Medical Grand Rounds

2009-2010 Schedule


Thursdays from 8:00 - 9:00 AM
at the Sherman Auditorium on the East Campus


September 3, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Mark Zeidel
  • Topic:  Small Molecule Homeostasis: Biophysical Insights into Human Disease

September 10, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Paul Ridker
  • Topic: Inflammation, hsCRP, and Atherosclerosis: Controversy and Consensus After the JUPITER Trial 

September 17, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Susan Mitchell
  • Topic:  The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia: Complications, Interventions, and Decision-Making

September 24, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. David G. Warnock, Nephrology Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  Diagnosis and Management of Fabry Nephropathy in Adults

October 1, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Eugene Schiff, Dr. Robert Resnick Lecture in Clinical Liver Disease
  • Topic:  Prevention of Mortality from Hepatitis B and C

October 8, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Sanford Markowitz, Mario Baldini, MD,  Memorial Lecture
  • Topic:  Genetic Opportunities for Preventing Death from Colon Cancer

October 15, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Atul A. Gawande, George E. Altman, MD Lecture
  • Topic:  Health Policy in the U.S. Today

October 22, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Michael D. Howell, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  Finding a Hospital: A 35-year-old man searching for a high-quality hospital

October 29, 2009

  • Speaker:  Professor Daniel T. Jones, Judith and Robert Melzer Lecture in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
  • Topic:  Realizing the Potential of Lean Thinking in Healthcare

November 5, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Norman M. Kaplan, Harold Solomon Lecture
  • Topic:  Challenges in the Treatment of Hypertension

November 12, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Talmadge E. King, Jr.
  • Topic:  Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis – A Hidden Disease

November 19, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. David U. Himmelstein
  • Topic:  Healthcare Reform:  A Medical Emergency

December 3, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Daniel Z. Sands & "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart
  • Topic:  Illness in the age of 'e':  A case study in participatory medicine

December 10, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Pankaj Jay Pasricha, Zetzel Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  Learning to say NO: an introduction to the enteric nervous system and its disorders 

December 17, 2009

  • Speaker:  Dr. Arthur M. Kleinman, Henry Hardy Lecture in Bioethics and Public Policy
  • Topic:  Paradoxes in Medical Care

January 7, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Gerald H. Friedland, Infectious Disease Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  Confronting Extreme Drug Resistant TB in Rural South Africa

January 14, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Frank B. Hu
  • Topic:  TBA

January 21, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. K.L. Chopra Lecture in Medicine and the Humanities
  • Topic:  TBA

January 28, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Judy E. Garber
  • Topic:  Evolution of Clinical Cancer Genetics

February 4, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Nezam H. Afdhal, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  NASH

February 11, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Gordon Schiff, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  Abnormal test follow-up

February 18, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin, Nathan Sidel Lecturer
  • Topic:  TBA

February 25, 2010

  • Speaker:  TBA
  • Topic:  TBA

March 4, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  Patient literacy

March 11, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Michael J. Welsh, MacPherson-Hiatt Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  TBA

March 18, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Jared J. Grantham, Nephrology Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  TBA

March 25, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Howard Libman, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  HIV Testing

April 1, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Martha Pavlakis, Clinical Crossroads
  • Topic:  Kidney donation

April 8, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Nancy E. Davison, Lesses Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  TBA

April 15, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Elliott S. Fisher, Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecturer
  • Topic: TBA

April 22, 2010

  • Speaker:  TBA
  • Topic:  TBA

April 29, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Donald L. St. Germain, Ingbar Lecturer
  • Topic:  TBA

May 6, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Jonathan A. Epstein, Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
  • Topic:  TBA

May 13, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Steven E. Kahn, Alexander Marble Lecturer
  • Topic:  TBA

May 20, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Ferry C. Breedveld, David Trentham, MD, Lecturer
  • Topic:  TBA

May 27, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Greg Downey, Pulmonary Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  TBA

June 3, 2010

  • Speaker:  Dr. Rafael Campo, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture
  • Topic:  TBA

June 10, 2010

  • Speaker:  Resident talks
  • Topic: TBA

June 17, 2010

  • Speaker:  Resident talks
  • Topic:  TBA

June 24, 2010

  • Speaker:  Tosteson Visiting Professor
  • Topic:  TBA

Contact

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
East Campus, Yamins 419
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