Modern medicine continues to develop new technologies to preserve and replace faulty body parts. This course, taught by UCSF surgeons, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, dentists, and audiologists will teach about the latest in replacement parts and new technology to keep our original parts healthy that promise to keep us active and enjoying life as we age. Faculty will discuss new developments
in maintaining vision with cataract surgery, transplanting hearts, lungs, and livers, and kidneys, replacing joints and supporting our back, new hearing devices, and dental implants.
Course chairs:
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, Director, Mini Medical School for the Public; Professor of Medicine; Associate Dean, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
Marieke Kruidering-Hall, PhD, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; Co-director, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program
October 14
Cataract Surgery in the 21st century
Cynthia S. Chiu, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor;
Assistant Residency Director, Department of
Ophthalmology
October 21
“Selling Hope”: The Interesting History and Questionable Future of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Charles W. Hoopes, MD, Assistant Professor
of Surgery; Director, Cardiopulmonary
Transplantation
October 28
Transplantation: The Cerberus of the 21st Century
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair,
Department of Surgery, Isis Distinguished
Professor in Transplantation
November 18
My Aching Back – Causes, Innovations, and Future Directions
Sigurd H. Berven, MD, Associate Professor in
Residence, Orthopaedic Surgery
December 2
Recent Advances in Hearing, Listening, and Communication Enhancement
Robert W. Sweetow, PhD, Clinical Professor
of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery;
Director of Audiology
December 9
Dental Implants: Teeth with Titanium
Arun Sharma, BDS, MS, Clinical Professor,
School of Dentistry
