Endocrinology Grand Rounds
2011-2012 Schedule
Upcoming Grand Rounds
(All lectures are Fridays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Shapiro Clinical Center - Leventhal Conference Room, 2nd Floor, unless otherwise noted)
February 3, 2012
- Speaker: Gorica Petrovich, PhD
Institution: Boston College
Title: "Learning and The Motivation to Eat: Forebrain Contribution"
February 10, 2012 (Hosted by Children's Hospital Boston)
- Speaker: Tim McGraw, PhD
Institution: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Title: "Insulin-Regulated Glucose Transport"
February 17, 2012
- Speaker: Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD
Institution: Harvard School of Public Health
Title: "Diet Quality and Prevention of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes"
February 24, 2012
- Speaker: Ellen Seely, MD
Institution: Brigham & Women's
Title: "Progesterone, the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System and Vascular Function in Women"
March 2, 2012 (Hosted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Speaker: David Glass, MD
Institution: Novartis and Harvard Medical School
Title: TBA
March 9, 2012
- Speaker: Shehzad Basaria, MD
Institution: Boston University Medical Center
Title: TBA
March 16, 2012
- Speaker: Chih-Hao Lee, PhD
Institution: Harvard School of Public Health
Title: TBA
March 23, 2012
- Speaker: Annual Ingbar Lecture - Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD
Institution: University of Miami
Title: "Tissue-Specific Regulation of Thyroid Hormone Action in Health and Disease"
March 30, 2012
- Speaker: Philipp Scherer, PhD
Institution: UT Southwestern
Title: TBA
April 6, 2012 - No Grand Rounds
April 13, 2012
- Speaker: Matthew D. Ringel, MD
Institution: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Title: TBA
April 20, 2012 (Hosted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Speaker: Nao Uchida, PhD
Institution: Harvard University
Title: TBA
April 27, 2012
- Speaker: Harald W. Jueppner, MD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: TBA
May 4, 2012
- Speaker: Annual Pallotta/Stephen Lecture - Nicholas Zervas, MD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: TBA
May 11, 2012
- Speaker: TBA
Institution: TBA
Title: TBA
May 18, 2012 (hosted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Speaker: Matthias Hebrok, PhD
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Title: "An Integrative Approach to Childhood Obesity"
May 25, 2012 - No Grand Rounds
June 1, 2012
- Speaker: Tony Ferrante, MD, PhD
Institution: Columbia University
Title: TBA
June 8, 2012 - No Grand Rounds
June 15, 2012 - Fellow Presentations
- Speakers: Heather Ferris, MD & Qin Yang, MD, PhD
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Titles: TBA
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Outline the current research developments in Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism, Bone, Thyroid and other Endocrine disorders;
- Analyze clinical research developments as they relate to current Endocrinology practice issues;
- Outline the recommendations given by recent clinical practice guidelines; and
- Apply the lessons learned from clinical update and clinical practice guidelines to future clinical practice.
The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Past Grand Rounds Lectures
September 9, 2011
- Speaker: C. Ronald Kahn, MD
- Institution: Joslin Diabetes Center
- Title: "Insulin Action in the Brain in Control of Metabolism"
September 16, 2011
- Speaker: Lisa B. Nachtigall, MD
Institution: Harvard Medical School / MGH Neuroendocrine Clinical Center
Title: "Current Approaches to the Diagnosis and Mangement of Acromegaly"
September 23, 2011
- Speaker: Brad Lowell, MD, PhD
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Title: "The Neurobiology of Eating/Energy Balance: Focus on Synaptic Neurotransmission and Plasticity"
September 30, 2011 - No Grand Rounds
October 7, 2011 - No Grand Rounds
October 14, 2011
- Speaker: Mireille Serlie, MD, PhD
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Title: "The Role of Brain Dopamine and Serotonin in Glucose Metabolism and Obesity"
October 21, 2011
- Speaker: Sareh Parangi, MD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: "Translational Research in Aggressive Thyroid Cancers: Lessons From the Laboratory"
October 28, 2011
- Speaker: Evan Rosen, MD, PhD
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Title: "An Epigenomic Basis for Metabolic Dysfunction: Changes Taken out of Sequence"
November 4, 2011 (Hosted by Children's Hospital Boston)
- Speaker: David Breault, MD PhD
Institution: Children's Hospital Boston
Title: "Regulation of Slowly Cycling Stem Cells"
November 11, 2011
- Speaker: Steven J. Russell MD, PhD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Center
Title: "Automated Glucose Management in Type 1 Diabetes with a Bi-hormonal Bionic Pancreas"
November 18, 2011 - Rabkin Board Room (Shapiro 10th Floor)
- Speaker: Christian Broberger, MD, PhD
Institution: Karolinska Institute
Title: "Novel Network Mechanisms in the Control of Lactation and Neuroendocrine Secretion"
November 25, 2011 - No Grand Rounds
December 2, 2011
- Speaker: Robert E. Gerszten, MD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center
Title: "Metabolite Profiles and the Risk of Diabetes"
December 9, 2011 (Hosted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Speaker: Vamsi K. Mootha, MD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: "Mitochondrial Parts, Pathways and Pathogenesis"
December 16, 2011
- Speaker: Meryl Leboff, MD
Institution: Brigham & Women's
Title: Vitamin D, Fracture Care and Translational Research
December 23, 2011 - No Grand Rounds
December 30, 2011 - No Grand Rounds
January 6, 2012
- Speaker: Sudha Biddinger, MD, PhD
Institution: Childrens' Hospital Boston
Title: "Regulation of Lipid Metabolism in Insulin Resistant States"
January 13, 2012
- Speaker: Annual Usher Lecture - Robert Gabbay MD, PhD
Institution: Penn State Institute for Diabetes and Obesity
Title: "Reinventing Diabetes Care: A Journey to Improve Quality"
January 20, 2012
- Speaker: Barbara B. Kahn, MD
Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Title: "Novel Mechanisms by Which Adipose Tissue Regulates Systemic Insulin Sensitivity and Diabetes Risk"
January 27, 2012
- Speaker: Jason Gaglia, MD
Institution: Joslin Diabetes Center
Title: "Imaging the Pancreas to Look at Diabetes"
