2013 Grand Rounds

Surgical Grand Rounds are conducted on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 7:15 A.M. in the 4th floor Old Clinic auditorium.

Upcoming Grand Rounds Presentation (.pdf)

Grand Rounds Disclosure Agreement (.ppt) (needs to be first and last slide for speaker)

12/4/2013	Mark Farber, MD Vascular Surgery	Management of Aortic Disease
11/20/2013	Shannon Carson, MD Chief of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine UNC School of Medicine	Addressing the Outcome of Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation
11/13/2013	Travis Cotton, MD Chief Resident of Surgery	Use of MRI to Identify Good Prognosis in Stage I, II, and III Rectal Cancer
11/6/2013	Jason Higginson, MD Director of Neonatology, Medical Director of NICU Department of Pediatrics ECU School of Medicine	Ethical Decision Making in Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery
10/30/2013	Robert A. Watson, MD Transplant Surgery	My Surgical Educational Research (Lessons Learnt)
10/23/2013	Joyce Tan, PhD Research Assistant Professor Director of Industry Strategic Alliances Department of Genetics	Building and Strengthening UNC-Corporate Partnerships
10/16/2013	Peter F. Ford, MBBS Vascular Surgery	The Peripheral Vascular Lab: Overview and Relevance to Vascular Surgery
10/9/2013	No Grand Rounds
10/2/2013	Matthew E. Nielsen, MD Department of Urology	Public Reporting of Surgical Quality: The Brave New World
9/25/2013	Sadath Sayeed, JD, MD Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Division of Medical Ethics	Human Resources for Global Health: New Opportunities for Teaching and Training
9/18/2013	William T. Adamson, MD Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery Trevor G. Hackman, MD Dept. of Otolaryngology (ENT) Tina M. Schade Willis, MD Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	Team Stepps in Surgical OR
9/11/2013	Michelle Kiser, MD General Surgery Chief Resident	Antibiotics vs Surgery in Acute Appendicitis
9/4/2013	Nelson Castillo, MD Division of Plastic Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Hand Trauma, A Look at the Evidences
8/28/2013	Christopher M. DeKaney, PhD Pediatric Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Tales from the Crypt: Function of Paneth Cells in Epithelial Repair
8/21/2013	Sean E. McLean, MD Division of Pediatric Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
8/14/2013	Raeshell Sweeting, MD General Surgery Resident	Use of MRI in Breast Cancer
8/7/2013	David Wayne Overby, MD Division of GI Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Towards Improved Feedback and Evaluation of Surgical Trainees and Teachers
7/31/2013	Introduction by Andy Kiser, MD, Chief, CT Surgery Lance E. Landvater, MD R. Lee Jobe, MD, FACC, FSCAI James P. Zidar, MD, FACC, FSCAI TAVR Team, Rex/UNC Health Care System Raleigh, NC	The Rex/UNC Transcatheter Aortic Valve Experience: Successful Collaboration Across Specialties and Across the UNC System
7/24/2013	Thomas M. Egan, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery, UNC School of Medicine	The Impact of the the Lung Allocation System on Lung Transplantation in the U.S. and Around the World
7/10/2013	Trista Reid, MD General Surgery Resident	Impact of 80-Hour Work Week on Mortality and Morbidity
6/26/2013	David van Duin, MD, PhD Infectious Diseases	Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Hospitalized Patients
6/19/2013	Rachel Aufforth, MD Surgical Oncology, UNC School of Medicine	Circulating Tumor Cells: A Marker of Micrometastatic Disease in Pancreatic Cancer
6/12/2013	Anthony A. Meyer, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery	Awards Ceremony
6/5/2013	Travis Cotton, MD General Surgery Chief Resident	Total Throidectomy or Thyroid Lobectomy in Patients with Low-Risk Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Surgical Decision Analysis of a Controversy Using a Mathematical Model
5/29/2013	Roy Williams UNC Men's Basketball Coach	Teamwork
5/29/2013	Ronald Hirschl, MD Head of Pediatric Surgery at CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan	State of the Art ECMO Lecture: Novel Approaches to the Management of Respiratory Failure
05/22/2013	Jeffrey Dehmer, MD UNC General Surgery Chief Resident	Skin Preparation in the OR
05/15/2013	Hartwig Bunzendahl, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery, GI Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Groin Pain Before and After Hernia Repair
04/24/2013	Thomas C. Ricketts, PhD, MPH Professor of Health Policy Management & Social Medicine, Managing Director for Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC School of Medicine	Constant Crisis, Constant Reform
04/17/2013	Edward G. Buckley, MD Professor of Ophthalmology & Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Dean for Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine	The Future of Medicine: Training the Next Generation of Doctors
04/10/2013	Kate McGinigle, MD UNC General Surgery Chief Resident	Hyperoxygenation to Prevent Surgical Site Infections
04/03/2013	Hiroshi Sogawa, MD, FACS Director, Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Intestinal and Multi-Visceral Transplantation
03/27/2013	H. Holden Thorp, PhD Chancellor, UNC Chapel Hill	Rational Re-Design of Cytochrome P450 Antagonists: Safer Drugs for Prostate Cancer and Anti-Fungal Indications
03/20/2013	Mary Hooks, MD, MBA Vanderbilt University Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery	Melanoma: Finally Good News!
03/13/2013	Tyler Elkins-Williams, MD UNC General Surgery Chief Resident	Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery
03/06/2013	Timothy Weiner, MD UNC Pediatric Surgery	Surgical Care Afghanistan 2012
02/27/2013	Crystal J. Neely, PhD NC Jaycee Burn Center UNC School of Medicine	Cellular Mechanisms of Immune Dysfunction Following Severe Burn Injury
02/20/2013	Patrick R. Borgen, MD Chair, Department of Surgery Director, Maimonides Breast Cancer Center Brooklyn, NY	Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer 2013: Integrating the ACOSOG Z-0011 Trial
02/13/2013	Emily Fontenot, MD UNC General Surgery Chief Resident	Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery
02/06/2013	Edward A. Levine, MD Wake Forest University Chief Surgical Oncology	Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
01/30/2013	Jack McRae Collins, MD Department of Health & Human Services	The National Response Framework & Emergency Support Function 8: How Public Health Responders Achieve the Preparedness Goal
01/23/2013	Thomas H. Fischer, PhD UNC Adjunct Associate Professor	Mechanism For Surface Hemostasis
01/16/2013	Courtney Sommer, MD UNC General Surgery Chief Resident	Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery
01/09/2013	Karl Holt Burn Survivor	Thriving: a Personal Story of Surviving Survival
01/02/2013	Canceled

Reza Rahbar, MD

Division of GI Surgery