Montefiore Einstein Masters of Surgery

Visiting Professor Series 2011-2012

These lectures will offer practicing physicians current information on the happenings within the field of surgery with practical application that will be helpful in caring for patients.

Cherkasky Auditorium
Spencer Foreman, MD Pavilion
Montefiore Medical Center
111 East 210th Street, Bronx, New York
(East Gun Hill Road entrance)

8:30 AM

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September 12, 2011 

Timothy Eberlein, MD

"Breast Cancer: Contributions Toward Better Treatments for an Old Disease"

October 13, 2011 

Elliot Chaikof, MD

"Engineered Biomaterials for Repair and Regeneration"

November 7, 2011 

Thomas Riles, MD


"Simulation in Health Care"

December 5, 2011 

Joseph Vacanti, MD

"2099-A look Back at Tissue Engineering and
Regenerative Medicine in the 21st Century"

January 9, 2012 

Joseph Bavaria, MD (Attai Lecturer)

"Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): Lessons Learned.....The Good, Bad, and Ugly"

February 6, 2012

Robert E. Michler, MD
Surgeon-in-Chief
Samuel I. Belkin Chair
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery

"Department of Surgery Annual Report"

March 5, 2012

Robert Udelsman, MD (Gliedman Professor)

"Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Initial and Re-operative Surgery"

April 2, 2012

Allan D. Kirk, MD

"Transplantation Tolerance"

May 7, 2012

Julie Freischlag, MD (vonLiebig Professor)


"Clinical and Personal Comparative Effectiveness"

June 4, 2012

Michael G. Sarr, MD

"Surgical Treatment of Necrotizing Pancreatitis: ? Open, Endoscopic, MIS, Other?" 

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