Medical Grand Rounds Archives

September 4 - Medical Grand Rounds: Developing siRNA Drugs at UMass Chan: One Target at a Time
September 25 - Medical Grand Rounds: GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy: Beyond Weight Loss
October 9 - Medical Grand Rounds: A Xenotransplantation Milestone: The World's First Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Donor-to-Human Xenotransplant
October 16 - Medical Grand Rounds: Health Care Access for Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing Patients
October 23 - Grander Rounds: Putting the CARE First in Healthcare
October 30 - Medical Grand Rounds: Innovative Persistence: Patient Navigation and Access to Cancer Care
November 6 - Medical Grand Rounds: Hidden Meanings in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Prescribing
November 13 - Medical Grand Rounds: Understanding the Discharge Site of Care as a Prerequisite for Coordinating Discharge Planning for Geriatric Patients - Not authorized for recording
November 20 - Medical Grand Rounds: Tickborne Infections
December 4 - Medical Grand Rounds: Sarcoma: Rare Origins to Modern Insights
December 11 - Medical Grand Rounds: Malaria: The Miasma That Keeps on Killing
January 8 - Medical Grand Rounds: Translating Tolerance: Regulatory T Cells in Kidney Transplantation
January 15 - Medical Grand Rounds: Epigenetic and Metabolic Control of Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanisms and New Therapeutic Opportunities
January 22 - Medical Grand Rounds: Modeling and Modifying Hepatic Stellate Cells to Develop Approaches to Treat Liver Fibrosis
February 5 - Medical Grand Rounds: Language, Trust, and Transitions: Advancing Equitable Care Through Provider-Patient Concordance and Interpreter Partnership
February 26 - Medical Grand Rounds: Caring for Older Adults with Kidney Disease, Integrating Geriatric Medicine Tenets in Nephrology
March 5 - Medical Grand Rounds: Caught in Transit - Not authorized for recording
March 12 - Medical Grand Rounds: Immunotherapy in Far-Advanced Cancer: A Palliative Care Perspective
March 19 - Medical Grand Rounds: Autoinflammation and Immune-Mediated Diseases
March 26 - Medical Grand Rounds: Building the Future of Rheumatology at UMass Chan: Collaborative Care, Basic and Translational Discovery, and Lupus Therapeutics
April 2 - Medical Grand Rounds: TB 2026 - What Goes Around Comes Around
April 9 - Medical Grand Rounds: If Hunger Is Not a Disease, Then Why Is Food Medicine?
April 16 - Medical Grand Rounds: Updates in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Evaluation and Management
April 30 - Medical Grand Rounds: Diagnostic Error Identification and Reduction: A Patient Safety Imperative
May 14 - Medical Grand Rounds: A Rare and Catastrophic Disease - Not authorized for recording
May 28 - Medical Grand Rounds: Acupuncture Across the Lifespan Part Two: Internal Medicine
June 4 - Medical Grand Rounds: Translating Inpatient Diabetes Research to Population Health Impact
June 18 -  Residency Graduation Grand Rounds

September 5 - Grand Rounds: RNAi: A Molecular Spark in an Information Inferno
September 12 - Grand Rounds: Myths, Merits, and Models: What Have We Learned from AI Integration in the Endoscopy Suite?
September 19 - Grand Rounds: HIV Vaccines - The Most Recent Update from Human Clinical Studies 
September 26 - Grand Rounds: The Genetic Basis for Cancer Therapeutics
October 10 - Grand Rounds: Pediatric HIV, Challenges and Opportunities
October 17 - Grander Rounds: The AI Revolution in Clinical Medicine: Risks and Benefits
October 24 - Grand Rounds: Vitiligo Treatment from the Iron Age to the Age of Biologics: New Hope for an Ancient Disease
October 31 - Grand Rounds: Why is Improving End of Life Care in the US so Difficult?
November 7 - Grand Rounds: Actionable Examples of the Influence of Race in Everyday Medical Decision Making
November 14 - Grand Rounds: Morbidity and Mortality, GLP1 Receptor Agonists in Surgical Patients: How Real are the Risks?
Not authorized for recording
November 21 - Grand Rounds: Disease Specific Remote Patient Monitoring in Rheumatology - From Evidence to Design-Thinking
December 5 - Grand Rounds: Antiphospholipid Syndrome: It's Far More Than You Think
December 12 - Grand Rounds: Bundles and Beyond: Improving Sepsis Outcomes in the Era of Pay-for-Performance and Electronic Quality Measures
January 9 - Grand Rounds: The Learning Health System: An Invitation to Health and Care Transformation
January 16 - Grand Rounds: Making Doctors: a Relational Approach to Professional Identity Formation through Learning Communities - Recording Not Available
January 23 - Grand Rounds: A Mission Driven Career, Health Disparities in the United States: African Americans, Nicotine, and Tobacco
January 30 - Grand Rounds: Morbidity and Mortality Conference: A 29-year-old Man Presenting with Kidney Failure
Not authorized for recording
February 6 - Grand Rounds: How AI is Changing Medical Practice in Cardiology - From an Idea to an FDA Approved Test
February 13 - Grand Rounds: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Gonorrhea Epidemic, and Why We Should Care
February 27 - Grander Rounds: Debunking the Myths of Gender-Affirming Care
March 6 - Grand Rounds: A Difficult Case in a Difficult Winter: Navigating Complex, High Acuity Care During an Inpatient Volume Surge
Not authorized for recording
March 13 - Grand Rounds: Transcriptional Plasticity in Cardiovascular Homeostasis & Disease
March 27 - Grand Rounds: Transformative Therapies for Chronic Kidney Disease in Diabetes and Beyond
April 3 - Grand Rounds: Nuances of Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: An Evidence-Based Update from Comparative Effectiveness Trials
April 10 - Grand Rounds: From Admission to Outcome: A Case Examining Hospital System Processes in Relation to Patient Care
Not authorized for recording
April 17 - Grand Rounds: Pushing the Envelope: Advancing HIV Testing and Treatment Globally
May 1 - Annual Howe Lecture: A Machine Can Predict Your Death, Should It?
May 8 - Grand Rounds: Bridging Cultural Divides by Understanding Family Narratives and Navigating Resistance
May 15 - Grand Rounds: Staphylococcus Bacteremia: Presentation, Complications, and Treatment
Not authorized for recording
May 29 - Grand Rounds: The Role of AI in Cardiology
June 5 - Grander Rounds: Examining the Environmental Impact of Healthcare: Moving Beyond the WHY to the HOW of Sustainability in Practice
June 12 - Graduation Grand Rounds
June 26 - Special Grand Rounds - Robert W. Finberg, MD, Memorial Lecture: "Anticytokine Autoantibodies: When Was the Last Time You Looked?"

September 7 - Grand Rounds: Can Digital Health Save the American Healthcare System?
September 14 - Grand Rounds: Climate Change Related Disasters and the Elderly
September 21 - Grand Rounds: Automation, Emotion, and Behavioral Economics in Health and Health Care - Recording Not Available
September 28 - Grander Rounds: Medical Malpractice and Support Systems for Faculty
October 5 - Grand Rounds: Has "Climate Change" Endangered the Physician Scientist?
October 12 - Grand Rounds: The UMass Cancer Center - The Past, Present & Future
October 19 - Grand Rounds: Redlining and its Effects on Health Disparities
October 26 - Grand Rounds: Transitions of Care: Every System is Perfectly Designed to Get the Results That it Gets - Recording Not Permissible
November 2 - Grand Rounds: Mindfulness at UMass and Its Impact in the World - Forty-Four Years and Counting"
November 9 - Grand Rounds: Maladaptive Immuno-Thrombotic Responses to Infection
November 16 - Grand Rounds: The Future of Primary Care: Can Lessons from the Past Help Guide Us Towards a More Sustainable Future?
November 30 - Grand Rounds: What We Learn from Listening
December 7 - Grand Rounds: Hematology/Oncology M&M: A Case of Inadvertent Temodar Overdose - Recording Not Permissible
December 14 - Grand Rounds: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - A Rapidly Evolving Syndrome
January 4 - Grand Rounds: From Polio to COVID-19: Learning from the Past
January 11 - Grand Rounds: Navigating the Substance Abuse Disorder System in Massachusetts: Referrals, Consults, and More
January 18 - Grand Rounds: Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Liver Disease & Accelerated Aging
January 25 - Grand Rounds: Food Insecurity and Food is Medicine
February 1 - Grand Rounds: Palliative Care Futurist: Matching Care to Our Patient's Needs
February 15 - Grand Rounds: Understanding Diabetic Kidney Disease
February 22 - No Grand Rounds
February 29 - Grand Rounds: Medical Malpractice Issues Related to Transparency, Disclosure, and Compensation
March 7 - Grand Rounds: The Origin of Microbial Virulence
March 21 - Grand Rounds: Robert W. Finberg Memorial Lecture, Structure Function and Evolutionary Relationships: Alphavirus Entry Receptors
March 28 - Grand Rounds: Emerging Opportunities in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Study of At-Risk Individuals Informs the Pathway to Prevention
April 11 - Special Grand Rounds: Black Women and Maternal Health Disparities: Addressing the Role of Racism
April 18 - No Grand Rounds
April 25 - Grand Rounds: Osteoporosis Update for Clinicians 2024
May 2 - Grand Rounds: Weighted Down by Stones - No recording allowed
May 9 - Grand Rounds: Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics: Great Strides and Future Directions
May 16 - Grand Rounds: Molecular Portraits of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Defining Clinical and Treatment Response Endo-Phenotypes, Towards Precision Medicine
May 30 - Grand Rounds: Osteoarthritis, Treatment and Prospects for Disease Modification 2024
June 6 - Grand Rounds: The Fungus Among The Last of Us: How a Perfect Storm is Driving an Epidemic of Fungal Infections
June 13 - Grander Rounds: Physician Advocacy: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
June 20 - Graduation Grand Rounds

September 8 - Grand Rounds: Clinical Gene Therapy for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Diseases
September 15 - Grand Rounds: Rapid COVID-19 Development and the Future of Vaccinology
September 22 - Grand Rounds: Computational Medicine for the Heart
September 29 - Grand Rounds: Immune Defenses and Offenses
October 6 - Grand Rounds: We Have Met the Aging and They Are Us-Confessions of an Aging Geriatrician
October 13 - Grand Rounds: Finding the Right Words for the Right Conversations
October 20 - Grand Rounds: Rational Design of PF4 Antagonists for the Prevention and Treatment of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Not authorized for recording
October 27 - Grand Rounds: Morbidity and Mortality Conference - Cardiology
Not authorized for recording
November 3 - Grand Rounds: Health Challenges and Opportunities for Adolescents: Perspectives from the Assistant Secretary for Health
November 10 - Grand Rounds: Harnessing Wearable Data to Improve Viral Illness Detection
November 17 - Grand Rounds: Morbidity and Mortality Conference - Rheumatology
Not authorized for recording
December 1 - Grand Rounds: Technology, Tests, and Teamwork: How a 22-Year Collaboration Developed Cutting Edge Tests for TB and other Infectious Diseases
Not authorized for recording
December 8 - Grand Rounds: Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Very Treatable Systemic Disease
December 15 - No Grand Rounds - Cancellation
January 5 - Grand Rounds: 50 Years of Studying Aortic Valve Disease
January 12 - Grand Rounds: Immunology of Long COVID
January 19 - Grand Rounds: A Medical Miracle: More Than Four Decades of HIV Care and Research
January 26 - Grander Rounds: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
February 2 - Grand Rounds: Opioids, Pain, and Addiction: Preventing Harm and Maximizing Benefits
February 9 - Grand Rounds: Strategies to Address Patient Care and Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
February 16 - Grand Rounds: Innate Immunity in NPSLE: The Pivotal Role of C1q
March 2 - Grand Rounds: CAR T Cells in Rheumatic Disease
March 9 - Grand Rounds: How Curiosity and Design Principles can Bring Innovation to our Practice and Help Our Patients
March 16 - Grand Rounds: Adverse Health and Healthcare Outcomes: Disparities at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Disability
March 23 - Grand Rounds: Finberg Lecture - Recording Not Permissible
March 30 - Grand Rounds: Re-Defining Primary Aldosteronism - Recording Not Permissible
April 6 - Special Grand Rounds: Howe Lecture - The Dog Has Finally Caught the Car, Now What? Ethical Challenges of AI-Based Diagnoses of Malignancy
April 13 - Grand Rounds: Family Caregiver Burden and Distress in the Care of an Older Adult Living with Dementia - Recording Not Permissible
April 27 - Grand Rounds: Lung Nodule Diagnosis and Surgical Treatments for Lung Cancer: Advances in Robotics - Recording Not Permissible
May 4 - Grand Rounds: Things We Do for No Reason
May 11 - Grand Rounds: Malaria in Pregnancy: From a Fetal Point of View
May 18 - Grand Rounds: Raising the Bar in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Treating a Global Problem One Patient at a Time
May 25 - No Grand Rounds - Resident and Fellow Poster Day
June 1 - Grand Rounds: Communicating with Patients About Vaccination: What Works to Increase Uptake?
June 8 - Grander Rounds: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Best Practices
June 15 - Graduation Grand Rounds Ceremony - No Recording Available

September 9 -  "The Digital Transformation of Medicine: (Finally) A Time for Optimism"
September 13 - Cardiovascular toxicities of cancer therapeutics: windows into cardiovascular biology
September 16 - "From large arteries to microvessels – a research journey with mitochondria”
September 16 - "Managing Opiate Use Disorder"
September 23 -  “CVD in Women-There is So Much Work to Be Done”
September 30 - “Hepatorenal Syndrome and AKI in Cirrhosis: The Road Ahead”
October 4 - "Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Transition in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"
October 7 - “A Multispecialty approach to a case of diagnostic dilemma”
October 14 - “Managing Opioid Use Disorder” Session 2
October 21 - “Host defense against mucosal candidiasis: From the bench to the bedside”
October 28 - “Saving Lives is all in our Hands!”
November 4 - "Mechanistic Insights to Define Next Steps in CAR T Cell Therapy" (no consent to record)
November 11 - No Grand Rounds
November 18 - “Cardiac Arrhythmias and Digital Health: Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve”
November 19 - “Diagnosis and Management of Clostridioides Difficile Infection”
November 25 - Thanksgiving Break
December 2 - "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Genetic Disease of the Distal Airways"
December 9 - "Making sure the kids are alright: Hope and caution in pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deployment"
December 16 - “Caregiver: A Love Story – film screening and discussion”
January 6 - "Digital Health: Moving Past the Hype Cycle"
January 13 - “The Critical Role of Understanding and Respecting Culture and Lived Experience of Racism in Palliative Care: Caring for our African American Patients and Their Families”
January 20 - "Stepping up the care in Sickle Cell Disease"
January 27 - "Towards a digitally powered future in cardiovascular disease prevention"
February 3 - "Keeping Watch: Reducing embolic events in high risk patients with AFib"
February 10 - "Human Parasitology: Helminths (Worms) and Protozoa"
February 17 - "Hospital at Home: Past, present and the UMMH experience in the context of national changes in care delivery for complex populations"
February 24 - No Grand Rounds
March 3 - "New technologies for treatment of diabetes"
March 7 - DoM Town Hall
March 10 - Osteoarthritis – Time for medicine to pay attention
March 17 - "Covid-19 and Health Disparities, A Closer Look"
March 24 - "Personalizing Obesity Management. Time to Embrace the Pillars?"
April 14 - “Patient Priorities Care: Moving from disease-based to patient priorities-based decisions-making for older adults with multiple chronic conditions”
April 28 - The VISTA UME Curriculum
May 5 - Clinical Challenges when Managing Syphilis
May 12 - Advances in Advanced Endoscopy: Yeah We Can Do That
May 19 - The Occupational Health Risks of Being a Firefighter
June 2 - Grander Rounds: "Development for the Clinician Educator"
June 9 - Grand Rounds: Clinical Aspects of Sarcoidosis
June 23 - Grand Rounds: If You're Not at the Table, You Will be on the Menu

Winter/Spring 2021

January 7 - “Mistrust in Health Care: A Social Determinant”
January 14 - "Cystic Fibrosis in 2021: A Lot Has Changed"
January 21 - "Making the Impossible Choice Possible: Ethics of Rationing Scarce Medical Resources During Crises"
January 28 - Psoriatic Arthritis: a Multi-disciplinary Disease
February 4 - The Doctor Will See You Now...24/x7. The Future With Remote Patient Monitoring
February 11 - Convalescent Plasma for SARS-CoV-2 and Early Prevention of COVID-19
February 25 - "Mitral Regurgitation: Evolving Concepts and Transcatheter Management"
March 3 - “Hemophilia:  Advances in Management”
March 11 - “Tracheostomy Complications in the COVID era”
March 18 - “The CLIAHUB – Student Volunteer Run COVID Testing”
March 25 - “Endocrinology and COVID-19”
April 1 - "Explaining Racial Disparities in Healthcare: Racism - Not Race - is the Root of Inequities
April 8 - “APOL1 – Associated Nephropathy: At The Bedside . . . Far Beyond The Bench”
April 15 - "COVID-19 Beyond The Hospital: A Geriatrics Panel Discussion”
April 29 - "Genomic Medicine for Obesity, NAFLD and Beyond"
May 6 - "Epidemiology of Silence in Serious Illness Conversations"
May 13 - "A 37 Year Old Make with Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease, Schizoaffective Disorder and Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure"
May 20 - “Myositis 2021: Re-thinking ‘Polymyositis’ and Dermatomyositis”
May 27 - “A Clinical and Laboratory Dilemma: Prolonged Shedding Virus Reinfection with SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) After Vaccination”
June 3 - "An Alternative to Breathing: The Future Management of Acute Respiratory Failure"
June 10 - Graduation
June 17 - Why We Teach
August 31 - "Picturing Vascular Health in Diabetes and Smoking"

2017/2018