Medical Grand Rounds
Thursdays 8-9 a.m.
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 Clinical Crossroads series, which uses a case-based approach to address key questions and issues in clinical care.
2012-2013 SCHEDULE
September 13, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Mark Zeidel
- Topic: Medical Education at BIDMC: Leading the World
September 20, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Temel
- Topic: Integrating Palliative and Oncology Care in Metastatic Lung Cancer.
September 27, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Julio Frenk, Henry Hardy Bioethics Lecture
- Topic: Transforming Medical Education in an Interdependent World: The Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Medical Centers in Global Health.
October 4, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Daniel Clauw, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A 64 Year-Old Woman with Fibromyalgia
October 11, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Drazen
- Topic: Two Hundred Years of Medical Advances
October 18, 2012
- Speakers: Dr. Pamela Hartzband and Dr. Jerry Groopman
- Topic: When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making
October 25, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Bruce Furie
- Topic: How Blood Clots, and Why It Sometimes Doesn't: Thiol Isomerases and their Role in Thrombus Formation and as Targets for Antithrombotic Therapy.
November 1, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Zoltan Arany
- Topic: Novel Mechanisms of Peripartum Cardiac Disease
November 8, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Fried, Robert Resnick Lecture in Clinical Hepatology - GI
- Topic: Complementary Medicines and Liver Disease
November 15, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Edward Marcantonio
- Topic: Delirium: Beyond the Basics
November 22, 2012 - No Medical Grand Rounds
November 29, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Vassiliki Boussiotis
- Topic: Cord Blood Transplantation: Basic Biology and Clinical Challenges to Engraftment and Immune Reconstitution
December 6, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Stuart Spechler, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A 43 Year-Old Man with Barrett's Esophagus who is Concerned about his Risk for Esophageal Cancer
December 13, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Kanti Rai, Mario Baldini, MD Memorial Lecture - Hematology/Oncology
- Topic: Recent Advances in the Therapy of CLL
December 20, 2012
- Speaker: Dr. Anthony Hollenberg
- Topic: New Insights into Thyroid Hormone Action: Can We Trust the TSH?
December 27, 2012 - No Medical Grand Rounds
January 3, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Robert Brown, Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine - Shapiro Institute
- Topic: The Art of Medicine: Lessons Learned over 50 Years
January 10, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Lucian Leape, Aaron Thurman Lecture on Humanism in Medicine - Shapiro Institute
- Topic: The Elephant in the Room: A Culture of Disrespect
January 17, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Alan Engelman
- Topic: Therapeutic Intervention of HIV Integration
January 24, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Eric Larson, Judith and Robert Melzer Lecture in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
- Topic: Learning Health Care Systems: Can They be the Engines of Success for US Health Reform, both Locally and Nationwide?
Januray 31, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Louis Rice, Infectious Disease Lectureship
- Topic: For the Duration: Rational Antibiotic Administration in an Era of Resistance
February 7, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A 92 Year Old Woman with Difficult-to-Control Hypertension
February 14, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Nancy Lane, David Trentham Visiting Professor - Rheumatology
- Topic: Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis: A Translational Journey
February 21, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Richard Schilsky, Lesses Visiting Professor - Hematology/Oncology
- Topic: Publically Funded Clinical Trials and the Future of Cancer Care
February 28, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. David Adams, Zetzel Visiting Professor - GI
- Topic: Why Do Patients with IBD Get Liver Disease?
March 7, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Jim Weinstein, Clinical Crossroads
- Topic: A Graduating Medical Resident Trying to Decide on a Job
March 14, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. David Cooper, Sidney H. Ingbar, MD Memorial Lecture Endo Visiting Professor
- Topic: Subclinical Thyroid Disease
March 21, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Richard P. Shannon, MacPherson/Hiatt Visiting Professor
- Topic: Metabolic Modulation: A New Therapeutic Target in Heart Failure
March 28, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Alan Garber, George E. Altman, MD Lectureship
- Topic: Health Care on Less Than $8,000
April 4, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. David Blumenthal, Harold Solomon Lecture
- Topic: Next Step In Cost Control
April 11, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Russell Phillips, Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Topic: Center for Primary Care: Are We Getting It Right?
April 18, 2013
- Speakers: Dr. Mark Aronson and Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, Dr. K.L. Chopra Lecture in Medicine and the Humanities
- Topic: The Top Stories in Medicine in the Last Century
April 25, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Garret FitzGerald, Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Topic: Peripheral Clocks and Cardiometabolic Function
May 2, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Donald Ingber
- Topic: Organs On Chips + Programmable Nanotherapeutics
May 9, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Stefan Somlo, Nephrology Visiting Professor
- Topic: Polycystic Kidney and Liver Diseases: From Gene Discovery to Mechanism
May 16, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Avrum Spira, Pulmonary Visiting Professor
- Topic: Translating Gene-Expression Signatures into Personalized Approaches to Disease Management
May 23, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Bernard Zinman, Alexander Marble Lectureship in Diabetes
- Topic: Initial Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: Is it Ready for Prime Time?
May 30, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Charlie Hatem, Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Topic: Reflections on the Clinican's Journey
June 6, 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Tom Viggiano, Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education - Shapiro Institute
- Topic: TBA
June 13, 2013
- Speaker: TBA, Resident Talks
- Topic: TBA