Grand Rounds and CME
Grand Rounds are held every Tuesday at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in person and via zoom.
Grand Rounds
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify the indications and contraindications for new modalities in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of specific medical conditions.
- Formulate prioritized differential diagnoses for the clinical presentations of specific medical conditions, diagnoses, and diseases.
- Apply clinical guidelines to patients under their care with an understanding of the rationale behind the guidelines and the expected outcomes of specific medical conditions, diagnoses, diseases.
- Integrate research techniques related to specific medical conditions, diagnoses, and diseases, into their own clinical, translational or basic science research.
Previous Grand Rounds
Academic Year 2025-2026
- 02.10.2026 -Green Medicine is Good Medicine: Clinician Opportunities for Sustainability at the Bedside and Beyond by Sheetal Rao, MD and Caroline Skolnik, MD
- 02.03.2026 – Clinical and Pathological Features of Septic Abortion by David M. Aronoff, MD, FIDSA, FAAM, FRCP
- 01.20.2026 – HIV-Associated Malignancies From Treatment to HIV Cure: From Berlin to Chicago by Paul Rubinstein, MD
- 01.13.2026 – Lean MASLD: Potential Role of the Small Intestine by Sean Tompkins, MD, PhD
- 01.06.2026 – JAK inhibitors: An Update on Safety by Miriam Friedman, MD
- 12.02.2025 – Reinvigorating the Bedside Clinical Encounter by Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, FACP, FRCP(E)
- 11.18.2025 – Chagas Disease and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Tackling Health Inequalities Among US Immigrant Communities by Sirus Naraqi, MD
- 11.11.2025 – Guardians of the Graft” – Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Transplantation by Lilian Abbo, MD, MBA, FIDSA, FACHE
- 10.28.2025 – Digital and Wearable Devices in Arrhythmia Evaluation by David Sanders, MD
- 10.07.2025 – Translating Research into Practice: Developing a Sustainable Clinical Model Informed by Research by Rachel Caskey, MD, MPP
Academic Year 2024-2025
- 06.17.2025 – Safety Concerns in Agitation Management by Lia DeRion, MD, Nat Schwartz, MD, Fawwad Khan, MD
- 06.03.2025 – Bridging Theory and Practice: Educating Clinicians on Structural Competency Tools by Shani R. Scott, MD
- 05.27.2025 – Navigating Health Disparities, Diet, and Gut Microbiome by Edwin McDonald, MD
- 05.20.2025 – Antibody During Conjugates: Why So Many? by VK Gadi, MD, PhD
- 05.06.2025 – Advances in Post Infectious Chronic Conditions for the Internist: Lessons from Long COVID by Leonard H. Calabrese, D.O.
- 04.29.2025 – Stillness in the Scrubs: Integrating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice by Jasmin Searcy-Pate, PhD
- 04.15.2025 – Hypertension Therapy c.2025 Much Ado About Something by Raymond R. Townsend, MD
- 04.01.2025 – Sex Differences and Disparities in the Management of Cardiac Arrythmias by Anne B. Curtis, MD
- 03.25.2025 – AIM Track Presentations by Rochelle Fayngor, MD, Basil Kazi, MD & Zeel Modi, MD
- 03.11.2025 – Fertility and Family Building by Amanda J. Adeleye, MD
- 02.18.2025 – Management of Pregestational Diabetes in Pregnancy: An Update by Pamela Dolnik, MD
- 02.04.2025 – Short Bowel Syndrome/Small Bowel transplant: A Retired Marketing by Robert E. Carrol, MD
- 01.21.2025 – Antimicrobial Resistance: The Next Pandemic is Already Here by Pranita Tamma, MD, MHS
- 01.07.2025 – Overview of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies by Romesa Hassan, M.B.B.S., M.D., FACR, USSONAR
- 12.17.2024 – Health Disparities and Diversity in Clinical and Translational Research: A Case Study in Breast Cancer by Kent Hoskins, MD
- 12.10.2024 – A Vision for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine by Alex Auseon, DO
- 12.03.2024 – Quality of Care Reimagined: The Road From Quality & Value to Equity by Paul Casey, MD, MBA, FACEP
- 11.19.2024 – Between the lines: An Introduction to Sports Cardiology by Aakash Bavishi MD, MSCI
- 11.12.2024 – UIC Global Program: Scaling Local Excellence Globally by Abiola Ibraheem, MD
- 11.05.2024 – Resuscitation Curriculum by Christie Brillante, MD and Cristina Pabon-Diaz, MSN, RN, LBBP
- 10.29.2024 – Correctional Healthcare Mass Incarceration: The Prison Pipeline And Care For One Of Our Nation’s Most Vulnerable Populations by LaMenta S. Conway, MD, MPH
- 10.22.2024 – The Art of Medicine: Civic Wellness at the Art Institute of Chicago by Sam Ramos
- 10.15.2024 – Narrative Humility And The 55- Word Story: How Close Reading & Reflective Writing Can Improve the Cinical Encounter by Anna Maria Gramelspacher, MD, MA
- 10.01.2024 – Suicide After Prescription Opiod Reduction in Persons With Chronic Pain by Stefan G. Kertesz, MD
- 09.24.2024 – Kidney Stones: Canary in the Coal Mine by Elaine Worcester, MD
- 09.17.2024 – Antimicrobial Resistant Gram-Negative Infections: An Update on Clinically-Relevant Pathogens and their Treatment by Ryan Knodle, MD
Academic Year 2023-2024
- 6-11-2024 – Urothelial Carcinoma: Past, Present, Future by Karine Tawagi, MD
- 6-04-2024 – Sickle Cell Disease: Pathophysiology, Treatments, and Future Directions by Santosh L. Saraf, MD
- 5-28-2024 – An Early Look at AI Integration in Endoscopy by Tyler M. Berzin, MD, MS, FASGE
- 5-21-2024 – Scleroderma Now Has Proven Treatment That You Should Know About by Janet Pope, MD, MPH, FRCPC
- 5-14-2024 – Structural Determinants of Sarcoidosis Disparities by Yvette Cozier, D.Sc, MPH
- 5-07-2024 – Difficult to Treat (D2T) Rheumatoid Arthritis by Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, MACR, FACP, FCLM
- 4-23-2024 – Insights Into the Pathogenesis of Primary FSGS by Lorenzo Gallon, MD
- 4-16-2024 – From Old Paradigms to New Solutions: Understanding and Treating Proteinuric Kidney Disease by Kirk Campbell, MD
- 4-09-2024 – An Update on Genetic Disorders of the Kidney by Arlene Chapman, MD, MPH
- 4-01-2024 – A New Era for Clinical Therapeutics in Chronic Kidney Disease by Anand Srivastava, MD, MPH
- 3-26-2024 – Clinical Implications of Pituitary Adenomas by Adriana G. loachimescu, MD, PhD
- 3-19-2024 – VITOUX DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH LECTURE by Lawrence J Appel MD, MPH
- 3-12-2024 – AIM Track Research Presentations by Rebecca Garber, MID and Pooja Nayak, MD
- 3-05-2024 – From Icebergs to Inhalers: Climate Change, Health Threats and an Opportunity to do Better by Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD
- 2-27-2024 – Atrial Fibrillation: Current Strategies For Improving Thromboembolic Shock by Sukit Ringwala, MD,MPH
- 2-20-2024 – The Evolution of the Pooled Cohort Equation by Stefanie Vamenta, MD
- 2-13-2024 – Atrial Arrhythmias and Cardiac Contractility by Mark D. McCauley, MD PhD
- 2-06-2024 – Cardio-Oncology: Exploring the Crossroads of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer by Mary Rodriguez Ziccardi, MD
- 1-30-2024 – Novel Approaches to HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Management of Comorbidities by Michelle Cespedes, MD, MS
- 1-23-2024 – Unrest at Home: Stability and Resilience in the Human Microbiome by David A. Relman, MD
- 1-16-2024 – Chicago’s Infectious Disease Priorities by Simbo Ige MD, MS, MPH
- 1-11-2024 – Multimodal HIV Prevention by Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH.
- 01.09.2024 – Multimodal HIV Prevention: Can we “cut” the Epidemic? by Max Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA
- 12.19.2023 – In situ Inflammation in Human Lupus Nephritis by Marcus R. Clark, MD
- 12.12.2023 – Ongoing Multicenter Studies to Address Knowledge Gaps in Pancreatitis by Dhiraj Yadav, MD, MPH
- 12.05.2023 – Known and Evolving Modifiers of Mucosal Immunity in IBD by Sara Glover, DO, AGAF
- 11.21.2023 – Treatable Traits and Type 2 COPD by Nirupama Putcha, MD, MHS
- 11.07.2023 – Floreciendo: Improving sexual and reproductive health for Latina teens and their female caregivers by Kate Merrill, PhD
- 10.31.2023 – Medical Management of Obesity by Shriya Ghandhi, MD
- 10.24.2023 – Improving Access to Care for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities by Sodabeh Etminan, DMD, MPH
- 10.17.2023 – New Medications Enable a Complications-Centric Approach to Obesity by W. Timothy Garvey, MD
Academic Year 2022-2023
- 06.20.2023 Nipping in the bud: Reducing lung cancer mortality through emerging concepts in diagnosis and treatment by Ameen Salahudeen, MD, PhD
- 06.13.2023 Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Autoimmune Diseases by Keith M. Sullivan, MD, FASTCT
- 06.06.2023 Aggressive B-Cell Lymphomas: The Era of CAR-T and Bispecific by Carlos Galvez, MD
- 05.16.2023 Osteoarthritis: Evidence-Based Management by Joel A. Block, MD
- 05.09.2023 Systemic Sclerosis by Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc
- 05.02.2023 Type 1 interferon in Lupus from Genetic Risk to Treatment Approach by Timothy Niewold, MD
- 04.25.2023 Improving Equity: The Case of the Renal Transplant Allocation System by Pang-Yeng Fan, MD
- 04.18.2023 Management of CKD in T2D: New insights into the benefit of MR antagonism by Rajiv Agarwal, MD, MS
04.11.2023 Chronic Kidney Disease and Precision Medicine by Sushrut S. Waikar MD, MPH - 04.04.2023 Leveraging Multi-Omics Data to Promote Cardiometabolic Health across the life course by Tanika N. Kelly, PHD, MPH
03.28.2023 Personalized Trials: Bringing Precise Healthcare Interventions to One Patient at a Time by Karina Davidson - 03.21.2023 AIM TRACK: RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
- 02.28.2023 Pulmonary Embolism: Update on the Management and Future Directions by Joaquim Spadoni Barboza, MD FACC
- 02.21.2023 Translating from Bench to Bedside: Personalizing Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation – Dawood Darbar, MD
- 02.14.2023 Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Clinical Overview and the Role of Imaging in Detection Management – Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD
- 02.07.2023 Atrial Fibrillation: Modern Management and Future Perspectives by Dana Collin Johnson, MD, MPH
- 01.31.2023 Evolving Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Latin America – Cesar A. Arias, MD
- 01.24.2023 Covid-19 Vaccination Current Perspectives and Lessons Learned – Lawrence Corey, MD
- 01.17.2023 The Infectious Complications of Injection Drug Use and Considerations for Patient Management – Stockton Mayer, D.O.
- 01.10.2023 Transplant: Infectious Diseases for the Internist – Scott Borgetti, MD
- 12.20.2022 Chronic Pancreatitis: Translational Research Applications from the PROCEED study – Darwin Conwell, MD
- 12.13.2022 Women and Alcohol Live Disease: A Growing Disparity in Liver Transplantation – Veronica Loy, MD
- 12.06.2022 Endoscopic Bariatric Therapies: Current and Future Perspectives – Zohair Ahmed,MD
- 11.29.2022 Code Status Discussions with ICU Patients’ Surrogates – Tirsa M. Ferrer Marrero, MD and Tanjeev Kaur, MD
- 11.22.2022 Food Allergy: “Updates and Future Directions” – Jyothi Tirumalasetty, MD
- 11.15. 2022 Racial Bias in Pulmonary Medicine – Abhaya Trevidi, MD
- 11.01.2022 Understanding The Mechanism of Sickle Cell Disease Associated With Pulmonary Hypertension – Dustin Fraidenburg, MD
- 10.25.2022 Rethinking Hypothyroidism – Antonio C. Bianco, MD, PhD
- 10.18.2022 Diabetes Technology: Is It Ready For Primary Care? – Grazia Aleppo, MD
- 10.04.2022 Gender Affirming Care – Joshua Katz, MD
Academic Year 2025-2026
- 11.14.2025 – Workshop in Visual Thinking Strategies by Dr. Anna Maria Gramelspacher
- 10.10.2025 – Close Reading and Clinical Encounters: Lessons from Mary Oliver by Dr. Anna Gramelspacher
- 09.12.2025 – An Exploration of Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’a World by Dr. Anna Gramelspacher
Academic Year 2024-2025
- 04.03.2025 – Lessons from Picasso: Art, Observation & Empathic Curiosity
- 03.06.2025 – Narrative Medicine
- 02.06.2025 – Medical Improv with Chirag Rathod and Cristiana Hentea
- 01.08.2024 – Interprofessional Practice & The Jazz Piano Trio
- 12.05.2024 – Narrative Medicine: “The Glass” by Sharon Old
- 11.07.2024 – Visual Thinking Strategies featuring guest artist Sanché Mabins
- 10.22.2024 – The Art of Medicine: Civic Wellness at the Art Institute of Chicago by Sam Ramos
- 10.03.2024 – Narrative Medicine: “Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Continuing Medical Education
The University of Illinois College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Illinois College of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.