Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds take place each Thursday at noon in the Pauly Auditorium (Rahn Building, Room G19). Grand Rounds are recorded, with the links to each presentation below (as soon as the recordings are available).
2024
- 12/12/24 – “Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)- An overview and address barriers for medication use in AUD”
Ramakrishna Thotakura, M.D.,MBA
Assistant Professor
Direct Care Hospitalist
UAMS
Recording starts at 27 minutes - 12/5/24 – “Cardiology on High Beam: Obstacles and Opportunities”
Joseph A. Hill, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology
James T. Willerson M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases
Frank M. Ryburn, Jr. Chair in Heart Research
Director, Harry S. Moss Heart Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Recording starts at 16 minutes - 11/21/24 – “Racism in Pulmonary Function Testing? The Struggle for Fairness.”
Thaddeus Barter, M.D.
Professor
Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratories at UAMS and the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital
Recording starts at 31 minutes - 11/14/24 – “Just another community acquired pneumonia? Endemic Fungal Respiratory Infections”
Kathy Liverett, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Disease
Associate Medical Director of Infection Prevention
UAMS
Recording starts at 20 minutes - 11/7/24 – “Germ Cell Tumor: Model of a Curable Cancer“
Shi-Ming Tu, M.D.
Professor and Director, Solid Tumors Section
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Recording starts at 15 minutes - 10/31/24 – “Reducing Line-Associated Infections”
Jeremy Rowe, D.O.
Assistant Professor
UAMS Department of Internal Medicine
Recording starts at 26 minutes - 10/24/24 – “Approaching Inpatient Code Status Discussions”
Charlie Kincaid, M.D.
Assistant Professor
UAMS Division of Palliative Care
Recording starts at 14 minutes - 10/17/24 – “An Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts”
V. Raman Muthusamy, M.D., MAS
Leon J. Tiber, M.D., and David S. Alpert, M.D., Chair in Medicine
Director of Endoscopy, UCLA Health System
Professor of Clinical Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Recording starts at 26 minutes - 10/10/24 – “Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN): Career Journey and Reflections on Researching a Rare Disease”
Naveen Pemmaraju, M.D.
Professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, Executive Director, MDACC Cancer Network for Cancer Medicine Director, Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN) Program University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Recording starts at 17 minutes - https://uams.zoom.us/rec/share/WsIFu4yh5yD7wG8Hs7ZVf99Y6vuYeFVayNyXakM8E76dtpDQGoLUY_KmwXflueiP.Nx6Zwb62gkE54UNP
- 10/3/24 – “Pitfalls and pearls in the evaluation of pheochromocytoma”
Lakshmi Menon, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Endocrinology
Recording starts at 17 minutes. - 9/26/2024 – “Can CKD Progression be Stopped?”
Leslie Gewin, M.D.
Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Recording starts at 32 minutes. - 9/19/2024 – “Lung nodules: Evolution and advancements“
Jose Caceres, M.D.
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonary
Recording starts at 23 minutes. - 9/12/2024 – “Catheter Ablation of Regular Supraventricular Tachycardias for the Internist”
Hakan Paydak, M.D., FACC, FHRS
Professor and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology program and laboratory at UAMS.
Recording starts at 18 minutes! - 9/5/2024 – MOC presentation “Human Ehrlichiosis for the Internist”
Kelsey Besett, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine
Recording starts at 18 minutes!
Passcode: 3Y75gkM* - 8/29/2024 – “Immunization in the Face of Collective Amnesia”
Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D., MACP
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, UAMS
Medical Director, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Recording starts at 29 minutes!
Passcode: !8*Ks9%t - 8/22/2024 – “Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis (ASUC)”
Mohammad Alomari, M.D.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
Recording starts at 15 minutes!
Passcode: *3FC22zh - 8/15/2024 – “Research Careers in Medicine”
John Arthur, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Nephrology and KL2 director
Recording starts at 20 minutes!
Passcode: I@NDZK3 - 8/8/2024 – “Context Matters Verily, a discussion of Cytomegalovirus and an updated approach to management”
Mitchell B Jenkins, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Recording starts at 21 minutes!
Passcode: EBew*y0q - 8/1/2024 – “Saturnine Gout Redux: Past, Present, and Future”
Sam R. Dalvi, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Rheumatology, and Immunology
Eleanor Lipsmeyer Endowed Professorship
Recording starts at 15 minutes!
Passcode: HcxD+99x - 7/24/24 –“Controversies in Hypothyroidism”
A. Mazin Safar, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology Division, CAVHS and UAMS (the presentation begins around the 21 -minute mark Passcode: 37tb$!Xd ) - 7/18/24 –“Controversies in Hypothyroidism”
Spyridoula Maraka, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Program Director of Endocrinology Fellowship, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (the presentation begins around the 24 -minute mark Passcode: 1$#KP&So) - 7/11/24 –“Hack Your Bureaucracy: Making Lasting Change in Bureaucratic Organizations”
Marina Nitze
Author of Hack your Bureaucracy and Former Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the presentation begins around the 35 -minute mark Passcode: jDT=Vf7=) - 7/4/24 – Canceled
- 6/27/24 – Canceled
- 6/20/24 –“Implementation Science for the Internist- a Panel Discussion”
Sheena CarlLee, M.D., FACP
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine-NW, Program Director, UAMS- Washington Reginal International Medicine Residency Program (the presentation begins around the 16 -minute mark Passcode: @801UiMJ) - 6/20/24 –“Implementation Science for the Internist- a Panel Discussion”
Sheena CarlLee, M.D., FACP
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine-NW, Program Director, UAMS- Washington Reginal International Medicine Residency Program (the presentation begins around the 16-minute mark Passcode: @801UiMJ) - 6/13/24 –“Implementation Science for the Internist- a Panel Discussion”
Deepa Raghavan, M.D., FCCP, FACP
Division of Pulmonary, University of Arkansas for Medical Science College of Medicine (the presentation begins around the 27 -minute mark Password: ?6ErjKDS) - 6/6/24 –“Optimizing Bone Health in Patients with Breast Cancer”
Joy Wu, M.D., Ph.D., FASBMR
Associate Professor of Medicine Endocrinology, Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism, Vice Chair, Basic and Translational Science, Department of Medicine (the presentation begins around the 20 -minute mark Passcode: mhR0L.W=) - 5/30/24 –“Liver Transplantation Update: 2024”
Katie Rude, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine (the presentation begins around the 20 -minute mark) - 5/23/24 –“IO—ongoing learning”
Ahmed Safar, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology (the presentation begins around the 24 -minute mark) - 5/16/24 –“Contemporary HIV Treatment and Prevention 2024: Overcoming Barriers to PrEP Uptake”
David Wohl, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Site Leader, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit-Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Director, North Carolina AIDS Training and Education Center Chapel Hill, North Carolina Co-Director for HIV Services, North Carolina Department of Corrections, Raleigh, North Carolina (the presentation begins around the 48 -minute mark) - 5/09/24 –“With Great Risk Comes Great Innovation: The Transcatheter Story in 2024”
Michael Luna, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Interventional Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, Director, Structural Heart Disease Program University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital (the presentation begins around the 14.40 -minute mark) - 5/02/24 –“IgA Nephropathy: Pathogenesis and Treatment Options of the Horizon”
Dana Rizk, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Anupam Agarwal, MD Endowed Professor in Nephrology, Director of UAB Glomerular Kidney Disease Clinic Director of Clinical Trials Research, nephrology Division, Medical Director of Clinical Trials Administrative Office (the presentation begins around the 14 -minute mark) - 4/25/24 –“Inflammatory Markers: Diagnostic Heroes or Just Muddying the Water?”
Emily Pruitt, M.D.
Academic Hospitalist, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Chair of the UAMS Pregnancy and Parenthood Support Committee for Resident Physicians (the presentation begins around the 41 -minute mark) - 4/18/24 –“Prognostication”
Chitra Nadagoundla, M.D.
Assistant professor, Internal Medicine. (the presentation begins around the 12 -minute mark) - 4/11/24 –“Colon Cancer screening Update: When do we start? When do we stop?”
Joanne A. P. Wilson M.D., FACP, AGAF
Professor Emeritus – Medicine and Gastroenterology Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC Past Secretary of American Gastroenterological Association,Past President of American Clinical & Climatological Association (the presentation begins around the 29 -minute mark) - 4/04/24 –“Sickle Cell Disease: Need for a multidisciplinary approach and recent advances.”
Sunny RK Singh, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Director, Adult Sickle Cell Program, Director, UAMS- Baptist Cancer Center, North Little Rock, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, UAMS (the presentation begins around the 48 -minute mark) - 3/28/24 –“Stroke prevention in AF- Past, Present and Future”
Subodh Devabhaktuni M.D., FACC, FHRS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director of Cardiovascular Fellowship, Associate Program Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship (the presentation begins around the 16.30 -minute mark) - 3/21/24 –“Airways and Airway Clearance in Health and Disease”
Larry G. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Director, Div. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Care Center Director, Department of Internal Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (the presentation begins around the 25 -minute mark) - 3/14/24 – “Exploring the mysteries of Autoimmune Hepatitis”
Alan Bonder, M.D., AGAF
Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Liver Transplant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School (the presentation begins around the 31-minute mark) - 3/07/24 – “An Implantable Artificial Kidney: Progress and Opportunities”
Shuvo Roy, Ph.D.
Professor and Researcher Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Fransisco (the presentation begins around the 34.30-minute mark) - 2/29/24 – “Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: A Surgeon’s POV”
Raj Patel, M.D.
Abdominal Transplant Surgeon/HPB Surgeon (the presentation begins around the 19-minute mark) - 2/22/24 – “Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia”
Ryan Dare, M.D., FACP, FIDSA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, UAMS Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director, UAMS Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Co-Director, Baptist Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (the presentation begins around the 30-minute mark) - 2/15/24 – “Management of Opioid Use Disorder: Pearls for the General Internist”
Anne Montgomery, M.D.
Associate Program Director, UAMS/ Washington Regional Internal Medicine Residency Program Medical Director, Washington Regional Plaza Internal Medicine Clinic (the presentation begins around the 23-minute mark) - 2/08/24 – “Osteoporosis: A 2024 Update”
Elena Ambrogini. M.D. Ph.D
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedics, University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Staff Endocrinologist and research Scientist, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (the presentation begins around the 19-minute mark) - 2/01/24 – “The Evolving Landscape of Precision Oncology”
Donald J. Johnson, M.D., M.Sc., FACP
Professor, College of Medicine, Director, UAMS Genomics Sequencing Facility University of Arkansas for Medical Science, (the presentation begins around the 57-minute mark)
- 1/25/24 – “They Put Drugs in my Drugs?” A Recent History of Street Drug Adulterants“
Ari Filip, M.D.
Medical Director, Arkansas Poison and Drug Infromation Center, Assistant Professor UAMS College of Pharmacy, Clinical Assistant Professor, UAMS College of Medicine, (the presentation begins around the 32-minute mark)
- 1/18/24 – ” GLP Agonists – An overview and current updates”
Bharat Reddy Dhanireddy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, (the presentation begins around the 23-minute mark)
- 1/11/24 –“Interventional Pulmonology: What do they even do?”
Nikhil Meena, M.D., FCCP
Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Program Director Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship, Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine UAMS (the presentation begins around the 45-minute mark)
- 1/4/24 –“Peripheral Arterial Disease – an overview”
Mohammed M. Moursi, M.D.
Professor, Vascular Surgery, Division Chief, UAMS Vascular and Endovascular Sugery Chief Vascular Surgery, VA (the presentation begins around the 22-minute mark)