Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Department of Medicine Lecture Series
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.
Virtual Combined Harvard Medical Grand Rounds
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BIDMC 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. The collaboration evolved into the Harvard Medical Combined Grand Rounds Series, which continues to this day.
On the first Thursday of each month, the series brings together a panel of leaders in their field to discuss timely and important topics across medicine.
2025-2026 Academic Year Lectures
- Advancing Global Health Equity in Challenging Times: The Impact of US Government Spending Cuts (5/1/25)
- The Clinical Implications of the Various Weight Loss Approaches, Including GLP-1 Analogs, on Muscle and Body Composition (4/3/25)
- Prostate Cancer: Perspectives on Recent Advances (3/6/25)
- Making Waves: The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Internists (2/6/25)
- Artificial Intelligence—How It Will Affect Clinical Care (1/9/25)
- Private Equity in American Medicine (11/7/24)
- Implications of the 2024 Election for Healthcare (9/5/24)
2025-2026 Upcoming Lecture Schedule
October 2: No Grand Rounds; Yom Kippur
October 9: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Mara Schonberg, MD, MPH
- Title: Shared Decision Making Around Cancer Screening for Older Adults
- Speaker: Roger Shapiro, MD, MPH
- Title: Using Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies for HIV Treatment and Cure of Children in Botswana
October 16: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: Tom Delbanco, MD
- Title: Title: In Search of "Nothing About Us Without Us"
October 23: Zetzel Visiting Professor in Gastroenterology
- Speaker: TBD
- Title: Progress in Hepatitis B: Are Elimination and Cure in Sight?
October 30: Sidney H. Ingbar, MD, Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Anne Cappola, MD, ScM
- Title: Thyroid Myths and Misperceptions
November 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Revisited: Major Shifts in Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management
November 13: Dr. Howard Bleich Lecture
- Speaker: Robert Wachter, MD
- Title: A Giant Leap: AI and the Transformation of Healthcare
November 20: Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Jerome Groopman, MD
November 27: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
December 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Updates on Comprehensive Care for Sickle Cell Disease: From Hydroxyurea to CRISPR
December 11: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
December 18: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH; Brooke Lubinski, MD
- Title: Chronic idiopathic constipation
December 25: No Grand Rounds; Christmas Day
