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

November 27, 2024 — Thanksgiving
December 25, 2024 —Holiday Break
January 1, 2025 - New Year's Day

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	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 Samuel SC Yen Endowed Chair; Department Chair \| Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Professor \| Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics, and Gynecology; UC San Diego Health Sciences
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 Adjunct Associate Professor \| Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health; Executive Director \| Center for Gender, Equity, and Health Lotus McDougal, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor \| Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health; Director of Gender Data and Metrics \| Center on Gender Equity and Health
February 12, 2025	Advancing HIV and STI Prevention and Equity Among US MSM and TGW	Hyman Scott, MD, MPH Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine \| University of California San Francisco; Clinical Research Medical Director at Bridge HIV \| San Francisco Department of Public Health
February 19, 2025	GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Cardiovascular Disease: Not Your Ordinary Weight Loss Drug Drop the Beat: Conduction Disorders after Donation after Circulatory Death Orthotropic Heart Transplantation	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 Clinical Professor of Medicine Director of Advanced Lung Disease Program Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine University of California, San Diego
March 5, 2025	Game-changing developments in gout	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 Director \| Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Center for Lung Research; Physician-in-Chief \| Vanderbilt Lung Institute; Co-Director \| Pulmonary Circulation Center; Elsa S. Hanigan Professor of Medicine \| Vanderbilt University Medical Center
March 19, 2025	Flipping Osteoporosis Treatments on Their Heads: New Dogs and New Tricks	Susan Bukata, MD, FAAOS, FAOA Professor and Chair Orthopaedic Surgery UC San Diego
March 26, 2025	Regional Differences in Diastolic Function: Is it Time to Look Beyond the Base? Expanding Mentorship in Classical Hematology	David Agdashian, MD Chief Medical Resident Zoya Qureshy, MD Chief Medical Resident
April 2, 2025	Every Word Matters: Overcoming Language Barriers in Clinical Practice Lessons from Greece: Forced Displacement as a Social Determinant of Health and the Importance of Culture in Health Care	Danielle D'Annibale, MD Chief Medical Resident Physician UCSD Internal Medicine Natalie Colaneri, MD Chief Medical Resident
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	Re-Defining Autoimmune Diseases: The Pathway to Prevention (Nathan J. Zvaifler Lecture)	David Karp, MD, PhD Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chief Rheumatic Diseases Division Fredye Factor Chair in Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Harold C. Simmons Chair in Arthitis Research UT Southwestern Medical Center
April 30, 2025	The Magic of RNA: New Medicines, Immortality, and the Power of Control Evolution (DOM Research Day)	Thomas R. Cech, PhD Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry Investigator, HHMI University of Colorado Boulder
May 7, 2025	Letermovir for CMV Suppression Improves Immunologic and Functional Aging Outcomes in Treated HIV	Sara Gianella Weibel, MD Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health Director, ACTG San Diego Virology Specialty Lab Co-Director, HIV and Other Pandemics (HOPE) Fellowship Program University of California San Diego
May 14, 2025	TBD	Timothy Wilkin, MD, MPH
May 21, 2025	Dementia and Dying Well: Winter's End (Presented by Faye Girsh Medical Aid in Dying Endowed Lecture)	Lewis Cohen, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry Tufts University School of Medicine
May 28, 2025	Resident Research	TBD
June 4, 2025	Narrative Medicine	April Butler, MD Chief Medical Resident
June 11, 2025	Resident Research	TBD
June 18, 2025	TBD (Mende Lecture)	Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc

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.