• Grand Rounds: Mel Scheinman, MD

    Speaker: Mel Scheinman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Walter H. Shorenstein Endowed Chair in Cardiology, University of California Topic: “ECG Signs Denoting Risk for Sudden Death”

  • Medicine Grand Rounds: David J. Weber, Matthew Collins and Helen M. Lazear “Zika Virus Infection”

    Researchers at UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals are leading the charge in Zika research with more than 10 groups currently studying Zika – its transmission, its epidemiology and its associated neurological and birth defects, including microcephaly. Dr. David Weber is a member of UNC Hospitals’ Zika Response Working Group, keeping clinic directors informed … Read more

  • Medicine Grand Rounds, Alex Duncan “Inflammasomes in Infection and Inflammatory Disease: What Can Go Wrong with Host Defense”

    Dr. Duncan is an infectious diseases specialist and physician scientist. He runs a laboratory focused on understanding the role of the human immune system both in protecting us from infection but also in understanding how host immunity is exploited by pathogens to promote infections. His lab studies host immune response to N. gonorrhoeae and S. … Read more

  • Grand Rounds: Olivia Gilbert, MD

    Speaker: Olivia Gilbert, MD. Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellow, University of North Carolina.Topic: "Evolution of the LVAD"

  • Medicine Grand Rounds, Samantha Meltzer-Brody & Amy Weil “An Institutional Program to Increase Physician Engagement”

    Awareness, Assessment and Treatment of Burnout Medicine is facing an era of rapid and continuous change in nearly every way. The profession of medicine also is approaching an epidemic of physician burnout — a complex and systemic issue that is receiving increased attention from both within and outside the field of healthcare. Novel and systemic … Read more

  • Medicine Grand Rounds, John B. Buse “Type 2 Diabetes Care: Struggle, Progress and the Future”

    Type 2 diabetes is a major and growing contributor to poor health outcomes globally. Clinical science has conclusively demonstrated that glycemic control reduces the risk of microvascular complications – eye, kidney and nerve disease. For cardiovascular disease, blood pressure and lipid management, smoking cessation and antiplatelet therapies are effective in reducing risk. However, great controversy … Read more

  • Grand Rounds: J. Kevin Harrison, MD

    Speaker: J. Kevin Harrison, MD, Professor of Medicine, Structural Heart Specialist, Duke UniversityTopic: "TAVR for Intermediate and Low Risk Aortic Stenosis Patients"

  • 2016 North Carolina Cardiovascular Update

    Featuring The 15th Annual Ernest and Hazel Craige Lecture KEYNOTE SPEAKER Roger S. Blumenthal, MDDirector, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Centerfor the Prevention of Heart DiseaseThe Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of CardiologyJohns Hopkins Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology PROGRAM DIRECTORS George A. (Rick) Stouffer, III, MDChief, Division of CardiologyHenry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor of MedicineMedical Center Physician … Read more