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
- 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)
2022-2023 Lecture Schedule
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
September 9: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Speakers: Secretary John Kerry, Renee N. Salas, Mary B. Rice, Caren G. Solomon
- Title: Fossil Fuel Pollution and the Climate Crisis: Patients, Practice, and Policy
September 16: No Grand Rounds; Yom Kippur
September 23
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
- Title: Build Back Better: Medicine in 2022 and Beyond
September 30: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
- Title: Promoting Equity for Women in Academic Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach
October 7: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: The MassCPR Program on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
October 14: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Maureen Achebe, MD; Wally Smith, MD
- Title: How would you treat the pain of this patient with sickle cell disease?
October 21: George E. Altman, MD Lectureship
- Speaker: Ashish Jha, MD, MPH
- Title: Communication and Misinformation in the Age of Pandemics
October 28: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: LeRoi S. Hicks, MD, MPH
- Title: What Happened Dr. Hicks? A Physician's View of Being a Patient
November 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Telehealth Has Suddenly Become Mainstream: But Now Where Do We Go?
November 11: Nathan Sidel, MD, Lecture on the Art of Medicine
- Speaker: David Roberts, MD
- Title: A Curious Life in Medicine
November 18:
- Speaker: Jennifer Stevens, MD
- Title: Healthcare's Hard Look in the Mirror: Learning from the Disruption of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Healthcare Delivery Science
November 25: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
December 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Decoding Inherited Cardiomyopathies: From Genes to Genomes and Beyond
December 9: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD, and Mark Benson, MD
- Title: "Would You Prescribe a Statin for this Patient at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease?"
December 16: New Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Mark Andermann, PhD
- Title: Neural Estimation of Current and Future Bodily States
December 23: No Grand Rounds; Christmas
December 30: No Grand Rounds; New Year's
January 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Outpatient COVID-19 Therapies in the Time of Omicron
January 13: Mark Aronson, MD, Lecture
- Speaker: Saul Weingart, MD, PhD
- Title: Quality and patient safety in times of scarcity and abundance
January 20: Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Daniel Barouch, MD, PhD
- Title: COVID-19: Developing a Vaccine in a Pandemic
January 27: Palliative Care Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Anthony Back, MD
- Title: How Clinicians Communicate Influences Their Work and Well-Being: A Way Forward in the Shifting Landscape of the COVID Pandemic
February 3: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: The Omicron Surge: Testing, Clinical Aspects, Vaccines, and Global Implications
February 10: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Brett Carroll, MD, and Jason Freed, MD
- Title: How Would You Treat This Patient with Pulmonary Embolism?
February 17: Harold Solomon Lecture
- Speaker: Sue Hingle, MD, FRCP, MACP
- Title: Building an Inclusive Environment of Caring and Engagement to Promote Success and Thriving
February 24
- Speaker: Jennifer Ho, MD
- Title: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Thinking Outside the Heart
March 3: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: COVID-19: Evolution to Endemicity?
March 10
- Speaker: Martin Pollak, MD, David Friedman, MD, Joshua Waitzman, MD, PhD, Martha Pavlakis, MD, and Ogo Egbuna, MD
- Title: APOL1 and the Racial Disparity in Kidney Disease: An Update
March 17
- Speaker: Jed Gonzalo, MD
- Title: Systems-Based Practice in US Medical Education: Integrating the Academic Missions
March 24: Zetzel Visiting Professor in Gastroenterology
- Speaker: Detlef Schuppan, MD, PhD
- Title: Sick with Wheat: Celiac Disease, ATI and Type 2 Allergies
March 31: Flier Lecture in Metabolism
- Speaker: Ron Kahn, MD
- Title: Insulin and Insulin Resistance: 100 Years of Progress - 100 Remaining Challenges
April 7: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Updates in the Evaluation and Management of Long COVID
April 14: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: David Weinberg, MD, MSc, and Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH
- Title: How would you screen this patient for colorectal cancer?
April 21: Hematology Oncology Visiting Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Stephen Schuster, MD
- Title: T Cell-Based Therapeutics in Oncology: An Emerging Paradigm
April 28: MacPherson Hiatt Lecture
- Speaker: Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
- Title: The "Hood" is Good: Accelerating the Academic Mission of Community Engagement and Connection
May 5: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Race, Income, and Health Equity: From Insight to Action
May 12: Pulmonary Visiting Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna, MD, PhD
- Title: Long COVID in Context
May 19: Alexander Marble Lectureship in Diabetes
- Speaker: Al Powers, MD
- Title: "Diabetes” Pathogenesis and Treatment – Precision and Imprecision
May 26: Katherine Swan Ginsberg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc
- Title: Making Their Preferences for Care Happen: The Principle of Dignity of Risk
June 2: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Caring for People Who Inject Drugs: Harm Reduction and Patient Centered Care
June 9: Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Sarah K. Wood, MD, FAAP
- Title: Embracing Change: A Developmental Approach to Medical Education
June 16: Resident Research Highlights
- Speaker: Nicholas Chiu, MD, MPH
- Title: Association of Medicare's Value-Based Purchasing Program with Long-Term Changes in Patient Care Experience at Safety-Net vs. Non-Safety-Net Hospitals
- Speaker: Kristen Flint, MD
- Title: Asynchronous Video Modules for Inpatient Management of Hyperglycemia: A Just-In-Time Training for Internal Medicine Residents
- Speaker: Scott Minchenberg, MD, PhD
- Title: The Impact of Race on NAFLD Outcomes in US Clinical Practice
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.