Women's College Hospital: City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Genes and Environment in the Pathogenesis of PCOS

City Wide Medical Grand Rounds

Wednesday, December 08, 2010, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Women's College Hospital's F.M. Hill Lecturer

Andrea Dunaif, MD

Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine and Chief,
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine,
Center Director, Center for Clinical Research
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
Chicago, IL

Genes and Environment in the Pathogenesis of PCOS

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

1. Recognize that PCOS is a non-mendelian, complex genetic disorder;
2. Identify reproductive phenotypes in male as well as female first-degree relatives;
3. Identify disease susceptibility locus;
4. Define genotype-phenotype associations; and
5. Examine hypotheses for pathogenesis of PCOS.

Presented by videoconference from Women’s College Hospital – Cummings Auditorium to:

• Baycrest – Telehealth Boardroom
• Mount Sinai – Main Auditorium, 18th Floor
• St. Michael’s – Paul Marshall Lecture Theatre
• Sunnybrook – McLaughlin Lecture Theatre, EG 61
• Toronto General – Medical Education, ENG 025/026
• Toronto Rehab-UC – Room 220
• Toronto Western – Main Auditorium, 2W 401
• Trillium – Auditorium A
• West Park – R3 Sunroom

“City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”

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