The Dean's Lecture Series: Archives

2006-2007 Lectures
Date/Time/Location	Event	Honoree	Reception	Lecture Topic
Wed, Oct. 25, 2006 4:30 -5:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	The 30th Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture	Joan Didion	N/A	"The Gilded Boy Story and Other Amateur Views"
Tues, Nov. 21, 2006 12:00 noon Davis Auditorium, Shapiro Hall 500 West 120th Street, Campus Level	The 2006 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures	Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D. Winzer Professor in Medicine Department of Structural Biology Stanford School of Medicine	N/A	“Chromatin Remodeling for Transcription”
Tues, Nov. 21, 2006 3:00 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street, First Floor	The 2006 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures	Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D. Winzer Professor in Medicine Department of Structural Biology Stanford School of Medicine	N/A	“Mechanism and Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Transcription”
Thur, February 1, 2007 4:30 - 5:30 p.m P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street, First Floor	The 2006-2007 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture	Helen S. Mayberg, M.D. Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology Emory University School of Medicine	N/A	"The Role of Neuroimaging in the Development of Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression"
Thur, February 15, 2007 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street First Floor	The Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture	Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Immunology and Genomic Medicine Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine	To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby	"Molecular Mechanism for Antibody Memory"
Wed, March 21, 2007 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 West 168th Street First Floor	The Thomas Q. Morris Symposium on Medical Education	Molly Cooke, M.D., FACP William G. Irwin Endowed Chair Director of the Academy of Medical Educators Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching	To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby	"Clinical Education for the 21st Century – Insights from the Carnegie Foundation National Study"
Tues, May 1, 2007 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401 701 West 168th Street	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D. Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor Director, Center for Genome Science Washington University School of Medicine	N/A	"Dining in with a few trillion friends: Exploring the human gut microbiota and microbiome"
Wed, May 2, 2007 12:30 p.m. Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401 701 West 168th Street	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D. Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor Director, Center for Genome Science Washington University School of Medicine	Luncheon to follow, HHSC 13th Floor Conference Room	"Thank goodness for gnotobiotics: Defining the operations of our very complex gut microbiota"
2005-2006 Lectures
Date/Time/Location	Event	Honoree	Reception	Lecture Topic
Fri, April 7, 2006 12 noon - 1:00 p.m. Russ Berrie Conference Rooms 1 and 2	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D. Professor, The Salk Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology	Light lunch will be provided	"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
Thu, Apr 6, 2006 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D. Professor, The Salk Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology	N/A	"Nuclear Receptors: PPARs at the Crossroads of Inflammation and Metabolism"
Wed, Feb 22, 2006 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium	2004-05 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities	Andrew Delbanco, Ph.D. Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and Director of American Studies, Columbia University	Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby	"Melville, Our Contemporary"
Thu, Feb 9, 2006 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	The 2005-2006 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture	Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D. George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief Academic Officer and Harvard Faculty Dean for Academic Affairs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	N/A	"The Periphery and the Brain: Critical Conversations in the Control of Energy Balance"
Mon, Nov. 21, 2005 12:00 noon The Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library 535 West 116th Street	Horwitz Prize Lectures	Dr. Ada Yonath The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology, Director, Then Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Wiezmann Institute of Science Horwitz Prize website	N/A	"The Ribosome, an Ancient Biological Machine, is Targeted by Antibiotics"
Mon, Nov. 21, 2005 3:00 p.m. New Location HHSC Room 401 701 West 168th Street				"Ribosome Architecture, Polypeptides Formation, Protein Folding and Antibiotics Action"
Thu, Nov. 17, 2005 4:30-6:30 p.m. New Location NY State Psychiatric Institute 1051 Riverside Drive First Floor Auditorium, room 1601	Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture	Max D. Cooper, M.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham	Reception -Atrium Lobby, NYSPI, First Floor.	"The Evolution of Adaptive Immunity"
Thu, Oct. 27, 2005 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. HHSC Room 401 701 West 168th Street	2004-2005 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences	David A. Brenner, M.D. Chair, Department of Medicine, Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center	Reception - Riverview Lounge, HHSC 4th Floor	"Why the Liver Scars"
Wed, Oct. 26, 2005 4:30 -5:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	The 29th Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture	Kathleen M. Foley, M.D. Attending Neurologist, Pain & Palliative Care Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College	N/A	"Challenges in Advancing Palliative Care: Cure for the Rich, Care for the Poor"
Mon, Sept. 19, 2005 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	Thomas Q. Morris Symposium	David M. Gaba, M.D. Associate Dean for Immersive & Simulation-based Learning, Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine	Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby	"The Route to Patient Safety through Simulation in Medical Education"
Tue, Sept. 13, 2005 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium	2004-2005 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences	James E. Rothman, Ph.D. Director, The Judith P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center	Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby	"High Throughput Cell Biology and the Columbia Genome Center"
Wed Feb 9, 2005 12:00 p.m. Davis Auditorium 500 W. 120th Street, Campus Level	Special Lecture The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture	Anthony J. Pawson, Ph.D. Director of Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute & University Professor, University of Toronto		"Modular Protein Interactions in Signal Transduction"
Wed Feb 9, 2005 3:00 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium 650 W. 168th Street	Special Lecture The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture	Tony Hunter, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies		"Tyrosine Phosphorylation: Past, Present and Future"
	Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences		Reception
Tues Jan 25, 2005 Alumni Auditorium 4:30pm-6:30pm	David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture	Harry Jacobs, M.D., DHC Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota		The Danger of Staphylococcal Superantigens: From Toxic Shock Syndrome to Lymphoma and Beyond
Tues Dec 7, 2004 Alumni Auditorium 4:30pm-5:30pm	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Dr. Michael Karin		The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex: At the Crossroads of Inflammation and Cancer
Mon Dec 6, 2004 Alumni Auditorium 5:00pm-7:00pm	Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture	Dr. Michael Karin		The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex as a Coordinator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses
Tues Nov 30, 2004 Alumni Auditorium 4:30pm-6:30pm	Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture	Dr. Klaus Rajewsky		Antibodies: Essential regulators of normal and malignant B cells
Wed Oct 6, 2004 Alumni Auditorium	Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture & Dinner	Dr. Arthur Caplan		From Karen Quinlan to Terry Schiavo: Has Any Real Progress Been Made in the Withdrawal and Termination of Medical Treatments
Tues Sept 28, 2004 Alumni Auditorium 3:00pm-5:00pm	Thomas Q. Morris Symposium	Dr. Haile T. Debas and Dr. Daniel H. Lowenstein		The Academy Movement: Restructuring of Medical Schools to Advance the Mission of Education

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