2015 Grand Rounds

• 12/17/2015 – The Evolution of Cystic Fibrosis Care

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

• 12/10/2015 — Update in Medical Education: What Can Hogwarts Teach us about Student Success?

Sara Tariq, M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Clinical Education, UAMS)

• 12/3/2015 — Developing and Testing Biomarkers to Improve Kidney Transplant Outcomes

Peter S. Heeger, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Director, Translational Transplant Research Center; Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York)

• 11/19/2015 — Salt Wars – Are our Sodium Restriction Efforts Evidenced-based?

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

• 11/12/2015 — 2015 Immunization Update – The Big 5

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

• 11/5/2015 — Management Strategies for Complex Patients Who Use Tobacco

Frank Leone, M.D., M.S. (Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program; Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania)

• 10/22/2015 — Endocrinology: “Screening and prevention of osteoporosis

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

• 10/15/2015 — The Revolution-Interventional Endoscopy: Yes We Can!

Benjamin Tharian, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, UAMS)

• 10/8/2015 — The Management of Lupus Nephritis-2015: A Nephrologist’s Perspective Learning Objectives

Brad H. Rovin, M.D. (Professor of Medicine and Pathology; The Lee A. Hebert Endowed Professor of Nephrology; Director, Division of Nephrology; Vice Chairman of Medicine for Research; The Ohio State University)

• 10/1/2015 — Dysnatremias: Mind Your Osmolytes

David Sheikh-Hamad, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology; Chief of Renal Services, Ben Taub General Hospital; Baylor College of Medicine)

• 9/24/2015 — GI Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis

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

• 9/17/2015 — Gonorrhea

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

• 9/10/2015   — Lyme Disease

Dan Rahn, M.D. (Professor of Medicine; Chancellor, UAMS)

• 9/3/2015 — Gene Editing: New Frontiers for Gene Therapy

Charles O’Brien, Ph.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, UAMS)

• 8/27/2015 — Rheumatoid Spondylitis: Is it a RA Variant or are Spondyloarthropathies Completely Different Diseases?

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

• 8/13/2015 — Shark in the Water: Legionella Summer and the Story of Legionnaire’s Disease

Marcia Erbland, M.D. (Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UAMS)

• 7/23/2015 — Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Exacerbations, and Readmissions: Something to Talk About?

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

• 7/16/2015 — The Genomic Landscape of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Peter D. Emanuel, M.D. (the Kent Westbrook, MD Endowed Director’s Chair; Professor of Medicine; Director of Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, UAMS)

• 7/9/2015 —  Career Development in Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties

James D. Marsh, M.D. (the Nolan Professor and Chair; Department of Internal Medicine, UAMS)