• Glomerular Disease:
  Update for the Internist
• Nephrology Review:
  Includes Nephrology
  Cases for the Boards
  Gerald B. Appel, MD
  

• Update on Acute Renal Failure
  Mark L. Zeidel, MD

• Chronic Kidney Disease:
  Optimal Management
• Nephrolithiasis
• Nephrology Q&A
  Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS

• Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes and its Complications
  Robin S. Goland, MD
  
  
  
  

• Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities
• Update on Thyroid Disorders
• Endocrinology Q&A
• Endocrinology Review:
  Includes Endocrine Cases
  for the Boards
  Martin J. Abrahamson, MD

• Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: Medical Management
  Jeanine B. Albu, MD

• Dermatology for the Internist
  Charles L.G. Halasz, MD

• Update on GERD and
  Peptic Ulcer Disease
• The Many Faces of
  Celiac Spruce
  Ciarán P. Kelly, MD

• Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures in Liver Disease:
  Adventures in Liver Land
• Gastroenterology Review: Includes Gastroenterology Cases for the Boards
  Sanjiv Chopra, MD

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  Joseph G. Sweeting, MD

• Allergy and Immunology
  for the PCP
  Rachel L. Miller, MD

• Selected Clinical Challenges
  in Hematology
• Hematology Review:
  Includes Blood Smears
  for the Boards
  Reed E. Drews, MD

• Approach to Anemias
  David G. Savage, MD
  

• The Hypercoagulable State
  and Anticoagulation
• Hematology Q&A
  Kenneth A. Bauer, MD

• Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease
  John P. Bilezikian, MD

• Non-Alcoholic Fatty
  Liver Disease
  Sanjiv Chopra, MD

• Lymphomas
• Leukemias
  David G. Savage, MD

• Breast Cancer: Practical Considerations and
  Future Approaches
• Lung and Colorectal Cancer
• Update on Prostate Cancer
  Steven E. Come, MD

• Oncologic Emergencies
  for the Boards
• Oncology Q&A
• Oncology Review:
  Includes Oncology Cases
  for the Boards
  Lowell E. Schnipper, MD

• Diagnostic Tests in Rheumatic Disease
• Gout and Pseudogout
  Robert H. Shmerling, MD, FACP

• Current Concepts Regarding Pathogenesis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Elizabeth W. Mayer, MD
  
  
• Vasculitis Syndromes
  Meggan Mackay, MD
  

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Scleroderma
• Rheumatology Q&A
• Rheumatology Review: Includes Rheumatology
  Cases for the Boards
  David E. Trentham, MD
  

• Mechanical Ventilation
  Robert N. Sladen, MD

• Sleep Apnea
• DVT and Pulmonary Embolism
  J. Woodrow Weiss, MD

• Diffuse Lung Disease
• Pulmonary Pearls for the Boards
• Chest X-ray Review for the Boards
• Pulmonary Review:
  Includes Pulmonary
  Cases for the Boards
  Steven E. Weinberger, MD

• Obstructive Lung Disease
• Pulmonary Q&A
• Asthma
  Paul F. Simonelli, MD, PhD

• Pathogenesis and Management of Stroke
  Clinton B. Wright, MD, MS

• Current Treatment of
  Epilepsy
  Hyunmi Choi, MD, MS
  

• Viral Hepatitis:
  Review and Update
  Sanjiv Chopra, MD

• Heart Disease in Women
  Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, MD

• Current Management of
  HIV Disease
  Jay F. Dobkin, MD

• Update on New
  Antimicrobial Agents
• New and Emerging Infections and Infections with Potential
  of Biologic Warfare
  Robert C. Moellering, Jr., MD

• Update on Tuberculosis
  Karen F. Brudney, MD
  
  
• Medical Ethics
  Kenneth M. Prager, MD

• Treatment of Infective Endocarditis
• Infectious Disease Q&A
• Infectious Disease Review: Includes Infectious Disease Cases for the Boards
  Adolf W. Karchmer, MD

• Backache
  Kevin Sperber, MD
  
  
• Special Lecture: How to Prepare for the Internal Medicine Boards
  Peter D. Stetson, MD

• Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
  Karen Marder, MD, MPH
  
  
• Anxiety and Depression: Update on Treatment
  Alexander H. Glassman, MD

• Preoperative Evaluation
  Gerald W. Smetana, MD
  

• Hyperlipidemia and Novel Risk Factors
  Ira J. Goldberg, MD
  
  
• Hypertension
  Gerald W. Smetana, MD

• Ischemic Heart Disease
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Cardiology Q&A
  Joseph Tenenbaum, MD
  
  
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
  LeRoy E. Rabbani, MD, FACC

• Standard and Emerging Therapies for Chronic
  Heart Failure
  Gerald W. Neuberg, MD
  
  
• ECG Review for the Boards
• Cardiology Review:
  Includes Cardiology Cases
  for the Boards
  Ary L. Goldberger, MD
  
  
• Atrial Fibrillation
  James A. Reiffel, MD

• What We Need to Know: Updates from Medical Literature
• Alcoholism
  Mark D. Aronson, MD

• Ophthalmology Pearls
  for the Internist and
  for the Boards
  Arthur M. Cotliar, MD and
  Hermann D. Schubert, MD

• Hemodynamic Monitoring
  and Shock Syndromes
  Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD

• Relation Between Salt
  and Water
• Acid-base Disorders
  for the Boards
  Burton D. Rose, MD

• Travel Medicine
  Mary T. Flood, MD

• Male Sexual Dysfunction
  Wylie C. Hembree, MD

Course Directors

Columbia University Medical Center College of Physicians
and Surgeons

Gerald B. Appel, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine

Donald W. Landry, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine

Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine

Best Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

Martin J. Abrahamson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Sanjiv Chopra, MD
Professor of Medicine

Mark L. Zeidel, MD
Herrman Ludwig Blumgart
Professor of Medicine

Faculty

James A. Reiffel, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine

David G. Savage, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Hermann D. Schubert, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Pathology

Paul F. Simonelli, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Robert N. Sladen, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Anesthesiology

Kevin Sperber, MD
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

Peter D. Stetson, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Biomedical Informatics

Joseph G. Sweeting, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine

Joseph Tenenbaum, MD
Edgar Leifer Professor of
Clinical Medicine

Clinton B. Wright, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Guest Faculty

Steven E. Weinberger, MD
Senior Lecturer on Medicine - Harvard Medical School
Adjunct Professor of Medicine - University of Pennsylvania
Senior Vice President, Medical Education and Publishing - American College of Physicians