Medicine Grand Rounds
The Department of Medicine hosts local faculty and outstanding regional or national leaders in their respective fields, who present on a range of topics in weekly grand rounds that represent all of the department’s subspecialties. Each year, the Medicine Grand Rounds schedule offers presentations in a variety of formats. These presentations are designed for our faculty, residents, fellows, other healthcare professionals, and researchers who wish to remain up to date on new science in their field and to encourage collaboration among scientists and physicians. Medicine Grand Rounds are held weekly at 12:00pm in the LHAS auditorium. Attendees can receive CME credit.
Tuesdays, Noon-1:00pm
LHAS Auditorium, Montefiore Hospital
2024 | ||
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January 2 | Holiday - No Meeting | |
January 9 | Madhu Choudhary, MDMC: Deborah McMahon, MD | Bench to BedsideAdvances in HIV Prevention, Treatment, and CureWatch Presentation / CME Module |
January 16 | Cancelled | |
January 23 | Ghady Haidar, MD | Bench to BedsideBacteriophage: The Next Generation of Antimicrobial AgentsWatch Presentation / CME Module |
January 30 | Matthew Neal, MD | Bench to BedsideCoagulopathy and Hemostatic Resuscitation: From Bench to Bedside and BackWatch Presentations |
February 6 | Mark Geraci, MD | Update on COVID-19Watch Presentations / CME Module |
February 13 | William Bain, MD | K Awardee Presentations
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February 20 | Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD*Virtual* | C.F. Reynolds LectureCaring for Immigrant Patients: Clinical and Institutional Challenges |
February 27 | Oliver Eickelberg, MD | Brown bear hibernation and the role of HSP47 down-regulation or ablation and its contributing to thromboprotection in bearsWatch Presentations |
March 5 | Cancelled | |
March 12 | Joshua D. Safer, MD | Leaders In MedicineGender Affirming Medicine: CME Module |
March 19 | Carl June, MD*Virtual* | Leaders In MedicineUpdates with CAR T for Cancer and Autoimmunity |
March 26 | Ilias Christodoulou, MD | Resident Research Presentations
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April 2 | Dr. Mark Geraci, Chief Residents, and Faculty | Trivia Bowl |
April 9 | Jason Dominitz MD, MHS | The Sadie Gerson Distinguished Scholar Award LectureShining Light Where the Sun Don’t Shine: Is Colonoscopy Really the Best Colorectal Cancer Screening Test?CME Module |
April 16 | Madeline Li, MD, PhD | Tisherman Lecture“Made in Canada”: Lessons Learned from Medically Assisted Dying in CanadaWatch Presentation |
April 23 | Esa Davis, MD | Leaders In MedicineUSPSTF Recommendations: Preventive Services Considerations for the Future |
Wednesday, May 1 | William Gahl, MD, PhD | Research DayUndiagnosed Diseases Programs: Discovery and Diagnosis |
May 7 | Paul Duprex, PhD | Leaders In Medicine |
May 14 | Sonya Borrero, MD, MS | |
May 21 | Cancelled | |
May 28 | No Meeting | |
June 4 | Ann O’Hare, MD | Fraley Lecture |
Friday, June 7 | Lynn Schnapp, MD | Rogers Lectureship |
Click here to view September-December 2023 Presentations
2023 | ||
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September 12 | Hussain Mahmud, MD Katrina Han, MD | Endocrinology Year in Review Watch Presentations |
September 19 | Benjamin Nacev, MD, PhD Niranjana Natarajan, PhD Anita Saraf, MD, PhD | Special K Watch Presentations
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September 26 | John Pacella, MD Dan Shiwarski, PhD | Bench to Bedside ASCVD: current treatments, emerging therapies, and the potential for engineered vascular systems Watch Presentations |
October 3 | Bokai Zhu, PhD Matthew Steinhauser, MD | Bench to Bedside Biological rhythms in health and disease: discovery of new non-circadian 12-hour rhythms in mice and humans Watch Presentations |
October 10 | Anwaar Saeed, MD Ibrahim Sahin, MD Janie Zhang, MD | Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology Research Year in Review Watch Presentations |
October 17 | Edsel Maurice T. Salvana, MD, DTM&H | Leaders In Medicine How a TED Talk Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Lives from COVID-19 Watch Presentation |
October 24 | Noor Khan, MD David Rometo, MD | Obesity Medicine Year in Review Watch Presentations |
October 31 | No Meeting | |
November 7 | Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD Frank Sciurba, MD | Bench to Bedside COPD mechanisms to clinical practice at the dawn of precision medicine Watch Presentations |
November 14 | Blaise Abramovitz, DO Pooja Amarapurkar, MD | Renal Year in Review Watch Presentations |
November 21 | Holiday - No Meeting | |
November 28 | Jason Becker, MD Timothy Wong, MD | Bench to Bedside Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Watch Presentations |
December 5 | Robyn Domsic, MD, MPH Jeremy Tilstra, MD, PhD | Rheumatology Year in Review Watch Presentations |
December 12 | Sarah Falta, MD David Newhouse, MD Sebastian Niezen, MD Jabra Zarka, MD | Resident Research Presentations
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December 19 | Holiday - No Meeting | |
December 26 | Holiday - No Meeting |
Click here to view January-June 2023 Presentations
2023 | ||
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January 3 | HOLIDAY - No Meeting | |
January 10 | Marc Gauthier, MD Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD Eleanor Valenzi, MD | PACCM Year in Review Watch Presentations
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January 17 | Dana Ascherman, MD Chester Oddis, MD | Bench to Bedside Myositis and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome: Bedside to Bench . . . and Back? Watch Presentation |
January 24 | Sawa Ito, MD, PhD Warren Shlomchik, MD | Bench to Bedside IFN-γ potentiates graft-versus-leukemia responses against myeloblastic leukemias: from Bench to Bedside |
January 31 | Ken Ho, MD, MPH Graham Snyder, MD, MS Ryan Shields, PharmD, MS | Infectious Diseases Year in Review Watch Presentations
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February 7 | Sylk Sotto, EDD, MBA, MPS | Leaders In Medicine Do they REALLY Trust Us?: An exploration of trust and trustworthiness within a volunteer research registry Watch Presentation |
February 14 | Allie Dakroub, MD, MS Andrew Klein, MD | General Internal Medicine Year in Review (Outpatient) Watch Presentation |
February 21 | Jaipreet Virdi, PhD | CF Reynolds Lecture The Edge of Silence: A History of Fanciful Deafness Fads |
February 28 | Yvette Yien, MD Julia Xu, MD | Bench to Bedside Iron Metabolism, Erythropoiesis, and Sickle Cell Disease Watch Presentation |
March 7 | Wei Sun, MD Joo Yoon, MD Haodi Wu, PhD | Special K Club Watch Presentations
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March 14 | Jeffrey Dueker, MD, MPH Anna Evans Phillips, MD, MS | Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Year in Review Watch Presentations |
March 21 | Marc Triola, MD | Leaders In Medicine Precision Education and the Continuously Learning Medical System Watch Presentation |
March 28 | Rod Tan, MD, PhD Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH | Bench to Bedside Chronic Kidney Disease Watch Presentations |
April 4 | Eva Aagaard, MD | Leaders In Medicine Medical Education: Updates and Controversies Watch Presentation |
April 11 | Cancelled | |
April 18 | Sandy Rader, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC Louis Alarcon, MD, FACS, FCCM | State of the Union at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside |
April 25 | Andrew (Andy) McMahon, PhD, FRS | Research Day Developmental Strategizing Towards Kidney Disease |
May 2 | Jonathan Alder, PhD John McDyer, MD | Telomere Biology and Lung Transplantation: Why it’s not always about the Lung Watch Presentations |
May 9 | Cancelled | |
May 16 | Lisa Satlin, MD | Fraley Lecture A journey of discovery into the renal regulation of potassium homeostasis: clues from development and disease Watch Presentation |
May 23 | Kathryn Berlacher, MD, MS Jennifer Corbelli, MD, MS Annie Im, MD Agnes Koczo, MD Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS Benjamin Sprague, MD, MS | Building a Village: Implementation of a Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Postpartum Support Network in an Academic Medical Center Watch Presentations |
May 30 | Jing Luo, MD Bedowra Zabeen, MD | Opportunities and challenges for conducting clinical trials in low- and middle-income country settings: early lessons from Bangladesh and the HumAn-1 Study Watch Presentations |
Jun 6 | Deborah Moss, MD, MPH, FAAP Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA Vaishali Dixit Schuchert, MD, FACS | Doctors, Guns, & Money: Physicians and Fixing the Problem of Firearm Injuries Watch Presentations |
Friday* June 9 | Peter Chen, MD | Rogers Lectureship Surviving viral pandemics: The host response to respiratory viral infections Watch Presentation |
Click here to view September-December 2022 Presentations
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September 6 | Sonya Borrero, MD, MS | Ensuring patient-centered care in a post-Roe world |
September 13 | Ken Ho, MD | Monkeypox Update Watch Presentation |
September 20 | Rachel Hannum, MD | Residents Research Presentations Watch Presentations
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September 27 | Lise Vesterlund, PhD | The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work Watch Presentation |
October 4 | Mohammad Al-Bataineh, DVM, MS, PhD | Special K Club Watch Presentations
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October 11 | Rupa Marya, MD | Tisherman Lecture The Anatomy of Injustice: Interventions to Treat What Ails Us Watch Presentation*Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Health Law |
October 18 | Maggie Whelan, MD, PhD | Leaders in Medicine Asylum Evaluations and the Impact of Physicians Watch Presentation |
October 25 | Sandeep Jain, MD | Bench to Bedside Atrial Fibrillation Watch Presentations
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November 1 | Adriana Cifuentes De La Torre, MD | Residents Research Presentations Watch Presentations
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November 8 | Lena Makaroun, MD, MS | Geriatics Year In Review Watch Presentations |
November 15 | No Meeting | Cancelled/Postponed to 2023 |
November 22 | BREAK - No Meeting | |
November 29 | Konstantinos Aronis, MD | Cardiology Year in Review Watch Presentations |
December 6 | Ann Perrin, MD, MPH | General Internal Medicine Year in Review (Hospital) Watch Presentations |
December 13 | Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD | Bench to Bedside Aortic Stenosis and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease |
December 20 | HOLIDAY - No Meeting | |
December 27 | HOLIDAY - No Meeting |
Selected Medicine Grand Rounds presentations can be viewed on the DOM Medical Education Resources website.
Grand Rounds Formats
Special K Club – Features our star mid-career physician-scientists with K-awards; their work spans the bench to the bedside and represents the best present and future of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.
Discovery – Focused on major scientific discoveries and their impact on the future of medicine and health. The process of discovery, including historical background, will be emphasized with a conclusion highlighting future implications in the field.
Specialty Year in Review – Each Division will review hot topics and landmark papers over the past year.
Spotlight Series – Each Division will organize a session focusing on the translation of basic discoveries to the bedside or population. In each session, one speaker will discuss basic or translational research findings and another will focus on the clinical applications of the science.
Leaders in Medicine – The Chief Residents, in collaboration with the Department Chair, will select and invite prominent outside speakers. When possible, additional “meet the professor” or “rock star” sessions will be held for house staff groups.
Named Lecture Series – The Department and individual Divisions support a number of named lectures each year. Organizers from sponsoring Divisions will work with the Chief Residents to select these featured lectureship recipients.
Point – Counterpoint – Two controversial topics are chosen for the annual Health Policy Debate and Med-Ed Debate. These moderated debates between two speakers are among the most popular Grand Rounds of the year.
Senior Resident Talks – The last Grand Rounds of the year is reserved fro two selected senior talks from the graduating residency class. These speakers are selected by a committee within the residency and honored at the Senior Banquet.
In the summer, Grand Rounds is replaced by resident lecture series and intern “boot camp lectures.”
Each Division holds specialty and sub-specialty Grand Rounds presentations.
Specialty and Sub-Specialty Grand Rounds
Cardiology
Cardiology Grand Rounds provides cardiology faculty and staff an opportunity to hear speakers from across the nation discuss current cutting-edge topics that include basic science, translational, clinical, and educational cardiology research. The Cardiology Grand Rounds Conference is held on Tuesdays at 7:00am.
Endocrinology and Metabolism
The University-Wide Conference (Endocrine Grand Rounds) consists of lectures by external and internal speakers to expose faculty and trainees to cutting edge research and clinical care developments in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and to increase their basic science knowledge base. Held Fridays at 8:00am.
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
GI Grand Rounds are lectures by external and internal faculty and case presentations from GI fellows. Held weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm. GI Research Rounds are held weekly, featuring gastrointestinal research presentations from a multidisciplinary lecture core. Held Fridays at 12:00pm.
Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds are held on Friday mornings at 8:00-9:30am.
Hematology/Oncology
Grand Rounds are held every Wednesday at 8:00am. Different types of cancers are discussed each week, and the meetings are open to physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurses who are interested in cancer research.
Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays at 4pm.
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Grand Rounds lectures are held monthly on Thursdays, 12:00-1:00pm
Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds are held on Thursdays at 4:00pm.
Renal-Electrolyte
Renal Grand Rounds are held on alternating Thursdays.
Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Rheumatology Grand Rounds features a presentation and discussion of the diagnosis and/or management of difficult or interesting cases seen on inpatient consultation service or in the outpatient clinics. A guest speaker from outside the University is invited once a month to speak at the conference. Grand Rounds are held on Fridays at 8:15am.