Academic Education (AE)

FS402 - Viruses, Immunity, and the Brain: How COVID Changed Almost Everything

Saturday, April 2, 2022

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT

Location: 124

Earn 0.2 CEUs

Lead Presenter(s)

Glenn Rall, PhD

Chief Academic Officer, Professor
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Disclosure: Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant financial relationships with anything to disclose.
Non-Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant non-financial relationships with anything to disclose.

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Abstract:
In addition to its terrible toll on the lives of millions of people, the current pandemic has led to remarkable insights into how viruses grow, spread, and cause disease. But even more, the past year and a half has caused many scientists to rethink how information is understood and used, how to communicate with the lay public, and how to define new, perhaps more authentic, paths forward. This lecture will focus on this latter “science and society” challenge, from the vantage point of a laboratory virologist who suddenly found himself responsible for managing COVID protocols at a national cancer center.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will identify basic principles of viral infections in the brain, and how the SARS pandemic changed much of what we thought we knew.
Attendees will discuss how the current pandemic influenced how scientists communicate with the lay public.
Participants will be equipped with strategies to more effectively communicate scientific principles to their patients and to the public.