When Experts Disagree -Medical Decision Making- -NIH lecture

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"DATE: Monday, January 26, 2015, 10-11 a.m., Masur Auditorium, Bldg 10

SPEAKERS:
Jerome Groopman, M.D., is the Dina and Raphael Recanati chair of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Pamela Hartzband, M.D., is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician in the division of endocrinology.

LECTURE TITLE:
"When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making"

The husband-and-wife team and acclaimed authors will present a new way to make the best medical decisions. They reveal that each of us has a "medical mind," a highly individual approach to weighing the risks and benefits of treatment. To ascertain our unique medical minds, they will present probing questions. Are you a minimalist or a maximalist, a believer or a doubter, do you look for natural healing or the latest technology? Drs. Groopman and Hartzband will explain how pitfalls in thinking and the way statistics are presented in pharmaceutical advertisements, the news media, and even scientific reports can mislead all of us. The talk will demonstrate the contrast between the roles of population guidelines with the care of the individual, and explain the complexities of end of life care--all factors that contribute to a person's "medical mind." In their talk, Drs. Groopman and Hartzband will weave vivid narratives from real patient experiences with insights from recent cognitive research to demonstrate how to arrive at choices that serve the individual best.

LOCATION:
Masur Auditorium, Clinical Center (Building 10); Live videocast: http://videocast.nih.gov/.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Groopman has authored numerous editorials and columns on medicine and policy issues in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. He has also authored several books, including The New York Times bestseller, "The Anatomy of Hope." Dr. Groopman's research interests include studying how viruses cause immune deficiency and cancer, the role of endocannabinoids in hematopoiesis, mechanisms of liver injury due to hepatitis c, and the effects of novel cell cycle inhibitors against mantle cell lymphoma. He has been integral in developing many AIDS-related therapies.

Together, Drs. Groopman and Hartzband co-authored the bestselling book "How Doctors Think" and write a monthly column for the American College of Physicians' publication "ACP Internist." Dr. Hartzband's clinical interests include thyroid disorders, adrenal and pituitary disorders, osteoporosis, and calcium disorders. "