TOPIC: SP-A and CCSP and their roles in host defense during Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
SPEAKER: Julie Ledford, PhD
Dr. Ledford received her undergraduate degree in Genetics at the University of Georgia and her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the mentorship of Dr. Beverly Koller, a world-renowned mouse geneticist. She did her post doc work in the late Dr. Jo Rae Wright’s lab at Duke University where she studied basic mechanisms of SP-A in infectious and non-infectious lung injury and for which she received an NIH K99/R00 award. In 2012, Julie received the first ever Jo Rae Wright award for Outstanding science given out by the American Thoracic Society in memory of the late Dr. Wright. Dr. Ledford became an assistant professor of medicine at Duke in 2012 and moved to the University of Arizona in 2015.
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.
Learning Objectives:
- Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
- Understand more clearly advances in therapy
- Become truly professional physicians
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