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Grand Rounds

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and a Career:​ Lessons Learned from the Past

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Polly Parsons, MD
Polly Parsons, MD, MACP, FCCP, ATSF
2024 DREAM Speaker
President and CEO, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine

Respiratory Health Disparities: Root Causes and Opportunities for Action

HSLC 1306 Zoom
Fernando Holguin, MD
Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care
University of Colorado

Top-Ranked Research

$98.1M
in extramural grants in FY23
12th
in the nation
for NIH funding to departments of internal medicine in 2023
649
published papers in 2023
908
studies currently underway
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11 Distinct Divisions

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Black Lives Matter event

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What we published in March 2024

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Rising Chief Resident Dr. Mazen Almasry to pilot a curriculum for first-year international medical graduates

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Dr. Lixin Rui and team research treatments for drug-resistant cancers

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