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Pearls

Speakers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar's Grand Rounds, coordinated by the Division of Continuing Professional Development, share their 'pearls of wisdom' about their chosen field of interest with us. 


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Time for Antimicrobial Awareness

Appropriate use of antibiotics is increasingly becoming a top priority in everyday practice as more and more healthcare systems adopt robust stewardship programs...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive disease – while the incidence is only 2-4% of all breast cancers in the United States...

How to Navigate the Misinformation Ecosystem

Health misinformation has been around for centuries and is found across topics including outbreaks, chronic conditions, and treatments...

Preventing a ‘Twindemic’: Advances and Challenges in Flu and Covid-19 Vaccine Development

Influenza and Sars-Cov2 are two viruses whose stories are tied to major pandemics killing millions of people. Influenza ...

Molecular Neuropathology and Very Early Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

Deposition of amyloid  peptides (A) as senile plaques and tau as neurofibrillary changes constitutes the hallmark neuropathological lesions of Alzheimer's disease (AD)...

Venous thromboembolism in the ICU

Venous thromboembolism describes the clinical presentation of atypical clot formation in the venous system of multifactorial origin, mainly depending on the so-called Virchow triad: stasis, vessel wall injury and hypercoagulability...

Leading Teams in Uncertain Times

Coronavirus has brought the world of economics, politics, healthcare and indeed humanity to a stand-still in one maleficent swoop. An unprecedented shutdown of the global economy (Jones et al., 2020)...

Pediatric (Anatomical) Pathology, Where Rare Diseases Are Common

The scope of pediatric pathology is wide – it covers pediatric medicine and surgery and also extends into intrauterine development and placental pathology...

Covid-19 and Beyond: Role of AI in Health Crises

There has been a lot of hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently - some myth and some facts. However, the undeniable reality is we are currently in the biggest health crisis of our lifetime – the COVID-19 pandemic...

Breast Imaging: Basics and Beyond

Although the incidence of breast cancer (BC) is lower in low and middle income countries relative to the incidence in high income countries​[1]​, evidence shows that BC is rising in incidence worldwide​ [2]​...