Daily Archives: June 24, 2009

Mayo Clinic to Host Transform Health Care Innovation Symposium

June 24, 2009 – 8:51 am

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery, Sept. 13–15, 2009. It will feature nationally recognized speakers on topics focused on innovation methodology and innovations in health care delivery models, including Web-based tools. The center’s work builds on a century of Mayo Clinic’s [...]

By Lee Aase | Posted in Events, Innovation | Tagged , , , | Leave a Comment

JAMA Editorial: Mayo Researchers Comment on Study Regarding Being Overweight or Obese and the Risk for Pancreatic Cancer

June 24, 2009 – 7:05 am

Robert McWilliams, M.D., a Mayo Clinic medical oncologist and Gloria Petersen, PhD, a Mayo Clinic epidemiologist, published an editorial in the June 24 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The editorial commented on a study published in the same issue conducted by Donghui Li, PhD, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer [...]

By Karl Oestreich | Posted in Cancer | Tagged , , , , | Leave a Comment