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Medicine Grand Rounds 2021
Click here to see Medicine Grand Rounds 2020.
August 25: "COVID-19 Update"
Speakers:
Ben Brock, MD, Associate Professor
Jose Lucar, MD, Medical Director
Bhagyashri Navalkele, MD, Medicine Director
Jason Parham, MD, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Pictured left to right: Ben Brock, MD; Jose Lucar, MD; Bhagyashri Navalkele, MD; and Jason Parham, MD
September 1: “Seeing 2020: Looking at the Past, the Future, and the Present of Our Residency”
Speaker:
S. Calvin Thigpen, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
September 15: “Interventional Pulmonary for the Internist”
Speaker
:
Michal Senitko, MD, Assistant Professor Division of Pulmonary
September 22: “Eye Care for the Primary Care Physician”
Speaker
:
William M. Watkins, MD, Associate Professor Department of Ophthalmology
September 29: “Did You Discuss This With Your OBGYN? A Practical Approach to Common Gynecologic Complaints”
Speaker
:
J. Martin Tucker, MD
October 6: “What’s new in Hypertension?”
Speaker
:
Daniel W. Jones, MD, MACP, FAHA, Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus
October 13: “Care Coordination, Physician Advisor and Utilization Review Collaboration”
Speakers
:
Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, Medical Director of Utilization Management, Lead Physician Advisor, Associate Professor of Medicine
Jean Maslan, RN, Interim Director of Coordinated Care
Pictured left to right:Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, and Jean Maslan, RN
October 20: “Sports, Medicine, and Sports Medicine: Building a Career Purposefully and on the Leading Edge”
Speaker
:
Joshua Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FAAP, CAQSM, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Team Physician, UNC Sports Medicine; Associate Director and Continuity Clinic Director, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program
October 27: “Tracheostomy Management and Epistaxis Primary Care/Internal Medicine Perspective”
Speaker
:
Eric Bridges, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Cindy Moore, MD, PGY-4
Pictured left to right: Eric Bridges, MD, and Cindy Moore, MD
November 3: “All I do is Skin, Skin, Skin No Matter What: Dermatology for the Internist”
Speaker
:
Jeremy D. Jackson, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology
November 10: “Getting the Most from Reading the Medical Literature: Tips from a Journal Editor”
Speaker
:
Gailen D. Marshall, Jr, MD, PhD, R. Faser Triplett Chair of Allergy and Immunology, Editor-in-chief Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Department of Research
November 17: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive in 2020”
Speaker
:
Myrna E. Alexander, MD, Professor, Division of Cardiology, Vice Chair of Diversity & Inclusion
December 1: “Yerkes-Dodson Law: Your Performance & Behavior”
Speaker
:
Patrick O. Smith, PhD, Chief of Faculty Affairs
December 8: “Cardio-Oncology: It’s Not About Heart Tumors!”
Speaker
:
Brandon W. Lennep, MD, Assistant Professor Division of Cardiology
January 5: “2021 – A Year for New Milestones”
Speakers:
Zeb Henson, MD - Med-Peds Residency Program Director
Calvin Thigpen, MD - Medicine Residency Program Director
Pictured left to right: Zeb Henson, MD, and Calvin Thigpen, MD
January 12: “COVID Epidemiology and Vaccine Update”
Speaker
:
Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH State Health Officer
January 19: “Transcatheter Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation”
Speaker
:
Gregg W. Stone, MD, Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Heart Health System, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY
January 26: “Lipid Lowering in Persons with Diabetes: Reducing Residual Risk”
Speaker
:
Lawrence A. Leiter, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FAHA, FACC, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Michael’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
February 2: “Game changer: 2021 Documentation Guidelines #LessClickingMoreCaring”
Speaker
:
Venkataraman Palabindala, MD, Medical Director of Utilization Management Lead Physician Advisor Associate Professor of Medicine
February 9: “Post-acute COVID-19 Illness”
Speakers
:
Jose Lucar, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases
Stephen LeBlanc, MD, Division of Allergy
Campbell Sindel, MD, Division of Hospice/Palliative Medicine
John Spurzem, MD, Division of Pulmonary
Pictured left to right: Jose Lucar, MD; Stephen LeBlanc, MD; Campbell Sindel, MD; and John Spurzem, MD
February 23: “Updates in Transgender Sexual Healthcare”
Speaker
:
Olivia T. Van Gerwen, MD, MPH Clinical Instructor | Division of Infectious Diseases University of Alabama at Birmingham
March 2: “Steroidal and Non-steroidal MRAs for the Treatment of CKD in Type 2 Diabetes”
Speaker
:
Rajiv Agarwal, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Indiana University School of Medicine
March 9: “Radiology for the Internist”
Speakers
:
Brandon Weatherly, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging
Lyssa Weatherly, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Pictured left to right: Brandon Weatherly, MD, and Lyssa Weatherly, MD
March 16: “Hereditary Alpha-Tryptasemia: A Modifier of Mast Cell Disorders and Reactions”
Speaker
:
Jonathan Lyons, MD, Lasker Scholar, Chief, Translational Allergic Immunopathology Unit, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, NIAID/NIH
March 23: “Faculty Development and Advancement: The Future is IN the Now”
Speaker
:
Vikas Majithia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
March 30: “Is there an easy way to lose weight? Does it matter when we eat? Does it matter what we eat?”
Speaker
:
Ethan Weiss, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Principle Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), University of California, San Francisco
April 6: “The Physiology of Crashing: Unravelling Dialysis-Associated Hypotension”
Speakers
:
Tariq Shafi, MD, Professor, Division Chair of Nephrology
John Clemmer, PhD, Instructor, Physiology and Biophysics
Pictured left to right: John Clemmer, PhD, and Tariq Shafi, MD
April 13: “What’s the 411 in The School of Medicine?”
Speakers
:
Demondes Haynes, MD, FCCP, Associate Dean for Admissions, School of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Lyssa Weatherly, MD, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Michael R. McMullan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division Director, Cardiovascular Diseases; Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine
Pictured clockwise: Demondes Haynes, MD; Michael McMullan, MD; and Lyssa Weatherly, MD
April 20: “Ethical Issues in Pandemics”
Speaker
:
Sharon P. Douglas, MD, FCCP, Pulmonary Physician, Associate Chief of Staff for Education, G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VAMC, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for VA Education, UMMC
April 27: “Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea”
Speaker
:
M.I. Ullah, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Diplomate, Internal Medicine and Sleep Medicine
May 1: “Lupus Nephritis”
Speaker
:
Cathy P. Lee Ching, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology
May 11: “Bariatric Update 2021”
Speaker
:
Kenneth D. Vick, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Professor of Surgery
May 18: “Healthcare Disparities: Time for innovative strategies in patient care and research”
Speaker
:
George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, FAHA, Director, Center for Translation Research & Implementation Science, NHLBI, NIH Bethesda, Maryland
2021-2022
August 3: “State of the Department Grand Rounds”
Speaker
:
Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, Chairman, Department of Medicine
August 17: “Cardiovascular Implication of COVID-19 Pandemic – A Multimodality Approach”
Speakers
:
Gabriel Hernandez, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Michael Hall, MD, Associate Professor, Cardiology
Pictured left to right: Michael Hall, MD, and Gabriel Hernandez, MD
August 24: "COVID Epidemiology and Vaccine Update"
Speaker
:
Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH, Mississippi State Health Officer
August 31: “Vaccine Hesitancy”
Speaker
:
Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA, Navvis Associate Professor and Program Director, Jefferson College of Population Health
September 7: “Antagonistic Pleiotropy: Are aging related diseases a consequence of evolution?”
Speaker
:
Mark E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., William Osler Professor of Medicine; Director, Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Director of Medicine for Johns Hopkins Medicine
September 14: “Diabetes Care Starts with Diabetes Prevention"
Speaker
:
Neha Sachdev, MD, Director of Health Systems Relationships, American Medical Association
September 21: “Chronic Wound Care for the Internal Medicine Physician"
Speaker
:
Laura Vick, MD; Associate Professor, General Surgery, Medical Director of Wound Care, University of Mississippi Medical Center
September 28: “The ethics of deactivating CIEDs near the end of life; where are we and how did we get here?"
Speaker
:
Thomas S. Huddle MD PhD FACP; Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
October 5: “Cardiovascular Medicine as a Data Science"
Speaker
:
Robert A. Harrington, MD; Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
October 12: “Approach to Common Anemias and Thrombotic Microangiopathies"
Speaker
:
Robert A. Harrington, MD; Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University