2017 Grand Rounds

• 12/14/2017 — Updates in Advance Care Planning

Sarah E. Harrington, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Palliative Medicine, UAMS)

• 12/7/2017 —  Fibromyalgia / Chronic Pain

Aaroop Haridas, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UAMS)

• 11/30/2017 — Bacterial community profiles in atherosclerotic plaques from UAMS patients

David W. Usssery, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of BioMedical Informatics (DBMI), Physiology and Biophysics

• 11/16/2017 — COPD in Women – What Must a Clinician Know

Deepa Raghavan, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 11/9/2017 — Immunization and Communication: How to Deal with Vaccine-hesitant and Anti-vaccine Families in a Fact-resistant World

Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)

• 11/2/2017 — Hepatitis C & Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Medical Science Success – Public Health Challenge

Curt H. Hagedorn, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS; Chief of Medical Services, CAVHS)

• 10/26/2017 — Chronic Kidney Disease – Slowing Progression and Improving Outcomes

Manisha Singh, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

• 10/19/2017 — The AML Genome(s)

Timothy Ley, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Division of Oncology, Washington University Medical School)

• 10/12/2017 — Challenges in Difficult to Treat Asthma in Adults

Nikhil Meena, MBBS (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 10/5/2017 — Yet Another Reason not to Take NSAIDs

Michelle Krause, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director Medical Services Line; Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

• 9/28/2017 — The Lupus Anticoagulant Misnomer

Seth Berney, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, UAMS)

• 9/21/2017 — Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in the Management of Metastatic Melanoma

Fade Mahmoud, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, UAMS)

• 9/14/2017 — Tick Borne Diseases

David L. Coleman, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine)

• 9/7/2017 — Sarcoidosis- Still an Enigma in 21^st Century

Manish Joshi, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 8/31/2017 — Advances in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes

Peter Goulden, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

• 8/24/2017 — Advances in Management of Heart Failure

Sri Appalaneni, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, UAMS)

• 8/10/2017 — TB or Not TB.  Update on Diagnosis of Phthisis, Consumption and Captain of the Men of Death

Robert Bradsher, Jr., M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)                                              

• 8/3/2017 — Modern Treatment of Parkinson Disease

Tuhin Virmani, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, UAMS)

• 7/27/2017 — Lung Cancer 2017 

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

• 7/20/2017 — Hyperlipidemia: Basic, Disorders, Treatment – What is it?

Neeraja Boddu, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

• 7/13/2017 — Gender-based Differences in Atrial Fibrillation: Biology or Disparity?

Srikanth Vallurupalli, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

• 6/29/2017 —  ECG Vignettes for Internists

Jon P. Lindemann, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

• 6/22/2017 — Hemophilia: It Isn’t Just for Kids

Kimo C. Stine, M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director, AR Center for Bleeding Disorders, UAMS)

Shelley Crary, M.D. (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UAMS)

• 6/15/2017 — What Every Internist Should Know About Gastrointestinal Endoscopy But Were Afraid To Ask

David L. Carr-Locke, M.D. (Clinical Director, The Center for Advanced Digestive Care, Weill Cornell Medical College)

• 6/8/2017 — Understanding the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

Larry G. Johnson, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director of Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 6/1/2017 — Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Clinical Update

Nasim A. Khan, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, UAMS)

• 5/25/2017 — The 2016-17 Mumps Epidemic in Arkansas: Why did it happen and what can we do to prevent it from happening again?

Dirk Haselow, M.D., Ph.D., M.S. (State Epidemiologist & Outbreak Response Medical Director, Arkansas Department of Health; Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Epidemiology, UAMS)

• 5/18/2017 — Genomics for the Sick and the Healthy: Clinical Care and Public Health

Kent D. McKelvey, M.D. (Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Genetics; Director of Cancer and Adult Genetics Services; WPRC Institute, UAMS)

• 5/11/2017 — Understanding ADHD in Adults

Margaret Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UAMS)

• 4/27/2017 — Treating MR Medical Rx? Is there Transcatheter Rx? Or Just Surgery?

Peter Carl Block, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Structural Heart Disease Program; Director of Interventional Research; Andreas Gruentzig Research Center; Emory University School of Medicine)

• 4/20/2017 — The New Normal: Concentrated Insulin and Advanced Technology

Irina Lendel, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, UAMS)

• 4/13/2017 — Antibiotic Dosing in Critically Ill Patients with AKI

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

• 4/6/2017 — Cancer Monaclonality – Revisited

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

• 3/30/2017 — Update on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Larry G. Johnson, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 3/23/2017 — Portal Hypertensive Bleeding in Cirrhosis Risk Stratification and Individualizing Goals of Care

Mauricio Garcia Saenz de Sicilia, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UAMS)

• 3/16/2017 — JAK Inhibitors: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Alison Gizinski, M.D., M.S. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UAMS)

• 3/9/2017 — Managing the Other Kind of Failure: The Treatment of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Eugene Smith, III, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

• 3/2/2017 — Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT Syndrome)

Ramez Awad, M.D., M.Sc. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, UAMS)

• 2/23/2017 — Collaborative Research: A House United

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

• 2/16/2017 — Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Hazards of Medicines: Primum non nocere!

Seamus J. Murphy, MB, BCh, BAO, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UAMS)

• 2/9/2017 — Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Waddah Maskoun, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

• 2/2/2017 — Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy: Considerations for Diagnosis and Treatment

Spyridoula Maraka M.D., M.Sc. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

• 1/26/2017 — Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: from Leeches to Diuretics and Beyond

Sabha Bhatti, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UAMS)

• 1/19/2017 — No More Seaweed: What Clinicians Need to Know About the Modern Microbiology Lab

J. Ryan Bariola, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

• 1/12/2017 — Management of Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Peter S. Marshall, M.D., M.P.H. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine)

• 1/5/2017 — Care of the Adult Patient with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities

Alice Alexander, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)