Translational Challenges in Medicine

The course provides a broad overview of the nature of translational challenges in the prevention and treatment of disease and disabilities. Topics include challenges encountered by clinicians and population health practitioners, in their practices and/or community and opportunities for advancing their fields by new discoveries and inventions. The course will include lectures and background reading relevant to the normal and pathological behavior of organ systems as well as the distribution and impact of major diseases and disabilities. Students will actively participate in organizing the lectures and discussing potential experimental, technologic and communication solutions to these problems.