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, 12:15 - 1:15 pm
- Location: 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161 (3rd Floor VAMC Conference Room 3004)
- Zoom Webinar ID: 836 5576 2804
Holidays
No Medicine Grand Rounds on observed holidays
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2024-2025 Grand Rounds Schedule
August 2024 - December 2024
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| August 28, 2024 | Tirzepatide for Sleep Apnea and for MASLD | Atul Malhotra, MD Professor; Vice Chair of Research Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc Professor; Chief | Division of Gastroenterology |
| September 4, 2024 | Improving Diabetes Care | Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP President | American Diabetes Association |
| September 11, 2024 | Molecular Epidemiology for HIV Prevention | Sanjay Mehta, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology; Chief | VA Infectious Diseases; Director | Microbiology Laborator SD VAMC |
| September 18, 2024 |
Decoding Lung Cancer: From Research to Reality
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Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD Professor of Medicine; Lung Cancer Unit Leader; Director | Hematology and Oncology Training Program |
| September 25, 2024 | Alcohol Associated Hepatitis: Current state and Future state |
Vijay Shah, MD Dean of Research | Mayo Rochester |
| October 2, 2024 | Triple Negative Breast Cancer | Rebecca Shatsky, MD Associate Professor; Breast Medical Oncology Co-Team Leader; Scientific Director Inflammatory and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Program; UC San Diego Comprehensive Breast Health Team |
| October 9, 2024 | Tackling the Health AI Paradox | Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed; Chair in Digital Health Innovation; Chief Health AI Officer; Associate CMIO for Inpatient Care |
| October 16, 2024 | Current Understanding of Addiction and a Brief Substance Use Disorder Treatment Update | Carla Marienfeld, MD, DFAPA, FASAM HS Clinical Professor; Medical Director | Substance Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Program; Program Director | Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship |
| October 23, 2024 | Health Sector Emissions: Opportunities for Mitigation | Wynne Armand, MD Associate Director | Center for the Environment and Health; Physician | Division of General Internal Medicine; Assistant Professor | Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital |
| October 30, 2024 |
A Comprehensive Approach to Women's Musculoskeletal Health |
Gina Woods, MD Associate Professor; Chief | Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| November 6, 2024 | Angioedema: Is there a biological function and what leads to its dysfunction? |
Tukisa Smith, MD, MS, FAAAAI Health Sciences Clinical Associate Professor |
| November 13, 2024 | APOL1-mediated kidney disease: a long journey to precision medicine | Alexander Bullen, MD Assistant Professor Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, UC San Diego |
| November 20, 2024 | Mitigating Disparities in Pre-Term Birth |
Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS, FACOG |
| November 27, 2024 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 4, 2024 | Alveolar Type 2 Cell Rejuvenation as a Window into Reversing Pulmonary Fibrosis and Promoting Lung Healthspan | Paul Noble, MD Professor | Department of Medicine; Director | Women's Guild Lung Institute; Vera and Paul Guerin Family Distinguished Chair in Pulmonary Medicine | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| December 11, 2024 | Antibody Deficiency: Learning from our patients (Wasserman Lecture) |
Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD David S. Gottesman Professor; Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics | The Prism Immunology Institute | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| December 18, 2024 | Your Legs, Your Life. The Importance of a Healthy Lower Half. |
Matthew Allison, MD, MPH, RPVI, FAHA Professor and Division Chief | Division of Preventive Medicine UC San Diego |
| December 25, 2024 | Winter Break |
January 2025 - June 2025
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| January 1, 2025 | Winter Break | |
| January 8, 2025 | Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination (Oxman Lecture) |
Florian Krammer, PhD Professor | Department of Microbiology; Professor | Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine; Co-Director | Center for Vaccine Research and Pandemic Preparedness (C-VaRPP); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York |
| January 15, 2025 | Primary and Secondary Prevention of Gastric Cancer in the United States: From Theory to Practice in the United States |
Shailja Shah, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine |
| January 22, 2025 | CART for the Treatment of T cell Malignancies (Ranney Lecture) | John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD Virginia E. and Samuel J. Goldman Professor of Medicine and Immunology; Director | Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy; Washington University School of Medicine |
| January 29, 2025 |
Substance Use Disorder among Older Adults: Addressing Multimorbidity and Geriatric Conditions |
Benjamin Han, MD, MPH Associate Professor Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care University of California, San Diego |
| February 5, 2025 | Empowerment and Agency in Global Health: Partnerships and Practice |
Rebecka Lundgren, PhD, MPH Lotus McDougal, PhD, MPH |
| February 12, 2025 | Advancing HIV and STI Prevention and Equity Among US MSM and TGW |
Hyman Scott, MD, MPH Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine |
| February 19, 2025 | TBD | David Timmer, MD Chief Medical Resident Maedha Begur, MD Chief Medical Resident |
| February 26, 2025 | ILD MythBusters: from Basic concepts to Multidisciplinary care |
Jisha Joshua, MD Associate Professor |
| March 5, 2025 | TBD | Robert Terkeltaub, MD Professor of Medicine (Emeritus); Univeristy of California, San Diego; Division of Rheumatology, Autoimmunity, and Inflammation |
| March 12, 2025 | Precision Medicine in Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
Anna R. Hemnes, MD |
| March 19, 2025 | PTH and Fracture | Susan Bukata, MD Professor |
| March 26, 2025 | TBD | David Agdashian, MD Zoya Qureshy, MD |
| April 2, 2025 | TBD | Danielle D'Annibale, MD Natalie Colaneri, MD |
| April 9, 2025 | Understanding the Brain's Role in the Pathogenesis of Diabetes and its Treatment (1st Annual Daniel Porte Memorial Lecture) |
Michael W. Schwartz, MD Robert H. Williams Endowed Chair; Professor of Medicine | University of Washington |
| April 16, 2025 | The Homestead Project: HR @ Home and Remote Monitoring | Hao Tran, MD Associate Professor |
| April 23, 2025 | TBD (Zvaifler Lecture) | David Karp, MD, PhD Chief | Division of Rheumatic Diseases |
| April 30, 2025 | DOM Research Day | |
| May 7, 2025 | TBD | |
| May 14, 2025 | TBD | |
| May 21, 2025 | Dementia and Dying Well: Winter's End | Lewis Cohen, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry | Tufts University School of Medicine |
| May 28, 2025 | Resident Research | TBD |
| June 4, 2025 | TBD | April Butler, MD Chief Medical Resident |
| June 11, 2025 | Resident Research | TBD |
| June 18, 2025 | TBD (Mende Lecture) | 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.