UCLA (Audio)

Miriam Parsa, MD, discusses joint pain in children. Reviewing key differences in non-inflammatory versus inflammatory causes of joint pain and providing an outline of the various types of cultural diversities (age, gender, and race) that relate to diagnosis of arthritis. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28815]

Bergen Nelson, MD, provides an introduction to the clinical and public health importance of using tiered approaches for early childhood developmental screening and a review on clinical and policy implications for tiered approaches to developmental screening. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28814]

Many middle-class Americans grew up certain they would achieve the same or higher level of success than their parents had: by going to college, working many years for one employer and retiring with a pension. But starting as early as the 1970s, that tradition started to erode, says Katherine V.W. Stone, the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor of Law at UCLA. She argues that the reality today is not long-term attachment, but short-term, episodic employment and other relationships to the job market, be it part-time work or as an independent contractor or an entrepreneur. It is a dramatic change with far reaching implications. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28622]

Across Africa, a new scramble for natural resources is underway, and Cameroon is in its crosshairs. Thomas Smith, Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, describes how the best science available is being leveraged to identify new protected areas in the face of resource extraction and climate change. He also describes the unique effort to build the Center for Integrative Development in Central Africa. Finally, he discusses a new initiative in Cameroon to reduce global emissions by avoiding deforestation in Cameroon, using emissions fees paid by climate gas emitters in the developed world. Series: "UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability" [Science] [Show ID: 28627]

In what must be one of the most unusual classes offered at UCLA, a group of 10 law students hold in their hands the fate of people who have found their way to the United States after being persecuted by their governments. These survivors of torture and trauma now fear for their lives if they are forced to return home. For the students in the School of Law's Asylum Clinic, it's a heavy responsibility to shoulder as they work for months to prepare their client for this one chance at being granted asylum — a hearing at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Los Angeles Asylum Office in Anaheim. Series: "UCLA Newsroom" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28685]

Susan Shurin, MD, reviews the role of research in advances for pediatric health over the past century and discusses trends in where pediatric research is heading. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28592]

Neal Halfon, MD, MPH, discusses the need to transform our health system from 2.0 to 3.0 and how health system transformation framework can be used to provide transformative strategies for health care reform. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28594]

Brian Hackett, MD, PhD, reviews the various roles of cilia in normal cellular function and discusses the disruption of normal cilia assembly and function resulting in a wide range of human diseases affecting multiple organ systems. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28593]

Wilbert Mason, MD, MPH, reviews the clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, and presents the epidemiology of Kawasaki Disease in the U.S. and across the globe. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28595]

Tom J. Coates, PhD, discusses trends in the global burden of disease for mothers and children. He also reviews spending on Global Health in the past decade, global burden of diseases, and UCLA Center for World Health’s Involvement and Goals. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28596]