Oct. 4: “The Iron Revolution”

Oncology clinicians, Asante employees and the general public are invited to attend Oncology Grand Rounds. Our guest speaker is Thomas Deloughery MD, who will present on “The Iron Revolution” and answer the following questions:

• What are the common symptoms of iron deficiency?
• What is the best way to diagnosis iron deficiency?
• What are the best options for iron replacement?

This hour-long CME event takes place at:

Noon on Friday, Oct. 4
Mary and Dick Heimann Cancer Center
3011 E. Barnett Road, Medford

No registration is required, but space is limited.

Dr. Deloughery is an OHSU hematologist-oncologist and a professor of medicine, pathology and pediatrics.

Tom DeLoughery is a native Hoosier who graduated from Indiana State University in 1981 (one year after Larry Bird) and the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985. He did his internship at the University of California, Irvine before traveling to Oregon where he finished his internal medicine residency and hematology/oncology fellowship.

He is currently a professor of medicine, pathology and pediatrics in the Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Laboratory Medicine at OHSU. His clinical interests are in blood diseases, hemostasis, and thrombosis, subjects on which he has written extensively. He has won numerous teaching awards and has given education sessions to national meetings of many professional societies. He is the course director for the medical school Blood Course and was a co-developer of the Blood and Host Defense course for the New Curriculum.

He also has an interest in the hematologic aspects of sport and travel medicine and served six years on the board of directors of the Wilderness Medicine Society and has chaired their research committee. He is a master at the American College of Physicians and Fellows of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. This year the 3rd edition of his popular handbook Hemostasis and Thrombosis was published.