Center for Androgen-Related Disorders

For Physicians

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.

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