Medical Grand Rounds
Department of Medicine Lecture Series
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:00 am
The Department of Medicine's 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 BIDMC-Annals of Internal Medicine "Beyond the Guidelines" series, which uses a case-based approach to address questions related to new clinical guidelines.
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all in-person educational meetings, such as grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conferences, and resident teaching conferences are currently being held virtually. This calendar will be updated as information about upcoming Medical Grand Rounds conferences becomes available.
Virtual Combined Harvard Medical Grand Rounds
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BIDMC has co-hosted a number of virtual, combined Grand Rounds presentations with other Harvard Medical institutions, including Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. View recent virtual lectures below.
COVID-19: Public Health and Scientific Challenges with Dr. Anthony Fauci
2023-2024 Academic Year Lectures
- Pandemic Preparedness & Infectious Diseases Surveillance (4/4/2024)
- Moving Toward Inclusion (3/7/2024)
- Unraveling the Complexity of Immune-Related Adverse Events (2/1/2024)
- Recent Developments in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment Among Older Adults (1/4/2024)
- Advancing Cardiovascular Care and Health in the United States - From Policies to Patients (11/2/2023)
- Healthcare sustainability – transforming clinical practice in the face of climate change (10/5/2023)
- A Turing Test for Clinical Reasoning: Large Language Models and the Future of Diagnosis (9/7/2023)
2022-2023 Academic Year Lectures
- The Elusive Goal of Equity in Kidney Transplantation (5/4/2023)
- Transgender Medicine (4/6/2023)
- Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci (3/2/2023)
- Fostering Resilience and Healing: Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice and Medical Education (2/2/23)
- Recent Developments in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment among Older Adults (1/5/23)
- What's New with Caring for Older Adults? Innovations in Geriatric Medicine (12/1/22)
- 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak: Updates and Lessons Learned (11/3/22)
- A conversation with Harvard University, Medical School, and School of Public Health Leadership (10/6/22)
- Post-Roe Reproductive Health for Internists: This is Our Lane (9/8/22)
2021-2022 Academic Year Lectures
- Caring for People Who Inject Drugs: Harm Reduction and Patient Centered Care (6/2/22)
- Race, Income, and Health Equity: From Insight to Action (5/5/22)
- Updates in the Evaluation and Management of Long COVID (4/7/22)
- COVID-19: Evolution to Endemicity? (3/3/22)
- The Omicron Surge: Testing, Clinical Aspects, Vaccines, and Global Implications (2/3/22)
- Outpatient COVID-19 Therapies in the Time of Omicron (1/6/22)
- Decoding Inherited Cardiomyopathies: From Genes to Genomes and Beyond (12/2/21)
- Telehealth Has Suddenly Become Mainstream: But Now Where Do We Go? (11/4/21)
- The MassCPR Program on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (10/7/21)
- Fossil Fuel Pollution and the Climate Crisis: Patients, Practice, and Policy with Secretary John Kerry (9/9/21)
2020-2021 Academic Year Lectures
- Structural Inequities: Lessons and Reflections about Promoting Equity from COVID-19 (7/8/21)
- Virtual Education in a Post-Pandemic World: Moving Beyond Zoom (6/3/21)
- Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (5/6/21)
- Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Vaccines and Treatment (4/1/21)
- Global Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons learned from the public health responses in Haiti, Malawi, and Vietnam (3/4/21)
- Not Throwing Away Our Shot: Scaling Up COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in the United States (2/4/21)
- COVID-19 Treatment Update for ‘21 (1/7/21)
- COVID-19 Transmission: A State of the State, Our Schools, and the NBA (12/3/20)
- The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine with Dan Barouch (11/5/20)
- Safe Voting in a Pandemic: Challenges, Innovations, and the Role of Healthcare Professionals (10/15/20)
- COVID-19: Public Health and Scientific Challenges with Dr. Anthony Fauci (9/10/20)
Spring 2020 Lectures
- COVID-19 and Health Equity: A Focus on Health System Solutions to Magnified Inequities (7/9/20)
- Vaccine Development for COVID-19: A Status Update on the Challenges and Prospects for Success (6/4/20)
- Impact of COVID-19 Among Older Persons (5/28/20)
- COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury (5/21/20)
- Cardiac Manifestations of COVID-19 (5/14/20)
- Unraveling the Mystery of Clotting in COVID-19 (5/7/20)
- COVID-19 Diagnostics (4/30/20)
- Publishing in a Pandemic (4/16/20)
- Advancing New Therapies for COVID-19 (4/9/20)
- Palliative Care in a Pandemic (4/2/20)
- Pathogenesis and Management of Respiratory Failure in COVID-19: What We Know So Far (3/26/20)
2023-2024 Lecture Schedule
September 7: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: A Turing Test for Clinical Reasoning: Large Language Models and the Future of Diagnosis
September 14:
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
- Title: Neural Control of Somatic Function: The Future of Physiology and Medicine
September 21: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Sandeep Kumar, MD, Jennifer Dearborn-Tomazos, MD, MPH
- Title: How would you prevent recurrent stroke in this patient?
September 28: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: Amy Oxentenko, MD
- Title: Equity and Allyship – Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
October 5: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Healthcare sustainability – transforming clinical practice in the face of climate change
October 12: Clinical Reasoning Week
- Speaker: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
- Title: Can We Teach More About Less?
October 19: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: Sachin Jain, MD, MBA
- Title: Why Isn’t Health Care Better at Getting Better?
October 26:
- Speaker: Robert Gerszten, MD
- Title: Blood, Sweat and Tissues: Biochemical Profiling of Human Populations
November 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Advancing Cardiovascular Care and Health in the United States - From Policies to Patients
November 9: Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Erik Alexander, MD
- Title: From Cretinism to Conception - The Impact of Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction Before, During & After Pregnancy
November 16: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Doug Krakower, MD, Jessica Taylor, MD
- Title: How would you manage HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in this patient with medical comorbidities?
November 23: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
November 30: George E. Altman, MD Grand Rounds Medical Lecture
- Speaker: Amy Finkelstein, PhD, MPhil
- Title: We've Got You Covered; Rebooting American Health Care
December 7: Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD
- Title: Truth on the Slant: Art Museum-based Education for Health Professionals
December 14: Pulmonary Visiting Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Roy Brower, MD
- Title: Progress in Management of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
December 21: No Grand Rounds; Christmas
December 28: No Grand Rounds; New Years
January 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Population Health in Practice: Meeting Today’s Opportunities and Challenges
January 11: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Sylvia Rosas, MD, Giulio Romeo, MD
- Title: How Would You Manage Type 2 Diabetes in this Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease?
January 18:
- Speaker: Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH, MSc
- Title: Transparency at the Cutting Edge: New Applications of Open Notes
January 25: Palliative Care Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Laura Gelfman, MD, MPH
- Title: Maximizing Access to Palliative Care Among Patients with Heart Failure
February 1: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Unraveling the Complexity of Immune-Related Adverse Events
February 8: Shore Award Recipient Lectures
- Speaker: Moua Yang, PhD
- Title: Thiol Isomerases Link Oxidative Stress to Thrombosis
- Speaker: Ruvandhi Nathavitharana, MD, MPH
- Title: SMASH-TB: Survivor-led Multi-level Approaches to reduce Stigma due to HIV and TB
- Speaker: Sarinnapha (Fah) Vasunilashorn, PhD
- Title: Understanding the Vulnerable Brain: Polygenic Risk, Inflammation, and Postoperative Delirium
February 15: Lessee Visiting Professor in Hematology/Oncology
- Speaker: Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP
- Title: Pillars of Progress in Myeloma
February 22: Robert C. Moellering Jr. Memorial Lectureship
- Speaker: Sarah Fortune, MD
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Title: Leveraging Human Population Biology to Identify Novel Bacterial Determinants of Tuberculosis Treatment Response
February 29: New Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Kenneth Mukamal, MD, MPH
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Title: Alcohol Consumption and Health: A Guide to Complex Evidence
March 7: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Moving Toward Inclusion
March 14: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Zach Taxin, MD; Florence Brown, MD
- Title: How Would You Treat This Inpatient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?
March 21: Jeffrey S. Flier and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier Lectureship
- Speaker: Daniel Drucker, MD, FRCPC
- Title: Transformational gut peptide therapies for the treatment of metabolic disease
March 28: Dr. Robert S. and Judith K. Brown Nephrology Visiting Professorship Lecture
- Speaker: Susan E. Quaggin, MD
- Title: From K+ & Podocytes to Policy: The Amazing Journey of Physician-Scientists
April 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Pandemic Preparedness & Infectious Diseases Surveillance
April 11: Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Stuart Orkin, MD
- Title: Turning on Fetal Hemoglobin as Genetic Therapy
April 18: David Trentham Visiting Professor in Rheumatology
- Speaker: John Stone, MD, MPH
- Title: IgG4-Related Disease: Things Every Internist (and Sub-Specialist) Should Know
April 25: Zetzel Visiting Professor in Gastroenterology
- Speaker: Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
- Title: Nomenclature and Management of Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
May 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
May 9: Mark Aronson, MD, Grand Rounds
- Speaker: Pat Folcarelli, RN, MA, PhD
- Title: Reflections on Patient Safety, With a Touch of Optimism
May 16:
- Speaker: Geoff Ginsberg, MD, PhD
- Title: All of Us Research Program at NIH
May 23: Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: James O’Connell, MD
May 30: MacPherson-Hiatt Visiting Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Dale Abel, MD, PhD
June 6: Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Eva Aagaard, MD
June 13: Resident Research Highlights
September 8: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Post-Roe reproductive health for internists: This is our lane
September 15:
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
- Title: Physiology and Pathophysiology: What we can learn from comparative physiology
September 22:
- Speaker: Mitch Rabkin, MD
- Title: From Clinic to Corner Office: Organization and Management on the Exam Table
September 29: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: Marcia Haigis, PhD
- Title: Journey through Science: Lessons learned from Mitochondria
October 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Speaker: George Daley, MD, PhD
- Title: A conversation with Harvard University, Medical School, and School of Public Health Leadership
October 13: Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Megan Haymart, MD
- Title: Thyroid Cancer Management: How can we do better?
October 20: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Taison Bell, MD, Kate Berg, MD
- Title: How would you resuscitate this patient with septic shock?
October 27: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: Mitchell Feldman, MD
- Title: Mentoring Matters: The Art and Science of Mentoring
November 3: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak: Updates and Lessons Learned
November 10: New Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Douglas Pleskow, MD
- Title: The Esophagus – Past, Present and Future
- Speaker: Mike Donnino, MD
- Title: A Research Journey: From Metabolic Resuscitation to Long COVID
November 17: Aaron Thurman, MD, Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Quinn Capers, MD
- Title: Using Evidence to Counter the Arguments Against Diversity
November 24: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
December 1: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: What's New with Caring for Older Adults? Innovations in Geriatric Medicine
December 8: Shore Awards
- Speaker: Alina Gavrila-Filip, MD, MMSc
- Title: Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone Action, Thermogenesis, and Brown Adipose Tissue
- Speaker: Balaji Subramanian, PhD
- Title: Bioengineering Strategies to Study Kidney Diseases
- Speaker: Alec Schmaier, MD, PhD
- Title: Regulation of Thrombosis by Endothelial Cell Phospholipid Scrambling
December 15: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Judy Nee, MD, Tony Lembo, MD
- Title: How Would You Manage This Patient with Recurrent Acute Diverticulitis?
December 22: No Grand Rounds; Christmas
December 29: No Grand Rounds; New Years
January 5: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Recent Developments in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment among Older Adults
January 12:
- Speaker: Grace Huang, MD
- Title: A Primer on Educational Scholarship for Teachers and Mentors
- Speaker: Jacalyn Rosenblatt, MD
- Title: Personalized Immunotherapy for Hematological Malignancies
January 19: Mark Aronson, MD, Grand Rounds
- Speaker: Gordon Schiff, MD
- Title: Improving Diagnosis 2023: Culture, Contributions and Conundrums at BIDMC and Beyond
January 26: Dr. Robert S. and Judith K. Brown Nephrology Visiting Professorship Lecture
- Speaker: Lloyd Cantley, MD
- Title: The Immune Response to Acute Kidney Injury
February 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Fostering Resilience and Healing: Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice and Medical Education
February 9: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Robert Thomas, MD
- Title: Pathways to Discovery: People, Somnogenic Insights, and Serendipity
- Speaker: Shingo Kajimura, PhD
- Title: Strategies to Control Energy Expenditure
February 16: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Carolyn Alonso, MD, Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH
- Title: How would you manage this patient with Clostridioides difficile infection?
February 23: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Michael Curry, MD
- Title: An Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Kidney Injury in Cirrhosis
- Speaker: Young-Bum Kim, PhD
- Title: Liver-derived apolipoprotein J (ApoJ) is a novel regulator of glucose metabolism
March 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Speakers: Anthony Fauci, MD, George Q. Daley, MD
- Titles: Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from COVID-19; MassCPR: An Overview
March 9
- Speaker: Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, FRCP
- Title: Life-Long Learning: A Look Through the Rearview Mirror and a Peek Ahead
March 16
- Speaker: A. Reshad Garan, MD
- Title: Cardiac Transplantation in 2023
March 23: Stephen H. Robinson, MD Visiting Professor Lecture - Hematology/Oncology
- Speaker: Elisabeth M. Battinelli, MD, PhD
- Title: The Role of Platelets Beyond Hemostasis in Neovascularization, Immune Modulation, and Malignancy
March 30: Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: David Liu, PhD
- Title: Base Editing and Prime Editing: Correcting Mutations that Cause Genetic Disease in Cells, Animals, and Patients
April 6: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Title: Transgender Medicine
April 13
- Speaker: Edward R. Marcantonio, MD, SM
- Title: Delirium: Reducing Confusion
April 20: MacPherson-Hiatt Visiting Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Kathleen Ann Cooney, MD
- Title: Hereditary Prostate Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Clinical Implementation
April 27: Jeffrey S. Flier and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier Lectureship
- Speaker: Stephen O’Rahilly, MD, FRS, FMedSci
- Title: The Causes and Consequences of Obesity; Lessons from Human Experiments of Nature
May 4: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Topic/title: The elusive goal of equity in kidney transplantation
May 11
- Speaker: Andrew Synn, MD
- Title: Hidden in Plain Sight: Using Image-Based Quantification of the Pulmonary Vessels to Improve Clinical Phenotyping of Lung Disease
May 18: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Jennifer Ho, MD, Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH
- Title: How would you manage this patient with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?
May 25: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Robert Yeh, MD, MBA, MSc
- Title: Precision, Pragmatism and Parachutes: Modernizing Empiricism in Cardiovascular Care
June 1: Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Haider Warraich, MD
- Title: End of Life Care 2.0: Creating a Better Future for How We Die
June 8: Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Richard J. Simons, MD, MACP, FRCP
- Title: Educating tomorrow's physicians: enduring traditions and new paradigms
June 15: Resident Research Highlights
- Speaker: Sirui Ma, MD
- Title: Antiplatelet Medications and Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients with Primary Brain Tumors
- Speaker: Frank Qian, MD, MPH
- Title: Circulating and Tissue Omega-3 Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Incident Stroke: A Harmonized Analysis of 183,291 Subjects from 29 Prospective Studies
- Speaker: Casey Kim, MD
- Title: 20 Year Trends in Primary Prevention Statin Use: Stuck in a Rut Since 2013
Resident Research Highlights will be the final event of the 2021-2022 Medical Grand Rounds Academic Calendar. We look forward to resuming our lectures in mid-September.