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