Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Scott Commins, MD, PhD presenting: "Beyond Red Meat: Tick Bites, Delayed Anaphylaxis and Lessons That Will Impact Your Practice."
2021-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | WebEx
Scott Commins, MD, PhD

Dr. Scott Commins joined the faculty of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics. He is a member of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative and the Thurston Research Center. Dr. Commins maintains an active clinical practice and research program related to the alpha-gal mammalian meat allergy.
Dr. Commins received M.D. / Ph.D. (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) from the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC). Following a residency in Internal Medicine, Scott completed a fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at The University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). Dr. Commins is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and was a recent member of the Congressionally-appointed Tick-Borne Disease Working Group where he was co-chair of the alpha-gal syndrome subcommittee.

LGBTQ Center Book Club
2021-04-02 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-04-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-05-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-05-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-06-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-06-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-07-02 18:30 - 19:30 | Videoconferencing
About Book Club
The LGBTQ Center Book Club is a twice-monthly meeting of lit nerds and casual readers who love to discuss books, fanfic, and other readings with LGBTQIA+ themes. . We meet on a pattern of discussing things we love/late to read on the 1st Friday and meeting to discuss the group’s chosen works on the 3rd Friday. We stay in touch and discuss readings using a dedicated GroupMe chat in between meetings.

Fall 2020 Schedule
1st and 3rd Friday starting 8/21 from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm starting with an interest meeting on 8/21/2020.
September 4th: Reading recs meeting. What are you reading? Tell us what you’ve loved, as well as what you’ve hated!
September 18th: We’ll be discussing Stone Butch Blues (https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/) and Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time (https://uncannymagazine.com/article/small-changes-long-periods-time/) Read whichever one interests you (or read both!)
October 2nd: Reading recs meeting. What are you reading? Tell us what you’ve loved, as well as what you’ve hated!
October 16th: We’ll be discussing The Song of Achilles (https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb9053277) and Castle Swimmer (https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/castle-swimmer/episode-1/viewer?title_no=1499&episode_no=1). Read whichever one interests you (or read both!)
November 6th: Reading recs meeting. What are you reading? Tell us what you’ve loved, as well as what you’ve hated!
November 13th (moved up one week for TDOR): We’ll be discussing Giovanni’s Room (https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb2684001) and Cigarettes and Wine (https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb8906736), Read whichever one interests you (or read both!)
December 4th: Reading recs meeting. What are you reading? Tell us what you’ve loved, as well as what you’ve hated!
Dec 18th: We’ll be discussing Fun Home (https://archive.org/details/funhomefamilytra00bech_0/page/n245/mode/2up) and No Tea, No Shade (https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb8648178). Read whichever one interests you (or read both!)
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Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Lindsey Rosman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC Cardiology
2021-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Rosman
Dr. Rosman will present “Leveraging Multiple Sources of High-Dimensional Health Data to Improve Risk Stratification and Outcomes in Patients with Arrhythmias and Implanted Cardiac Devices”

Trans Talk Tuesday (LGBTQ Center)
2021-04-06 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-04-20 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-05-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-05-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-06-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-06-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-07-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Videoconferencing
Trans Talk Tuesday

Location:

Zoom – Contact Facilitator for Link

In LGBTIQ spaces do you feel like the T is left out?
Would you like to connect with folks around topics of gender identity and gender expression?
Are you questioning your gender identity and hoping to talk to other questioning folks?
Would you like to share your knowledge and expertise in regards to navigating systems that don’t often recognize diversity within gender?

Join the LGBTQ Center’s peer support/discussion group for campus and community members that identify as transgender, genderqueer, or gender-questioning. This space is meant to provide community and connection amongst folks on the basis of gender identity. All students, staff, faculty, community members with these identities are welcome.
Note to Allies
We have been asked if allies are welcome. As this space is not meant to be an educational space where people have to explain their identities, we ask that people who do not identify as part of the transgender community (i.e., cisgender allies) not attend. Instead, please consider taking advantage of our educational programs and/or resources for supportive families or friends.
Accommodations for Social Distancing
Trans Talk Tuesday will be moving online for now. We’ll be meeting the first and third Tuesdays at 6:30 (NOT 6:15 like we usually do) on Zoom, a videoconferencing platform with an online, desktop, and mobile app. If you’d like to receive the Zoom info each week, please sign up for the Trans Talk Tuesday email list by emailing the facilitator, Anole, at anole.halper@gmail.com.

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Special Presentation: 2021 Merrimon Lecture ft. Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Thrown Under the Bus: Young People’s Mental Health in the Pandemic Era

Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD

Merrimon Lecture 2021 Flyer

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR presenting: "High Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States: A Cohort Study in North Carolina
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR

Jessica Lin is an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab at UNC. Before COVID, she was pursuing clinical and translational studies on drug-resistant malaria and malaria transmission in Cambodia and Tanzania. In April 2020, she launched Co-HOST, a study of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in North Carolina. She will be presenting full unpublished results from the study.

7th Annual Women's Heart Symposium
2021-04-15 13:00 - 2021-04-16 15:30 | NC
Save the Date_ 7th Annual Women’s Heart Symposium 2021 3
In North Carolina, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women, with heart disease and stroke accounting for more than a quarter of all deaths. Education can help reverse this trend and is the core component of the Women’s Heart Symposium.
We hope you can join Dr. Paula Miller, UNC School of Medicine professor and director of the UNC Women’s Heart Program, and other cardiovascular experts in a range of heart health topics. This year’s event will be virtual, and you are able to sign up for one or multiple sessions below. If you are unable to join sessions live but would like to view a recording later, we encourage you to register.
Guests who register will receive a T-shirt and a flash drive of the presentations, so please include the best mailing address along with your T-shirt size.

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Morton Kern, MD, Professor of Medicine University of California, Irvine, Long Beach, CA
2021-04-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Kern
Dr Kern will present “Essential Hemodynamics in 30 and Essential Coronary Physiology in 15”

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Keisha Gibson, Cam Enarson, and Kim Boggess presenting: " “Dismantling the Impact of Structural Racism in Academic Medicine.”
2021-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, FASN
Cam Enarson, MD, MBA
Kim Boggess, MD

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Mark McClellan, MD, PhD presenting "Healthcare Payment Reform"
2021-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, is Director and Robert J. Margolis, M.D., Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy at the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. He is a physician-economist who focuses on quality and value in health care, including payment reform, real-world evidence and more effective drug and device innovation. Dr. McClellan is at the center of the nation’s efforts to combat the pandemic and the author of a roadmap that details the steps needed for a comprehensive COVID-19 response and safe reopening of our country. He is former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. Dr. McClellan is an independent director on the boards of Johnson & Johnson, Cigna, Alignment Healthcare, and PrognomIQ; co-chairs the Guiding Committee for the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network; and serves as an advisor for Arsenal Capital Group, Blackstone Life Sciences, and MITRE.

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Rick Stouffer, MD, Chief, UNC Division of Cardiology
2021-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Flyer – Dr. Stouffer
Dr. Stouffer will present “Cardiology at UNC – Past, Present, and Future”

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Cindy Gay, MD, MPH presenting, "COVID-19 Vaccines: A Year in Review"
2021-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
Cindy Gay, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine

Dr. Cindy Gay is a practicing infectious diseases clinician and the Medical Director for the HIV Cure Center at UNC. Her research background includes clinical trials and translational including Phase I/II clinical trials involving novel HIV vaccines and immunotherapeutic strategies to advance HIV cure strategies. Dr. Gay has also worked on HIV-related studies conducted in national networks including the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the HIV Prevention Trials Network, and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. Dr. Gay is the site Principle investigator for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial as well as a co-chair and site Principle investigator for a Phase 3 trial of the Novavax covid-19 vaccine.

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - W. Kimryn Rathmell, PhD, MD presenting: "Genomic Integrity and the TME in ccRCC​."
2021-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
W. Kimryn Rathmell, PhD, MD

Dr. Kimryn Rathmell is the Chair of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a physician-scientist studying the molecular biology of renal cell carcinomas and rare tumors of the kidney. She earned her undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Biology at the University of Northern Iowa, and her MD and PhD in Biophysics at Stanford University. She completed internal medicine training at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Departments of Medicine and Genetics at the University of North Carolina in 2003 and was a founding member of the Department of Urology before relocating to Vanderbilt in 2015.
Her research program focuses on understanding the molecular pathogenesis of renal cell carcinomas and spans early models of renal tumorigenesis, novel imaging strategies for diagnosis and screening of kidney cancer, epigenetic regulation of kidney cancers, metabolic features of tumorigenesis, and novel therapeutic strategies to overcome resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy and checkpoint targeted immunotherapy. With these bench to bedside strategies, her laboratory endeavors to integrate knowledge of pathways that promote cancer development with translational clinical studies, and uses these discoveries to develop robust approaches to improve the survival of patients with kidney cancers. She is also deeply committed to the development of physician-scientists. At UNC Chapel Hill, she worked closely with the Medical Scientist Training program, founded the oncology junior faculty mentoring program, and served the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as Associate Director for Education and Training. At Vanderbilt, she serves as the Deputy Director for Research Integration and Career Development for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. She directs T32 and K12 career development programs, in addition to continuing to serve as a faculty mentor for the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program. Outside of these activities, she has led organizational initiatives through such work as service on the ASCO Ethics and Education Committees, chaired the ASCO Nominating Committee, founded and served as chair for the Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Research Program, led numerous working groups of the NIH Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), served on several editorial boards, most recently the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cancer Research, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology-Precision Oncology, and served on the ASCI Council as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the Society, leading changes for young physician-scientists, enhancing advocacy and development, and during the founding of the second journal of the society, JCI-Insight. Dr. Rathmell currently serves on the Board of Scientific Advisors for the National Cancer Institute.

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by John Symanski, MD, Medical Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
2021-05-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Symanski
Dr. Symanski will present “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: 2021 Update”

Virtual Medicine Grand Round - 2020-2021 Chief Residents presenting "A Year in Review."
2021-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
2020 – 2021 Internal Medicine Chief Residents (pictured, from left) are Carlos Rubiano, MD; Sydney Greenberg, MD; Erin Finn, MD; Katie Gill, MD; Josh Hudson, MD.

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Jennifer Temel, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, presenting: "Integrating Palliative and Oncology Care: Past, Present, and Future."
2021-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
Jennifer Temel, MD

Dr. Jennifer Temel is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center. She is a thoracic oncologist and serves as the Clinical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at MGH. She has received funding from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the American Cancer Society to study novel methods of improving the care of patients with cancer and their family members. She has developed a thriving research program focused on optimizing palliative and supportive care for patients with cancer and their families. Dr. Temel is also invested in training the next generation of clinical investigators and serves as the co-Principal Investigator on two National Cancer Institute grants to train and support junior faculty pursuing research careers. She is the recipient of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, the American Cancer Society Pathfinder Award, the American Psychosocial Oncology Society Award for Outstanding Education and Training, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Walther Cancer Foundation Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Award. Dr. Temel was recently named an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor for her research in palliative and supportive care.

Thursday, June 3 - No Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds Presentation
2021-06-03 12:00 - 13:00 | NC

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds, Joseph Eron, MD and David Weber, MD: "A COVID Update."
2021-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
