Medical Grand Rounds
Thursdays 8-9 a.m.
Sherman Auditorium
East Campus
The Department’s weekly Medical Grand Rounds lectures cover a broad range of timely and clinically-important topics. Speakers are drawn from BIDMC, Harvard Medical School and other regional and national institutions. Along with named lectureships, Medical Grand Rounds includes the Clinical Crossroads series, which uses a case-based approach to address key questions and issues in clinical care.
2011-2012 SCHEDULE
September 15, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Mark Zeidel
- Topic: Academic Departments of Medicine: Smart Strategies for Unprecedented Challenges
September 22, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Andrew S. Levey, Nephrology Visiting Professor
- Topic: Chronic Kidney Disease: More Than It Used To Be
September 29, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Dan Barouch
- Topic: New Directions in the Development of an HIV Vaccine: Immune Correlates of Protection
October 6, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Myron (Max) Essex, Henry Hardy Lecture
- Topic: Prevention and Treatment in the World's Worst Epidemic of HIV/AIDS: Lessons from Botswana
October 13, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Detlef Schuppan
- Topic: Liver Fibrosis: Presentation, Pathogenesis and Antifibrotic Therapies
October 20, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Edward M. Hundert, Aaron Thurman Lecture on Humanism in Medicine - Shapiro Institute
- Topic: The Gift of Respect: A Golden Rule for Humanism in Medicine
October 27, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Lucey, Robert Resnick Lecture in Clinical Hepatology
- Topic: Alcoholic Liver Disease
November 3, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Eric Small, Mario Baldini, MD Memorial Lecture in Hematology/Oncology
- Topic: Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Fact or Fiction?
November 10, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Henry Black, Harold Solomon Lecture in Preventive Medicine
- Topic: Hypertension: 2011, Will JNC 8 affect how we practice?
November 17, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Alfred Buxton
- Topic: Sudden Cardiac Death – Current Status in the US
November 24, 2011 - No Medical Grand Rounds
December 1, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. John Halamka
- Topic: Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers
December 8, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Jordan Cohen, George E. Altman, MD Lecture
- Topic: Honoring the "E" in GME; Tinkering is Not Enough
December 15, 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Gregory Piazza, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: Submassive Pulmonary Embolism
December 22, 2011 - - No Medical Grand Rounds
December 29, 2011 - - No Medical Grand Rounds
January 5, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Adam Cheifetz, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: Forty-one-year-old Male with Active Crohn's Disease: How Should It Be Evaluated and Managed?
January 12, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Jess Mandel, Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine - Shapiro Institute
- Topic: The Paradox of Progress
January 19, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Phillip Boiselle, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: Sixty-four-year-old woman considering screening for lung cancer
January 26, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Judith & Robert Melzer Lecture in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
- Topic: Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)
February 2, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. J. Woodrow Weiss
- Topic: A Historical Perspective on Critical Care Informs Discussions About Goals of Care in the ICU
February 9, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Camilleri, Zetzel Lecture
- Topic: Diabetic Gastroparesis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Management
February 16, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Eizabeth Diamond, David Trentham Visiting Professor
- Topic: Antibodies and Brain Disease, A Growing Concern
February 23, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Roy Gulick
- Topic: HIV/AIDS 2012: An Update
March 1, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Daniel Buysse, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A 51 year old woman with insomnia
March 8, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Steven Balk
- Topic: New Insights into Targeting Androgen Receptor for Prostate Cancer Prevention and Treatment
March 15, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Douglas Kiel
- Topic: Where Do We Fall on Vitamin D?
March 22, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Antonio Bianco, Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture
- Topic: Achieving Euthyroidism in Hypothyroid Patients with Mono vs. Combined Levothyroxine Therapy
March 29, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt, MacPherson-Hiatt Visiting Professor
- Topic: The Changing Face of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
April 5, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. William Chin, K.L. Chopra Lecture in Medicine and the Humanities
- Topic: Translational Medicine and Therapeutics: High Hopes, High Hurdles
April 12, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Paul Bunn, Lesses Visiting Professor
- Topic: Lung Cancer Prevention, Detection and Therapy in 2012 and Beyond
April 19, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Elaine Ostrander, Franklin Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Topic: Genetics of Complex Traits in the Domestic Dog
April 26, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Helen Shields
- Topic: Teaching Well Matters: Path to Professor at Harvard Medical School
May 3, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Mauer, Alexander Marble Lecture
- Topic: Strongly Held Beliefs about Diabetic Nephropathy
May 10, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Gordon A. Strewler
- Topic: Medicine is the Tutor of Biology: The Story of PTHrP
May 17, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Robert Shmerling, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A 57-year old man with a history of podagra, hyperuricemia and mild renal insufficiency
May 24, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Susan Mitchell
- Topic: The Role of the Hospital in the Care of Patients with Advanced Dementia
May 31, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Ginsberg, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture
- Topic: Twenty Years of Personalizing Cancer Care
June 7, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Kelley Skeff, Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor
- Topic: TBA
June 14, 2012
- Speaker: Resident Talks
- Topic: TBA
