Rachel Brem, M.D., Nancy Davidson, M.D., John Fetting, M.D., Elizabeth Jaffe, M.D., and Robinson Baker, M.D., discuss new methods of earlier cancer diagnosis and innovative surgical and reconstructive techniques and drug therapies. Opthalmologists Julia Haller, M.D., Irene Maumenee, M.D., and Harry Quigley, M.D., discuss emerging treatments for low vision, inherited eye disease, glucoma and retinal diseases.
All seminars are open to the public.
Two senior interim appointments to his staff at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been announced by Edward D. Miller Jr., M.D., interim dean of the medical faculty and vice president for medicine. N. Franklin Adkinson Jr., M.D., professor of medicine, is serving part-time as interim vice dean for research. He has assumed leadership of the School's research administration and will work closely with departing Vice Dean for Research David A. Blake, Ph.D., to ensure continuing high- level support for this critical mission. Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology, also is serving part-time as the interim dean for clinical practice and has assumed responsibility for all administration and oversight of the Clinical Practice Association. Four young scientists at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have received grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression in the largest ever distribution by a public contribution-supported philanthropy devoted to research in severe mental illnesses.