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UPDATE ON RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Speaker: Michael Kerley, MD

Dr. Kerley, Assistant Professor of Medicine of Radiation and Medical Oncology

will discuss the latest technological advances in radiation oncology and outline

new therapies and treatment regimens.

Dr. Viken, Chair and Professor of Family Medicine, will discuss the haunting phenomenon of older athletes outperforming their biomechanics; identify several

ways to achieve musculoskeletal rejuvenation and review a rare and ghostly orthopedic condition.

Dr. Abraham, Professor and Chair of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at The University of Alabama at Birmingham will discuss the increasing incidence of severe sepsis, describe the

basic pathophysiologic mechanisms leading to organ failure and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock, and outline the contemporary approaches to managing hypotension, ventilating patients with acute lung injury.

Dr. Meyer, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of

Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will discuss the history and future

of heart transplantation.

Dr. Mills, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler will identify common forms of bullying, the characteristics of the bullying child and strategies to prevent bullying behaviors.

Dr. Wahidi, Director of Interventional Pulmonology at Duke University Medical Center,

will outline the contemporary management of the patient with a central airway obstruction.