{"id":14073,"date":"2016-09-16T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2016-09-16T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:55:17","slug":"departmental-seminar-september-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2016\/09\/16\/departmental-seminar-september-23-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Seminar \u2013 September 23, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Seminar Series: Fall 2016 ~~ Friday, September 23, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2:00-3:00 PM<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cAcute Inflammation and Microbial Dissemination during Streptococcus pneumoniae Lung Infection<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span><span class=\"il\"><b>John Leong, MD, PhD<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology<br \/>\nSackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences<br \/>\nTufts University School of Medicine<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Location &amp; Time:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>670 Albany Street<br \/>\nLobby Level #107\/108<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2:00-3:00 PM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong>Friday, September 23, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Target Audience: <\/strong>Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT\u2019s Bulletin).<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to<\/strong><span>: 1) report that an important determinant of disease following Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) lung infection is pulmonary inflammation mediated by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs);\u00a0 2) recall that despite the presence of vaccines and antibiotic therapies, invasive Streptococcus pneumonia (pneumococcus) infections, such as pneumonia, bacteremia and meningitis, remain a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide and 3) repeat that the host factors that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 influence the outcome of S. pneumoniae infection will allow us to design better therapies<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Director: <\/strong>Barbara Slack, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a\u00a0maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)\u2122.\u00a0 Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminar Series: Fall 2016 ~~ Friday, September 23, 2016 2:00-3:00 PM \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAcute Inflammation and Microbial Dissemination during Streptococcus pneumoniae Lung Infection\u201d \u00a0 John Leong, MD, PhD Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences Tufts University School of Medicine Location &amp; Time: 670 Albany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16418],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14076,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}