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Jean L. Bolognia, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine will deliver the 2013 Howard Fox Memorial Lecture on the topic of "signature nevi." Recognition of an individual’s signature nevus and its clinical spectrum allows the dermatologist to focus on those nevi that do not fit the “pattern” and thereby become less overwhelmed by the sheer number of nevi in a particular patient.

This program, jointly sponsored by the Metropolitan Ethics Network and the Social Work section at NYAM, will explore the issues raised by incapacitated patients who refuse recommended medical care.

Please join us as our featured speaker, Donna Frescatore, Executive Director of New York’s Health Benefit Exchange, and other health care policy and planning experts discuss the progress and implications of the NYS Health Exchange.

Gregg Mitman's talk will examine how American military and industrial expansion overseas -- witnessed firsthand by doctors in the American occupation of the Philippines, on the coffee plantations of the United Fruit Company, in the trenches of the Great War and on the rubber plantations of Firestone in Liberia -- depended upon and helped bring into view an ecological understanding of disease in the service of capital that would, in turn, become the scientific foundation upon which later narratives of ecological imperialism relied.

This program will examine how metabolic, epidemiological, and clinical trial research studies have informed guidelines and consider how health status and lifestyle impact implementation of intake recommendations.  

Dr. Stephen R. Cook will deliver the 2013 Millie & Richard Brock Lecture on the topic of "Community Strategies for Childhood Obesity: A Five-year Experience."

Nuclear-Free Planet will host a two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster on the second anniversary of the accident.

Residents and fellows from area pediatric programs will present clinical and basic scientific papers representing original research. A panel of judges from the Section on Pediatrics will recognize top presentations.