- 12/15/2022 – “Dialysis Dependent AKI: Comparing Modalities”
John Arthur, M.D., Ph.D., FASN - 12/8/2022 – “Bonus Points: Immunization Benefits Beyond Infection Prevention” (no video link)
Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., M.D., MACP, FAAP (Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, UAMS College of Medicine) - 12/1/2022 – “Monkeypox”
Keyur S. Vyas, M.D., FACP, FIDSA (Professor of Medicine, Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Medical Director for Infection Prevention) - 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 21st 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)