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2020 Grand Rounds

  • 12/17/2020 – SUMO: From Bench to Bedside

Edward T. H. Yeh, M.D. (Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Nolan Family Distinguished Chair, UAMS)

  • 12/10/2020 – Updates in Diabetes Technology

Joseph Henske, M.D., FACE (Associate Professor, Director of Diabetes Program, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

  • 12/3/2020 – SOS for Holiday Stress in this Most Unusual Season

Chelsea Wakefield, Ph.D., LCSW, CST (Director of the Couples Center, Associate Professor, Psychiatric Research Institute, UAMS)

  • 11/19/2020 – Nothing To Worry About: Prescribing for Anxiety and Depression in the Cancer Patient for the Non-Psychiatrist

James Fletcher, M.D., DPM, FACP, FASN, FAAHPM (Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Attending Physician Palliative Division, UAMS)

  • 11/12/2020 –  Acute Respiratory Failure and the Pandemic: An Updateon Oxygen Therapies, Ventilation, and Prone Positioning

William T. Atchley, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

  • 11/5/2020 – Acute Hepatic Porphyrias

Appalanaidu Sasapu, M.D., FACP (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, CAR-T cell immunotherapy Program Lead, Associate Program Director, Hematology Oncology Fellowship, UAMS)

  • 10/29/2020 – BUGS OF WAR: Agents of Bioterrorism

Hazel Liverett, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UAMS)

  • 10/22//2020 – Changes in Vaccine Confidence: Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccines

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

  • 10/15/2020 – Artificial Intelligence in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Ioannis (Yanni) Anastasiou, M.D., D.M.Sc., FEBGH (Director of Advanced Endoscopy, CAVHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)

  • 10/8/2020 – Platelet Dysfunction in Kidney Disease

Nishank Jain, M.D., MPH (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Joseph V. Bonventre Research Scholar, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

  • 10/1/2020 – Portable Device for Physical Exam? – Sounds Great

Steven McKee, M.D., FAAP (Academic Hospitalist, CAVHS Medicine, POM 3 Course Director, UAMS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, ACH)

  • 9/24/2020 – Too Close or Not too Close: The PFO for Strokes and Migraines

Malek Al-Hawwas, M.D., FACC, FSHAI (Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, UAMS)

  • 9/17/2020 – Pain Management and Safe Opioid Prescribing for the Internist

Carrie Hyde, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, UAMS)

  • 9/10/2020 – Why Won’t You Change? An Introduction to Trauma Informed Care

Riley Lipschitz, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical Director, High Impact Health Clinic, Medical Director, High Risk Patient Care, Office of Population Health, UAMS)

Sacha A. McBain, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, Associate Director, Center for Trauma Prevention, Recovery, and Innovation, UAMS)

  • 9/3/2020 – Hypercalcemia – Four Case Scenarios

Lakshmi Menon, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, UAMS)

  • 8/27/2020 – SARS CoV2 Update

Keyur S. Vyas, M.D., FACP, FIDSA (Associate Professor of Medicine, Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, Medical Director for Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAMS)

  • 8/20/2020 – Intermediate-risk Pulmonary Embolism – It’s all about what’s ‘right’!

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

  • 8/13/2020 – The Renin Angiotensin System and COVID

John Arthur, M.D., Ph.D., FASN (Professor and Chief of Nephrology, Director of Nephrology, UAMS)

  • 8/6/2020 – Endo Bariatrics – An Update

Benjamin Tharian, M.D., MRCP, FACP, FRACP (Director of General and Advanced Endoscopy, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UAMS)

  • 7/30/2020 – Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones…and So Will Osteoporosis. A Clinical Update

Seth Mark Berney, M.D. (The Eleanor A. Lipsmeyer Professor in Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Director, Rheumatology fellowship, UAMS)

  • 7/23/2020 – Hyponatremia in Hospital Medicine

Sara Mohammed, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, UAMS)

  • 7/16/2020 – Lynch Syndrome and Colon Cancer

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

  • 7/9/2020 – Chest Pain: Anatomical vs. Functional Evaluation

Subhi Al’Aref, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, UAMS)

  • 6/18/2020 – Diet and Atherosclerosis: Do We Know What Counts?

James D. Marsh, M.D. (Nolan Family Distinguished Chair of Internal Medicine, UAMS)

  • 6/4/2020 – Anticoagulation FAQs

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

  • 5/28/2020 – Graves’ Disease: Diagnosis and Management

Lakshmi Menon, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

  • 5/21/2020 – Three Things We Do For No Reason in Hospital Medicine

Nicholas Gowen, M.D., FACP (Academic Hospitalist, VA Site Director Internal Medicine Residency Program, CAVHS , Internal Medicine Residency Associate Program Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UAMS0

  • 5/14/2020 – What’s God got to do with it? The role of the spiritual history in patient-centered care.

Heather Moore, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Palliative Care, Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, UAMS)

  • 5/7/2020 – Gut Microbiota in Kidney Transplantation

Aparna Sharma, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, UAMS)

  • 4/30/2020 – Colon Cancer Screening: An Update

Shashank Garg, M.D., M.Sc. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)

  • 4/23/2020 – Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant- More than 50 Years of Evolution and Future Perspectives

Muthu Veeraputhiran, M.D., M.P.H., FACP (Assistant Professor, Clinical Program Director, Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Institute, UAMS).

  • 4/16/2020 – Communication in at Time of COVID-19

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

  • 4/9/2020 – Oncology in the days of Corona

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

  • 4/2/2020 – Reverse Translation: Understanding Progression of Degenerative Aortic Stenosis

Srikanth Vallurupalli, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Lab, CAVHS, UAMS)

  • 3/26/2020 – COVID-19 Pandemic: What we know to date

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

  • 3/19/2020 – COVID-19 Management Update – Panel

James Marsh, M.D. (Nolan Family Distinguished Chair of Internal Medicine, UAMS)

Internal Medicine Panelists: Michelle Krause, M.D. (Vice Chancellor, Clinical Operations, Medical Specialties SL), Robert Hopkins, M.D. (Director, Division of General Internal Medicine), Kathy Liverett, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases), Manish Joshi, M.D. (Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary), Aaron Wenger, M.D. (Director, Division of Hospital Medicine)

  • 3/12/2020 – Reverse translation – Understanding progression of degenerative aortic stenosis CANCELLED

Srikanth Vallurupalli, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Noninvasive Lab, CAVHS, Division of Cardiology, UAMS)

  • 3/5/2020 – Practical and Impractical aspects of C. difficile Infection Management

Stuart Johnson, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Hines VA Hospital, Chicago, IL)

  • 2/27/2020 – Alcoholic Hepatitis: Diagnostic Approach and Emerging Therapies

Mauricio Garcia Saenz de Sicilia, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Liver Transplant Medical Director, UAMS)

  • 2/20/2020 – Climate Change and Health: How Should a Medical School Address this Problem

Alice Alexander, M.D., FAAP, FACP (Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Program Director, Med-Peds Residency, Vice Chair of Education, Department of Internal Medicine, UAMS)

  • 2/13/2020 – The Complement System

Sruthi Kanuru, M.D. (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, CAVHS)

  • 2/6/2020 – Novel Pacing Techniques

Subodh Devabhaktuni, M.D., FACC (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, UAMS)

  • 1/30/2020 – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

James D. Marsh, M.D. (Nolan Family Distinguished Chair of Internal Medicine, UAMS)

  • 1/23/2020 – Renal Cancer

Rashmi Verma, M.D., FACP (Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology and Hematology, UAMS)

  • 1/16/2020 – Palliative Care in the ESRD Patient

James Fletcher, M.D., DPM, FACP, FASN, FAAHPM (Assistant Professor of  Internal Medicine, Attending Physician Palliative Division, UAMS).

  • 1/9/2020 – Lupus Nephritis: Current Treatment and Novel Biological Targets

Jai Radhakrishnan, M.D., M.S. (Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, Clinical Director, Division of Nephrology, NY Presbyterian Hospital)

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