Medicine Weekly Lecture Series
Thursdays, 8:00 -9:00 am
Sherman Auditorium
East Campus
The Department's weekly 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.
Combined 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. Click the links below to view the lecture series.
2019 - 2020
September
September 5:
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
- Topic: High Reliability Care: The Next Step in QI at BIDMC
September 12: Women in Medicine Month
- Speaker: Julie Silver, MD
- Topic: Accelerating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Women in Academic Medicine
September 19: Endocrine Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Eric Lander, PhD
- Topic: The Human Genomic Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
September 26: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Jennifer Seigel, MD and Joshua Safer, MD
- Topic: Transgender Health
October
October 3: New Professor
- Speaker: Anthony Lembo, MD
- Topic: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
October 10: Inaugural Mark Aronson Visiting Lecture
- Speaker: Tejal Gandhi, MD, PhD
- Topic: Free from Harm
October 17:
- Speaker: David Rind, MD
- Topic: Medical Value Assessment in the United States
October 25: Shore Fellowship
- Speaker: Elisabeth Riviello, MD, PhD
- Topic: Do we Need Research to Advance Global Health Equity? Lessons from Critical Care Medicine
October 31: Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine
- Speaker: Ed Kashi
- Topic: Visual Storytelling and Healthcare
November
November 7: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: Joyce Sackey, MD
- Topic: Beyond Diversity: Achieving Equity and Inclusive Excellence
November 14: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Kenneth Bauer, MD, and Anthony Breu, MD
- Topic: VTE Prophylaxis
November 21: New Professor
- Speaker: Adam Cheifetz, MD
- Topic: Past, Present, Future Treatment of IBD
November 28: No Medical Grand Rounds
December
December 5: Henry Hardy Bioethics Lecture
- Speaker: Gary Gottlieb, MD
- Topic: The Health Equity Imperative: Further Fortifying a Critical Element of Academic Medicine's Historic Mission
December 12: Dr. K.L. Chopra Lectureship in Medicine and Humanities
- Speaker: John Wong, MD
- Topic: TBA
December 19: Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture, Endocrine Visiting Professor
- Speaker: William Young, MD, MSc, ELS
- Topic: Adrenal: What the Internist Should Know
December 26: No Medical Grand Rounds
January
January 9: The Zetzel Lecture
- Speaker: J. Thomas Lamont, MD
- Topic: Major Advances in GI and Hepatology: A Half-century Retrospective
January 16:
- Speaker: Dhruv Kazi, MD
- Topic: Breakthrough Innovation without Breaking the Bank: Untangling the Price, Affordability, and Value of Novel Pharmaceutical Therapies.
January 23: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Mary Rice, MD and Asha Anandaiah, MD
- Topic: Steroids for COPD
January 30: Palliative Care Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH
- Topic: Palliative Care: A Missing Link in Dementia Care
February
February 6: Solomon Lecture
- Speaker: Jon Ripp, MD, MPH
- Topic: Physician Well-Being: Threats, Solutions and Organizational Commitments to Change
February 13: Shore Fellowship
- Speaker: Douglas Krakower, MD
- Topic: TBA
February 20: Thurman Lecture
- Speaker: Shoshana Herzig, MD, MPH
- Topic: TBA
February 27:
- Speaker: Jeff Flier, MD
- Topic: Irreproducibility of Bioscience Research: Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and Therapy
March
March 5: Mario Baldini, MD, Memorial Lecture – Hematology/Oncology
- Speaker: Irene Ghobrial, MD
- Topic: Prevention of Progression in Multiple Myeloma
March 12: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Melissa Wachterman, MD, and Sushrut Waikar, MD
- Topic: CKD in the Elderly
March 19: Nephrology Visiting Professor
- Speaker: George Bakris, MD
- Topic: Change in the Trajectory of Diabetic Kidney Disease: An Update
March 26:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Pathogenesis and Management of Respiratory Failure in COVID-19: What We Know So Far
April
April 3:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Palliative Care in a Pandemic
April 9:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Advancing New Therapies for COVID-19: Anti-viral, Immunomodulation, and Beyond
April 16:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Publishing in a Pandemic: How Medical Journals are Responding to COVID-19
April 23: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Jason Vassy, MD, MPH, and Erin Hofstatter, MD
- Topic: Would You Recommend Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing for This Patient?
April 30:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: COVID-19 Diagnostics
May
May 7:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Unraveling the Mystery of Clotting in COVID-19
May 14:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Cardiac Manifestations of COVID-19
May 21:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury
May 28:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Impact of COVID-19 among Older Persons
June
June 4:
- Speaker: Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Vaccine Development for COVID-19: A status update on the challenges and prospects for success
