WWAMI lecture: Current concepts of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
by Kathleen McCoy |
Thursday, April 16, 4 p.m.
Engineering Building, Room 324
Dr. James Leiter will present an Alaska WWAMI Science in Medicine Lecture titled "Current Concepts of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome." Dr. Leiter is a faculty candidate for the Alaska WWAMI Professorship of Biomedical Sciences. He is a professor of physiology and of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and he is involved in the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth and the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine. Dr. Leiter is a nationally recognized expert on the neurophysiology of respiratory control, central chemosensitivity and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Dr. Leiter's research also focuses on the role of astrocytes in all of these topics. Additional research interests include the neurobiology of deep -rain stimulation in Parkinson's Disease and psychiatric disorders.
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