2018 Grand Rounds | UAMS Department of Internal Medicine

12/13/2018 – Ten Years of Palliative Care at UAMS and CAVHS

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

12/6/2018 — Trying to Understand Thrombotic Microangiopathic Anemia

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

11/29/2018 —Live to Eat? Eat to Live

David Lee Rutlen, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director Cardiac Center, UAMS)

11/15/2018 —Racism and Bias in Healthcare

Sara G. Tariq, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)

11/08/2018 —Geriatric Nephrology: Approach to the Aging Kidney and Kidney Disease

Matthew Plotkin, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

11/01/2018 —Vaping, Juicing, and E-Cigarettes – Myths, Truths and Evidence – what a Clinician should know

Harriett K. Kayanja, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

10/25/2018 —Atypical Mycobacterial Infections with an Emphasis on Pulmonary MAC

Mathew T. Burns, M.D. (Assistant Professor & Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship, UAMS, CAVHS)

10/18/2018 —Recent Advances in Haploidentical Donor Transplantation

Rizwan Romee, M.D. (Associate Professor, Director of Haploidentical Donor Transplant Program, Harvard Medical School)

10/11/2018 —Does this patient with a +ANA have lupus?

Seth Mark Berney, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Chief Division of Rheumatology, UAMS)

10/04/2018 —Obesity: Are we paying attention?

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

9/27/2018 —Vaccination of older adults: Addressing Immune senescence and Inflammaging.

Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D., MACP, FAAP (Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, UAMS)

9/20/2018 —Which monitor should I order for my Patient?

Abhishek Deshmukh, M.D., FHRS (Senior Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic)

9/13/2018 –From Burnout to Engagement: Individual and Organizational Strategies

Erick Messias, M.D., M.P.H, Ph.D. (Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Psychiatry, UAMS)

9/6/2018 —Mozart’s Fatal Anasarca – accompanied by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Quapaw Quartet

Philip A. Mackowiak, M.D., M.B.A, MACP (Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine)

8/30/2018 — Syncope in Adolescent

Srikant Das, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UAMS)

8/23/2018 — Oncology Ligands

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

8/16/2018 — Optimal timing of Renal Replacement Therapy for Acute Kidney Injury: Perfect start for an improved outcome.

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

8/9/2018 –Vaping, Juicing and E-Cigarettes- Myths, Truths and Evidence- what a Clinician should know (No Video Link Available)

Harriett K. Kayanja, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

8/2/2018 —Endemic Mycoses in Arkansas: Histoplasmosis and Blastomycosis

Michael Saccente, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

7/26/2018 —Management of the Hospitalized Parkinson Disease Patient

Rohit Dhall, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Neurology, UAMS)

7/19/2018 —Cognition, Frailty, and Survivorship: Braving the Intangibles of Critical Illness

Emily Kocurek, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

7/12/2018 —Lung Cancer Treatments in 2018

Konstantinos Arnaoutakis, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, UAMS)

6/21/2018 — Update in Perioperative Medicine

Latha Achanta, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS)

6/14/2018 — Caring for the Patient with Acute Liver Failure

Mary Rude, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UAMS)

6/07/2018 — iPSC-derived Exosomes for Precision Medicine in Heart Failure (No Video Link Available)

Phillip Yang, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Stem Cell Laboratory, Stanford University)

5/31/2018 — The Rationale for the Use of Biosimilars in Clinical Practice

Allan Gibofsky, M.D., J.D. (Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University)

5/24/2018 — What’s so diff-icult about C diff?

Atul Kothari, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, UAMS)

5/17/2018 — Alpha-gal red meat allergy: an emerging epidemic of anaphylaxis (No Video Link Available)

Scott Palmer Commins, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, University of North Carolina)

5/13/2018 — Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) – T cell therapy: Toxicity management (No Video Link Available)

Appala Naidu Sassapu, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, UAMS)

5/10/2018 — The Internist Neglected Orphan: Peripheral Arterial Disease

Malek Al-Hawwas, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cath Lab Director, Division of Cardiology, UAMS)

4/26/2018 — SBE Prophylaxis, the Myth of Sisyphus – What’s the Harm?

Walter R. Wilson, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science)

4/19/2018 — Renal Osteodystrophy

Robert S. Weinstein, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

4/12/2018 — A Practical Approach to Cardiorenal Syndrome (No Video Link Available)

Luis A. Juncos, M.D. (Chief of Nephrology, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System)

4/5/2018 — Colon Cancer: Update on Evidence-Based Treatment Strategies

Rangaswamy Govindarajan, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, UAMS)

3/29/2018 — Sepsis Definitions and Initial Resuscitation: Updates

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

3/22/2018 — Contemporary Management of Barrett’s Esophagus: Watch, burn, freeze or cut?

Sumant Inamdar, M.D., M.P.H. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)

3/15/2018 — Gout: Advances and Challenges

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

3/8/2018 — Iron Hypothesis for Cardiovascular Disease: Re-evaluation and Relevance to the Current Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)

Sudhir Shah, M.D. (Professor Emeritus, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

3/1/2018 — The Quest for Osteoporosis Mechanisms and Rational Therapies: How Far We’ve Come, How Much Further We Need to Go

Stavros Manolagas, M.D., Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

2/22/2018 — Recovery from Acute Kidney Injury

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

2/15/2018 — Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Clinical Update

Matthew Deneke, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, UAMS)

2/8/2018 — The Cholesterol Story

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

2/1/2018 — Subclinical Hypothyroidism: To Treat or Not To Treat

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

1/25/2018 — Who Decides?: Law, Ethics, & the Complex Patient

D. Micah Hester, Ph.D. (Professor, Chair, Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, UAMS)

1/18/2018 — What’s Pneu in Pneumonia Management

Rayn Dare, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

1/11/2018 — Exercise Prescription in End-Stage Liver Disease

Andre’s Duarte-Rojo, M.D. Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, UAMS)

1/4/2018 — Essentials of Utilization Management; Basic Survival Guide