Visiting Professorships
Dennis Cope Visiting Professor
The Dennis W. Cope Visiting Professorship in the Doctor-Patient Relationship honors Dr. Cope, the programs that he developed and the teaching he provided, which strongly influenced many, and his modeling of medical practice, which was the example that a generation of general internists at UCLA attempted to emulate. Dr. Cope developed the Primary Care track in UCLA Internal Medicine. He contributed to the field of General Internal Medicine as a practitioner, teacher, mentor, and leader in medical education. He was particularly influential in the area of doctor-patient communication, developing educational programs to enhance effective communication with patients and families. Dr. Cope is recognized as a physician who could provide the internal medicine insight, continuity and coordination for the most complex patients by deep, warm interactions combined with expert medical knowledge. Celebrating the importance of these skills and capabilities is the goal of the Professorship. A detailed memoriam of the life and career of Dr. Cope is online here.
2018
Roy Young
How Primary Care Can Improve Health - Historical Perspective and The Current Changing Model
2017
Mack Lipkin
The Hidden Psychosocial Content of Residency
Parvin Visiting Professor
Parvin Visiting Professorship in General Internal Medicine. The Parvin Foundation supports an annual Visiting Professor in General Internal Medicine that brings to UCLA a national leader in General Internal Medicine who has advanced the cause and principles of GIM. The Visiting Professor delivers Medicine Grand Rounds and meets with the Internal Medicine residents, GIM fellows and faculty, and others in the institution involved in promulgating care and care structures that advance the principles of General Internal Medicine. The Visiting Professor joins Mrs. Phyllis Parvin and members of the Division of General Internal Medicine in a dinner to celebrate the advancement of the field.
Parvin Visiting Professors and their topics include the following:
2018
Mitchell Feldman
Mentoring Matters: The Value of Mentoring in Academic Medicine
2015
Tom Delbanco
Baring It All: Where are Medical Records Going (and Why)?
2013
William Shrank
Promoting Patient Adherence to Therapy in the Setting of Payment reform
2012
David Meltzer
Redesign of Care for Patients at High Risk of Hospitalization in a Reforming U.S. Health Care System
2011
Nicole Lurie
How Social Media is Transforming Disaster Response... and Medical Care
2010
David Bates
The Future of Healthcare IT
2009
Rod Hayward
Surrogates Gone Wild! The promiscuous and unsafe use of biomarkers (featuring LDL, A1c &
2008
William Branch
The Road to Professionalism: Reflective Learning and Reflective Practice
2007
Steve Schroeder
What to do with a patient who smokes
2006
Wendy Levinson
Disclosing harmful medical errors to patients: A challenge for physicians
2005
Eric Larsen
Transforming Health Care: Turning chaos into quality through improved chronic disease care: Why Now and How?