2012-2013 Medical Grand Rounds
Sept 14 Irritable Bowel Syndrome: What are you so afraid of?
Robert Lowe, M.D.
Educational Director
Section of Gastroenterology, BMC
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Sept 21 Implementing the Affordable Care Act: The Supreme Court and the Constitution
George Annas, J.D., MPH
Chair, Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights. BUSPH
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Prof., BUSPH
Wendy Mariner, J.D., MPH
Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, BUSPH
Edward R. Utley Professor, BUSPH
Sept 28 The Management of Osteoporosis with Bisphosphonates: For Whom and How Long?
Clifford J. Rosen, M.D.
Director, Clinical & Translational Research
Maine Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
October 12 How We Treat Colorectal Cancer: Young and Old
Kevan Hartshorn, M.D.
Director of Hematology Oncology Fellowship, BUSM
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Steven Sentovich, M.D.
Department of Surgery
Associate Professor, BUSM
October 19 Inventing a Learning Health Care System
Louis Fiore, M.D.
Executive Director, Massachusetts Veterans epidemiology Research and Information Center
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, BUSM
October 26 Clostridium difficile
Carol Sulis, M.D.
Hospital epidemiologist, Section of Infectious Diseases, BMC
Assoicate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Francis Farraye, M.D.
Clinical Director, Section of gastroenerology, BMC
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
November 2, 2012 AIDS Update
Jon Fuller, M.D.
Center for HIV/AIDS Care and Research, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
November 9, 2012 Opioids for Chronic Pain: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Daniel Alford, M.D.
Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, BMC
Medical Director, Office-based Opioid Treatment Program, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
November 16, 2012 Sue Kim Hanson Memorial Lecture
Host Defense Strategies
Ruslan Medzhitov, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
November 30, 2012 Breast Cancer: Update
Karen Antman, M.D.
Dean, Boston University School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Dec 7, 2012 Medical vs. Surgical Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes: A Debate
Caroline Apovian, MD, BUSM
Donald Hess, MD, BUSM
Marie McDonnell, MD, BUSM
Elliot Sternthal, MD, BUSM
Dec 14, 2012 The Evans and The Department of Medicine: Maintaining Excellence and Growth over a Century Despite Serious Challenges – Slides
Video Presentation
Aram Chobanian, MD
Professor Emeritus, BUSM
Dec 21, 2012 Alcohol Consumption and Heart Disease: A Double Edged Sword.
Eric Awtry, MD
Director, Inpatient Clinical Cardiology, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
January 4, 2013 Massachusetts Medicine in Revolutionary America: Epidemics, Compelling Personalities and Care of the Needy.
Samuel A. Forman, MD
Research Scientist
Occupational & Enviromental Health Residency
Harvard School of Public Health
January 11, 2013 Renal Sympathitic Denervation for Treatment of Hypertension
Ashish Upadhyay, MD
Associate Director, Internal Residency Program, BMC
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM
January 18, 2013 Eosinophils in Health and Disease
J. Mark Sloan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Frederic Little, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM
January 25, 2013 Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Model Immune Mediated Inflammatory Disease
Philip Kramer Visiting Professor
Stephen B. Hanauer, MD
Chief, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
University of Chicago Medicine
February 1, 2013 Fibromyalgia: A Contoversial Entity
Michael York, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
February 8, 2013 Language Barriers and Medical Interpretation: USA 1984-2013
Eric Hardt, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Consultant to BMC Interpreter Services Department
February 15, 2013 The Changing Landscape and Challenges of AL Amylodosis
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD
Clinical Director, Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation Program, BMC
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
February 22, 2013 EBM: Evidence- Based Mentoring
Faulkner Visiting Professor
Sharon E. Straus, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Director, Knowledge Translation Program
Division Director, Geriatric Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Univ of Toronto
March 1, 2013 Stokes Memorial Lecture in Preventative Care
“Let’s get serious about preventing heart disease: the science of preventative cardiology guideline implementation.”
Thomas Pearson, MD
Professor, University of Rochester
March 8, 2013 Advances in Colorectal Cancer Prevention
Hermant Roy, MD
Section Chief of Gastroenterology, BMC
Professor of Medicine
March 15, 2013 Gary Garber Memorial Lecture
“Surprising Findings from Clinical Trials”
Marc A. Pfeffer, MD, PhD
Senior Physician, Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dzau Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
March 22, 2013 : Idelson Visiting Professor Lecture
“The Fat Switch: On the Origin of Obesity and the Fattening of Man.”
Richard J. Johnson, MD
Thomas Berl Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Renal Diseases & Hypertension
University of Colorado, Denver
March 29, 2013 Potassium RX: Where are the guidelines?
Steven Borkan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
April 5, 2013 Are Physicians Exposing Their Patients to Excessive Radiation?
Stephanie Lee, MD
Associate Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, BMC
Associate Professor, BUSM
April 12, 2013 Lessons from the Carnegie Report on Medical Education: Opportunities 100 years after Flexner.
Mark Moskowitz Memorial Lecture
David Battinelli, MD
Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
North Shore LIJ Health System
Professor of Medicine
Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine
April 19, 2013 Sick Euthyroid Syndrome: should it be treated?
Alan Farwell, MD
Interim Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition
Associate Professor of Medicine
April 26, 2013 Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Update
Carlos Kase, MD
Neurologist in Chief, BMC
Professor and Chairman og Neurology, BUSM
May 3, 2013 Clinical Solving Problem Case
Moderator: Robert Lowe, MD
May 10, 2013 BU a Leader in Sports-Related Head Injury: Long Term Consequences.
Robert A. Stern, PhD
Co-Founder, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy
Director, BU Alzheimer Disease Center Clinical COre
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, BUSM
May 17, 2013 Joseph Korn Memorial Lecture
2011-2012
Sept 9 The Neurobiology and Imagining of Addiction: From Cocaine to Chocolate
Stephen L. Dewey, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
Sept 16 Regulation of Interleukin-17 Mediated Immune Responses: From Controlled Inflammation to Autoimmunity
Sue Kim Hanson Lecture
Brigitta Stockinger, Ph.D., FMedSci
Director, Molecular Immunology
National Institute for Medical Research
London, England
Sept 23 Defining Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Health Consequences
Moderator: Lewis Braverman, M.D.
Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D.
Program Director, General Clinical
Research Unit, BMC
Professor of Medicine, Physiology and
Biophysics, and Molecular Medicine, BUSM
Clifford J. Rosen, M.D.
Director, Clinical and Translational Research
Maine Meical Center Research Institute
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Sept 30 TOPIC TO COME
George Annas, J.D.
Chairman, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, BUSPH
Professor, BUSM
Oct 7 Transgender Therapy: What Every Physician Should Know
Joshua Safer, M.D., FACP
Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Training and
Endocrinology Education, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine and Molecular Medicine, BUSM
Oct 14 Obesity Medicine: A New Subspecialty
Caroline Apovian, M.D.
Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Mgmt.
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, BUSM
Oct 21 Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Therapy
Beldon Idelson Visiting Professor
Jerrold S. Levine, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Oct 28 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians
Darrell N. Kotton, M.D.
Co-Director
BU Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
Associate Professor of Medicine & Pathology, BUSM
Nov 4 World Population Growth and the Future of Male Contraception
Ingelfinger Visiting Professor
William Bremner, MD, PhD
Nov 11 VETERAN’S DAY (HOLIDAY)
Nov 18 Is Hyperinsulinemia the Cause of Diabetes?
Barbara Corkey, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
Dec 2 Co-Morbidities of COPD: Chance or Fate
Bartolome Celli, M.D
Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Staff Physician, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Dec 9 AIDS: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Jerrold Ellner, M.D.
Discussants: Jon Fuller, Meg Sullivan
Dec 16 Clinical Problem Solving Case
Moderator: Robert Lowe, M.D.
Dec 23 CHRISTMAS Week
Dec 30 CHRISTMAS Week
Jan 6 Talking to Patients after a Medical Error: What to Do? What to Say?
Julie Crosson, MD
Thomas Barber, MD
M.L. Hannay, M.Ed.
Jan 13 Atrial Fibrillation
Kevin Monahan, M.D.
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology and
Arrhythmia Service, BMC
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Jan 20 Clinical Case Discussion: 36-Year-Old Man with Hypertension and Renal Failure
David Coleman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Chairman, Department of Medicine, BMC
Discussants: Herbert Cohen, M.D., Irene Gavras, M.D., and Nancy Kressin, Ph.D.
Jan 27 Folate and Cancer Risk: Unraveling a Complex Issue
Joel Mason, M.D.
Tufts University School of Medicine
Feb 10 Two Hundred Years of Medical Advances
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief
New England Journal of Medicine
Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Feb 17 Residency Training: A History and the Path Ahead
Gopal Yadavalli, M.D.
Feb 24
Joseph Tucci, M.D.
March 2: Clinical Problem-Solving Case
23-Year-Old Woman with Fever Rash, and Arhralgias
Rob Lowe, MD
Discussant: Michael York, MD
March 9:Epidemiology of Congestive Heart Failure: Current Perspectives and a Non-Cardio-Centric View
Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC
Chief, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, BMC
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
March 16 Nonsurgical Treatment of Osteoarthritis: Past Frustration, Future Promise?
David Felson, MD, MPH
Chief, Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, BMC
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, BUSM
March 23 Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Mark Moskowitz Memorial Lecture
H. Gilbert Welch, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
March 30 Hyponatremia: Asymptomatic or Over the Edge
Steven Borkan, MD
Physician, Renal Section, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
April 6
Elaine Hylek, MD
Co-Director, Anticoagulation Management Service, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Novel Anticoagulants for the Treatment and Prevention of Thrombotic Disorders
April 13
Alison A. Moore, MD
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
David Geffen School of Medicine
Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles
Benefits and Risks of Alcohol Use in Adults
April 20
Shalender Bhasin, M.D.
Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, BMC
Professor of Medicine, BUSM
Mechanism-Based Drug Discovery Applications of Androgens as Function Promoting Anabolic Therapies for Sarcopenia and Fraility
April 27 Acute Kidney Injury in Cirrhosis
Philip Kramer Visiting Professor
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD
Chief of Digestive Diseases
VA-CT Healthcare System
Director, Clinical & Translational Core
Yale Liver Center
Program Director, VA-CT Hepatitis C Resource Center
Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
May 4 New Strategies and Guidelines for the Management and Prevention of Health-Associated Pneumonias
Donald E. Craven, MD
Chairman, Center for Infectious Diseases and Prevention
Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
May 11 Scleroderma: Toward Rational Therapy
Joseph Korn Memorial Lecture
John Varga, MD
Director, Northwestern Scleroderma Program
John and Nancy Hughes Professor
Division of Rheumatology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
May 18 2012 Update: Management of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
Gary Garber Memorial Lecture
George Philippides, M.D.
Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs and Chief Quality Officer Cardiovascular Division, BMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, BUSM
2010-2011 Medical Grand Rounds presentations
2009-2010 Medical Grand Rounds presentations
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Dept. of Medicine Podcasts
- Amyloid Program on NPR’s All Things Considered May 21, 2012
- Creating an Inclusive Working Environment May 7, 2012
- Turning Quality Improvement Projects into Scholarship February 14, 2012
