Grand Rounds

Previous Lectures

Upcoming Lectures 



 
Medical Grand Rounds will resume on September 8, 2009


How can I check my CME credits?
Starting July 1, you will be able to check the total number of CME credits obtained from Medical Grand Rounds. Contact Agata Rocka Stadiem (agata@northwestern.edu) if you have any questions.

Step 1. Go to the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education website located at: http://www.cme.northwestern.edu/

Step 2. Click on “Regularly Scheduled Series”

Step 3. Click on “NU Faculty Credit Reports”

Step 4. Enter Last 4 Digits of Social Security Number (without hyphens or spaces). Enter Last Name. Click on the calendar buttons to select the dates of your search.
* Optional – Enter address to be printed on report.
Click on Submit Query.

Step 5. The report is generated. Click “Print”. Exit application by closing window


Medical Grand Rounds Online

Grand Rounds Lectures are now available online! Click here for more information

Email agata@northwestern.edu to sign up


Previous Lectures
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September 2, 2008
“Is There a Link Between Lung Cancer and Acute Lung Injury?”

Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell/Molecular Biology
Northwestern University

September 9, 2008
“Chronic myeloid leukemia - still some questions unresolved”

Kiekow Memorial Leukemia lecture
John M. Goldman, MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Senior Research Investigator, Division of Investigative Science
Imperial College School of Medicine, London

September 16, 2008
“Consequences- Expected and Otherwise- of the Quality and IT Revolutions”

Cline Lecture
Robert M. Wachter, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Hospital Medicine
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

September 23, 2008
“Reliable, evidence-based advance care planning in under 5 minutes”

Linda Emanuel, MD, Ph.D
Buehler Professor of Medicine
Director, Buehler Center for Aging, Health and Society
Northwestern University, Chicago

September 30, 2008
“CMV and Transplantation”
Atul Humar, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease
University of Toronto

October 7, 2008
“New Insights Into Tobacco- and Alcohol-Related Lung Disorders”

Jesse Roman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, The Emory Interstitial Lung Disease Center
Emory University, Atlanta

October 14, 2008
“The Graying of AIDS”
Oluwatoyin M. Adeyemi, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
Rush University, Chicago

October 21, 2008
“Novel insights into inflammation and therapy of systemic autoimmune disease”
Keith B. Elkon
Professor of Medicine
Head of Division of Rheumatology
Adjunct Professor, Immunology
University of Washington, Seattle

October 28, 2008
"Functional Genomics for Kidney Transplantation"
Daniel R. Salomon, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation
The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego

November 11, 2008
“Antibodies and the Brain: Lessons from Lupus”
Betty Diamond, MD
Head, The Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
North Shore - LIJ Health System

November 18, 2008
“Update on Antiretroviral Therapy: Two Decades of Progress”
Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease/Partners AIDS Research Ctr.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

November 25, 2008
“Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Threat to Patient Safety”
Gary A. Noskin, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Chief Medical Officer
Northwestern University, Chicago

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December 02, 2008
"Minimally Invasive GI surgery: past, present, and Future” 
Nathaniel J. Soper, MD

Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery,
Northwestern University, Chicago

December 09,
“Update on Tuberculosis: From Magic Bullets Back to the Magic Mountain.”“
 
Richard E. Chaisson, MD
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & International Health
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

December 16,
"The Many Faces of Asthma – Insight for Treatment”
William W. Busse, MD
Professor of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology
Chairman, Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin, Madison

January 6, 2009
"Challenges in bringing pharmacogenomics to the bedside"
Daniel M. Roden, MD

Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology
Director, Oates Institute for Experimental Therapeutics
Vanderbilt University, Nashville

January 13, 2009
"Management of Dysphagia: Bridging Physiologic Research into Clinical Practice"
John E. Pandolfino, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology
Northwestern University, Chicago

January 20, 2009
“Risk Scores and Biomarkers Everywhere: What’s a Clinician to Do?”
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA

Associate Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine
Department of Preventive Medicine and
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Northwestern University

January 27, 2009
“Alcoholic Liver Disease”
Michael F. Sorrell, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program
University of Nebraska, Omaha

February 3, 2009
"Health Disparities and Cultural Competence:A Different Perspective"
Terry Mason, MD, FACS

Comissioner of Health, City of Chicago
James R. Webster MD, MS, MACP
Professor of Medicine
Executive Director,
Institute of Medicine of Chicago
President, Chicago Board of Health
Northwestern University, Chicago

February 10, 2009
"Aberrant Gene Silencing in Cancer: Translational Implications"
Stephen B. Baylin, MD

Professor of Medicine, Oncology
Chief, Division of Tumor Biology
Associate Director of Research, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

February 17,
"The Patient-Centered Medical Home & Health Care Reform: Is it the Answer?"
Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP

Vice President, Practice Advocacy and Improvement for the
American College of Physicians
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
George Washington University, Washington D.C.

February 24, 2009
"Familial Barrett's Esophagus"
Yvonne Romero, MD

Assitant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Consultant, Digestive Diseases and Cancer Clinics
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Otolaryngology

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March 3, 2009
“Estrogen Actions in the Cardiovascular System: Current Concepts and Implications for Hormone Therapy”
Michael E. Mendelsohn, MD
Professor of Medicine and Physiology
Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Center
Tufts University, Boston

March 10, 2009
"Shouldn't Everyone Have an ICD?"
Rod S. Passman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Northwestern University, Chicago

March 17, 2009
"Ventilating ARDS--Beyond PEEP & Tidal Volume"
Hicks Lecture
John Marini, MD

Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Director of Physiological & Translational Research, HealthPartners Research Foundation

March 2, 2009
“Goodpasture Syndrome Creeps into the Molecular Age”
Eric G. Neilson, MD

Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology
Chairman of Medicine
Vanderbilt University, Nashville

March 31, 2009
"Quilting Needles, Lancaster Haystacks, and the Search for Insights into Genomic Medicine"
Alan Shuldiner, MD
John A. Whitehurst Professor of Medicine Director,
Program in Genetics and Genomic Medicine Head, Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes and Nutrition
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore

April 7, 2009
"Plaque Erosion and Eruption: Biomarkers as Seismic Predictors"
Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD

Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
CEO, University of Rochester Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Rochester, Rochester

April 14, 2009
Atkinson Lecture
"A Practical Approach to Understanding the Familial Colorectal Cancer Syndromes"
C. Richard Boland, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas

April 21, 2009
"Genes, Androgens and Metabolic Syndrome in Women"
Andrea Dunaif, MD
Professor of Medicine
Charles F. Kettering Professor and Chief
Division of Endocrinology
Northwestern University, Chicago

April 28, 2009
"Atherosclerosis Risk: Imaging as an Opportunity for Identification and Management"
Allen J. Taylor MD, FACC FAHA

Co-Director Noninvasive Imaging
Cardiology Division
Washington Hospital Center

May 5, 2009
"Metabolic Modulation: A New Therapeutic Approach to Heart Failure"
Chair Pro Tem
Richard Shannon

Frank Wister Thomas Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania Health System

May 12, 2009
"Clinical Spectrum and Molecular Mechanisms of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome"
Bernadette R. Gochuico, MD

Principal Investigator, Critical Care Medicine Branch
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

 May 19, 2009
"Current Challenges in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care"
Marshall Chin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, General Internal Medicine Research
University of Chicago, Chicago

May 26, 2009
"Family-Based Approach to Breast Cancer Prevention"
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP

Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Medicine and Human Genetics
Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics
Associate Dean of Global Health, Pritzker School of Medicine

June 2, 2009
Earle Lecture
Douglas P. Zipes, MD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Indiana University, Indianapolis

June 9, 2008
Douglas Vaughan, MD

Irving S Cutter Professor and Chairman,
Department of Medicine,
Northwestern University



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