Grand Rounds Resume with Updates in Research and Safety, "Microbe Hunting"
The Department of Pediatrics begins another season of Grand Rounds on Tuesday, September 14 with an update by Vice Chair of Research for Pediatrics, Dr. Anne Moscona, on current department research. An update on the Department's Quality and Safety initiatives will be presented later this month by Dr. Rainu Kaushal, Director of the Division of Quality and Medical Informatics.
On September 28, the Department welcomes Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Neurology and Pathology in the Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Internationally recognized for his work with West Nile virus and SARS, Dr. Lipkin will speak about "Microbe Hunting." His biography notes that, in 1989, " Dr. Lipkin was the first to identify a microbe (Bornavirus) using purely molecular tools. In 1999, Lipkin led the team that identified the West Nile virus in brains of encephalitis victims in New York State. In April of 2003, he sequenced a portion of the SARS virus directly from lung tissue, established a sensitive assay for infection, and hand carried 10,000 test kits to Beijing at the height of the outbreak."
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