Medicine Grand Rounds, David Weber and Sarah McGill, “Clostridium Difficile Infection”
Drs. Weber and McGill will talk about this infection that costs more than $3 billion per year in the U.S. alone
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Grand Rounds: Akinniran Abisogun, MD
Speaker: Akinniran Abisogun, MD, UNC Cardiology Fellow, Topic: "Management and Outcomes of Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients Hospitalized for Non-Cardiac Conditions."
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Balfour Sartor, “Intestinal Microbiota in Health and Inflammatory Diseases: The Basis for Improved Therapeutic Manipulation”
Dr. Sartor is a gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist with a long-standing interest in mechanisms by which commensal microbiota induce chronic intestinal inflammation vs. mucosal homeostasis. He specializes in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and directs the UNC Multidisciplinary IBD Center. Dr. Sartor has been a faculty member at UNC for his entire academic career. His research … Read more
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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. M. Andrew Greganti and Dr. Anil Gehi
Speakers: Dr. M. Andrew Greganti (Vice Chair, Department of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine) and Dr. Anil Gehi (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology)Topic: Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Morbidity & Mortality, “Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy”
Dr. Andrew Greganti will review the clinical course of a patient who initially presented with a polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome and whose prolonged illness was complicated by a cardiomyopathy of unclear pathogenesis. Dr. Anil Gehi is an electrophysiologist in the UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care specializing in pacemaker and defibrillator implantation, device extraction, catheter … Read more
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Mark Kahn, MD
Speaker: Mark Kahn, MD (Edward Cooper, MD and Norman Roosevelt & Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor, University of Pennsylvania-Perelman School of Medicine)Topic: Cerebral Cavernous Malformation: From Mechanism to Therapy
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Walter Koch, PhD
Speaker: Walter Koch, PhDTopic: Targeting GRK2 in The Failing Heart
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Timothy Ives and Maryam Jowza, “Opioid Use and Misuse”
The US is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and so have sales of these prescription drugs. Efforts to address the opioid epidemic have focused mainly on reducing non-medical opiate use. Overprescribing of opiate agents has led to a sharp increase in the prevalence … Read more
