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 in all specialties within internal medicine. Prominent 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 features a discussion between two experts in the field and focuses on the care of a patient who “falls between the cracks” in available evidence and for whom the optimal clinical course is unclear.
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 & 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 Recordings
2024-2025 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)
2023-2024 Academic Year Lectures
- Misconduct in Medical Research: Trends, Safeguards, and Examples (5/2/24)
- Pandemic Preparedness & Infectious Diseases Surveillance (4/4/24)
- Moving Toward Inclusion (3/7/24)
- Unraveling the Complexity of Immune-Related Adverse Events (2/1/24)
- Recent Developments in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment Among Older Adults (1/4/24)
- Advancing Cardiovascular Care and Health in the United States - From Policies to Patients (11/2/23)
- Healthcare sustainability – transforming clinical practice in the face of climate change (10/5/23)
- A Turing Test for Clinical Reasoning: Large Language Models and the Future of Diagnosis (9/7/23)
2022-2023 Academic Year Lectures
- The Elusive Goal of Equity in Kidney Transplantation (5/4/2023)
- Transgender Medicine (4/6/2023)
- Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci (3/2/2023)
- Fostering Resilience and Healing: Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice and Medical Education (2/2/23)
- Recent Developments in Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment among Older Adults (1/5/23)
- What's New with Caring for Older Adults? Innovations in Geriatric Medicine (12/1/22)
- 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak: Updates and Lessons Learned (11/3/22)
- A conversation with Harvard University, Medical School, and School of Public Health Leadership (10/6/22)
- Post-Roe Reproductive Health for Internists: This is Our Lane (9/8/22)
2021-2022 Academic Year Lectures
- Caring for People Who Inject Drugs: Harm Reduction and Patient Centered Care (6/2/22)
- Race, Income, and Health Equity: From Insight to Action (5/5/22)
- Updates in the Evaluation and Management of Long COVID (4/7/22)
- COVID-19: Evolution to Endemicity? (3/3/22)
- The Omicron Surge: Testing, Clinical Aspects, Vaccines, and Global Implications (2/3/22)
- Outpatient COVID-19 Therapies in the Time of Omicron (1/6/22)
- Decoding Inherited Cardiomyopathies: From Genes to Genomes and Beyond (12/2/21)
- Telehealth Has Suddenly Become Mainstream: But Now Where Do We Go? (11/4/21)
- The MassCPR Program on SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern (10/7/21)
- Fossil Fuel Pollution and the Climate Crisis: Patients, Practice, and Policy with Secretary John Kerry (9/9/21)
2020-2021 Academic Year Lectures
- Structural Inequities: Lessons and Reflections about Promoting Equity from COVID-19 (7/8/21)
- Virtual Education in a Post-Pandemic World: Moving Beyond Zoom (6/3/21)
- Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (5/6/21)
- Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Vaccines and Treatment (4/1/21)
- Global Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons learned from the public health responses in Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam (3/4/21)
- Not Throwing Away Our Shot: Scaling Up COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in the United States (2/4/21)
- COVID-19 Treatment Update for ‘21 (1/7/21)
- COVID-19 Transmission: A State of the State, Our Schools, and the NBA (12/3/20)
- The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine with Dan Barouch (11/5/20)
- Safe Voting in a Pandemic: Challenges, Innovations, and the Role of Healthcare Professionals (10/15/20)
- COVID-19: Public Health and Scientific Challenges with Dr. Anthony Fauci (9/10/20)
Spring 2020 Lectures
- COVID-19 and Health Equity: A Focus on Health System Solutions to Magnified Inequities (7/9/20)
- Vaccine Development for COVID-19: A Status Update on the Challenges and Prospects for Success (6/4/20)
- Impact of COVID-19 Among Older Persons (5/28/20)
- COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury (5/21/20)
- Cardiac Manifestations of COVID-19 (5/14/20)
- Unraveling the Mystery of Clotting in COVID-19 (5/7/20)
- COVID-19 Diagnostics (4/30/20)
- Publishing in a Pandemic (4/16/20)
- Advancing New Therapies for COVID-19 (4/9/20)
- Palliative Care in a Pandemic (4/2/20)
- Pathogenesis and Management of Respiratory Failure in COVID-19: What We Know So Far (3/26/20)
September 2025
September 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Educating the Harvard Medical Student in 2025 and Beyond September 11
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
Title: How the Hospital Works
September 18: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Sunil Sheth, MD; Santhi Vege, MD
Title: How Would You Manage this Patient with Idiopathic Acute Pancreatitis?
September 25: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: W. Brad Johnson, PhD
Title: Leveraging Allyship & Inclusive Leadership for Gender Fairness in Medicine
October 2025
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: In Search of "Nothing About Us Without Us"
October 23: Zetzel Visiting Professor in Gastroenterology
- Speaker: Raymond Chung, MD
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 2025
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
Title: Mind and Heart in the Art of Medicine
November 27: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
December 2025
December 4: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Updates on Comprehensive Care for Sickle Cell Disease: From Hydroxyurea to CRISPR
December 11: New Professor Lecture
- Speaker: Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
December 18: Department of Medicine Faculty Research Spotlights
- Speaker: Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD
- Speaker: Vasileios Kyttaris, MD, PhD
Title: The BIDMC Lupus Center: Translating basic science discoveries into diagnostic and therapeutic tools
December 25: No Grand Rounds; Christmas Day
September 2024
September 5: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Implications of the 2024 Election for Healthcare
September 12:
- Speaker: Mark Zeidel, MD
Title: The End Depends on the Beginning: Origins of the Beth Israel and New England Deaconess Hospitals
September 19: Women in Medicine
- Speaker: Shikha Jain, MD, FACP
Title: Cleaning the Sticky Floor and Shattering the Glass Ceiling
September 26: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Patricia Tung, MD; Eli Gelfand, MD
Title: How would you approach this patient with atrial fibrillation?
October 2024
October 3: No Grand Rounds; Rosh Hashanah
October 10: Julian Aroesty Grand Rounds
- Speaker: Duane Pinto, MD, MPH
Title: Device Development for Valvular Heart Disease Challenges in Balancing Clinical Priorities
October 17: Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
- Speaker: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, FACP
Title: The Role of Medical Journals
October 24: Clinical Reasoning Week
- Speaker: Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP
Title: Afterwards: When the end of the infection isn’t the end of the illness
October 31: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Dan Costa, MD, PhD
Title: Lung Cancer Management at BIDMC, 2004 to 2024: From therapeutic nihilism with cytotoxic chemotherapy to long-term survivors with precision oncology - Speaker: Medha Munshi, MD
Title: Challenges and Opportunities: Enhancing Diabetes Care for Older Adults
November 2024
November 7: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: The Role of Private Equity in Healthcare
November 14: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Alan Malabanan, MD; Elaine Yu, MD, MMSC
Title: How would you treat this patient with Osteopenia?
November 21: Aaron Thurman, MD, Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Jonathan Haidt, PhD
Title: What the phone-based childhood is doing to teen mental health, and why some researchers can't see it
November 28: No Grand Rounds; Thanksgiving
December 2024
December 5: No Grand Rounds
December 12: The George E. Altman, MD Grand Rounds Medical Lecture
- Speaker: Michael Howell, MD, MPH
Title: The Three Epochs of AI in Healthcare: What They Are, and Why You Should Care
December 19:
- Speaker: Claudia Denkinger, MD, MSc
Title: Transdisciplinary Research to Close the Diagnostic Gap in Tuberculosis Care
January 2025
January 9: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
January 16:
- Speaker: Rob Fields, MD
Title: Getting to 2040: Strategies for Health System Sustainability
January 23:
- Speaker: Beth Riviello, MD, MPH
Title: Striving for Global Equity in Critical Care Research: They Don’t Call Them “Trials” for Nothing - Speaker: Elias Baedorf-Kassis, MD
Title: Respiratory Physiology to Provide Personalized Mechanical Ventilation: Esophageal Manometry from Jere Meade to PREVENT VILI
January 30: Mark Aronson, MD, Grand Rounds
- Speaker: Inga Lennes, MD, MPH, MBA
Title: Ambulatory Care Transformation: the Peril and Promise of a New Future
February 2025
February 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Making Waves: The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Internists
February 13: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Wendy Stead, MD; Arminder Jassar, MBBS
Title: How would you treat this patient with tricuspid valve infective endocarditis in a patient who uses injection drugs?
February 20: New Professors Lecture
- Speaker: Adnan Majid, MD
Title: Emerging Bronchoscopic Therapies for COPD
February 27:
- Speakers: George Tsokos, MD; Jon Arnason, MD
Title: The CAR-T Cell Journey, from Oncology to Rheumatology and Beyond
March 2025
March 6: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: Prostate Cancer: Perspectives on Recent Advances
March 13: Solomon Lecture
- Speaker: Lisa Rosenbaum, MD
Title: Medical Training at a Crossroads: Can We Change the Narrative?
March 20: Eleanor and Miles Shore Faculty Development Program Awardee Lectures
- Speaker: Nicholas Nassikas, MD
Title: Climate Change and Respiratory Health in the US - Speaker: Loren Rabinowitz, MD
Title: Postpartum NSAID Use is Safe, Effective in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Speaker: Tadataka Tsuji, DDS, PhD
Title: The Additive Impacts of Exercise and Cold Exposure on Metabolic Health
March 27: Dr. Robert S. and Judith K. Brown Nephrology Visiting Professorship Lecture
- Speaker: S. Ananth Karumanchi, MBBS
Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Preeclampsia: Implications for Cardiovascular Health
April 2025
April 3: Harvard Combined Rounds
- Title: The Clinical Implications of the Various Weight Loss Approaches, Including GLP-1 Analogs, on Muscle and Body Composition
April 10: MacPherson Hiatt Visiting Professor Lecture • Speaker: Susan Quaggin, MD, FRCP(C), FASN
- Title: From Discovery to Delivery: The Golden Age for Kidney Health
April 17: Frank Epstein Memorial Lecture
- Speaker: Joel Habener, MD
Title: GLP-1: Discovery, Actions, and Health Benefits
April 24: Mario Baldini, MD, Memorial Lecture in Hematology Oncology
- Speaker: David J. Kuter, MD, DPhil
Title: Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Using Pathophysiology to Guide the Treatment
May 2025
May 1: Harvard Combined Rounds May 8: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speaker: Barry Rosenblum, DPM; Mary LaSalvia, MD
Title: Diabetic Foot Infections
May 15: Jeffrey S. Flier and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier Lectureship
- Speaker: Mitch Lazar, MD, PhD
Title: The Emperor's New Data: The Crisis of Confidence in Science
May 22: Alexander Marble Lectureship in Diabetes
- Speaker: John B. Muse, MD, PhD
Title: Type 2 Diabetes is on the Ropes. Let's Knock it Out!
May 29: Katherine Swan Ginsburg Lecture on Humanism in Medicine
- Speaker: Rick Lange, MD
Title: Migrant (S)Care in El Paso
June 2025
June 5: Daniel C. Tosteson Visiting Professor in Medical Education – Shapiro Institute
- Speaker: Peter Clardy, MD
Title: (How) Will AI Change Medical Education and Care Delivery?
June 12: Resident Research Highlights
- Speakers: Tia Andrade, MD; August Oddleifson, MD, MBA; DJ Smithers, MD, MS
June 20: Beyond the Guidelines
- Speakers: Barry Rosenblum, DPM; Mary LaSalvia, MD
Title: How would you manage this diabetic patient with a foot infection?
