JGH Medical Grand Rounds for the month of December
The Medical Grand Rounds take place on Mondays from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. via Zoom.
For the Zoom details, click here.
December 7, 2020
JGH ICU EXPERIENCE OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC, LESSONS LEARNED AND MORE QUESTIONS
Sandra Dial, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
McGill University
Critical Care Medicine
Jewish General Hospital and Montreal Chest Institute
Educational Objectives:
1. To describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients requiring critical care
2. To describe the evolution of practice changes that occurred as we gained experience
3. How can we learn from this experience
Contact Person: Paul Warshawsky, MD, Chief, Division of Adult Critical Care, Tel 514-340-7500.
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December 14, 2020
CONVERGING PATHOMECHANISMS IN PARKINSON DISEASE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
Hyman M. Schipper, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor of Neurology and Medicine, McGill University
Department of Neurosciences and Medicine (Geriatrics), Jewish General Hospital
Educational Objectives:
1. Review salient clinical and biologic features of schizophrenia and Parkinson disease (PD)
2. Review experimental data linking schizophrenia and PD to a single etiopathogenetic continuum
3. Consider potential disease-modifying interventions based on the converging pathomechanisms
Contact Person: Jeffrey Minuk, MD, Chief, Department of Neurosciences, Tel. 514-340-8222 ext. 28770.