Department of Medicine

Medical Grand Rounds

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Toronto Western Hospital 

Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

Videoconferenced to:

Toronto General Hospital – Eaton Wing, Ground Floor, Room #025/026

Mount Sinai Hospital – Auditorium, 18^th Floor

UHN/MSH Mimi & Charles Hollenberg Research

Competition 2010-2011 Presentations

Category #1:  (Case Report/Case Series): Travis Murdoch (Supervisor: Dr. Mark Silverberg)

Title: “Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Associated Genetic Variants in a Healthy Manitoban First Nations Cohort”

Category #2:  (Clinical Investigations or Clinical Epidemiology): Matthew Burke

(Supervisor: Dr. Leanne Casaubon)

Title: “Acutely Symptomatic Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion:  An Ominous Clinical Scenario”

Category #3:  (Research Projects of Mechanistic Nature): Safina Ali

(Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Drucker)

Title: “Dual Elimination of the Glucagon and GLP-1 Receptors in Mice Reveals Plasticity in the Incretin Axis