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Interdepartmental Studies - IDS 102A & B

Major Organs Systems: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Renal

This site is intended to provide contact information to first year medical students taking IDS 102A & B which is offered in the fall and winter quarters.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course co-directors, Dr. Dana Rohde or Dr. Leslie Zimmerman, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Directors

phone

e-mail

Dr. Dana Rohde
Dept. of Physiology

502-3260

dana.rohde@ucsf.edu

Dr. Leslie Zimmerman
Dept. of Medicine

221-4810 x3705

lzim@medicine.ucsf.edu

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Interdepartmental Studies – IDS 103

Metabolism and Nutrition

This site is intended to provide contact information to second year medical students taking IDS 103 which is offered in the fall quarter.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course directors, Dr. Tracy Fulton and Dr. Leslie Zimmerman, or Dr. Igor Mitrovic, Physiology Discipline Leader, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Directors

phone

e-mail

Dr. Tracy Fulton
Dept. of Biochemistry

514-2071

tfulton@biochem.ucsf.edu

Dr. Leslie Zimmerman
Dept. of Medicine

221-4810 x3705

lzim@medicine.ucsf.edu

Dr. Igor Mitrovic
Physiology Discipline Leader
Dept. of Physiology

476-8465

imitrov@phy.ucsf.edu

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Interdepartmental Studies – IDS 104

Brain, Mind and Behavior

This site is intended to provide contact information to first year medical students taking IDS 104 which is offered in the spring quarter.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course directors, Dr. Peter Ralston and Dr. Dan Lowenstein, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Director

phone

e-mail

Dr. Peter Ralston
Dept. of Anatomy

476-0873

hjr@phy.ucsf.edu

Dr. Dan Lowenstein
Dept. of Neurology

502-2365

lowenstein@medsch.ucsf.edu

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Interdepartmental Studies – IDS 107

Life Cycle

This site is intended to provide contact information to first year medical students taking IDS 107 which is offered in the winter quarter.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course directors, Dr. Susan Masters and Dr. Meg Autry, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Directors

phone

e-mail

Dr. Susan Masters
Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

476-9921

masters@cmp.ucsf.edu

Dr. Meg Autry
Ob., Gyn. & R.S.

353-7341

autrym@obgyn.ucsf.edu

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Physiology 121 and 122

Mammalian Physiology I and II

This site is intended to provide contact information to second year Pharmacy students and Physical Therapy students taking Physiology 121 in the fall quarter or Physiology 122 in the winter quarter.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course director, Dr. Igor Mitrovic, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Director

phone

e-mail

Dr. Igor Mitrovic
Dept. of Physiology

476-8465

imitrov@phy.ucsf.edu

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Biomedical Science 118 and 126

Organ System and Human Pathophysiology

This site is intended to provide contact information to Dental students taking BS 118 in the spring quarter or BS 126 in the fall quarter.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course director, Dr. Michael McMaster, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Director

phone

e-mail

Dr. Michael McMaster
Dept. of Cell & Tissue Biology

514-0172

mcmaster@cgl.ucsf.edu

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Physiology 181: Demystifying Medicine

Physiology 181

Demystifying Medicine” presents and analyzes real-life medical problems and mysteries from both a medical and a basic research perspective. Each session will introduce a disease or medical problem and describe research approaches that have promise for enhancing prevention, diagnosis or treatment. This course introduces graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to research opportunities in human health-related disorders and to introduce medical students, residents and fellows to cutting edge disease-related research.

Each session will consist of two 45-minute interactive talks, one from a clinical and one from a basic science perspective, followed by 30 minutes of informal questions and interaction with course faculty over refreshments and light food.

Registrants are required to attend every session and write a 3-5-page paper on one of the topics that will be reviewed by the speakers (individuals may be excused from one session with permission of the instructors). Postdoctoral scholars and residents who fulfill course requirements will receive a certificate of completion. Auditors are welcome.

The course meets 4:00-6:00 p.m. Mondays in 7 sessions each quarter and may be repeated for credit.

Fall Quarter sessions will be split between Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses
Winter Quarter sessions will be at Parnassus
Spring Quarter sessions at Mission Bay

Fall 2008 Schedule

October 13 (MB. Genentech Hall Auditorium)
“Biology and immunology of Kaposi’s sarcoma”
Don Ganem and Jeff Martin

October 20 (MB. Rock Hall Auditorium)
“Parasitic research and development of novel therapeutics”
Phillip Rosenthal & James McKerrow

October 27 (MB. Genentech Hall Auditorium)
“Thrombosis”
Ethan Weiss and Shaun Coughlin

November 3 (Parnassus, HSW 300)
“Leukemia, hematopoietic stem cells and ras”
Frank McCormick & Kevin Shannon

November 10 (Parnassus, HSW 300)
“Tuberculosis”
Jeff Cox & Phillip Hopewell

November 17 (Parnassus, HSW 300)
“Type I Diabetes”
Jeff Bluestone and Steve Gitelman

November 24 (Parnassus, HSW 300)
“Biofilm Infections”
Creg Darby and Henry Chambers

Course is made possible by support from the UCSF School of Medicine and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course directors, Dr. Louis Reichardt and Dr. Robert Nussbaum, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Directors

phone

e-mail

Louis Reichardt, Ph.D.
Physiology & Biochemestry/Biophysics

476-3976

Louis.Reichardt@ucsf.edu

Robert Nussbaum, M.D.
Medicine/Genetics

476-3200

Robert.Nussbaum@ucsf.edu

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Physiology 198: Foundations of Scientific Inquiry

Physiology 198

is a medical school elective designed to introduce first year medical students to UCSF scientists, to the process of scientific inquiry, and to the profession of physician scientist.

Specific questions concerning the course should be referred to the course director, Dr. Igor Mitrovic, whose contact information is listed below.

Course Director

phone

e-mail

Dr. Igor Mitrovic
Dept. of Physiology

476-8465

imitrov@phy.ucsf.edu

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