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Medicine Grand Rounds meets each Friday at 8 a.m. in Duke University Hospital room 2002. Medicine Grand Rounds is a weekly topic- and case-based presentation by members of the faculty of the Department of Medicine (and colleagues in the School of Medicine). Topics and cases are selected to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Find details about upcoming Medicine Grand Rounds presentations on the Department of Medicine Calendar.

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2018-2019

Date	Presenter	Topic
11/30/18	Charles D. Howell, MD Professor of Medicine Director of the Viral Hepatitis Center Howard University College of Medicine	Phillips-Winn Memorial Grand Rounds: Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States
11/23/18	Holiday - No Medicine Grand Rounds
11/16/18	Loretta Que, MD Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	Overweight and Out of Breath: Insights into Pathogenesis and Management of Obese Asthma
11/9/18	Vivian Lee, MD President of Health Platforms at Verily	Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, Lecture: Technology & Health Care: Evolution, transformation or disruption?
11/2/18	John Paul Shoup, MD Chief Resident for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Jonathan Bae, MD Associate Chief Medical Officer for Patient Safety and Clinical Quality, Duke University Health System Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds: Ambulatory Laboratory Testing and the Move to Zero Harm
10/26/18	John Kelton, MD Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine Executive Director, Michael G. DeGroote Initiative for Innovation in Healthcare McMaster University	Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia; Still A Journey, The Destination Is In Sight
10/19/18	Christina Barkauskas, MD Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	New thinking about the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
10/12/18	John Strickler, MD Division of Medical Oncology	The Promise and Perils of Biomarkers to Drive Insights in Medical Oncology
10/5/18	Maria Segovia, MD Division of Gastroenterology	Intestinal Failure: Causes, Complications, Management
9/28/18	David Casarett, MD, MA Chief of Palliative Care Division of General Internal Medicine	Life, death, and fishing: The past and future of Duke Palliative Care
9/21/18	Joshua Thaden, MD, PhD Division of Infectious Diseases	Increasing antibiotic resistance in Gram negative bacteria: A return to the pre-antibiotic era?
Cancelled: 9/14/18	John Paul Shoup, MD Chief Resident for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Jonathan Bae, MD Associate Chief Medical Officer for Patient Safety and Clinical Quality, Duke University Health System Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds: Ambulatory Laboratory Testing and the Move to Zero Harm
9/7/18	David Leiman, MD Division of Gastroenterology	Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Updates, Implications and Future Direction
8/31/18	Eugene William St. Clair, MD Division of Rheumatology and Immunology	IgG4-Related Disease: The Many Faces of a New Pathologic Entity
8/24/18	Thuy Le, MD Division of Infectious Diseases	A Fungus, a virus, and a bamboo rat – who is the naïve partner in crime?
8/17/18	Aimee Zaas, MD Division of Infectious Diseases	State of the Internal Medicine Residency Program: Following our True North
8/10/18	Adrian Hernandez, MD Division of Cardiology	A Patient, a Clinician and a Data Scientist walk into a room...
8/3/18	Schuyler Jones, MD Division of Cardiology	Large Pragmatic Studies and Lessons from the ADAPTABLE Trial
7/27/18	Kenneth Goldberg, MD Division of General Internal Medicine	The (Durham) VA: How did we get here, and where are we going?
7/20/18	Haywood Brown, MD Professor Emeritus, Duke University Vice President Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity, University of South Florida Vice Dean, University of South Florida Health System	Pregnancy As A Window Into Future Health
7/13/18	Ahmed Galal, MD Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Paradigm shift in the treatment of refractory Lymphoma and Leukemia

2017-2018

Date	Presenter	Topic
6/29/18	Joseph G. Rogers, MD Interim Chair Duke Department of Medicine	Building on a Foundation of Excellence: Reviewing the Year in the Department of Medicine
6/22/18	Jason Zhu, MD Chief Resident for Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital	Precision Oncology: Hype? Or Hope?
6/15/18	Dinushika Mohottige, MD Chief Resident for Internal Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital and Ambulatory Medicine	From Policy to Culture Change: Promoting Civility and Enhancing our Ability to Care for our Patients and Each Other
6/8/18	Marc Samsky, MD Chief Resident for Internal Medicine, Durham VAMC	From Acute to End-stage Heart Failure: Strategies to Address the Evidence Gaps
6/1/18	Samuel Lindner, MD Chief Resident for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Durham VA	QI Grand Rounds: HEART Score and Chest Pain at the Durham VA
5/25/18	Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS Joseph C. Greenfield Visiting Professor of Medicine Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Professor of Medicine Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity UCSF School of Medicine	Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Precision Population Health
5/18/18	Resident Research Presentations and Califf Medicine Research Awards	Internal Medicine Residency Program
5/11/18	Vance Fowler, MD Division of Infectious Diseases	Staphylococcus aureus: Lessons Learned from 20 Years with the Persistent Pathogen
5/4/18	Redonda Miller, MD Clipp-Speer Visiting Professor President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital	Healthcare Transformation and the Evolving Role of Hospitals
4/27/18	Sheila Crowe, MD Joseph C. Greenfield Visiting Professor of Medicine Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego	What’s the problem with eating wheat? Is it gluten, wheat starch, allergies, the microbiome or something else?
4/20/18	Shelby Reed, MD Division of General Internal Medicine	From Stories to Evidence: Quantifying Patient Preferences to Inform Research, Regulatory Review, and Shared Decision Making
4/13/18	Thomas Stinchcombe, MD Division of Medical Oncology	Targeted therapies for advanced non-small cell lung cancer
4/6/18	David Ortiz-Melo, MD Division of Nephrology	Onco-nephrology: A closer look at the cancer-kidney connection
3/30/18	Jennifer Rogers, MD Division of Rheumatology and Immunology	Can Subtyping Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Improve Patient Care?
3/23/18	Ned Sharpless, MD Joseph C. Greenfield Visiting Professor of Medicine Director, National Cancer Institute	The Dynamic Interplay between Aging and Cancer
3/16/18	Lindsay Rein, MD	Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) in the Era of Targeted Therapies: Can We Cure Disease?
3/9/18	Samuel Lindner, MD Chief Resident for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Joel Boggan, MD General Internal Medicine	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds
3/2/18	Duke IM Chief Residents	Trivia Bowl
2/23/18	Matthew McKinney, MD Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Thwarting the attack of the (sub)clones: genomic discovery and precision medicine for cancer
2/16/18	Eileen Maziarz, MD Art Baker, MD Infectious Diseases	Hospital-Associated Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection: Outbreak Investigation, Epidemiology, and Clinical Outcomes
2/9/18	Paul Rosenberg, MD Cardiology	Skeletal Muscle in Health and Disease: A STIM1-ulating Story
2/2/18	Tracy Setji, MD Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition	Inpatient and Perioperative and Diabetes Management
1/26/18	Clyde Yancy, MD Joseph C. Greenfield Visiting Professor of Medicine Vice Dean, Diversity & Inclusion Chief, Division of Cardiology Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine	Heart Failure Care in 2018; still a work in progress.
1/19/18	Ziad Gellad, MD Division of Gastroenterology	Innovating for Value: How to Improve Quality, Lower Costs, and Save Ourselves
1/12/18	Kimberly Johnson, MD Martin Luther King Jr., Lecturer Division of Geriatrics	REACH Equity: Responding to the ‘Fierce urgency of now'
1/5/18	Terri Tarrant, MD Division of Rheumatology & Immunology	Where autoimmunity and immune deficiency intersect, CVID
12/15/17	John J. Strouse, MD, PhD Division of Hematology	Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease: The Present and Future of Disease Modifying Therapy
12/8/17	Myles Wolf, MD Division of Nephrology	FGF23 at the Intersection of Kidney and Cardiovascular Diseases
12/1/17	Marie Bernard, MD Phillips-Winn Memorial, Guest Lecturer Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging	From Mice to Men: Highlights of the National Institute on Aging Research
11/17/17	Deborah Fisher, MD Division of Gastroenterology	5 Myths in Colorectal Cancer Screening...You Won't Believe #3
11/10/17	Roger M. Stein, PhD The Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, Guest Lecturer Senior Lecturer Finance Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
11/3/17	Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services	DHHS Vision for Medicaid Transformation and Population Health
10/20/2017	Chris O'Connor, MD Chief Executive Officer Inova Heart & Vascular Institute Former Chief, Duke Division of Cardiology	The Impact of Leadership on Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes : A Tribute to Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield
10/13/2017	David Ginsburg, MD William H. Kane Guest Lecturer James V. Neel Distinguished Professor University of Michigan	Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Clotting Factor to Cholesterol Regulation
10/6/2017	L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH Division of General Internal Medicine	From Bench to Benefit: Better 21st Century Medicine through Discovery, Data, our Patients, and Systems Thinking
9/29/2017	Mark Herman, MD Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition	Translational Research Approaches to Sugar-Induced Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Disease
9/22/2017	John McPherson, MD Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University	Circuitous Paths in Academic Medicine: My Journey and New Paradigms
9/15/2017	Brent Hanks, MD, PhD Division of Medical Oncology	Investigating Mechanisms of Tumor Immune Evasion and Immunotherapy Resistance: Toward the Development of Novel Immunotherapeutic Targets and Biomarkers in Oncology
9/8/2017	Eric Velazquez, MD Division of Cardiology	Revascularization for Heart Failure
9/1/2017	Samuel Lindner, MD Chief Resident, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Brooke Berson Director of Duke Clinical Resource Management	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds
8/25/2017	Laurie Snyder, MD Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	Solving the Puzzle: Improving the Assessment of Candidates for Lung Transplantation
8/18/2017	Blake Cameron, MD, MBI Division of Nephology	eConsults: Improving Access to Specialty Care
8/11/2017	Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS Division of Infectious Diseases	State of the Internal Medicine Residency Program
8/4/2017	L. Kristin Newby, MD Division of Cardiology	High Sensitivity Troponin Is Here: Preparing for the transition
7/28/2017	Mitchell Krucoff, MD Division of Cardiology	The Changing Landscape of Medical Device Evaluation 2017: From Protecting to Promoting Public Health
7/21/2017	Kevin Shulman, MD, MBA Division of General Internal Medicine	The Healthcare Pivot: Technology and the Transformation of Healthcare
7/14/2017	Victor Test, MD Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: Changing Paradigms

2016-2017

Date	Presenter	Topic
6/30/2017	Mary E. Klotman, MD Chair, Department of Medicine	State of the Department of Medcine
6/23/2017	Alyson McGhan-Johnson, MD Chief Resident, Duke University Hospital	An Unlikely Pair: Advanced Endoscopy and Palliative Care in Pancreatic Cancer
6/16/2017	Aparna Swaminathan, MD Chief Resident, Duke Regional Hospital and Ambulatory	Pulmonary Hypertension: Guidelines & Uncertainties in Evaluation & Management
6/9/2017	Adam Banks, MD Chief Resident, Durham VA	Acute Aortic Syndromes: When Chest Pain in the ER is NOT Acute Coronary Syndrome
6/2/2017	R. Matthew Atkins, MD Chief Resident, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety	There's No Place Like Home: Quality Improvement in Primary Care
5/19/17	Sujay Kansagra, MD Department of Pediatrics	Sleep, Fatigue, and the Provider
5/12/2017	Valerie Ashby, PhD Phillips-Winn Memorial Grand Rounds Guest Lecturer	Phillips-Winn Memorial Grand Rounds: My Career Journey and Lessons in Mentoring
5/5/2017	Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE Clipp-Speers Visiting Professor	Coming to Peace with Uncertainty: Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention in 2017
4/28/2017	Matthew Crowley, MD Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition	Metformin: old drug, new opportunities
4/21/2017	Mark Gladwin, MD Guest Speaker, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	Hemolytic anemia as a mechanism for vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease and other hemolytic conditions
4/14/2017	Pat Croskerry, MD, PhD Dalhousie University, Professor in Emergency Medicine	Being less wrong: Towards rational clinical decision making
4/7/2017	Scott Shofer, MD, PhD Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	Implementation of a Lung Cancer Screening Program: The VA Experience
3/24/2017	Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, PharmD Division of Infectious Diseases	The ceiling is (not) the roof: A review of local and national antibiotic trends
3/17/2017	Jason Stout, MD, Matthew Atkins, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, General Internal Medicine	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds: Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy
3/10/2017	Gerard Blobe, MD, PhD Division of Oncology	Targeting TGF-beta Superfamily Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer
3/3/2017	Internal Medicine Chief Residents	Trivia Bowl
2/24/2017	Cara O'Brien Division of General Internal Medicine	Sepsis Updates: Old Wine in a New Bottle
2/17/2017	Nirmish Shah Division of Hematology	An App a Day to Keep the Doctor Away
2/10/2017	Steven Crowley Division of Nephrology	A Role for Inflammatory Cytokines in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension
2/3/2017	Danielle Brander Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in the Era of the Novel Therapeutics
1/27/2017	Michael Felker Division of Cardiology	New Treatments for Chronic Heart Failure
1/20/2017	Cathleen Colon-Emeric, Heather Whitson Division of Geriatrics	Bouncing Back: Physical Resilience in Older Adults
1/13/2017	Jamy Ard, MD MLK Speaker	A Patient with Obesity Walks Into Your Clinic: Designing Effective Obesity Treatments for Key Populations
1/6/2017	Eugene William St. Clair Division of Rheumatology and Immunology	A New Era in the Treatment of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
12/16/2016	Gowthami Arepally Division of Hematology	Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia: Clinical Updates
12/9/2016	Lawrence Greenblatt, Steven Prakken Division of General Internal Medicine	The Opioid Epidemic Hits At Home
12/2/2016	Jenny Tong Divison of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition	Treating Diabetes With A Scalpel
11/18/2016	Adam Perlman Division of General Internal Medicine	Integrative Health Approaches for Complex Pain Management
11/11/2016	Robert J. Margolis The Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD, Lecture	Population Health or Single Payer - the Future is in our Hands
11/4/2016	Mehri McKellar Division of Infectious Diseases	'PrEP' School - a primer on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV
10/28/2016	Richard Wood Division of Gastroenterology	Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in 2016: New and old insights in the era of PPI concerns
10/21/2016	Allison Vorderstrasse Associate Professor of Medicine and Nursing	Virtual environment for chronic disease management - Diabetes as an exemplar
10/14/2016	Carla Brady Division of Gastroenterology	Managing the Patient with Liver Disease who Becomes Pregnant
10/7/2016	J. Evan Sadler William H. Kane Lecturer	Von Willebrand Factor, ADAMTS13 and Thrombotic Microangiopathy
9/30/2016	Lesley Curtis Division of General Internal Medicine	Population Health Sciences: Launching a New Department in the School of Medicine
9/16/2016	Daniel George Division of Oncology	Black Lives Matter: Lessons Learned from Clinical Trials of African Americans with Prostate Cancer
9/9/2016	Craig Rackley Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine	The What, How, Why, and Who of VV-ECMO: Balancing Benefit and Harm
9/2/2016	Deepak Voora Division of Cardiology	Systems pharmacogenomics of aspirin: A new take on an old drug
8/26/2016	Matt Atkins Division of General Internal Medicine	Quality Improvement Grand Rounds
8/19/2016	Susan Spratt Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition	Durham Diabetes Coalition and Southeastern Diabetes Initiative: Using Data to Understand the Health of Populations
8/12/2016	Megan Clowse Division of Rheumatology and Immunology	So, a Pregnant Woman Walks into My Office...
8/5/2016	Phuong Doan Division of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Hematopoietic Stem Cell Growth Factors: Can we do better?
7/29/2016	Aimee Zaas Division of Infectious Diseases	State of the Internal Medicine Residency Program: A Look Forward
7/15/2016	Christopher Granger Division of Cardiology	Advances in Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation
7/8/2016	Jennifer Rymer Chief Resident, Duke University Hospital	Advances in Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation

2015-2016

Date	Presenter	Topic
6/24/2016	Mary Klotman Division of Infectious Diseases	State of the Department of Medicine
6/17/2016	Ken Schmader Division of Geriatrics	Varicella-Zoster Virus: Neutralizing a Painful Enemy
6/10/2016	Armando Bedoya Chief Resident, Duke Regional Hospital and Ambulatory	Sepsis-3: Third Time's the Charm
6/3/2016	Christopher Hostler Chief Resident, Durham VA	"To Care for Him Who Shall Have Borne Battle": ID Lessons from OIF/OEF/OND
5/27/2016	Lindsay Boole, VA/CRQS Chief Resident, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety	Wake Up and Improve: A QI Approach to Ventilator Associated Events at the Durham VA
5/20/2016	Serpil Erzurum Program for Women in Internal Medicine (PWIM)	Biomarkers for Precision Care of Asthma
5/13/2016	Ephraim Tsalik Division of Infectious Diseases	The Host Response to Infectious Disease
5/6/2016	Coach Cutcliffe Chief Invite	Winning As A Value
4/29/2016	Dorothy Sipkins Division of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Dynamic Trafficking of Metastatic Breast Cancer Through the Bone
4/22/2016	Miriam Morey Division of Geriatrics	Are Physical Activity and Exercise the Same? Why Aren't We Doing Enough About Either? Ramifications for Late-Life Function
4/15/2016	Deidra Crews George Phillips Speaker	Unequal: The Story of Chronic Kindey Disease
4/8/2016	Lindsay Boole M&M	Morbidity and Mortality Conference: A Tale of Code Status and Swiss Cheese
4/1/2016	Lake Morrison Division of Pulmonology	IPF in 2016: Progress and Pitfalls
3/25/2016	James Davis Division of General Internal Medicine	Hospital Medicine
3/18/2016	Julia Scialla Division of Nephrology	Chronic Kidney Disease: Trials, Tribulations, and Opportunities
3/11/2016	Chiefs CMR	Trivia Bowl, Intern Day Off
3/4/2016	Jennifer Perkins Division of Endocrine	Thyroid Nodules in 2016
2/26/2016	Mala Kaul Division of Rheumatology	Rheumatoid Arthritis Manifestations and Management: A Shifting Paradigm
2/19/2016	Steve Patierno Division of Oncology	Trenches, Benches, Bedsides, and Wrenches: Translational Prostate Cancer Disparities Research from Cells to Society
2/12/2016	Anna Reisman of Yale University Medical Humanities Speaker	From Ancient Magic to Knitting Circle: Why Writing Matters in Medicine
1/29/2016	Harvey Marshall Division of Pulmonology	Nitric Oxide Therapy: Past, Present, and Future
1/16/2016	Kevin Thomas MLK Speaker	Educational Videos to Address Racial Disparities in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators via Innovative Designs: The VIVID Study
1/9/2016	Gregory Gray Division of Infectious Diseases	Novel Influenza Virus: The Source Awakens
12/19/2015	Susan Gurley Division of Nephrology	Diabetic Nephropathy: From Bench to Bedside (And Back to Bench)
12/12/2015	Lindsay Boole M&M	Not Just Withdrawal: When Catastrophe Masquerades as Delirium
12/5/2015	Neil Stone Chief Invite	2013 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guidelines
11/21/2015	Tom LeBlanc Division of Palliative Care	Serious Illness Care and Shared Decision-Making: Right Care, Right Place, Right Time
11/14/2015	Mark McClellan Alumni, Stead Lecture	Clinician Leadership in Health Care Reform
11/7/2015	Ankoor Shah Division of Rheumatology	Scleroderma: What We Know and What We Can Do Better
10/31/2015	Patrick Hickey Division of Neurology	The Surgical Management of Parkinson's Disease: A Moving Target
10/24/2015	Dan Wild Division of Gastroenterology	Obscure GI Bleeding: Colonoscopy, EGD, Now What?
10/17/2015	Dr. Barry Coller of Rockefeller University Division of Hematology	From the Rivers of Babylon to the Coronary Blood Stream: The aIIbb3 Story
10/10/2015	Murat Arcasoy Division of Hematology	The Story of Erythropoietin in Health and Disease
10/3/2015	Daniella Zipkin Division of General Medicine	Communicating Risks to Patients
9/26/2015	Neal Ready Division of Oncology	Immune Therapy in Lung Cancer, Suddenly Out of Nowhere
9/19/2015	Kevin Harrison Division of Cardiology	Duke Treatment Options for Patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis
9/12/2015	Jamie Fox, David Gordon, Lindsay Boole Patient Safety,QI,M&M	Diagnostic Errors: A Call to Action
9/5/2015	Manal Abdelmalek Division of Gastroenterology	Turning the Tide: Improving Outcomes in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
8/29/2015	Jennifer Green Division of Endocrine	Cardiovascular Safety of Antihyperglycemic Agents in Type 2 Diabetes
8/22/2015	Lindsay Boole M&M	COPD: Care Transitions, Re-admissions, and Optimizing Medical Management
8/15/2015	April Salama Division of Oncology	Combination Strategies for the Treatment of Advanced Melenoma: Is More Better?
8/8/2015	Micah McClain Division of Infectious Diseases	Tickborne Diseases in North Carolina
8/1/2015	Lisa Pickett, Lou Diehl Program Director	RELATE Training
7/25/2015	Jennifer Cousar George Phillips Lecturer	Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics: Great Strides and Future Directions
7/18/2015	Andrew Muir Division of Gastroenterology	Hepatitis C Update
7/11/2015	Pamela Douglas Division of Cardiology	Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease: Evaluating the Evidence

2014-2015

Date	Presenter	Topic
6/26/2015	Omobonike Oloruntoba Division of Gastroenterology	Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine: Increasing the Reservoir and Fixing the Pipe
6/19/2015	Coral Giovacchini Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine	Electronic Cigarettes: Certain Uncertainties and Undecided Trends
6/12/2015	Nilesh Patel Division of General Internal Medicine	Graduate Medical Education: A Hardy Perennial
6/5/2015	Mary Klotman Chair, Department of Medicine	State of the Department of Medicine 2015
5/29/2015	Aimee Zaas Division of Infectious Diseases	State of the Internal Medicine Residency Program
5/22/2015	Dr. Aaron Mitchell VA CRQS Chief	Health Services Research: How the Health Care System Meditates
5/15/2015	Dr. Reshma Jasgi Clipp-Speer PWIM Speaker	Promoting Gender Equity and Success in Academic Medicine
5/8/2015	Larry Goldstein Division of Neurology	A Second Revolution in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke
5/6/2015	Dr. David Bartlett Visiting Scientist, University of Birmingham, England	Physical Exercise and Immune Function in Old Age: A Race Against Disease
5/1/2015	Nathan Thielman Division of Infectious Diseases	The Ebola Outbreak of 2013-2015: From West Africa to Duke and Back
4/24/2015	Dr. Sarah Connelly	Seeking the Holy Grail - Developing Drugs to Cure Hepatitis C: An FDA Perspective
4/17/2015	Daniel Sterman Division of Pulmonology	The Future of Interventional Pulmonology
4/10/2015	Stefanie Sarantopoulos Division of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy	Improving Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation Therapy for Cancer: Developing Agents for Patients with Chronic Graft versus Host Disease
4/3/2015	Herbert Hurwitz Division of Oncology	Angiogenesis, Inflammation, and Anti-tumor Immunity: Insights From the Clinic
3/27/2015	Ruediger Lehrich Division of Nephrology	Home Suitable Dialysis in the Treatment of ESRD
3/20/2015	Alex Cho, Lawrence Greenblatt, Lynn Bowlby, Adia Ross, Daniella Zipkin, Natasha Cunningham Duke Outpatient Clinic	Re-Imagining the DOC: A Multi-Year Journey Two Decades in the Making
3/17/2015	Nancy Andrews School of Medicine Dean	The State of the School
3/13/2015	Heidi White Division of Geriatrics	Health Optimization Program for Elders (HOPE)
3/6/2015	Gilbert Welch Division of General Internal Medicine	Too Much Information: A Critical Look at the Value of More Clinical Information
2/20/2015	Dawn Provenzale Division of Gastroenterology	Building a Research Platform for a Learning Health System
2/13/2015	Loretta Que Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine	The Changing Face of Asthma and the Expanding Role of S(NO)
2/6/2015	James Daubert Division of Cardiology	Update on Implantable Cardiac Rhythm Devices
1/31/2015	Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao Visiting Speaker	Complications of Hepatic Cirrhosis
1/24/2015	Nancy McGreal Division of Gastroenterology	Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Medicine: Perspectives for Clinicians
1/17/2015	Dr. Courtney Fitzhugh MLK Speaker	Reversal and Prevention of Organ Damage to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
1/10/2015	Vivian Chu Division of Infectious Diseases	Infectious Endocarditis: Decades of Change and Underappreciated Uncertainties
12/20/2014	Irene Whitt Division of Rheumatology	Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
12/13/2014	Claude Piantadosi Division of Pulmonology	Why is Severe Sepsis So Severe?
12/5/2014	Dr. Aaron Mitchell M&M	Morbidity and Mortality Discussion: Hepatic Encephalopathy
11/22/2014	Nancy Allen Division of Rheumatology	Giant Cell (Temporal) Arthritis: Clinical Manifestations and Management
11/15/2014	Dr. Mitchell Heflin, Dr. Shelley McDonald Division of Geriatrics	Preoperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH): A Model for Value-Based Care in Older Adults
11/8/2014	Wei Jiang Division of Cardiology and Psychiatry	Mental Stress Induced Myocardial Ischemia
10/31/2014	David Edelman Division of General Internal Medicine	Challenges in Implementing Primary Care Interventions
10/18/2014	Dr. John B. Simpson (Avinger) Stead Speaker, Alumni Weekend	A Brief History of Interventional Devices
10/11/2014	Thomas Ortel Division of Hematology	When Hoofbeats Aren't Horses. A Prolonged aPTT in the CCU
10/3/2014	Andrew Armstrong Division of Oncology	Circulating Tumor Cells: The Promise and the Perils of Predictive Oncology
9/27/2014	Dr. Richard Bedlack Division of Neurology	ALS Untangled: Re-Opening the X-Files
9/19/2014	Alastair Smith Division of Gastroenterology	Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
9/12/2014	David D'Alessio, Chief Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition	Regulation of insulin secretion by GI hormones: Physiology, Pharmacology and Mythology
9/5/2014	Richard Riedel, Anthony Galanos Division of Oncology	Integration and Impact of Palliative Care on an Oncology Inpatient Ward: The Duke 9300 Experience
8/30/2014	Secretart Bob McDonald Visiting Speaker	State of the VA Health Care System
8/23/2014	Christopher Granger Division of Cardiology	Novel Anticoagulants
8/16/2014	Dr. Daisy Smith, Dr. Sue Woods, Dr. Aaron Mitchell GME, Patient Safety, QI	HVCC Curriculum, GME Innovations
8/8/2014	Joseph Rogers Division of Cardiology	When Heart Therapy Fails
8/1/2014	Dr. Marin Kolief of Washington University Greenfield, Visiting Speaker	Infections in Critically Ill
7/26/2014	Dr. Aubrey Jolly Graham Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospitalist	Consult Communication
7/19/2014	Dr. Amy Abernethy Division of Medical Oncology, Palliative	Statins and Palliative Care
7/11/2014	Kevin Sowers RN, MSN, Dr. Thomas Owens Duke University Health Care System	Transforming Our Future: Duke Medicine's Response to Healthcare Reform