Health Fellows Program Syllabus 2000

Health Fellows Program Topics in Health Care

HFPR 201-01 Spring 2000
Room: MCEC 220
Time: 2:45-4:45pm

 

Professor Priscilla Kehoe                                                          Kathy Roy, Administrator  
Office: LSC 210                                                                       Office: LSC 103 or LSC 112/119
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30-5:30pm                                     phone: x2237 or x4227
phone: x2237                                                                            email: kathy.roy@trincoll.edu
email: priscilla.kehoe@trincoll.edu

 Teaching Assistants:

Katie Sutula                                                                               Justin Lafreniere
phone: x3216                                                                             phone: x3519
email: katherine.sutula@trincoll.edu                                            email: justin.lafreniere@trincoll.edu

 

Date                                        Class Discussion                             Topic 

Tuesday 1/18/00                                                                              Orientation                 

Thursday 1/20/00                        No Guest                                      Patient-Doctor Relationship

 Tuesday 1/25/00                        Dean Miller Brown                        Medical Ethics

Thursday 1/27/00                        Dr. Joseph Wax                            First trimester aneuploidy screening.

Tuesday 2/1/00                           Dr. Brian Cooper                          Control of pneumococcal infections in the next century 

Thursday 2/3/00                         No Guest                                       HMOs

Tuesday 2/8/00                          Dr. Karen Daigle                            Asthma: Who has it? Why do we care?

Thursday 2/10/00                       No Guest                                       Alternative Medicine

Tuesday 2/22/00                        No Guest                                       Alternative Medicine
Book: “The Spirit Catches you and you fall down.”

Thursday 2/24/00                        No Guest                                      Alternative Medicine

Tuesday 2/29/00                         No Guest                                      Alternative Medicine & The Placebo Effect

Thursday 3/2/00                         Dr. Margaret McLaren                   Controversy related to health policy related to maternal
                                                                                                        addiction or the effects of maternal addiction on the
                                                                                                         longterm outcome of children.

Tuesday 3/7/00                           Dr. Karen Rubin                            The use of Growth Hormone in Children taking a historical
                                                                                                        approach and discussing the current controversial issues
                                                                                                        regarding this costly therapy

Thursday 3/9/00                          Dr. Patricia DeFusco                     Breast Cancer

 Tuesday 3/14/00                        Dr. Victor Herson                          Ethics in the Neonatal Intensive care Unit.

Thursday 3/16/00                        Dr. Robert Greenstein                   Hemochromatosis : a model for application of public health
                                                                                                          genetics.

 Tuesday 3/28/00                        Dr. Ellen Dornelas                          Internet-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment for
                                                                                                         Adolescents

Thursday 3/30/00                        Dr. Niall Moyna                             Nuclear Cardiology

Tuesday 4/4/00                           No Guest                                       Book: “The Placebo Effect”

Thursday 4/6/00                         Dr. Francis DiMario                        Pediatric Neurology

Tuesday 4/11/00                        Dean Miller Brown                          Medical Ethics

Thursday 4/13/00                       Dr. John Goethe                             Outcome measures in psychiatric populations.

Tuesday 4/18/00                        Dr. Howard Oakes                         Traumatic Brain Injury

Thursday 4/20/00                       No Guest                                        Case Studies

Tuesday 4/25/00                        No Guest                                        Case Studies

Thursday 4/27/00                       Dr. Holly Perry                                Emergency M