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 |