Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Goal

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

Objectives

Advance education in basic scientific principles applicable to clinical situations
Disseminate information regarding disease prevention and public health
Improve understanding of psychosocial and legal issues as they apply to delivery of excellent patient care
Provide updates in medical diagnosis and treatment to improve patient outcome

Time and Location

Grand Rounds will be held in person, and can also be viewed virtually via Zoom.

Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Address: 3147 Biomedical Sciences Wy, La Jolla, CA 92093
Location: Israni Biomedical Research Facility, Conference room 2A03
Zoom Webinar ID: 836 5576 2804

Holidays

No Medicine Grand Rounds on observed holidays

November 11, 2026: Veteran's Day
November 25, 2026: Thanksgiving
December 23, 2026: Holiday Break
December 30, 2026: Holiday Break

2026-2027 Grand Rounds Schedule

September 2026 - December 2026

Date	Title	Speaker
September 2, 2026	Growing Psychological Safety through Reflective Inquiry	Gary Buckholz, MD, HMDC, FAAHPM Clinical Professor of Medicine Doris Howell Palliative Care Service Director, Affiliate Faculty Co-Director Academy Fellowship, UC San Diego Health
September 9, 2026	Can We Deliver High-Quality Healthcare without AI and Automation?	Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc Executive Director, Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Diego Health Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics University of California, San Diego
September 16, 2026	Plagues, Viruses, Vaccines and Anti-Vaxers	Harvey Alter, MD NIH Senior Scholar Nobel Laureate
September 23, 2026	Redefining Type 1 Diabetes Physiology: A Roadmap to Novel Therapies	Jeremy Hodson Pettus, MD Winkler Endowed Chair for Type I Diabetes Research in honor of Alberto Hayek, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology University of California, San Diego Associate Editor, Diabetes Care Director, Type 1 Diabetes
September 30, 2026	Biomedical Informatics: History, Current Innovation, and Future Promise	Mike Hogarth, MD, FACP, FACMI Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine PI, California Integrated Vital Records System (Cal-IVRS) Co-PI, UCSD CTSA Hub Director, ACTRI Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Data Science (BIDS) University of California, San Diego
October 7, 2026	Why ICU Delirium Matters: Implications for Survivorship and Opportunities to Improve Outcomes	Ana Lucia Fuentes Baldarrago, MD Fellow, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology University of California, San Diego
October 14, 2026	The alpha-gal syndrome, including the severe end of immune and allergic reactions (including tryptase!) that result from eating our near relatives after receiving tick bites from A. americanum	Thomas Platts-Mills, MD Professor of Medicine and Microbiology; University of Virginia Health Center
October 21, 2026	Decongestion in Heart Failure - Diuretics and More!	Nicholas Wettersten, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Heart Failure and Transplant University of California, San Diego
October 28, 2026	From Harm to Healing: The Science of Working Smart	Marisha Burden, MD, MBA, FACP, SFHM Professor of Medicine Division Head of Hospital Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine
November 4, 2026	TBD	Sandra Springer, MD Professor Of Medicine Yale School of Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases Yale AIDS Program
November 11, 2026	Veteran's Day
November 18, 2026	Age-Dependent Neuroinflammatory Effects of Red Blood Cells	Kiana Aran, PhD Associate Professor Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, and Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Care, School of Medicine, Co-Director- Center for Technologies for Healthy Aging. Institute of Engineering in Medicine
November 25, 2026	Thanksgiving Break
December 2, 2026	The Therapeutic Renaissance in Chronic Kidney Disease: Saving Kidneys, Hearts and Lives	Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF Executive Director for Research Providence Inland Northwest Health Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Kidney Research Institute University of Washington School of Medicine Katherine.Tuttle@providence.org
December 9, 2026	TBD: Multiple Myeloma	Caitlin Costello, MD Professor of Medicine Interim Chief, Hematology & Cellular Therapy
December 16, 2026	Behavioral interventions for older adults with Pain and Depression: the MOTIVATE study	Una Makris, MD Chief of Rheumatology at the VA
December 23, 2026	Winter Break
December 30, 2026	Winter Break

January 2027 - June 2027

Date	Title	Speaker
January 6, 2027	Lipoprotein(a) – Taking Center Stage	Harpreet Bhatia, MD, MAS, FACC Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine UC San Diego
January 13, 2027	TBD	Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Regenerative Medicine UC San Diego
January 20, 2027	TBD	Hannah Carter, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Genomics & Precision Medicine UC San Diego
January 27, 2027	TBD	Gregory Botta, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Medical Oncology UC San Diego
February 3, 2027	TBD	Niel Patel, MD Chief Medical Resident May Kyaw, MD Chief Medical Resident
February 10, 2027	TBD	Veeral Ajmera, MD, MAS Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology UC San Diego
February 17, 2027	TBD	Edmundo Esparza, MD Chief Medical Resident
February 24, 2027	TBD	TBD
March 3, 2027	Navigating Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules in the Era of AI and Advanced Bronchoscopy	Keriann Van Nostrand, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Program Director
March 10, 2027	TBD	Reva Peer, MD Chief Medical Resident Julia Yuan, MD Chief Medical Resident
March 17, 2027	TBD	Annemarie Wensing, MD, PhD Clinical Virologist Translational Virology Research Group \| Department of Global Health and Bio-ethics \| Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care \| 6.1.31 \| University Medical Center Utrecht \| PO Box 85060 \| 3508 AB UTRECHT \| the Netherlands Honorary Professor at Ezintsha Institute \| Faculty of Health Sciences \| University of the Witwatersrand \| Johannesburg \| South Africa
March 24, 2027	TBD	Becca Luterman, MD Chief Medical Resident Karyn Sheline, MD Chief Medical Resident
March 31, 2027	Chronobiology - Night Shift Work	Alan Moazzam, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine UC San Diego
April 7, 2027	TBD	Lisa Madlensky, PhD, CGC Professor of Medicine Division of Genomics & Precision Medicine UC San Diego
April 14, 2027	What Your Mother Never Taught You About HbA1c	Irl B. Hirsch, MD, MACP Professor of Medicine UW Medicine Diabetes Institute Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition \| UW Medicine
April 21, 2027	TBD	TBD
April 28, 2027	(DOM Research Day)	Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD Senior Investigator Scientific Director NIA
May 5, 2027	Mapping Susceptibility to Complex Disease with Genome-Wide Association Studies	Tiffany Amariuta, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Biomedical Informatics UC San Diego
May 12, 2027	TBD	Eric Schmidt, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School; Chief and Andrew M. Tager, MD Endowed Chair Massachusetts General Hospital
May 19, 2027	Advances in Drug Allergy Evaluation and Delabeling	Alexander Kim, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Allergy & Immunology UC San Diego
May 26, 2027	TBD	TBD
June 2, 2027	TBD	Robert Signer, PhD Associate Professor Division of Regenerative Medicine UC San Diego
June 9, 2027	TBD	TBD
June 16, 2027	Blood-Based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: Novel Insights into Risk Profiles, Cognitive Aging, and Healthy Longetivity	Aladdin H. Shadyab, PhD Associate Professor Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine
June 23, 2027	TBD	TBD

CME Credit

Attendees must sign up on CloudCME to receive CME credit. A code will be provided to claim your credit at the time of the lecture.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.