Welcome to Medicine Grand Rounds
The Department of Medicine hosts Grand Rounds every Thursday during the academic year from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. CST. Grand Rounds features School of Medicine faculty and regional, national, and international leaders in their fields who present on a variety of current topics in medicine.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit
CME credit will be extended three days (the following Monday at 11:59 pm) for individuals who are unable to attend Medicine Grand Rounds in person.
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Archived Grand Rounds
Internal Medicine Scholars Symposium Oral Presentations
June 4, 2026
“The Dynamic Diastolic Loading Index: A Novel Echocardiographic Parameter for Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction” (Davis)
“Mining Institutional Genomics Data for Precision Oncology Research and Clinical Trial Development” (Mathews)
“Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity Revisited: SLIT2 as a Novel Circulating Signal” (Ozcan)
“SVEP1: From Human Genetics to Heart Failure Outcomes” (Sharma)
John Davis, MD, PhD, Parker Mathews, MD, Mualla Ozcan, MD & Pranav Sharma, MD
Navigating Modern IBD Therapy: A Guide for the General Internist & Next Generation Sequencing and the Future of Cancer Screening
May 28, 2026
Scott Anderson, MD & Rahul Ramaswamy, MD
Chief Resident Grand Rounds
When the Diagnosis Is Us: Medical Gaslighting, Stigmatizing Language, and Diagnostic Equity & Allergy or Misdiagnosis? Penicillin “Allergies” and a Case for De-labeling
May 21, 2026
Emma Doenier, MD & Sarah Coats, MD
Chief Resident Grand Rounds
The Unintended Consequences of Quality Improvement & Cardiovascular Disease in Athletes: An Overview
May 14, 2026
Akash Mitra, MD & Harrison Lancaster, MD
Chief Resident Grand Rounds
Electrocardiography & Electrophysiology – 100 years after Einthoven’s Nobel
May 7, 2026
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD
Edward Massie Lecture
Crossing the Chasm Revisited: Reflections on 25 Years of Quality Improvement in Healthcare
April 30, 2026
William (Clay) Dunagan, MD, MS
Breath as a Window to the Gut: Microbiome-Derived Volatiles for Clinical Diagnostics
April 23, 2026
Andrew L. Kau, MD, PhD
Learning from the Perpetrators; Nazi Doctors and Medical Ethics Today
April 16, 2026
David Goldman, JD
Holocaust Lecture