Office of the Chair

Medicine Grand Rounds

The Department of Medicine hosts local faculty and outstanding regional or national leaders in their respective fields, who present on a range of topics in weekly grand rounds that represent all of the department’s subspecialties. Each year, the Medicine Grand Rounds schedule offers presentations in a variety of formats. These presentations are designed for our faculty, residents, fellows, other healthcare professionals, and researchers who wish to remain up to date on new science in their field and to encourage collaboration among scientists and physicians. Medicine Grand Rounds are held weekly at 12:00pm in the LHAS auditorium. Attendees can receive CME credit.

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Tuesdays, Noon-1:00pm

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LHAS Auditorium, Montefiore Hospital

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Virtual Meeting
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Watch Recent Presentations

2023
January 3	HOLIDAY - No Meeting
January 10	Marc Gauthier, MD Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD Eleanor Valenzi, MD	PACCM Year in Review Watch Presentation Dr. Gauthier: Asthma Dr. Kliment: COPD Dr. Valenzi: ILD
January 17	Dana Ascherman, MD Chester Oddis, MD	Bench to BedsideMyositis and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome: Bedside to Bench . . . and Back? Watch Presentation
January 24	Sawa Ito, MD, PhD Warren Shlomchik, MD	Bench to BedsideIFN-γ potentiates graft-versus-leukemia responses against myeloblastic leukemias: from Bench to Bedside
January 31	Ken Ho, MD, MPH Graham Snyder, MD, MS Ryan Shields, PharmD, MS	Infectious Diseases Year in Review Watch Presentations Dr. Ho: Monkeypox Dr. Shields: Antimicrobial Resistance Dr. Snyder: COVID & Influenza
February 7	Sylk Sotto, EDD, MBA, MPS	Leaders In MedicineDo they REALLY Trust Us?: An exploration of trust and trustworthiness within a volunteer research registry Watch Presentation
February 14	Allie Dakroub, MD, MS Andrew Klein, MD	General Internal Medicine Year in Review (Outpatient) Watch Presentation
February 21	Jaipreet Virdi, PhD	CF Reynolds LectureThe Edge of Silence: A History of Fanciful Deafness Fads
February 28	Yvette Yien, MD Julia Xu, MD	Bench to BedsideIron Metabolism, Erythropoiesis, and Sickle Cell Disease Watch Presentation
March 7	Wei Sun, MD Joo Yoon, MD Haodi Wu, PhD	Special K Club Dr. Sun: Post-GWAS Functional Genomics Analysis to Identify Novel Pathogenic Mechanisms of Cardiopulmonary Dr. Yoon: Machine Learning-driven Diagnosis and Management Strategy for Critically-ill Patients Dr. Wu: Exploring Cardiac Diseases: Journey from Animal Physiology to Stem Cell Functional Genomics
March 14	Jeffrey Dueker, MD, MPH Anna Evans Phillips, MD, MS	Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Year in Review
March 21	Marc Triola, MD	Leaders In MedicinePrecision Education and the Continuously Learning Medical System
March 28	Rod Tan, MD, PhD Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH	Bench to BedsideChronic Kidney Disease
April 4	Eva Aagaard, MD	Leaders In Medicine
April 11	TBD
April 18	TBD
April 25	Andrew (Andy) McMahon, PhD, FRS	Research Day
May 2	Jonathan Alder, PhD John McDyer, MD	Telomere Biology and Lung Transplantation: Why it’s not always about the Lung
May 9	TBD
May 16	Lisa Satlin, MD	Fraley Lecture
May 23	TBD
May 30	Bedowra Zabeen, MD Jing Luo, MD	Title TBD Topic: Clinical trials in low-resourced country/lessons learned
June 6	Deborah Moss, MD, MPH, FAAP Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA Vaishali Dixit Schuchert, MD, FACS	Title TBD Topic: Gun Violence
Friday* June 9	Peter Chen, MD	Rogers Lectureship
June 13	TBD

Click here to view September-December 2022 Presentations

2022
September 6	Sonya Borrero, MD, MS Suji Uhm, MD, MPH Marian Jarlenski, PhD Mehret Birru Talabi, MD, PhD Greer Donley, JD	Ensuring patient-centered care in a post-Roe world
September 13	Ken Ho, MD	Monkeypox Update Watch Presentation
September 20	Rachel Hannum, MD Andrew Knight, MD Amy Labar, MD Gautam Rangavajla, MD Bradley Very, MD	Residents Research Presentations Watch Presentations Dr. Hannum: Gender Difference in Burnout and Fulfillment: Can Leadership Close the Gap? Dr. Knight: The Effect of Immunosuppression During Anti-PD-1 Treatment for Stage III Melanoma Dr. Labar: Plasma Levels of Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity (sST2) Are Associated with Markers of Injury, Severity of Illness, and Outcomes in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Dr. Rangavajla: Guideline-directed medical therapy in primary prevention defibrillator recipients and their mortality risk Dr. Very: Demographic Differences in Palliative Care Contact Among Patients with Heart Failure
September 27	Lise Vesterlund, PhD	The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work Watch Presentation
October 4	Mohammad Al-Bataineh, DVM, MS, PhD Marc C. Gauthier, MD Craig Seaman, MD, MS	Special K Club Watch Presentations Dr. Al-Bataineh: Novel Role for MUC1 in Acid-Base Homeostasis Dr. Gauthier: CCL5 as a Potential Bridge Between T1-High and T2-High Asthma Dr. Seaman: Von Willebrand Disease Aging and Bleeding Correlation Study (VWD ABC)
October 11	Rupa Marya, MD	Tisherman Lecture The Anatomy of Injustice: Interventions to Treat What Ails Us Watch Presentation *Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Health Law
October 18	Maggie Whelan, MD, PhD Sheila Velez Martinez, JD	Leaders in MedicineAsylum Evaluations and the Impact of Physicians Watch Presentation
October 25	Sandeep Jain, MD Guy Salama, PhD	Bench to BedsideAtrial Fibrillation Watch Presentations Dr. Jain: Mechanisms and Management of Atrial Fibrilation Dr. Salama: Relaxin as a Therapy for Atrial Fibrilation
November 1	Adriana Cifuentes De La Torre, MD Mohanad Hamandi, MD Susan Jacob, MD Sarah Mann, MD	Residents Research Presentations Watch Presentations Dr. Cifuentes De La Torre: Calorie Restriction and Metabolic Adaptations in Obesity Dr. Hamandi: The Association of Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins With Cognitive Function: ELSA‐Brazil (the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health) Dr. Jacob: Ultra-processed food consumption and multi year clinical trajectories in IBD Dr. Mann: Impact of Cutaneous Vasculitis on Quality-of-Life
November 8	Lena Makaroun, MD, MS Cara Mitchell, DO Eric Rodriguez, MD, MPH	Geriatics Year In Review Watch Presentations
November 15	*No Meeting*	Cancelled/Postponed to 2023
November 22	BREAK - No Meeting
November 29	Konstantinos Aronis, MD Anum Saeed, MD Natalie Stokes, MD	Cardiology Year in Review Watch Presentations
December 6	Ann Perrin, MD, MPH Michael Simonson, MD, MS	General Internal Medicine Year in Review (Hospital) Watch Presentations
December 13	Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD Ibrahim Sultan, MD	Bench to BedsideAortic Stenosis and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
December 20	HOLIDAY - No Meeting
December 27	HOLIDAY - No Meeting

Selected Medicine Grand Rounds presentations can be viewed on the DOM Medical Education Resources website.

Grand Rounds Formats

Special K Klub – Features our star mid-career physician-scientists with K-awards; their work spans the bench to the bedside and represents the best present and future of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.

Discovery – Focused on major scientific discoveries and their impact on the future of medicine and health. The process of discovery, including historical background, will be emphasized with a conclusion highlighting future implications in the field.

Specialty Year in Review – Each Division will review hot topics and landmark papers over the past year.

Spotlight Series – Each Division will organize a session focusing on the translation of basic discoveries to the bedside or population. In each session, one speaker will discuss basic or translational research findings and another will focus on the clinical applications of the science.

Leaders in Medicine – The Chief Residents, in collaboration with the Department Chair, will select and invite prominent outside speakers. When possible, additional “meet the professor” or “rock star” sessions will be held for house staff groups.

Named Lecture Series – The Department and individual Divisions support a number of named lectures each year. Organizers from sponsoring Divisions will work with the Chief Residents to select these featured lectureship recipients.

Point – Counterpoint – Two controversial topics are chosen for the annual Health Policy Debate and Med-Ed Debate. These moderated debates between two speakers are among the most popular Grand Rounds of the year.

Senior Resident Talks – The last Grand Rounds of the year is reserved fro two selected senior talks from the graduating residency class. These speakers are selected by a committee within the residency and honored at the Senior Banquet.

In the summer, Grand Rounds is replaced by resident lecture series and intern “boot camp lectures.”

Each Division holds specialty and sub-specialty Grand Rounds presentations.

Specialty and Sub-Specialty Grand Rounds

Cardiology

Cardiology Grand Rounds provides cardiology faculty and staff an opportunity to hear speakers from across the nation discuss current cutting-edge topics that include basic science, translational, clinical, and educational cardiology research. The Cardiology Grand Rounds Conference is held on Tuesdays at 7:00am.

Endocrinology and Metabolism

The University-Wide Conference (Endocrine Grand Rounds) consists of lectures by external and internal speakers to expose faculty and trainees to cutting edge research and clinical care developments in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and to increase their basic science knowledge base. Held Fridays at 8:00am.

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

GI Grand Rounds are lectures by external and internal faculty and case presentations from GI fellows. Held weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm. GI Research Rounds are held weekly, featuring gastrointestinal research presentations from a multidisciplinary lecture core. Held Fridays at 12:00pm.

Geriatric Medicine

Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds are held on Friday mornings at 8:00-9:30am.

Hematology/Oncology

Grand Rounds are held every Wednesday at 8:00am. Different types of cancers are discussed each week, and the meetings are open to physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurses who are interested in cancer research.

Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays at 4pm.

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Pulmonary Grand Rounds lectures are held monthly on Thursdays, 12:00-1:00pm
Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays at 4:00pm.

Renal-Electrolyte

Renal Grand Rounds are held on alternating Thursdays.

Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

Rheumatology Grand Rounds features a presentation and discussion of the diagnosis and/or management of difficult or interesting cases seen on inpatient consultation service or in the outpatient clinics. A guest speaker from outside the University is invited once a month to speak at the conference. Grand Rounds are held on Fridays at 8:15am.

Office of the Chair

Medicine Grand Rounds

Tuesdays, Noon-1:00pm

LHAS Auditorium, Montefiore Hospital

Virtual Meeting Click for Link

Watch Recent Presentations

2023

January 3

January 10

Marc Gauthier, MD Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD Eleanor Valenzi, MD

PACCM Year in Review

January 17

Dana Ascherman, MD Chester Oddis, MD

Myositis and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome: Bedside to Bench . . . and Back?

January 24

Sawa Ito, MD, PhD Warren Shlomchik, MD

IFN-γ potentiates graft-versus-leukemia responses against myeloblastic leukemias: from Bench to Bedside

January 31

Ken Ho, MD, MPH Graham Snyder, MD, MS Ryan Shields, PharmD, MS

Infectious Diseases Year in Review

February 7

Sylk Sotto, EDD, MBA, MPS

Do they REALLY Trust Us?: An exploration of trust and trustworthiness within a volunteer research registry

February 14

Allie Dakroub, MD, MS Andrew Klein, MD

General Internal Medicine Year in Review (Outpatient)

February 21

Jaipreet Virdi, PhD

The Edge of Silence: A History of Fanciful Deafness Fads

February 28

Yvette Yien, MD Julia Xu, MD

Iron Metabolism, Erythropoiesis, and Sickle Cell Disease

March 7

Wei Sun, MD Joo Yoon, MD Haodi Wu, PhD

March 14

Jeffrey Dueker, MD, MPH Anna Evans Phillips, MD, MS

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Year in Review

March 21

Marc Triola, MD

Precision Education and the Continuously Learning Medical System

March 28

Rod Tan, MD, PhD Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH

Chronic Kidney Disease

April 4

Eva Aagaard, MD

April 11

April 18

April 25

Andrew (Andy) McMahon, PhD, FRS

May 2

Jonathan Alder, PhD John McDyer, MD

Telomere Biology and Lung Transplantation: Why it’s not always about the Lung

May 9

TBD

May 16

Lisa Satlin, MD

May 23

May 30

Bedowra Zabeen, MD Jing Luo, MD

June 6

Deborah Moss, MD, MPH, FAAP Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA Vaishali Dixit Schuchert, MD, FACS

Friday* June 9

Peter Chen, MD

June 13

Click here to view September-December 2022 Presentations

2022

Grand Rounds Formats

Specialty and Sub-Specialty Grand Rounds

Virtual Meeting
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Marc Gauthier, MD
Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD
Eleanor Valenzi, MD

Dana Ascherman, MD
Chester Oddis, MD

Sawa Ito, MD, PhD
Warren Shlomchik, MD

Ken Ho, MD, MPH
Graham Snyder, MD, MS
Ryan Shields, PharmD, MS

Allie Dakroub, MD, MS
Andrew Klein, MD

Yvette Yien, MD
Julia Xu, MD

Wei Sun, MD
Joo Yoon, MD
Haodi Wu, PhD

Jeffrey Dueker, MD, MPH
Anna Evans Phillips, MD, MS

Rod Tan, MD, PhD
Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH

Jonathan Alder, PhD
John McDyer, MD

Bedowra Zabeen, MD
Jing Luo, MD

Deborah Moss, MD, MPH, FAAP
Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA
Vaishali Dixit Schuchert, MD, FACS

Friday*
June 9