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 at asmith24@bidmc.harvard.edu for more information.

Past Speakers & Topics

2017	Julius Yang MD, PhD and Amber Moore, MD: Excerpts from a Work in Progress andReflections onHumanism 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

Contact Information	Related Links
Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program Internal Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center West Campus, Deaconess Building One Deaconess Road, Suite 305 Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-632-8263 Fax: 617-632-8261 ksgprogram@bidmc.harvard.edu	Education Medical Grand Rounds

Annual Grand Rounds Lecture

KSG Grand Rounds

Past Speakers & Topics

2017

Julius Yang MD, PhD and Amber Moore, MD: Excerpts from a Work in Progress andReflections onHumanism 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