June 18, 2004

NIH director to speak at Clinical Research Day

Elias Zerhouni, MD, director of the U.S.National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be the keynote speaker for the second annual MGH Clinical Research Day June 24. His noontime address in the O'Keeffe Auditorium, "Clinical Research: An Old or New Discipline of Medicine," will be followed by a question and answer session with members of the MGH community.

"The fact that the NIH director is coming to this event reflects how important patient-centered research is to the future of medicine," says William F. Crowley Jr., MD, director of the MGH Clinical Research Program. "His participation is the high point of what we expect will be a spectacular day."

The day's activities will begin at 8 am in the O'Keeffe with grand rounds on molecular targeted therapy for lung cancer presented by Daniel Haber, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Cancer Center. Research posters will be on display under the Bulfinch Tent throughout the morning, and leaders of award-winning research teams will discuss their projects beginning at 11 am in the O'Keeffe.

The celebration will culminate at 2:30 pm with the dedication of the new General Clinical Research Center Bioimaging Core at CNY Building 149.