Category: Acute Medicine

Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “The Future of Hospice and Palliative Care”

David Casarett, MD, MA, serves as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine. Formerly, he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was also a faculty member of the […]

Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “Matching Care to Patient and Family Needs”

Dr. Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is […]

Fighting the Old Man’s Friend: Improving Outcomes for Patients with Pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia remains one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Recent advances in diagnostics, therapeutics and preventive strategies may significantly improve outcomes from this illness. This presentation will explore recent advances in care for patients with pneumonia and strategies for implementing them. Dr. Metlay is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School […]

Diagnosis and Management of Influenza in the Acute Care Setting

With poor rapid tests, and non-specific symptoms, rapid diagnosis of influenza continues to challenge providers. However, expeditious recognition and treatment of influenza is critical as more and more studies show the benefits of early treatment in high risk populations. Andrea Dugas is an Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at […]

Familial Hypercholesterolemia New Insights New Opportunities

Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common inherited disorder to cause premature morbidity and mortality. It is under-recognized and under-treated. FH provides a genetic model for the cholesterol hypothesis linking cholesterol intake to cardiovascular disease. The discovery of the FH mechanism dramatically improved understanding of lipid metabolism in the body. This talk will examine new […]

Tools for Studying the Genetic Basis of a Complex Disease

Susceptibility to most common diseases is complex, and based on both genetic and environmental risk factors. This presentation will discuss basic concepts and current tools to identify and interpret genetic and epigenetic variation, and pitfalls in associating variants with disease risk. Dr. Barthold is a pediatric urologist/clinician scientist at Nemours. She completed an American Foundation […]

The Complex Network of Human Disease: Applying Network Theory to Medicine

Recent research has advanced a network-based approach to human disease based on the hypothesis that a disease phenotype is rarely a consequence of an abnormality in a single effector gene product, but reflects various pathobiological processes that interact in a complex network. Networks have been studied in mathematics, computer science, engineering and social sciences for […]

The Human Gut Microbiome and Health: Insights from System-Level Models

There has been a revolution in medical thinking based on the large number of diseases that have been associated with alterations in the composition of the human microbiome. Examples include autism, allergies, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, and neurological disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A major research challenge […]

A Primer in Racial Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare and Outcomes

LeRoi S. Hicks, M.D., MPH is a doctor, researcher, and educator at Christiana Care Health System and serves at the vice chair of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Hicks graduated cum laude from Howard University in Washington D.C. with a B.S. in medical technology and obtained his medical degree at Indiana University. His postdoctoral training […]

Trauma Research and Performance Improvement

Value Institute Scholars meet regularly to discuss ongoing research projects, various investigative techniques, and current issues from a variety of fields. Our scholars include Value Institute leadership and staff members, as well as clinicians practicing across a broad range of specialties within the Christiana Care Health System. We study pressing issues identified as part of […]