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Supercourse Lectures from Members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)

The IOM serves as adviser to the nation to improve health. As an independent, scientific adviser, the Institute of Medicine strives to provide advice that is unbiased, based on evidence, and grounded in science. The mission of the Institute of Medicine embraces the health of people everywhere.  

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Institute of Medicine (IOM) Lecture Links

Lectures

This page contains links to over 140 lectures by 45 IOM members

*does not imply endorsement by the IOM

Updated November/24/2010

Aaron Beck and Gregory Brown

• COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO SUICIDE.    Part I     Part II

Baruch Blumberg

• Australia Antigen and the Biology of Hepatitis B

Willard Cates

• Epidemiology and Sex(ually Transmitted Diseases): The Basics

Hoosen (Jerry) Coovadia

• Improving child health in developing countries: the critical role of research

Michael Doyle

• Contamination of Foods by Pathogens in the Environment
• Food Safety Challenges from Farm to Table.    Part I     in Chinese    Part II

Carroll Estes

• SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE REFORMS

William Evans

• Slide show of TPMT research

Stefan Fajans

• MODY: MATURITY-ONSET DIABETES OF THE YOUNG.    Part I     Part II

Jonathan E. Fielding

• Using Evidence To Improve Public Health Infrastructure.    Part I     Part II

Baruch Fischhoff

• Risk Communication: An Introduction 

Joseph Fraumeni

• Genes and the Environment in Cancer Causation     in Spanish     in Russian

Victor Fuchs

• WHAT SHOULD PHYSICIANS KNOW ABOUT HEALTH ECONOMICS?
• THE DECLINE OF MORTALITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
• Non-Medical Determinants of Health
• Evidence-Based Medicine: Promises and Problems
• Health Economics and Health Policy

Bernard Goldstein

• An Overview of Risk Assessment
• Epidemiological Issues in Determining Whether Benzene Causes Lymphatic Cancer or A Toxicologist's Defense Against the Pump Handle.    Part I     Part II
• Risk Assessment as a Risk Management Tool

Lawrence O. Gostin

• Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health

Jimmie Holland

• Improving the Human Side of Cancer Care: Psycho-Oncology's Contribution

William L. Holzemer

• Advanced Quantitative Methods.    Part I     Part II     Part III      Part IV
  In Spanish:   Part I    Part II     Part III     Part IV 

James Hughes

• International Conference on Emerging Infectious Disease (ICEID) 2000   
  in Spanish

Jeffrey Koplan

• 21st. Century health challenges: Can be all become healthy, wealthy, and wise?

Joseph Larner

• D-Chiro-Inositol and its Role in Diabetes and Insulin Resistance

Elaine Larson

• Hand Hygiene: A Look at the New Guideline.    Part I     Part II     Part III

Joshua Lederberg

• Microbial Threats to Health in the United States: Natural and Manmade

Ting-Kai Li

• Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Dependence      in Spanish      in Russian      in Chinese

David Lipman

• Why Is Sequence Comparison Useful?    Part I     in Spanish    
  Web version     in Spanish

Donald R Mattison

• The National Children's Study       in Spanish
• Finding Research Support.   Part I     Part II
  in Spanish:   Part I       Part II
• Treatment During Pregnancy: Gaps in our Knowledge    Part I     Part II

Ronald Miller

• Update Regarding Blood Transfusions   Part I     Part II

Fitzhugh Mullan

• Community Oriented Primary Care. An Overview

Ferid Murad

• Biological Effects of Nitric Oxide and its Role in Cell Signaling     in Chinese

Roberta B.Ness

• Prevention of Ovarian Cancer      in Chinese
• Ovarian Cancer: Reproductive Factors and Beyond
• Prevention of Complications from PID    Part I     Part II

Gilbert Omenn

• Pathways Toward Building a Supercourse of Science     Part I     Part II
• Cancer Prevention, Ethics, and Managed Care
• Public Health Genetics: An Emerging Interdisciplinary Field For The Post-Genomic Era
• The New Millennium: Values, Perceptions of Risk and the Key Roles of Science and Technology
• Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks: Putting Each Problem Into Public Health Context and Engaging Stakeholders from the Start   Part I       Part II
• GRAND CHALLENGES AND GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES and SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH.    Part I     Part II
• Genomics, Toxicology, & Public Health   Part I      Part II
• Ecogenetics, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, and Medicine.    Part I     Part II
• FRONTIER SCIENCE AND GRAND CHALLENGES: INVESTING IN HIGH-POTENTIAL INDIVIDUALS AND HIGH-PAYOFF SCIENTIFIC FIELDS
• The New Biology: From Science in the Modern World to the Genetics of Diabetes
• International Collaboration in Proteomics and Informatics.    Part I     Part II

Eric K. Noji

• Public Health Disaster Consequences of Disasters     in Spanish     in Russian     in Arabic     in Portuguese     in Japanese
• The Use of Epidemiologic Methods in Disasters
• The Mundane to the Critical: The Need for Transition from Individual Care to Population Health Maintenance
• Public Health Consequences of Earthquakes.    Part I      Part II
• Disasters: The Public Health Impact
• Data for Decision Making in Disasters: Advances and Controversies.    Part I     Part II
• Earthquake Mitigation      in Spanish

Darwin Prockop

• One Strategy for Gene/Cell Therapy: Harness the Natural Ability of Adult Stem Cells to Repair Tissues

Griffin P. Rodgers

• Research Highlights from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases       in Spanish

Roger Rosenblatt

• Environmental Health and the Health Professional. Ecological Change and Human Health

Robert Schrier

• From Finch to Fish to Man: Role of Body Fluid Volume Regulation    Part I       Part II

Lawrence Shepp

• Tomography

Paul A. Sieving

• The National Eye Institute Supercourse

Barbara Starfield

• Insurance, the Presence of a Medical Home, and the Benefits of Primary Care for Children.   Part I     Part II
  in Spanish:   Part I      Part II
• The Primacy of Primary Care in Health Services Systems
• Primary Care, Health, and Equity.   Part I     Part II
  in Spanish:   Part I     Part II

John Trojanowski

• Clash Of The Titans! Convergence Of Tau And Alpha-Synuclein Amyloid In Neurodegenerative Diseases

Nora D. Volkow

• Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations     in Spanish
• Effectively Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime       in Spanish
• Dopamine’s Role in Drug Craving       in Spanish
• The Neurobiology of Free Will In Addictive Disorders

Kenneth Warner

• Economics of Tobacco: Myths and Realities.   Part I     Part II 
• Technology, Policy, and the Future of Nicotine Addiction.   Part I     Part II

Daniel R. Weinberger

• Genes, Cognition and Emotion.   Part I     Part II
  in Spanish    Part I     Part II

Jeanine Wiener-Kronish

• Acute P. aeruginosa Infections - From Genes to the Bedside. The relationship between research and clinical care.    Part I     Part II

James B. Wyngaarden

• Physician Scientist

Elias A. Zerhouni

• CAN WE DEVELOP A COHERENT STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH?       in Spanish      in Russian     in Chinese      in Persian     in Arabic     In Albanian