September 18, 1998

IU Mini Medical School Set for October 13 - November 17, 1998

INDIANAPOLIS-Medical school without math, chemistry or icky cut up frog parts…

It's medical school for everybody, regardless of age or academic background.

Indiana University School of Medicine's eleventh Mini Medical School series, scheduled every Tuesday evening from Oct. 13 through Nov. 17, will offer medical lectures to the general public on Viagra, minimally-invasive vascular surgery, prostate cancer, knifeless surgery for brain disorders, anti-angiogenesis and skin cancer.

Judah Folkman, M.D., the discoverer of the mechanism of angiogenesis, will be presenting a lecture on anti-angiogenesis on Nov. 10. Dr. Folkman, professor of pediatric surgery and cell biology at Harvard Medical School, is the 1998 IU School of Medicine Beering Award recipient and lecturer. Other presenters are top medical professors from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Each two-hour session begins at 7 p.m., including a short break and time for questions after the lecture.

Topics for the series include:

• October 13.... Minimally-Invasive Vascular Surgery
  Stephen Lalka, M.D. and Matthew Johnson, M.D.
  
  
• October 20.... Midlife Sex in the Wake of Viagra
  John Mulcahy, M.D. and Diane Brashear, Ph.D.
  
  
• October 27.... Controversies About Prostate Cancer
  Michael Koch, M.D.
  
  
• November 3.... Knifeless Surgery for Brain Disorders
  Thomas Witt, M.D. and Robert Timmerman, M.D.
  
  
• November 10.... Angiogenesis: A New Cancer Foe?
  Judah Folkman, M.D.
  
  
• November 17.... Skin Therapy: Myth vs. Reality
  Antoinette Hood, M.D.
  
  

Classes will be held in the University Place Conference Center auditorium on the IUPUI campus. The cost to attend all six sessions is $35, which includes refreshments and a course certificate. For more information, or to enroll, please call (317) 274-3426.

Contact: Ellen Gullett
or
Jana Herring
317-274-7722
egullett@iupui.edu

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