Medicine Grand Rounds Archives
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Fall 2021/Spring 2022
June 23 - Grand Rounds: If You're Not at the Table, You Will be on the Menu
June 9 - Grand Rounds: Clinical Aspects of Sarcoidosis
June 8 - Special Seminar: Facilitated Ablation Biophysics and Facilitating Arrhythmia Research
June 2 - Grander Rounds: "Development for the Clinician Educator"
June 1 - Special Seminar: Sex Differences in Atrial Fibrillation
May 19 - The Occupational Health Risks of Being a Firefighter
May 12 - Advances in Advanced Endoscopy: Yeah We Can Do That
May 5 - Clinical Challenges when Managing Syphilis
April 28 - The VISTA UME Curriculum
April 14 - “Patient Priorities Care: Moving from disease-based to patient priorities-based decisions-making for older adults with multiple chronic conditions”
April 7 - Special Seminar - Howe Lecture
March 24 - "Personalizing Obesity Management. Time to Embrace the Pillars?"
March 17 - "Covid-19 and Health Disparities, A Closer Look"
March 10 - Osteoarthritis – Time for medicine to pay attention
March 8 - Dr. Singal Special Seminar
March 7 - DoM Town Hall
March 3 - "New technologies for treatment of diabetes"
February 24 - No Grand Rounds
February 17 - "Hospital at Home: Past, present and the UMMH experience in the context of national changes in care delivery for complex populations"
February 10 - "Human Parasitology: Helminths (Worms) and Protozoa"
February 3 - "Keeping Watch: Reducing embolic events in high risk patients with AFib"
January 27 - "Towards a digitally powered future in cardiovascular disease prevention"
January 20 - "Stepping up the care in Sickle Cell Disease"
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 6 - "Digital Health: Moving Past the Hype Cycle"
December 16 - “Caregiver: A Love Story – film screening and discussion”
December 9 - "Making sure the kids are alright: Hope and caution in pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deployment"
December 2 - "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Genetic Disease of the Distal Airways"
November 25 - Thanksgiving Break
November 19 - “Diagnos
November 18 - “Cardiac Arrhythmias and Digital Health: Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve”
November 11 - No Grand Rounds
November 4 - "Mechanistic Insights to Define Next Steps in CAR T Cell Therapy" (no consent to record)
October 28 - “Saving Lives is all in our Hands!”
October 21 - “Host defense against mucosal candidiasis: From the bench to the bedside”
October 14 - “Managing Opioid Use Disorder” Session 2
October 7 - “A Multispecialty approach to a case of diagnostic dilemma”
October 4 - "Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Transition in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"
September 30 - “Hepatorenal Syndrome and AKI in Cirrhosis: The Road Ahead”
September 23 - “CVD in Women-There is So Much Work to Be Done”
September 16 - "Managing Opiate Use Disorder"
September 16 - "From large arteries to microvessels – a research journey with mitochondria”
September 13 - Cardiovascular toxicities of cancer therapeutics: windows into cardiovascular biology
September 9 - "The Digital Transformation of Medicine: (Finally) A Time for Optimism"
*Consent to record not granted
Fall 2020 - Summer 2021
Fall 2020
September 24 - Town Hall
October 1 - "Pancreatic Cancer 2020"
November 12 - "MAP Kinase Signaling Promotes Cyst Growth in Polycystic Kidney Disease”
November 19 - “Everyday AI Has Arrived: Enhancing Our Ability to Tackle Clinical Dilemmas”
December 3 - "How Preventable is Cancer?"
December 10 - “Sickle Cell Disease: Current Management and Future Directions”
December 17 - “Cardiometabolic Medicine: Time For A New Internal Medicine Subspecialty”
*due to technical difficulties, the 11/29 grand rounds is audio only.
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"
Fall 2019 - Summer 2020
Fall 2019
September 5 - The Role of Endoscopy in Pancreatic Disorders *
September 19 - Spirituality and Medicine: From Serious Illness to Public Health *
September 26 - CAR T Cell Immunotherapy
October 3 - Emerging Mobile and Digital Technologies for Atrial Fibrillation Detection and Management: All Sound and Fury or A Medical Revolution?
October 10 - Futility, Hope, and Modern Medicine
October 17 - 10-Year Experience of Face Transplantation: From Bench to Bedside and then Back
October 24 - Climate Change & The Healthcare Professional
October 31 - Vaccine Development for Falciparum Malaria
November 7 - End-Stage Heart Failure: Is This Really The End?
November 14 - Crash Course: Genetic Testing and Counseling
November 21 - Influenza-Associated Complications, time for Immunotherapy?
December 5 - Lung Bioengineering and Transplantation: Understanding the Other Functions of the Lung
December 12 - Emerging Treatments for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis
December 19 - A 69 Year-Old Man with CLL and a Brain Mass
*due to technical difficulties, the 11/29 grand rounds is audio only.
Winter/Spring 2020
January 9 - Art and Science of Music Therapy in Medical Settings
January 16 - Gout: Myths, Controversies and Advances
January 23 - A Cascade of Events In An Older Adult Patient with Back Pain *
January 30 - Next Stop, The Virtual Medicine Zone
February 6 - My Patient with an ICD needs an MRI: Challenges and the Way Forward
February 13 - Worcester HIV Vaccine
February 27 - Positive Deviance: A Creative Approach to Improve Quality and Humanism in Healthcare
March 5 - Asymptomatic Valvular Heart Disease
March 12 - “COVID-19”
March 19 - "Preparing for Healthcare in the 2020's"
March 26 - "COVID-19 Issues and Updates"
April 2 - Town Hall Meeting
April 9 - Town Hall Meeting
April 16 - Town Hall Meeting
April 23 - Town Hall Meeting
April 30 - Town Hall Meeting
May 7 - Town Hall Meeting
May 14 - Town Hall Meeting
May 21 - Town Hall Meeting
Fall 2018 - Summer 2019
Fall 2018
October 11 - Moving Hearts: Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Mobile Health
October 18 - Surveillance System and Data Linkage as Tools for Public Health Research
October 25 - To Screen or Not to Screen, That Is The Question
November 1 - Updated Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy
November 8 - Are Newer Insulins Always the Better Choice?
November 29* - Cerebral Malaria
December 13 - Liver Transplantation Update – Newer Indications
*due to technical difficulties, the 11/29 grand rounds is audio only.