Department of Medicine
Medicine Grand Rounds Archive
Medicine Grand Rounds recordings from July 2022 to present can be viewed below:
September 14, 2023
"The Gerald Schulman Lectureship"
Speaker:
Fernando Fervenza, MD, PhD
Fernando C. Fervenza, MD. D.Phil (Oxon – Jesus College). Is a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.
September 7, 2023
"Harrison Society/Riven Lectureship"
Speaker:
Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD, LPIW
Medicine Grand Rounds recordings from July 2022 to July 2023
August 31, 2023
Sponsored by the Department of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
“Autoinflammatory Diseases... When Misspellings provide new Insights”
Speaker:
Raphaela Goldblack Mansky, MD, MHS
Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, MD, MHS,is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Translational Autoinflammatory Diseases Section, National Institutes of Health.
August 24, 2023
Sponsored by the Department of Medicine with the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
“Optimizing Patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease”
Speaker:
Hannah P. Kim, MD, MSCR
Dr. Fiske is an Assistant Professor Medicine in the Department of Medicine at VUMC in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology abd Nutrition
August 17, 2023
Jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
“Pulmonary Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria…Beyond Lady Windermere” and ”Bronchiectasis: From Cystic Fibrosis To Everything Else and Back”
Speakers:
Christina Fiske, MD and James Tolle, MD
Dr. Fiske is an Assistant Professor Medicine in the Department of Medicine at VUMC in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Tolle is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at VUMC in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine.
August 10, 2023
The Cutter Lectureship:
“Burnout and You”
Speaker:
John Kello, PhD
Dr. Kello is Professor Emeritus of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Davidson College.
August 3, 2023
“Treating (Understanding) Complicated Obesity”
Speaker:
Gitanjali Srivastava, MD
Dr. Srivastava is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Medical Director of Vanderbilt Obesity Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
July 27, 2023
“Bad Blood: Somatic clone inequity and the battle to prevent cancer and vascular disease”
Speaker:
Michael Savona, MD
Dr. Savona is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
July 20, 2023
“Addressing Inequities in Lung Cancer Screening: Challenges and Opportunities”
Speaker:
Melinda Aldrich, PhD, MPH
Dr. Aldrich is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
July 13, 2023
“The Enigma of Early Onset CRC”
Speaker:
Cathy Eng, MD
Dr. Eng is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
July 6, 2023
“The ailing beta cell in diabetes: Insights from a trip to the ER”
Speaker:
Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD
Dr. Evans-Molina is the Eli Lilly Professor of Pediatric Diabetes and Professor of Medicine; Director of Indiana Diabetes Research Center, Indiana University School of Medicine
June 22, 2023
“State of the Department Address”
Speaker:
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC, is Chair of the VUMC Department of Medicine, the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor and Chair of Medicine at VUMC, and Physician-in-Chief for Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital and Clinics.
June 15, 2023
Sponsored by the Division of Hematology and Oncology
“Reasons for Hope in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs)”
Speaker:
Katherine J. Walsh, MD
Dr. Walsh completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at University of Florida followed by her hematology/oncology fellowship at Duke University.
June 8, 2023
Sponsored by the Division of Nephrology
"To Kidney or Not to Kidney: Applying Lessons Learned from Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation"
Speaker:
Heidi Schaefer, MD
Heidi M. Schaefer, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
June 1, 2023
Sponsored by the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
"Repurposing the Electronic Health Record to Impact Outcomes in Lupus"
Speaker:
April Barnado, MD, MSCI
Dr. Barnado is an Assistant Professor and physician-scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics.
May 18, 2023
David Rabin Lectureship
Sponsored by the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
"Imrpoving Access to Prescription Drugs Through Policy Change"
Speaker:
Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD
Professor of Health Policy, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
May 11, 2023
Glenn Greene Lectureship
Sponsored by the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine:
"Resolving Heterogeneous Clinical Syndromes in the Era of Precision Medicine:Application to HFpEF"
Speaker:
Sanjiv Shah, MD
Stone Professor of Medicine, Drector of Research for the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Director of the Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Medicine in the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine; and Director of the Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
May 4, 2023
Sponsored by the Division of Infectious Diseases:
"When you can’t kill the bug – Drug repurposing solutions for hard-to-treat skin and soft tissue infections"
Speaker:
Henrique Serezani, PhD
Associate Vice Chair for Research and Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
April 20, 2023
The Riven Lectureship:
"Acting on Systemic Racism as a Cause for Health Inequities Through the Lens of Kidney Care"
Speaker:
Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, is the Dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Chief Science Officer and Vice Chief Academic Officer of Advocate Health
April 13, 2023
The Wilkinson Lectureship:
"The All of Us Research Program: Seeking to Improve Health for All Populations"
Speaker:
Josh Denny MD, MS
Josh Denny, MD, MS, is the Chief Executive Officer, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health.
April 6, 2023
“Game-changing Advances in Therapeutic GI Endoscopy”
Speaker:
Joseph Elmunzer, MD, MSc
Joseph Elmunzer, MD, MSc, is the Peter B. Cotton Professor of Medicine and Endoscopic Innovation, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina.
March 30, 2023
“Disparities in Cardiovascular Medicine”
Speaker:
Karol E. Watson, MD, PhD, FACC
Karol E. Watson, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and a board-certified, fulltime cardiologist at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
March 23, 2023
"Advances in chronic kidney disease"
Speaker:
Morgan Grams, MD, PhD
Dr. Grams completed her Bachelor of Science degree in biology at Yale University and her medical degree at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
March 16, 2023
"Discovery of the VEXAS Syndrome"
Speaker:
Peter Grayson, MD, MSc
Dr. Grayson is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He completed his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1999, his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004, and a Masters in Science from Boston University in 2008.
March 9, 2023
The Neilson Society - “Macrophages drive pathophysiology in heart and lung disease”
Speaker:
Ciara Martin Shaver, M.D., Ph.D.
Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine.
March 2, 2023
The William D. Salmon Lectureship: “The Expanding Universe of Atypical Diabetes”
Speaker:
Ashok Balasubramanyam, MD
Ashok Balasubramanyam, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
February 23, 2023
50th Annual M. Glenn Koenig Visiting Professor Lectureship:
Sponsored by the Division of Infectious Diseases
“Staphylococcus Aureus:
Lessons Learned from 20 Years with the Persistent Pathogen”
Speaker:
Vance Fowler, Jr. MD, MHS
Dr. Vance Fowler, MD, MHS, was the Florence McAlister Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, within the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine
February 16, 2023
Women in Medicine Lectureship:
“Equity and Allyship – Lessons Learned and the Path Ahead: BOOM!”
Speaker:
Amy Oxentenko, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF
Dr. Amy Oxentenko is Vice Dean of Practice and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic.
February 9, 2023
The Harrison Society/Riven Lectureship:
"Building Trust in Science and Medicine: Misconceptions and Opportunities”
Speaker:
Katrina Armstrong, MD
Dr. Katrina Armstrong is the Chief Executive Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor and Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University; Dean, Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
February 2, 2023
The Schaffner Schaffner Society Lecture
"The Future of Medical Education: Are we bystanders or upstanders?”
Speaker:
Katie Berlacher, MD
Dr. Katie Berlacher is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of the Magee Women’s Heart Program, and the Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Programat the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
January 26, 2023
The Leonard Lectureship
"What Patients Say; What Doctors Hear”
Speaker:
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD
Dr. Ofri is a Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
January 19, 2023
"The Physician as Patient”
Speaker:
Dee Ford, MD, MSCR
Dr. Ford is a Professor of Medicine and director, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina.
January 12, 2023
The Schulman Lectureship
"Renal Function Guesstimation: How the critical review of the race-based eGFR equation highlights the need for universal advancement”
Speaker:
Crystal Gadegbeku, MD
Dr. Gadegbeku is Professor and Chair, Department of Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic.
January 5, 2023
"The Road to Prevention of Psoriatic Arthritis”
Speaker:
Alexis Ogdie-Beatty, MD, MSCE
Dr. Ogdie-Beatty is Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine; Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director, Penn Psoriatic Arthritis and Spondyloarthritis Program, University of Pennsylvania.
December 15, 2022
Diversity Liaison Lecture
"Diversity and Clinical Trial Equity: A Matter of Need, Not an Option”
Speaker:
Melvin R. Echols, MD, FACC, FHFSA, FASPC
Dr. Melvin Echols is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) with the Department of Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine.
December 8, 2022
The Harrison Society Riven Lecture
Speakers:
Juan Pablo Arroyo, MD, PhD, and
Debra Dixon, MD, MS
Juan Pablo Arroyo, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Debra Dixon, MD, MS is a Cardiovascular Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Harrison Society Physician-Scientist Training Program Scholar.
December 1, 2022
The Rosenblum Lectureship
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care
“Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19: PICS, PASC, and Long COVID”
Speaker:
Carla Sevin, MD
Dr. Carla Sevin is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
November 17, 2022
The Albert and Miriam Weinstein Lecture
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
“Obesity Lessons from President William Howard Taft”
Speaker:
Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD
Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Director of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
November 10, 2022
The 48th Annual Shull Lecture in Digestive Diseases
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
“Pushing Beyond Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Anitracism in the Program in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School”
Speaker:
Andrea Reid, MD, MPH
Andrea Reid, MD, MPH is the Associate Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs for the Program in Medical Education and Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs. Dr. Reid also serves as Director of Diversity and Faculty Development for Gastroenterology and is a faculty member in the Department of Medicine and the Gastrointestinal Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
November 3, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
“A brief history of melanoma and its treatments”
Speaker:
Douglas B. Johnson, MD, MSCI
Douglas B. Johnson, MD, MSCI, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Johnson is also the Susan and Luke Simons Director of Melanoma, and interim Section Head for Solid Tumors for the division, Co-Director of V-POINT, Co-Director of the Cellular Therapy Team, Associate Director for Precision Oncology and Co-Leader of the TRIO Program for the VICC at VUMC.
October 27, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
“Updates from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)”
Speaker:
Carol Mangione, MD, MSPH
Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH, is the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and is a distinguished professor of medicine and public health at UCLA and the executive vice chair for Health Equity and Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine.
October 20, 2022
The Schaffner Society Lectureship
“Contemporary Classification of Myocardial Injury Events” presented by Dr. Andrew DeFilippis
and “Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: Lessons from a Rare Disease” presented by Dr. Justin Hewlett
Speakers:
Andrew DeFilippis MD, MSc
Dr. DeFilippis is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Justin Hewlett, MD
Dr. Hewlett is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
October 13, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
"Treatment of Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacterium (NTM): Advancing Towards a Better Future”
Speaker:
Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD
Dr. Dooley is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
October 6, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine
"The Golden and Digital Ages of Medicine”
Speaker:
Serpil Erzurum, MD
Serpil Erzurum is Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Research and Academic Officer and Chair of the Lerner Research Institute. A practicing pulmonologist and active scientist, Dr. Erzurum is also a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
September 29, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
"APOL1 Toward Precision Medicine Approaches”
Speaker:
Adriana Hung, MD
Dr. Hung is a nephrologist and epidemiologist who serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She is also the Dialysis Medical Director, both for the outpatient and the inpatient programs, at the Nashville VA.
September 8, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology
“Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy: A new era in the treatment of lymphoma”
Speaker:
Olalekan Oluwole, MBBS, MD
Dr. Olalekan Oluwole is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology Oncology at Vanderbilt.
September 1, 2022
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health
“Health as an Emergent Property: Using a Lifecourse Lens to Understand Obesity Prevention and Health Disparities”
Speaker:
Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS
Dr. Barkin is an international expert in the field of behavioral interventions and community engaged pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) research.
August 25, 2022
The Neilson Society Lecture
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine, Divisions of Rheumatology and of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
“When B Cells Go Bad”
Speakers:
Rachel Bonami, PhD, and Cosby Stone, MD, MPH
Rachel Bonami, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Cosby Stone, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
August 18, 2022
The Meredith S. and John A. Oates Lecture
Sponsored by: The Department of Medicine and Division of Clinical Pharmacology
“Clinical Pharmacology of the baroflex”
Speaker:
Jens Jordan, MD
Dr. Jordan is the Head of Institute of Aerospace Medicine at the German Aerospace Center.
August 11, 2022
Sponsored by the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
“Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy: The Journey to Clinical Relevance”
Speaker:
Manhal Izzy, MD
Dr. Izzy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
August 4, 2022
Sponsored by the Division of Geriatric Medicine
“Improving Care Delivery and Outcomes for Older Patients with Advanced Cancer and Caregivers”
Speaker:
Supriya G. Mohile, MD, MS
Dr. Gupta Mohile is the Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professor of Medicine and Surgery, James Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center.
July 28, 2022
Sponsored by the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine
“Epidemiology, Risks and Prediction of Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Lung Transplantation”
Speaker:
Jason D. Christie, MD, MS
Dr. Christie is the Chief of the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, The Paul F. Harron Jr. Family Chair, and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. His career is focused on translational research studies of the risks, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes of acute lung injury in the transplant and non-transplant critically ill populations.
July 14, 2022
Sponsored by the Division of Genetic Medicine
“Computational Syndromology: Expanding our knowledge of genetic disease with the EHR”
Speaker:
Lisa Bastarache, MS
Lisa Bastarache is a research associate professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research focuses on methods that electronic health records, with the goal of advancing our understanding of human genetics and increase the diagnostic potential of clinical genetic testing.
July 7, 2022
Sponsored by the Division of Epidemiology
“Vitamin D: How much is needed for good health?”
Speaker:
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD
Dr. Giovannucci serves as Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Giovannucci graduated from Harvard University in 1980, and received his MD from University of Pittsburgh in 1984. He did his residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Connecticut, and then completed ScD in epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) in 1992.