Target Audience This continuing medical education program is designed to meet the educational needs of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s alumni. Accreditation Statement The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Designation Statement The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Learning Objectives: Wyndham Lathem, PhD:
Attendees will learn the clinical symptoms, modes of transmission, and virulence strategies associated with the human pathogen Yersinia pestis and will explore the mechanisms by which this bacterium evolved to cause the various disease manifestations known collectively as the plague. Herbert Meltzer, MD:
This talk will make schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders, including bipolar disorder and depression with psychotic features, understandable as part of a spectrum of genetically and experientially caused brain disorders. The advances in the pharmacologic and psychoeducational treatment of schizophrenia of the last 25 years and the new treatments that are being developed at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and elsewhere will be discussed. Societal (e.g. stigma) and economic issues (industry, government. and university) which affect progress in this area will be considered, along with how Northwestern University and the Feinberg School of Medicine are addressing them. Stephen Miller, PhD:
Understand the mechanisms by which immune tolerance and immune suppression regulate immune responses in autoimmune disease and allergy. C. Shad Thaxton, MD, PhD:
Participants will understand the role of lipoproteins in cholesterol transport. Agenda Moderator: Rex Chisholm, PhD 9:30 am Rats, Fleas, and You: Plague in the 21st Century
Wyndham Lathem, PhD 10:00 am Novel Pharmacologic Treatments for Schizophrenia
Herbert Meltzer, MD 10:30 am A Novel Immune Tolerance-Based Approach for the Treatment of Autoimmunity, Allergy, and Transplant Rejection
Stephen Miller, PhD 11:00 am A Common Link to Heart Disease and Cancer Through Nanotechnology
C. Shad Thaxton, MD, PhD Feinberg School of Medicine Faculty
Rex Chisholm, PhD
Vice Dean for Research Wyndham W. Lathem, PhD
Assistant Professor in Microbiology-Immunology Herbert Y. Meltzer, MD
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences and Physiology Stephen D. Miller, PhD
Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunlogy
Professor in Microbiology-Immunology and Dermatology C. Shad Thaxton, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Urology Faculty Disclosure Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine requires course directors, speakers, instructors, planners and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any relevant financial relationships. All identified potential conflicts of interest are thoroughly vetted by NUFSM for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies mentioned in the materials or used as the basis for content, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations. The faculty disclosures and the discussion off-label usage will be indicated in the course handout materials. | 
