Grand Rounds

Date

Presenter(s)

Title

First year research updates:

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Internal Medicine Residents (Dr. Barr)
• Mycophenolate REMS to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes (Dr. Cintron)
• Neurosarcoidosis (Dr. Shen)

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autoimmune Disease

M&M conferences:

• An Ache Headed the Wrong Way (Dr. Shen)  
• A Tale of Vision Loss & Elevated ESR: Inflammation, Infection, or Malignancy? (Dr. Barr) 

Case presentation: More than Meets the Eye- a Case of Autoimmunity in Immunodeficiency (Dr. Dahima Cintron Lopez)

Pediatric topic review: Two Pediatric Vignettes, One Diagnosis (Dr. Yike Jiang)

ACR Recap Session Part II

• Talk 1:  Difficult to treat RA (Dr. Lena Eder)
• Talk 2:  Challenges in Psoriatic Disease: Divergent Skin and Joints (Dr. Jeffrey Shen)
• Talk 3:  Is Fibromyalgia an Autoimmune Disease? (Dr. Sonali Bracken)

ACR Recap Session Part I

• Talk 1:  Polymyalgia Rheumatica: New Tricks for an Old Disease (Dr. Dahima Cintron Lopez)
• Talk 2:  Challenges in Psoriatic Disease: Divergent Skin and Joints (Dr. Ann Cameron Barr)
• Talk 3:  Purple Peripheries: Vasculopathy vs. Vasculitis (Dr. Cassy Sims)

ACR Practice Session

• Talk 1: The Impact of Pregnancy Planning and Medical Readiness on Reproductive Outcomes in Women with SLE (Dr. Sims, 5 min)
• Talk 2: Development and Pilot Implementation of a Predictive Model to Identify Visits Appropriate for Telehealth (Dr. Leverenz, 5 min)
• Talk 3: Case-Based Approaches for Shared Decision Making in Selecting Treatments in Pregnancy (Dr. Clowse, 20 min)attached
• Talk 4: Practical Guide to Discussing Contraception & Family Planning (Dr. Clowse, 10 min)

Morbidity and mortality conferences

• To Plex or not to Plex (Dr. Lena Eder)
• A MISh MASh of Features (Dr. Sonali Bracken)

• Title 2: RheumMadness and Optimizing Telehealth in Rheumatology (Dr. David Leverenz)
• Title 3: Improving Medication Adherence (Dr. Kai Sun)

Talk 1: Training trainees how to think: incorporating metacognition into a fellowship curriculum (QI project presentation)

Talk 2: Review of statin-associated muscle symptoms and statin-induced necrotizing immune myopathy

Lisa Carnago, FNP in the Division of Rheumatology

Dr. Grewal, Department of Ophthalmology

Dr. Catherine Sims

Rheumatology Fellow

Dr. Matilda Nicholas

Department of Dermatology

8/24/21

Jay Doss, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Rheumatology

Ravi Karra, MD

Associate Professor, Cardiology

Lessening the Inflammation: A Collaborative Approach to Cardiac Sarcoidosis

8/17/21

Isaac Smith, MD and Megan Milne, MD

Adult rheumatology fellows

M&M and Patient Safety Event Analysis

8/10/21

Poorva Apte, MD

Adult rheumatology fellow

Adult Onset Still's Disease (AOSD): Update on Treatment Recommendations

8/3/21

Duke Rheumatology Faculty

Faculty Research Roundup #2

7/27/21

Duke Rheumatology Faculty

Faculty Research Roundup #1

7/20/21

David Pisetsky, MD

Professor of Medicine

Antinuclear Antibodies as Biomarkers: The Importance of Context 

7/13/21

Mary Buckley, MD

Pediatric Rheumatology Fellow

Kawasaki Disease: A Pathway Forward

7/6/21

Catherine Sims, MD and Poorva Apte, MD

First year rheumatology fellows

Research Update: RA Disparities in Telemedicine (Dr. Poorva Apte) 

End of Academic Year Updates (Dr. Cassy Sims) 

6/29/21

Ryan Anderson, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

Fellow research presentation: racial differences in barriers to medication adherence

6/15/21

Akrithi Udupa, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

Fellow research presentation: Podcast-based learning: E-learning of rheumatology amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

6/8/21

Mithu Maheswaranathan, MD

Third year rheumatology fellow

Fellow research presentation: Investigating Health Literacy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

6/1/21

Rachel Randell, MD

Pediatric research grand rounds

5/18/21

Megan Milne, MD and Isaac Smith, MD

First and second-year heumatology fellows

Fellow research presentations

5/11/21

Poorva Apte, MD and Megan Milne, MD

First year rheumatology fellows

M&M: Diagnostic errors and anchoring bias in rheumatology.

5/4/21

Catherine Sims, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

David Leverenz, MD (faculty mentor)

Journal club: Avacopan for the treatment of ANCA vasculitis

4/27/21

Catherine Sims, MD and Akrithi Udupa, MD

Second and first year rheumatology fellows

David Leverenz, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

M&M conference (part 1), and overview of the fellow QI project (part 2)

4/20/21

Ryan Jessee, MD

Clinical Associate at Duke

Philip Chu, MD

Clinical Associate at Duke

The use of musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology

4/13/21

Laura Covert, MD

Pediatric Rheumatology Fellow

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Overview & Insight into Duke's Experience in the COVID-19 Pandemic

4/6/21

Poorva Apte, MD

First year rheumatology fellow

David Leverenz, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Journal Club: VEXAS - Somatic Mutations in UBA1 and severe adult-onset autoinflammatory disease

3/30/21

Michael Hershfield, MD

Professor of Medicine

PEG-enzyme therapy for two disorders of purine metabolism

3/23/21

Susannah Copland, MD

Atlantic Reproductive Medicine Specialists

Fertility Preservation

3/16/21

Akrithi Udupa, Ryan Anderson, and Isaac Smith (2nd year fellows at Duke)

M&M: Unanticipated events following rituximab infusions

3/9/21

Virginia Byers Kraus, MD

Professor of Medicine, Duke

Pathogenesis of osteoarthritis

3/2/21

Megan Milne, MD

First year rheumatology fellow

Journal club: Use of biologics to treat relapsing and/or refractory eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: data from a European collaborative study.

2/23/21

Terry Fortin, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke

Pulmonary hypertension in connective tissue disease

2/16/21

Stephen Balevic, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Duke University

Optimal dosing for biologics in patients with obesity: the PRECISE study

2/9/21

Isaac Smith, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

The use of mRNA vaccines in patients with rheumatic disease.

1/26/21

David Leverenz, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Optimizing Telehealth in Rheumatology

1/12/21

Akrithi Udupa, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

Does methotrex(hate) the liver? MTX induced liver injury, then and now

1/5/21

Megan Milne, MD

First year rheumatology fellow

Osteoporosis in men: epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment

12/15/20

Ryan Anderson, MD

Second year rheumatology fellow

Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Something old, something new, something borrowed for something blue.

12/8/20

Catherine Sims, MD

First year rheumatology fellow

Fertility and Pregnancy in Vasculitis

12/1/20

Dr. Betty Diamond

Visiting lecturer from the Feinstein Institute of Clinical Research

Antibodies, behavior and cognition: Rethinking immune privilege in SLE

11/17/20

Akrithi Udupa

2nd year rheumatology fellow

Jennifer Rogers, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Rheumatology Grand Rounds Journal Club: Belimumab in Lupus Nephritis

11/10/20

Duke rheumatology fellows

Fellows' presentation of interesting topics from ACR Convergence 2020

10/27/20

Duke fellows and faculty

ACR posters and presentations from the Duke fellows and faculty

10/20/20

Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

No Rheum for error: cognitive biases and metacognition strategies for the rheumatologist 

10/13/20

Mithu Maheswaranathan, MD

Third-year rheumatology fellow

Exploring health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic 

10/6/20

David Leverenz, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Quality improvement: the Rheum where it happens

9/28/20

Ankoor Shah, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Stem Cell Transplant for Systemic Sclerosis: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions

9/22/20

Teresa Tarrant, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University

What humans, lemurs, and dinosaurs have in common (Paget's Disease)

9/15/20

Megan Clowse, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Improving lupus pregnancies is easier than you think 

9/8/20

Duke Rheumatology Faculty

Faculty research overview #2 (provides fellows opportunities to pursue mentored research)

9/1/20

Duke Rheumatology Faculty

Faculty research overview #1 (provides fellows opportunities to pursue mentored research)

8/25/20

Ryan Anderson, MD

Fellow, Duke University

Divisional Journal Club

8/18/20

Frank Cortazar, MD

Director, New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center

Kidney Disease in ANCA Vasculitis

8/11/20

John Stone, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital

IgG4-Related Disease

8/4/20

Gwenesta Melton, MD

The LaFayette Clinic

Advocacy in Rheumatology

7/28/20

Isaac Smith, MD

Fellow, Duke University

Divisional Journal Club - GiACTA

7/21/20

Larry Burk, MD

Integrative Medicine: Evidence-Based Skills for Rheumatology Patients

7/14/20

Bill St. Clair, MD

Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University

CNS Vasculitis

7/7/20

David Pisetsky, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Duke University

The Value of ANA Testing and Re-Testing

6/30/20

Aki Udupa, MD

Isaac Smith, MD

Fellows, Duke University

End of year fellow research presentations

Udupa: Hydroxychloroquine - how did we get here?

Smith: Evaluating health care disparities in cardiovascular outcomes and secondary prevention strategies in African American Patients with rheumatoid arthritis

6/23/20

Mithu Maheswaranathan, MD

Fellow, Duke University

End of year fellow research presentation

Investigating Health Literacy and Numeracy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

6/16/20

Philip Chu, MD

Fellow, Duke University

End of year fellow research presentation

Psoriatic Arthritis - Insights from MSK Ultrasound

6/9/20

Ryan Anderson, MD

Fellow, Duke University

Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, MEd

Program Director, Duke Rheumatology Fellowship

Anderson: End of year fellow research presentation

Medication Adherence in Patients with SLE

Criscione: End of year recognition and awards

6/2/20

Sonali Bracken, MD, PhD

Resident, Duke University

Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Divisional Journal Club

Modulating Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Through Toll-Like Receptor 9