Medicine Grand Rounds 2021

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

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 

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  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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