Graduate Medical Education at
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

CME Programs

Regularly Scheduled Continuing Medical Education Programs
November 2008

Upcoming Symposia and Jointly Sponsored Activities

November 7

NJ OB/GYN Semi-Annual Meeting

Prenatal Diagnosis, Multiple Order Pregnancies, HIB Positive Pregnancy, NJ HIV Legislation, Polycystic Ovarian Disease, Cervical Cancer Screening


PNC Arts Center

November 12

Saint Barnabas Outpatient Centers

Advances in the Diagnosis & Treatment of Arthritis

Bridgewater Manor

November 13

NJ Rheumatology Assn of NJ 

Infectious Diseases in Rheumatology in the Era of Biologics

The Manor Restaurant, West Orange

November 15

NJ Society of Pathologists                                      
58th Annual Slide Seminar & Annual Meeting: CAP Update; Diseases of the Liver, Practice of Pathology in NJ

PNC Arts Center

 

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
Islami Auditorium
8:00 a.m.

November 5

Selected Case-Presentations from Intercity Infectious Disease Round
Speaker:  Leon Smith MD

November 12

Breast Cancer                          
Speaker:  Iuliana Shapira MD

November 19

Depression 
Speaker: Devendra Kurani MD

November 26

Mitral Valve Prolapse                                        
Speaker: Dusan Knezevic MD

DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS
Islami Auditorium
8:00 a.m.

November 4

Hearing Loss in Children
Speaker: Laura Downey MD

November 11

Updates on Sickle Cell Anemia
Speaker: Wondwessen Bekele MD

November 18

Acute Pancreatitis
Speaker: Wahaj Zaidi MD

November 25

Administrative Meeting and Resident Presentation

DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Islami Auditorium
7:30 a.m.

November 4

SSRI’s and Pregnancy
Speaker: Jonathan O’Brien MD

November 7

Program Director’s rounds – No CME Credits
Speaker: Paul Yodice MD

November 11

Ectopic Pregnancy
Speaker: Kara DeFilippis

November 14

Progesterone to Prevent Preterm Birth: Make up your own mind
Speaker: Edward Wolf MD

November 18

Molar Pregnancy GTN
Speaker: Tara Krauss MD

November 21

Visceral Fat and Insulin Resistance in Pregnancy and Beyond
Speaker: Francine Einstein MD

November 25

Pelvic Pain in Adolescent Gynecology 
Speaker: Rana Abdul-Khalek MD

November 28

No grand rounds

DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY
Classroom F
7:00 a.m.

November 5

No grand rounds

November 12

Pacemaker Management
Speaker:  Marc Roelke MD

November 19

Aspiration Pneumonia
Speaker:  Smita Shah MD

November 26

No grand rounds

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY
Islami Auditorium
Surgery QI Education Conference 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
(Competencies addressed: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Grand Rounds - 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
(unless otherwise noted) 

November 5

“Community Teaching Hospital: The veracity and feasibility of hepatobiliary surgery”
“Outcomes of complex pancreatic surgery at a tertiary community hospital: Is it Surgeon Dependent?”

Prakash Paragi, MD
Chief Resident, Department of Surgery
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

“Prophylactic Mastectomy: a practice–based review of the indications making process”
Derrick Hoover, MD
PGY 1 Resident, Department of Surgery
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

November 12

Matthew H. Zornitzer, MD
Hand Surgeon
Center for Orthopaedics
West Orange, NJ

November 19

7:00am Tumor Board
8:00am QI (No Grand Rounds)


November 26

Grand Rounds - Evidence Base Medicine             “Oncotype Dx, added benefit or cost?"
Chetan Gupta, MD
PGY 2 Resident, Department of Surgery            Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

“Sentinel lymph node biopsy for DCIS and prophylactic mastectomy: Added cost to the system or a benefit to the patient?”
Varuna Sundaram, MD
PGY 2 Resident, Department of Surgery
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

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