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Lecture DVDs

The Center for Androgen-Related Disorders (CARD) at Cedars-Sinai offers an educational program for healthcare professionals interested in androgen excess, androgen deficiencies and related disorders. This program is an opportunity to hear the latest on leading-edge research in this field. Invited speakers are from some of the most highly regarded universities and medical institutes in the U.S. and abroad.

The CARD Lecture Series is a CME-approved event and is now available for purchase on DVD. For pricing and order information, please contact the CARD Administrative Office at (310) 423-8750 or e-mail
Yvette Pulido.

LECTURES AVAILABLE ON DVD:

Acute Development of Insulin Resistance Following Injury
Joseph L. Messina, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Androgens and Cardiovascular Disease
Gautam Chaudhuri, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmicology
Professor and Executive Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of California, Los Angeles

Androgen-Related Disorders - Syndrome XX?
Andrea Dunaif, MD
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine
The Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Clinical consequences of mutations or polymorphysms in the LH receptor in males with pseudohermaphroditism and females with PCOS
Wael A. Salameh, MD
Medical Director
Department of Endocrinilogy
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute
San Juan Capistrano, California

C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Metabolic Syndrome
Yii-Der Ida Chen, PhD
Professor of Medicine and OB/GYN,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLACedars-Sinai Medical Center
Director, Biochemistry Laboratory Center

Ethnic Differences in Insulin Secretion and Action
Barbara Gower, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Fetal Programming of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
David Abbott, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of OB/GYN and National Primate Research Center
University of Wisconsin

Functional Genomics of Premature Pubarche and PCOS
Selma F. Witchel, MD
Director, Pediatric Endocrine Fellowship Program
Associate Professor, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Department of Pediatrics,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Genetic Evidence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome as a Disorder of Androgen Sensitivity
Mark O. Goodarzi, MD, PhD
Director, Endocrine Fellowship Program
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Medical Genetics Institute, Center For Androgen Related Disorders
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Genetic Interrelationships of Insulin Resistance, Cardiovascular, and Metabolic Disease
Jerome Rotter, MD
Faculty, Department of Medical Genetics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A Hormonal Hypothesis for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Biology: A Role for Androgens
Andrew John Li, M.D.
Division of Gynecologic Oncology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Assistant Professor In-Residence, Dept of OB/GYN
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Human Adipose Tissue Functions as an Endocrine Tumor in Obesity, Releasing Inflammatory Cytokines that are Derived Primarily from the Nonfat Cells
John N. Fain, PhD
Harriet S. Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Biochemistry
Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences, College of Medicine
University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis

The Insulin Dynamics of Peri-pubertal Girls at Hig Risk for PCOS
David H. Geller, MD, PhD
Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
David Geffen, UCLA School of Medicine

Insulin Resistance in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Different Tissues, Different Roles
Theodore P. Ciaraldi, PhD
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Intrinsic Defects in Ovarian Theca Cells Isolated from Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
Dr. Jan McAllister, PhD
Associate Professor and Co-Director,
The Dorothy Foehr Huck and Lloyd Huck Center for Obesity and Reproduction,Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and OB/GYN

Lipin, a Modulator of Adiposity and Metabolism
Karen Reue, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Obesity and Reproduction: Sexually Dimorphic Path
Richard S. Legro, MD
Associate Professor
Department of OB/GYN
Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University Medical Center

The Phenotypes of PCOS and the Effects of Environmental Influences
Enrico Carmina, MD
Professor and Head of Endocrine Unit
University of Palermo, Italy

Physiological Testosterone Replacement in Women with Hypopituitarism: Is it Time?
Theodore C. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine-UCLA, The Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Sciences
Los Angeles, California

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: From Hirsutism to Fertility - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Management of the Whole Patient
Second Annual PCOS Conference, 4-DVD set

Principles, Pathways, and Surprises in Androgen Biosynthesis
Richard Auchus, MD, PhD
Association Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas

Use of LC-MS/MS is the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Setting - The New Gold Standard for Pediatrics and Low Level Analysis
Nigel J. Clarke, PhD
Scientific Director, Endocrine Steroids (R&D)
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute

Newsletters

Below are quarterly newsletters* produced by the Center for Androgen-Related Disorders for physicians.

  • May 2007
  • February 2006
  • August 2005
  • February 2005
  • October 2004
  • June 2004



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