Medicine Grand Rounds Archive

April 25, 2024

Presented by the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Speaker:

Kerri Cavanaugh, MD, MHS

Topic: "Information Exchange in Kidney Disease: A case study into the power of dialogue"

Dr. Cavanaugh is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a nephrologist at the Tennessee Valley Health System Veterans Affairs, Director of the Vanderbilt Nephrology Clinical Trials Center, and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Effective Health Communication.

April 18, 2024

Presented by the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology

Speaker:

Michelle Kahlenberg, MD, PhD

Topic: "What Causes Lupus Anyway? Uncovering the Role of Skin" 

Dr. Kahlenberg is the Giles Boles and Dorothy Mulkey Research Professor of Rheumatology and Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

April 11, 2024

Schaffner Society Lecture

Speakers:

Rajiv Agarwal, MD, MSCI

Topic: "Supportive and Palliative Care in Oncology: Moving the Needle Forward"

Dan Patel, MD

Topic: "What is GERD"

Dr. Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 

Dr. Patel is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at VUMC.

April 4, 2024

Speaker:

Joseph Ross, MD, MHS

Topic: "Use of Real-World Data and Evidence for Medical Product Evaluation: Promise and Perils”

Dr. Ross is a Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at the Yale School of Medicine, an Associate Physician of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Health System, and Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale.