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Telemachus and Mentor. By Pablo E. Fabisch, 1699. In the public domain.

Telemachus and Mentor. Illustration by Pablo E. Fabisch from Fenelon's les Aventures de Télémaque, 1699. Image in the public domain.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

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Join your colleagues for key updates in research and clinical care and timely discussions on topics of special interest in the Department of Medicine.

Grand Rounds is presented Wednesday mornings at 7:30 a.m. in the Liebow Auditorium in the Biomedical Sciences Building on the UC San Diego School of Medicine campus. There is a hiatus in summer.

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For UCSD-affiliated faculty, staff and trainees, live streaming video is available when a Grand Rounds presentation is in progress. In addition, selected recent presentations are available for viewing on demand. Use the blue buttons below to see the videos.

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2012-2013 MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS SCHEDULE

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August

	August 22, 2012 Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery Chief of Neurosurgery UC San Diego School of Medicine Neurosurgery Update 2012
	August 29, 2012 Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD Co-Director, Electrophysiology Section Professor of Medicine UC San Diego Director of Electrophysiology, San Diego VAMC Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering Atrial Fibrillation: 2012 and Beyond. Is a Sea Change Occurring?

September

	September 5, 2012 Chi-yuan Hsu, MD, MS Chief, Division of Nephrology UC San Francisco Clinical research in kidney disease: from bedside to database
	September 12, 2012 Steffanie Strathdee, PhD Harold Simon Professor Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences Chief, Division of Global Public Health Director, UCSD Global Health Initiative Co-director, GloCal Fellows Program UC San Diego School of Medicine Reducing HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Female Sex Workers in the Mexico/US Border Region
	September 19, 2012 Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology Department of Family and Preventive Medicine UC San Diego School of Medicine Changing the Management Paradigm in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
	September 26, 2012 Christopher J. Kane, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery C. Lowell and JoEllen Parsons Endowed Chair in Urology Chief, Division of Urology Director, Urology Residency Training Program UC San Diego School of Medicine Prostate Cancer 2012: Where Do We Go From Here?

October

	October 3, 2012 Ken Kaushansky, MD, MACP Dean, School of Medicine, and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York The Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: It's Beginning to Make Sense
	October 10, 2012 Robert Terkeltaub, MD Professor of Medicine Interim Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology UC San Diego School of Medicine Gout Redefined
	October 17, 2012 Jay G. Silverman, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Global Public Health UC San Diego School of Medicine Sex Trafficking, Violence and HIV
	October 24, 2012 Ruth Patterson, PhD Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control UC San Diego School of Medicine Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics & Breast Cancer
	October 31, 2012 Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics UC San Diego School of Medicine What 'Big Data' Means to Medicine: Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization and Sharing

November

	November 7, 2012 Cynthia Stuenkel, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine UC San Diego School of Medicine Ten Years after the WHI: What is the Future of Hormone Therapy
	November 14, 2012 Don W. Cleveland, PhD Head, Laboratory for Cell Biology Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Distinguished Professor and Chair Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor of Medicine & Neuroscience UC San Diego School of Medicine Mechanism and Therapy in Neurodegenerative Disease
	November 21, 2012 GRAND ROUNDS CANCELLED - HOLIDAY WEEK
	November 28, 2012 Gabriel G. Haddad, MD Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, UCSD Physician-in-Chief and Chief Scientific Officer Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego Evolutionary Adaptation to High Altitude Hypoxia: From Fly to People

December

	December 5, 2012 Henry Masur, MD Chief, Critical Care Medicine Department National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Respiratory Disease in Patients with HIV/AIDS: Still a Challenge!
	December 12, 2012 Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD Distinguished Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology Department of Family and Preventive Medicine UC San Diego School of Medicine The Rancho Bernardo Study: 40 Years Studying Why Women Have Less Heart Disease than Men and How Diabetes Modifies Women's Usual Cardiac Protection
	December 19, 2012 No Presentation - Holiday Season
	December 26, 2012 No Presentation - Holiday Season

January

	January 2, 2013 No Presentation - Holiday Season
	January 9, 2013 Robert N. Weinreb, MD Distinguished Professor and Chairman Department of Ophthalmology Director, Shiley Eye Center Morris Gleich, MD, Chair of Glaucoma Director, Hamilton Glaucoma Center UC San Diego School of Medicine Seeing and Breathing with Glaucoma
	January 16, 2013 Eugene Braunwald, MD Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Founding Chairman, TIMI Study Group Brigham and Women's Hospital Congestive Heart Failure 1952-2012: A 60-Year Perspective
	January 23, 2013 Scott M. Lippman, MD Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research and Care Director, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Building an Academia-Industry Hub for Personalized Cancer Therapy
	January 30, 2013 Fourth Annual Nathan J. Zvaifler Rheumatology Lecture Presented in Place of Medicine Grand Rounds Betty Diamond, MD Head, Center for Autoimmune Diseases and Musculoskeletal Disorders Director, Laboratory of Autoimmune Diseases and Musculoskeletal Disorders The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Antibodies and the Brain: An Underexplored Mediator of Pathology

February

	February 6, 2013 Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH Associate Professor Division of Global Health Equity Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Medical Director, Partners In Health Reducing Health Disparities: Changing the Public Health Paradigm
	February 13, 2013 Louise Aronson, MD, MFA Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Director, Medical Humanities UC San Francisco Director, Northern California Geriatrics Education Center Director, Pathways to Discovery Program Public Medical Communication: A New Core Competency for the 21st Century
	February 20, 2013 John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc Professor of Medicine, Health Research and Policy and Statistics C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention Director, Stanford Prevention Research Center Stanford University School of Medicine Why Is Evidence Failing Us?
	February 27, 2013 Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine School of Medicine, UC San Francisco San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center Clinical Problem Solving

March

	March 6, 2013 Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education Director of Internal Medicine Program Tulane University Transforming Healthcare Reform into the Hospital of the Future
	March 13, 2013 David A. Brenner, MD Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Dean UC San Diego School of Medicine New Approaches to Therapy for Fibrosis
	March 20, 2013 Resident Research Presentation: Stephen Vampola, MD University of Miami Categorical Mechanistic Implications of Tissue Rate Gradients in Human Ventricular Fibrillation and Felipe Nascimento Kazmirczak, MD Universidade Lut Brasil Categorical Identification of Human VF Mechanism Using Surface ECG
	March 27, 2013 Audrey Shafer, MD Professor of Anesthesia Director, Program in Arts, Humanities and Medicine Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Co-Director, Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Out, Under and Up: An Anesthesiologist’s Perspective on Metaphor and the Surgical Patient

April

	April 3, 2013 Susannah Graves, MD Clinical Director of the Maputo Central Hospital Educational Collaboration Maputo, Mozambique Categorical Internal Medicine Resident Department of Medicine UC San Diego School of Medicine Medical Education Partnership UCSD - Universidade Eduardo Mondlane at Hospital Central de Maputo, Mozambique
	April 10, 2013 Steven L. Gonias, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Pathology UC San Diego School of Medicine Translational Studies on Protease Receptors: A Pathologist’s View – Bench to Benchside
	April 17, 2013 Joseph R. Mikhael MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP Consultant Hematologist, Mayo Clinic Arizona Associate Chair of Education, Department of Medicine Program Director, Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Associate Professor, Mayo College of Medicine Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ MGUS and Multiple Myeloma in 2013 - What the Internist Should Know
	April 24, 2013 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division of General Internal Medicine Co-director, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center UC San Francisco How Did They Come Up with That Recommendation?! – The US Preventive Services Task Force Process and the Example of Prostate Cancer Screening

May

	May 1, 2013 Faith T. Fitzgerald, MD Professor, Internal Medicine UC Davis School of Medicine UC Davis Health System Ceremonies of Death
	May 8, 2013 Yu Xie, MD Incoming Chief Medical Resident Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension - Implications for the Left Heart
	May 15, 2013 Resident Research Presentation: Helen King, MD Mercer University Categorical HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis: Barriers to Access for Men Who Have Sex With Men and Philipp Wiesner , MD Universitat Regensburg Categorical Oxidized Phospholipids in Inflammation and Atherosclerosis
	May 22, 2013 Isabel Kuo, MD Incoming Chief Medical Resident A Matter of Life and Death
	May 29, 2013 Bradley A. Sharpe, MD Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine UC San Francisco Topic to be announced

June

	June 5, 2013 Devin Kehl, MD Incoming Chief Medical Resident Raiders of the Lost Art: Physical Diagnosis in the Modern Era
	June 12, 2013 Zack Permutt, MD Incoming Chief Medical Resident Topic to be announced
	June 19, 2013 Ben Hulley, MD Incoming Chief Medical Resident Are Physicians Ethically Obligated to Utilize the Placebo Effect?

GOAL

To provide needs-based education for physicians and health care providers to improve knowledge, competence and performance and enable the optimum provision of health care.

OBJECTIVES

Provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
Demonstrate application of scientific methodology to clinical situations.
Know and apply the basic sciences which are appropriate to their discipline.
Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, families and professional associates.

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The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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