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2011 - 2012 EVENTS
 "Evidence-based Medicine vs. the Clinical Pearl, 2012"
Thursday, January 12, 2012
4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor
Lawrence M. Tierney Jr., M.D., is professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and associate chief of the medical service at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was raised in a West Haven, Connecticut, home where his father was a general practitioner for 50 years. After studying music history at Yale, he obtained his M.D. at the University of Maryland then did residency at Grady Hospital in Atlanta and at UCSF, where he was chief resident. After two years in the U.S. Navy, he joined the UCSF faculty at the VA Medical Center, where he has been assistant or associate chief of the medical service since. His academic interests are patient care (critical care, inpatient care, and outpatient care), teaching, and clinical problem solving broadly defined. He has written many clinically oriented papers, was title page editor of “Lange’s Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment” for more than 20 years, and has written numerous other books in English, Japanese, and Chinese with a focus on the principles of patient care and diagnosis and the application of the “clinical pearl” in day-to-day practice. He teaches for a month each year in both China and Japan and has been visiting professor many times at U.S. medical schools, including those at the Universities of Washington, Hawaii, Chicago, Alabama, Iowa, Utah, and Pennsylvania plus Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and NYU. He also has been visiting professor at medical schools in Australia, Eastern Europe, and the San Francisco area. He was invited by the UCSF graduating class to speak five times, has won 30 awards for teaching, was residency program director for 20 years, and was student clerkship director for another 20-plus years. (He doesn’t know the exact number, saying “It doesn’t seem like a big deal; I was just doing my job.”) His interests outside of medicine are equally intense in the areas of ornithology, jazz, rock music, baseball, American and European military history, geology, and geography. He is proud to say he has visited all 50 states; his goal is to set foot in all 3,900 counties in the United States, although he is not sure it is a realistic goal. His greatest joy in life is his daughter, Julie, and he also considers himself blessed to be a physician who cares full time for those who cannot afford medical care. |
