2016 Grand Rounds | UAMS Department of Internal Medicine

12/15/2016 — Hepatocellular Carcinoma and the Role of Liver Transplantation

Mary K. Rude, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, DOIM, UAMS)

12/8/2016 — Navigating Uncharted Waters: Our Changing Health Care System and Its Impact

Joseph Thompson, M.D., M.P.H. (Professor and Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, COM, COPH, UAMS)

12/1/2016 — Endurance Exercise – Potential Deleterious Cardiac Effects

David Rutlen, M.D. (Professor and Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

11/17/2016 — New and Improved: Imaging Decision Support in Epic at UAMS (no link available)

James E. McDonald, M.D. (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology; Director, Imaging Service Line, UAMS)

11/10/2016 — Shoot First: Ask Questions Later! Adult Immunization Update

Robert H. Hopkins, M.D. (Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

11/3/2016 — Airway Disaster Management

Rawle A. Seupaul, M.D. (Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Service Line, UAMS)

10/27/2016 — Diabetic Nephropathy: Treatment and Prediction of Progression

John M. Arthur, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor and Director, Division of Nephrology, DOIM, UAMS)

10/20/2016 — Physiology and Clinical Use of Hematopoietic Growth Factors

David J. Kuter, M.D., D.Phil. (Chief of Hematology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School)

10/13/2016 — Two Centuries of Fluid Resuscitation: Past, Present, and Future

Howard Corwin, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, DOIM, UAMS)

10/6/2016 — Therapeutic Challenges During RAAS Blockade in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Nishank Jain, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, DOIM, UAMS)

9/29/2016 — Caring for Older Cancer Patients: To Treat or Not to Treat

Issam Makhoul, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Medical Oncology, DOIM, UAMS)

9/22/2016 — Meet Obeticholic Acid – A New Drug to Treat PBC (And Maybe More)

Jonathan A. Dranoff, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, DOIM, UAMS)

9/15/2016 — Role of Laboratory Tests in Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatologic Diseases

Nasim Khan, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, DOIM, UAMS)

9/8/2016 — Novel Psychoactive Substances in Arkansas, a Poison Centers’ Experience and Perspective

Keith R. McCain, Pharm.D. (Associate Professor, Dept. Pharmacy Practice, COP, UAMS; Clinical Toxicologist, AR Poison & Drug Information Center)

9/1/2016 — Atherosclerosis, Osteoporosis and Innate Immunity: an Emerging Link

Elena Ambrogini, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, DOIM, UAMS)

8/25/2016 — Reducing Inpatient Harm: What Works?

Aaron S. Wenger, M.D. (Associate Professor, Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

8/18/2016 — Assessing Emerging Risk Factors and Predictive CHD Symptoms in Women

Jean McSweeney, R.N., Ph.D. (Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Co-Director, PhD Program, College of Nursing, UAMS)

8/11/2016 — Challenges in Controlling Chlamydia, America’s Most Commonly Reported Infection

William M. Geisler, M.D., M.P.H. (Professor of Medicine; Clinical Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; University of Alabama, Birmingham)

8/4/2016 — Stroke Prevention and Treatment 2016

James D. Marsh, M.D. (Nolan Professor and Chair, DOIM, UAMS)

7/28/2016 — Allogeneic Transplant – Background, Immunological Aspects and Complications

Yogesh S. Jethava, M.D. (Assistant Professor; Division of Hematology, DOIM, UAMS)

7/14/2016 — Exercise and Cardioprotection: Exercising at the Extremes

Jawahar L. Mehta, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

7/7/2016 — Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease: Does it require specific PAH Therapy?

Shoaib Alam, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

6/30/2016 — Cardiovascular Stress Testing in the Evaluation of Chest Pain: Helpful, Harmful or Misapplied?

Allison M. Shaw-Devine, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

6/23/2016 — Current and Future Perspectives: Colorectal Cancer as a Prototype

Liudmila N. Schafer, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Hematology/Oncology, DOIM, UAMS)

6/16/2016 — Volume Management in Critically Ill Patients. Is More Better?”

Nithin Karakala, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Nephrology, DOIM, UAMS)

6/9/2016 — Management of H. pylori Infection in 2016

Colin W. Howden, M.D. (Hyman Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

6/2/2016 — Anticoagulation 2016

Robert Lavender, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Division of General Internal Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

5/26/2016 — The ABC’s of CHF: Intervention for a Failing Heart

Zubair Ahmed, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, DOIM, UAMS)

5/19/2016 — Cancer Immunotherapy

Issam Makhoul, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Hematology/Oncology, DOIM, UAMS)

5/12/2016 — Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Disorder for the Internist

John E. Nestler, M.D. (William Branch Porter Professor of Medicine; Chair, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University)

5/5/2016 — Advances in the Medical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Thomas Y. Ma, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology & Physiology; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of New Mexico Hospitals)

4/28/2016 — Role of Coronary Physiology in the Contemporary Evaluation and Management of Ischemic Heart Disease

Abdul Hakeem, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

4/21/2016 — Blood Transfusion: Where are we after 350 years? Myths, Facts, & Future Directions

Howard Corwin, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Director, Critical Care Services; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

4/14/2016 — Guideline-directed perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery: a case-based discussion

Barry Uretsky, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Director, Interventional Cardiology; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

4/7/2016 — Clostridium Difficile (link coming soon)

Matthew Burns, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

3/31/2016 — The Link Between Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease

John M. Arthur M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

3/24/2016 — When Life Gives you Lemons, Make Lemonade: a True Alcoholic Story

Andres Duarte-Rojo M.D., M.Sc., D.Sc. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)

3/17/2016 — Evaluation of Syncope

Hakan Paydak, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

3/10/2016 — Should We Continue Cancer Screening? The Pros and Cons (no link available)

Issam Makhoul, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Hematology/Oncology Division, UAMS)

A. Mazin Safar, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, UAMS)

3/3/2016 — Transforming Arkansas Healthcare at Scale (no link available)

William Golden, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)

2/25/2016 — Transgender Patients: Coming to your Clinic Soon

Deborah Bursey, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

2/18/2016 — A Delicate Balance – the Complement System and Inflammatory Kidney Disease

Joshua M. Thurman, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine)

2/11/2016 — Myths, Science, and a Practical Approach to Chronic Abdominal Pain

Nicholas N. Gowen, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)

2/4/2016 — Low Back Pain-Diagnosis and Current Treatments

Jonathan H. Goree, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Director, Interventional Pain Management Services; Department of Anesthesiology, UAMS)

1/28/2016 — Hyperuricemia and Gout: Emerging Concepts on Cardiovascular Disease and Inflammation

Michael Pillinger, M.D. (Professor, Department of Medicine; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Director Rheumatology Program, NYU School of Medicine; Director, Rheumatology, VA New York Harbor Health Care System)

1/21/2016 — Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 2016: from Bedside to Bench and Back Again (Joe Knight Bissett M.D., Visiting Professor Lecture)

A Jamil Tajik, M.D. (President, Aurora Cardiovascular Services; St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI)

1/14/2016 — Preventing Infections after Stem Cell Transplant: Update on Guidelines and the UAMS Experience

Mary Burgess, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

1/7/2016 — Gender-Bias in Liver Injury

Ayako Suzuki, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc. (Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)