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Dean Philip Pizzo, MD
MAY 5, 2008

Tradition or Transformation: Celebrating the Past or Creating the Future

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Tai Chi
Tai chi master studied for power to control body

What was Master Chen Xiang, an 18th-level tai chi master from Beijing, doing last month in a laboratory at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital? More »

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Medical Center Report Stanford Medicine Magazine Spring 2008
Medical Center Report Stanford Medicine Magazine

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stem cell facility
$43 million grant for stem cell facility

Stanford's $43.58 million grant will go toward construction of a facility that will consolidate stem cell researchers on campus and speed the path toward new stem cell-based therapies. Full story »

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video Irby on medical education

Despite the explosive growth of scientific knowledge in recent decades, American physicians are still largely trained under the educational model developed in 1910 by Abraham Flexner that calls for two years of basic science courses followed by two years of clinical training with very little overlap between the two. David Irby, PhD, a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, discusses a national effort by the foundation to reevaluate medical training to meet today's changing healthcare needs.

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Events

May 15 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM

BRAUN AUDITORIUM

Dr. Tilman Sustaining food, biofuel and forests on a full earth

Dr. David Tilman from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, will discuss this topic. Details »

 

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