Grand Rounds

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.

2022

• 11/17/2022 – “Targeting fundamental aging mechanisms to treat osteoporosis and other age-related co-morbidities”
  Sundeep Khosla, M.D. (Dr. Francis Chucker and Nathan Landow Research Professor, Mayo Foundation Distinguished Investigator, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science) 
• 11/10/2022 – “COPD management beyond inhalers: Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction”
  Jose Diego Caceres, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology)
• 11/3/2022 – “Approach to Headache”
  Scott A. Lucchese, M.D., FAHS (Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) 
• 10/27/2022 – “Failed ERCP: Role of EUS”
  Felix Téllez-Ávila, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., FASGE (Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) 
• 10/20/2022 – “Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus” Jeff Sands, M.D. (Juha P. Kakka Professor of Medicine, Renal Division Director, Emory University School of Medicine) *Due to technical issues, there is no recording
• 10/13/2022 – “Expedition Medicine”
  Gregory H. Blesdoe, M.D., MPH, MBA (Surgeon General for the State of Arkansas; Medical Director of the Emergency Department, Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Russellville, AR)
• 10/6/2022 – “Drug versus Therapy Development: Tale of Two Cancers:
  Shi-Ming Tu, M.D. (Professor and Director, Solid Tumors Section; Division of Hematology and Oncology) 
• 9/29/2022 – “Expanding Horizon of Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging – Overview of Cardiac MRI”
  Tushar Tarun, M.D. (Chief Quality Officer, Cardiovascular Service Line; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine)
• 9/22/2022 – “Long-term Survival After Kidney Transplantation”
  Sundaram Hariharan, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
• 9/15/2022 – “Heart Failure: An Immune-Medicated Disease” 
  Sumanth D. Prabhu, M.D. (Tobias and Hortense Lewin Distinguished Professor; Chief, Division of Cardiology; Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine)
• 9/8/2022 – “Mentoring QI: the Art of & Science of Building Opportunities”
  Sara G. Tariq, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Associate Dean, Student Affairs; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

• 9/1/2022 – “Insights Into the Pathogenesis of Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis”
  Timothy S. Blackwell, M.D. (Rudy W. Jacobson Chair in Pulmonary Medicine; Director, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Lung Institute; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1161 21^st Ave. S., Suite T-1217 MCN, Nashville, TN  37232-2650) 
  *Due to technical issues, only the last half of the conference was recorded 
  
• 8/25/2022 – “Hospital Acquired Infections: A Call to Action”
  Hazel “ Kathy” Liverett, M.D.  (Pronouns: she/her/hers, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Medical Director for Infection Prevention, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

• 8/18/2022 – “Respiratory Failure due to neuromuscular disorders”
  Rajani Jagana, M.D., FCCP (Associate Professor; Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program; Medical Director, Respiratory Care Services, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

• 8/11/2022 – “Nephrologists’ Role in the Management of Patients with Liver Failure”
  Nithin Karakala, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Director of Inpatient Dialysis) 
• 8/4/2022 – “Management of Portal Hypertension – the Changing Paradigm”
  Ragesh Thandassery, M.D. (Gastroenterology/Hepatology Staff Physician and Liver Program Director, CAVHS, Little Rock; VISN-16 MD Lead for Advanced Liver Disease & Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock)

• 7/28/2022 – “Nephrotoxicity: Common Clinical Scenarios” 
  Nadia Alqurini, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine)
• 7/21/2022 – “Systemic Sclerosis: A Clinical Update on Treatment”
  Virginia Steen, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital)
• 7/14/2022 – “Re-thinking Metastasis: Healthcare Implications” 
  Ahmed M. Safar, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, UAMS & CAVHS)
• 7/7/2022 – “Pulmonary Hypertension and The Role of Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension”
  Kalaivani Sivakumar, M.D. (Medical Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation, UAMS)
• 6/9/2022 – “Dueling the Dual Pandemic: Nutrition, Ethnicity, COVID-19 and CV Mortality” 
  Kim Allan Williams, Sr., M.D., MACC, FAHA, MASNC, FESC (James B. Herrick Professor, Chief, Division of Cardiology; Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Rush University Medical Center; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention)
• 6/2/2022 – “Bias in Evaluation: Can a letter of recommendation contribute to systemic inequity?” 
  Alice P. Alexander, M.D., FAAP, FACP (Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Program Director, Med-Peds Residency; Vice Chair for Education, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
• 5/26/2022 – “Adrenal Incidentalomas: Clinical Significance and Evaluation”
  Lakshmi P. Menon, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Program Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Program; Division of Endocrinology, UAMS)
• 5/19/2022 – “Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Medicine” 
  Larry G. Johnson, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Chair, DEI Committee, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
• 5/12/2022 – “Network Medicine: Novel Approach to Cardiovascular Disease and Therapeutics” 
  Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Ph.D. (Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, Soma Weiss, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
• 5/5/2022 – “Mechanisms of Renal Dysfunction in Cirrhosis”
  Luis A. Juncos, M.D. (Nephrology at CAVHS, Professor of Medicine UAMS)
• 4/28/2022 – “The Gut Microbiota: Current and Future Perspectives”
  Cem Cengiz, M.D. (Chief of Gastroenterology at John L. McClellan VA Hospital, Assistant Professor at UAMS)
• 4/14/2022 – “Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease. 1839-2022. Overview and What’s New”
  Ramakrishna Thotakura, M.D., MBA (Assistant Professor, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology)
• 4/7/2022 – “Castleman Disease 70 Years Later” 
  Frits van Rhee, M.D., Ph.D., MRCP(UK), FRCPath (Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director, Myeloma Center; Charles and Clydene Scharlau Chair for Hematologic Malignancies Research)
• 3/31/2022 – “Things We Do for No Reason (that Increase Patients’ Suffering)” 
  Nicholas Gowen, M.D., FACP (Academic Hospitalist; VA Site Director Internal Medicine Residency Program, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System; Internal Medicine Residency Associate Program Director; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
• 3/24/2022 – “Cardiac CT as a Class I Indication for Workup Chest Pain”
  Subhi Al Aref, M.D. (Director of Cardiac CT, Assistant Professor of Medicine – Division of Cardiology)
• 3/10/2022 – “Outpatient COVID Management: Evolving Paradigm, Avoiding Missed Opportunities” 
  Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D., MACP, FAAP (Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine)
• 3/3/2022 – “Internists Guide to Obesity Medicine”
  Dinesh Edem, M.D., DABOM (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS; Director, Medical Weight Management Program)
• 2/24/2022 – “Infectious Diseases of Public Health Importance in Arkansas (Non Vaccine Preventable)”
  Atul Kothari, M.D. (Medical Director, Healthcare Associated Infections Program; Associate Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Branch; Associate Director of Science, Center for Health Protection; Arkansas Department of Health)
• 2/17/2022 – “Shifting Paradigm in Asthma Therapies”
  Krishna Kakkera, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, UAMS)
• 2/10/2011 – “Exploring the Causes of Obesity, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Insights on the Role of Fructose and Sugar” 
  Richard J. Johnson, M.D. (Tomas Berl Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, 12700 East 19th Ave, RC-2 Research Building, Rm 7012, Mail Stop C281, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO  80045)
• 1/27/2022 – “ANCA – Associated Vasculitis” 
  Philip Seo, M.D., MHS (Director, the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
• 1/20/2022 – “COVID and Anticoagulation – an evolving topic” 
  Sreelakshmi Ravula, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology and Hospital Medicine)
• 1/13/2022 – “AL – Amyloidosis: Hidden Gem and Secret Spot”
  Sharmilan Thanendrarajan, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine)
• 1/6/2022 – “Treating Heart Failure in 2022”  
  Kalaivani Sivakumar, M.D. (Medical Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation)