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
Dr. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discussed the COVID-19 pandemic with a panel of Harvard Medical experts, including Sharon Wright, MD, Director of the Division of Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology at BIDMC.
2020 - 2021 Lecture Schedule
September 2020
September 10: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Speaker: Anthony Fauci, MD
- Topic: COVID-19: Public Health and Scientific Challenges
September 17: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD
- Topic: Reflections on the Past Half Century of Women in Academic Medicine
September 24
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
- Topic: Department of Medicine Response to COVID-19: Patient Care, Teaching, Research and Public Service
October 2020
October 1
- Speakers: Rishi Wadhera, MD, and Aarti Asnani, MD
- Topic: Pay-for-Performance Under the Affordable Care Act: Promise Pitfalls
- Topic: Cancer Therapy and Heart Toxicity: Toward a Mechanistic Understanding
October 8: New Professors
- Speakers: Nadine Tung, MD, and Gyongyi Szabo, MD
- Topic: Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease: Bench to Bedside
- Topic: Hereditary Breast Cancer
October 15: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Topic: Safe Voting in a Pandemic: Challenges, Innovations and the Role of Healthcare Professionals
October 22: New Professors
- Speakers: Sara Fazio, MD, and Samir Parikh, MD
- Topic: Energy Metabolism in AKI: From Tweaking Cells to Treating Patients
- Topic: Assessment in Undergraduate Medical Education: Bridging the UME-GME Gap
October 29
- Speakers: Tim Anderson, MD, Fah Vasunilashorn, MD, and Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD
- Topic: Right Place, Right Patient: Chronic Disease Prescribing and the Edges of Evidence
- Topic: Towards a Better Understanding of Delirium Pathophysiology: Importance of Gene-Protein Interactions
- Topic: Hypertension Treatment and Orthostatic Hypotension
November 2020
November 5: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Speaker: Dan Barouch, MD
- Topic: The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine
November 12: Altman Lecture
- Speaker: Dean Kamen, MD
- Topic: Innovation
November 19: Frank Epstein Lecture
- Speaker: Barbara Kahn, MD, PhD
- Topic: Novel Mechanisms by which Adipose Tissue Regulates Insulin Sensitivity and the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
November 26: No Medical Grand Rounds
December 2020
December 3: Harvard Medical Rounds
- Topic: COVID-19 Transmission: A State of the State, Our Schools and the NBA
December 10: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Suzanne Baron, MD, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
- Topic: RAVR vs. SAVR: How Would You Manage this Patient with Severe Aortic Stenosis?
December 17: Aaron Thurman Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Nancy Spector, MD
- Topic: Moving the Needle: Mentorship, Sponsorship and Allyship
December 24: No Medical Grand Rounds
December 31: No Medical Grand Rounds
January 2021
January 7: Harvard Medical Grand Rounds
- Topic: COVID-19 Treatment Updates for '21
January 14: J Thomas LaMont Chair in Gastroenterology
- Speaker: Ciaran Kelly, MD
- Topic: Topic: A Tale of Two CDs: Clostridium Difficile and Celiac Disease
January 21: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Tyler Berzin, MD, and Akwi Asombag, MD
- Topic: Upper GI Bleed
January 28: Visiting Palliative Care Professor
- Speaker: Tammie Quest, MD
- Topic: Use of Telemedicine to Deliver Palliative Care in the Inpatient and Outpatient Setting
February 2021
February 4: Harvard Combined Grand Rounds
- Topic: Not Throwing Away Our Shot: Scaling Up COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in the United States
February 11
- Speakers: Shingo Kajimura, PhD, and Alex Banks, PhD
- Topic: The Color of Fat: The Multifaceted Role of Thermogenic Fat in the Regulation of Energy Homeostasis
February 18: Solomon Lecture
- Speaker: Kimberly Manning, MD
- Topic: Connectedness in Medicine: How Do We Mind the Gap?
February 25: Aronson Lecturer
- Speaker: Maren Baltalden, MD, MPH, and Paul Batalden, MD
- Topic: Coproducing Health with Patients and Families: a Framework for Improving Quality and Safety
March 2021
March 4: Harvard Medical Grand Rounds
- Topic: Global Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons learned from the public health responses in Haiti, Malawi, and Vietnam
March 11: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Michael Irwig, MD, and Marc Cohen, MD
- Topic: How Would You Manage this Male Patient with Age-Related Hypogonadism?
March 18: Nephrology Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Ali Gharavi, MD
- Topic: Using Genomics to Make a Precise Diagnosis and Personalize Care in Internal Medicine Practice
March 25: David Trentham Lecture
- Speaker: Ellen Gravellesse, MD
April 2021
April 1: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Topic: Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Vaccines and Treatment
April 8: Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture Endocrinology Visiting Professor
- Speaker: Anthony Hollenberg, MD
- Topic: New Insights into Thyroid Hormone Action: Can We Trust Our Diagnostic Tests?
April 15
- Speaker: Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH
- Topic: Impact of COVID-19 on Telemedicine Use and Health Care Delivery
April 22: Shore Lecture
- Speakers: Debby Ngo, MD, and Eric Secemsky, MD
- Topics: Systemic Biomakers of Lung Function across Racially Diverse Cohorts / Improving the Health Status of Patients with Claudication: Developing and Implementing Strategies to Individualize Treatment Decisions
April 29: MacPherson Hiatt
- Speaker: Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, MA
- Topic: Network Medicine: New Approach to the Definition, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Disease in the Era of Precision Medicine
May 2021
May 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Topic: Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19
May 13: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Josh Metlay, MD, PhD, and Ari Moskowitz, MD
- Topic: How would you treat this patient hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia?
May 20: Alexander Marble Lectureship in Diabetes
- Speaker: Elizabeth Seaquist, MD
- Topic: Hypoglycemia in Diabetes: Risks and Practical Prevention Strategies
May 27: Katherine Swan Ginsberg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Louise Aronson, MD, MFA
- Topic: Messaging Medicine: Using Stories, Media and Social Media to Improve Health and Health Care
June 2021
June 3: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Topic: Virtual Education in a Post-Pandemic World: Moving Beyond Zoom
June 10: Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Holly Humphrey, MD, MACP
- Topic: The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Inflection Point for the Future of Medical Education
June 17: Resident Talks
- Haitham Khraishah, MD: Ambient Temperature and Cardiovascular Mortality: Implications of Climate Change
- Sunny Jeong, MD, MPH: Effects Of Diet On 10-year Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Using The Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE): Results From The DASH Trial
- Aaron Hakim, MD, MS: Deciphering the genetic basis of chronic liver disease
