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Annual Grand Rounds Lecture

KSG Grand Rounds

Each spring, we host an invited speaker to deliver Medical Grand Rounds on a topic related to humanism in medicine. Our talks since 2013 are available on video upon request. Please email Ali Smith for more information.

Past Speakers & Topics

2019	Saul Weiner, MD: Contextualizing Medical Decisions to Individualize Care
2018	Susan Block, MD: Translating Humanism into Action in Caring for the Seriously Ill
2017	Julius Yang MD, PhD and Amber Moore, MD: Excerpts from a Work in Progress and Reflections on Humanism in Medicine
2016	Steven Rosenzweig, MD: Arete (ἀρετή) – Virtue, Excellence, and Compassion
2015	Mark Linzer, MD: Preventing Burnout, Preserving Humanism: Building a Sustainable Organizational Structure
2014	Ellen Goodman: Have You Had the Conversation?
2013	Charles J. Hatem, MD: Reflections on the Clinician's Journey
2012	Geoff Ginsburg, MD: Convergence of a Legacy, Patient-Centeredness, and Biology: A 20 Year Journey
2011	Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc: AIDS at Thirty: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward
2010	Rafael Campo, MD: Cultural Competence: Poetry and the Importance of Voice in the Illness Experience
2009	Anthony Back, MD: Using Communication to Bring Compassion to the Bedside
2008	Timothy Quill, MD: Compassion, Hope, and Reality: Facing Death with Patients and Their Families
2007	Bob Arnold, MD: Doctors' Feelings: What They Tell Us and How They Can Help Us
2006	Aaron Lazare, MD: On Apology
2005	Michael LaCombe, MD: The Family History
2004	Atul Gawande, MD, PhD: Curiosity: On Questions that can't be Answered with a Randomized Trial
2003	Abraham Verghese, MD: Physician, Heal Thyself
2002	Lachlan Forrow, MD: Reverence for Life and the Lives of Residents
2001	Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD: Professing Medicine - What Does It Mean Morally?
2000	Robert Coles, MD: Literature and Medicine
1999	Jerome Groopman, MD:Weaving Science and The Soul
1998	Myles N. Sheehan, MD:Sacred Texts, Trout Streams, and Patients: Learning to Read
1997	Paul Farmer, MD, PhD: Inequalities and Outcomes: The Promise and the Challenge
1996	Matt Liang, MD, MPH:Being Close or Distant: Dealing with Human Tragedies
1995	Suzanne Fletcher, MD, MSC:On Being a Doctor
1994	Martin Adson, MD:How to Care: The Operative Virtues
1993	Jeremy Swan:Lament for a Doctor

Annual Grand Rounds Lecture

KSG Grand Rounds

Past Speakers & Topics

2019

Saul Weiner, MD: Contextualizing Medical Decisions to Individualize Care

2018

Susan Block, MD: Translating Humanism into Action in Caring for the Seriously Ill

2017

Julius Yang MD, PhD and Amber Moore, MD: Excerpts from a Work in Progress and Reflections on Humanism in Medicine

2016

Steven Rosenzweig, MD: Arete (ἀρετή) – Virtue, Excellence, and Compassion

2015

Mark Linzer, MD: Preventing Burnout, Preserving Humanism: Building a Sustainable Organizational Structure

2014

Ellen Goodman: Have You Had the Conversation?

2013

Charles J. Hatem, MD: Reflections on the Clinician's Journey

2012

Geoff Ginsburg, MD: Convergence of a Legacy, Patient-Centeredness, and Biology: A 20 Year Journey

2011

Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc: AIDS at Thirty: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward

2010

Rafael Campo, MD: Cultural Competence: Poetry and the Importance of Voice in the Illness Experience

2009

Anthony Back, MD: Using Communication to Bring Compassion to the Bedside

2008

Timothy Quill, MD: Compassion, Hope, and Reality: Facing Death with Patients and Their Families

2007

Bob Arnold, MD: Doctors' Feelings: What They Tell Us and How They Can Help Us

2006

Aaron Lazare, MD: On Apology

2005

Michael LaCombe, MD: The Family History

2004

Atul Gawande, MD, PhD: Curiosity: On Questions that can't be Answered with a Randomized Trial

2003

Abraham Verghese, MD: Physician, Heal Thyself

2002

Lachlan Forrow, MD: Reverence for Life and the Lives of Residents

2001

Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD: Professing Medicine - What Does It Mean Morally?

2000

Robert Coles, MD: Literature and Medicine

1999

Jerome Groopman, MD:Weaving Science and The Soul

1998

Myles N. Sheehan, MD:Sacred Texts, Trout Streams, and Patients: Learning to Read

1997

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD: Inequalities and Outcomes: The Promise and the Challenge

1996

Matt Liang, MD, MPH:Being Close or Distant: Dealing with Human Tragedies

1995

Suzanne Fletcher, MD, MSC:On Being a Doctor

1994

Martin Adson, MD:How to Care: The Operative Virtues

1993

Jeremy Swan:Lament for a Doctor

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