Influenza
2021-11-03 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual via Zoom
Christopher Hurt

LGBTQ Center Book Club
2021-11-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-03 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-04 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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Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds, Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD - "The COVID-19 Pandemic: A View From the Bench."
2021-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD

Dr. Garcia uses humanized mouse models, including recently developed humanized-lung mice, to study the pathogenesis of human-specific viruses and therapeutic interventions. Dr. Garcia is using these models to study an array of human respiratory pathogens including RSV, CMV, influenza, MERS, SARS, SARS-CoV-2 and tuberculosis.  He has trained over 13 PhD students 40 postdoctoral fellows (past and present). His trainees hold positions in industry, government and academic institutions. Dr. Garcia is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and his contribution to Inclusion and Diversity is recognized by the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Society for Cell Biology. Dr. Garcia is also the Director of the International Center for the Advancement of Translational Science.
Throughout evolution, humans have been challenged by viral pathogens new to the species. For the most part, our immune system mounts an adequate response that protects us from the fatal consequences of infection. However, in some instances viruses can circumvent the immune system and cause fatal diseases such as cancer (EBV, KSHV, HCV), hemorrhagic fever (Ebola virus), AIDS (HIV) and new emerging pandemics (SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2). Understanding the host pathogen relationship at a molecular level provides rational approaches to therapy and vaccine development. In addition, it also provides a better understanding of human biology and immunology. We are interested in how human viruses cause human cancer, how HIV causes AIDS and why the immune system is not able to control viral infections. Our working hypothesis is that specific viral genes are the key determinants of viral pathogenesis and are responsible for disease progression. To evaluate the role of these genes in disease progression, we have developed in vitro and in vivo models that recapitulate specific aspects of viral infection. Our emphasis has been placed on precision animal models where human specific pathogens can be studied and where novel therapeutic interventions can be evaluated. For example, lymphotropic viruses are responsible for a vast number of human cancers. Unfortunately, their study has been severely limited due to fact that the majority of these viruses do not infect other mammals. Thus the lack of animal models susceptible to infection by these human viruses has severely limited our ability to develop novel treatments and effective vaccines. Our laboratory has established novel animal models that recapitulate key aspect of infection by human-specific viruses such as CMV, Zika, RSV, EBV, HIV, HHV-8, dengue virus and more recently human and bat coronaviruses. We are currently using these systems to evaluate novel interventions to treat and/or prevent the devastating diseases caused by these agents.

Trans Talk Tuesday (LGBTQ Center)
2021-11-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-01 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.

Journal Club
2021-11-17 08:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Thomas Holowka
Please note: This is a part of the ID Fellowship Core Curriculum. The intended audience is UNC ID Fellows. We sometimes allow guests to attend certain lectures. If you are interested in attending a specific lecture for a specific reason you can reach out to the ID Fellowship Program Coordinator.

Malaria and Tropical Medicine Cases
2021-11-17 08:05 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Jonathan Parr
Please note: This is a part of the ID Fellowship Core Curriculum. The intended audience is UNC ID Fellows. We sometimes allow guests to attend certain lectures. If you are interested in attending a specific lecture for a specific reason you can reach out to the ID Fellowship Program Coordinator.

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds: Sriram Machineni, MD, "Obesity Pharmacotherapy: The Past, Present and Future."
2021-11-18 12:00 | NC
Sriram Machineni, MD

Dr. Machineni is board-certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine and completed a clinical and research fellowship in Obesity Medicine at the Massachusetts General hospital, Harvard Medical School.
He moved to UNC in 2017 to establish medical obesity treatment services and, helped build an integrated network of comprehensive obesity care at UNC Health and serves as the director of the Medical Weight Program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Machineni is the principal investigator on multiple pharmaceutical clinical trials for obesity at UNC and is an expert in the use of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in patients with complex medical disease.
He is engaged in educating providers and has a goal of integrating obesity medicine education into medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.

Thanksgiving - No conference
2021-11-24 08:00 - 09:00 | NC

HIV Case Conference
2021-12-01 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Michelle Floris-Moore

Medicine Grand Rounds, Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA: "Academic Medicine in a Personalized, Distributed World."
2021-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA

Dr. Spencer Dorn arrived at UNC as a fellow in 2005, joined faculty in 2009, was appointed Vice Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology in 2012, and Vice Chair of Medicine for Care Innovation in 2019. In his current role, he focuses on enhancing existing care processes and models – while developing new ones – that support the department’s 600-plus physicians and advanced practice providers and that better meet the needs of the various patient populations they serve.
Dr. Dorn’s clinical practice focuses on functional GI and motility disorders, for which he has served as an investigator on numerous clinical trials, co-authored national practice guidelines, and has been consistently named to the list of Best Doctors in America. He is an experienced physician administrator who previously led and managed one of the nation’s premier academic gastroenterology practices. He broadly understands the forces shaping healthcare, serving on national gastroenterology practice committees, and frequently presenting and publishing on healthcare delivery.
Dr. Dorn received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, his medical degree from the State University of New York at Brooklyn, and his Masters of Public Health and Masters of Health Care Administration from the UNC School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and gastroenterology at UNC.

Journal Club
2021-12-08 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Diana Zychowski

Please note: This is a part of the ID Fellowship Core Curriculum. The intended audience is UNC ID Fellows. We sometimes allow guests to attend certain lectures. If you are interested in attending a specific lecture for a specific reason you can reach out to the ID Fellowship Program Coordinator.

Medicine Grand Rounds, Jessica Lin, MD: "Taking Steps Towards Malaria Elimination: Transmission From the Asymptomatic Reservoir."
2021-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR

Jessica Lin, MD MSCR is an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and a principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab at UNC (ideelresearch.org). In her clinical time, she enjoys working with residents on the Medicine Infectious Disease service and sees both HIV and general ID patients in her Eastowne clinic. Her research lies at the interface of clinical and molecular studies on malaria. She has published widely on the emergence of multi-drug resistant malaria in Southeast Asia. Her current projects focus on 1) determinants of malaria transmission from human hosts to mosquitos and 2) the epidemiology and relapse patterns of Plasmodium ovale in East Africa.

Joint Infections
2021-12-15 08:00 - 09:00 | NC
Nick Mavrogiorgos
Please note: This is a part of the ID Fellowship Core Curriculum. The intended audience is UNC ID Fellows. We sometimes allow guests to attend certain lectures. If you are interested in attending a specific lecture for a specific reason you can reach out to the ID Fellowship Program Coordinator.

Medicine Grand Rounds, Alan Hinderliter, MD and Rick Stouffer, MD: "Renal Denervation for the Treatment of Hypertension"
2021-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Alan Hinderliter, MD

Dr. Hinderliter’s principal clinical interests are hypertension, echocardiography, valvular heart disease, and preventive cardiology. He is a hypertension specialist and sees patients with high blood pressure that is difficult to control in the multidisciplinary UNC Hypertension Clinic. He serves as the medical director of the UNC Hospitals echocardiography laboratory and provides imaging support to the structural heart disease program.
Dr. Hinderliter’s research has focused on the effects of exercise, diet, and weight loss on high blood pressure, novel therapies for resistant hypertension, and the relationships of high blood pressure to cardiovascular structure and function. His research laboratory is actively engaged in studying the effects of disease processes, pharmacologic therapies, and lifestyle interventions on vascular endothelial function, and on investigating the cardiovascular manifestations of air pollution.

Rick Stouffer, MD

George A. Stouffer, MD is the Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chief of Cardiology and Co-director of the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He is actively involved in clinical and basic science research. His basic science research is in the areas of regulation of smooth muscle cell growth, thrombin generation, and renal artery stenosis. His clinical research is in coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention and myocardial infarction and he has very involved in research examining the optimal use of CYP2C19 genotyping to selected anti-platelet therapy. He is the author or editor of four textbooks and more than 180 scientific publications and has received research funding from NIH, AHA and numerous foundations.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Joseph Eron and David Weber: "COVID Update."
2022-01-06 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Joe Eron, MD, and David Weber, MD

Dr. David Jay Weber has been on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1985 where he is currently the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology in the UNC School of Medicine, and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Weber received his Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) degree from Wesleyan University in 1973, his Medical Degree (M.D.) from the University of California, San Diego in 1977, a Master’s in Public Health (M.P.H.) from Harvard University in 1985, and completed his medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1985. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Weber serves as an Associate Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of Infection Prevention for the UNC Medical Center. He serves as Medical Director of the NC Program in Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE). He is the Secretary of the Board of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Deputy Editor of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Weber has published more than 500 scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature cited in PubMed and more than 650 total papers and chapters. He has trained great than 50 students with an MPH or PhD in Epidemiology. His research interests include the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, disinfection and sterilization, new and emerging infectious diseases (highly communicable pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, mewly emerging pathogens including Candida auris), response to biothreats, nontuberculous mycobacteria, control of drug resistant pathogens, immunization practices (especially of healthcare personnel), zoonotic diseases, and epidemiology of tuberculosis.

Medicine Grand Rounds – Sid Barritt: “Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: New Diagnostic Approaches and Therapeutic Interventions for 2022”
2022-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Sidney Barritt IV, MD, MSCR, is a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina. He is the Director of Hepatology in the UNC liver center and the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program Director. Dr. Barritt conducts clinical outcomes research in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), general hepatology, and liver transplantation. Dr. Barritt leads the UNC Liver Center’s clinical trial program in NAFLD where he is PI on multiple phase 2 and 3 industry sponsored clinical trials and is also a member of the NIH sponsored Drug Induced Liver Injury Network and the PCORI PAL-Liver study. Dr. Barritt is also a founding PI for an international registry of patients with liver disease and SARS-CoV2 infection called SECURE-Liver. Dr. Barritt is a collaborator and advisor to multiple other investigators in the allied schools of health, including the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and the UNC Adams School of Dentistry. Dr. Barritt is a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the American College of Gastroenterology. Outside of work, Dr. Barritt enjoys spending time with his family, road running, and triathlons.

Medicine Grand Rounds - John Vavalle, MD - "Percutaneous Valve Therapies: A Revolution in Cardiovascular Care.”
2022-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
John Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC, is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. He is the Medical Director of the UNC Structural Heart Disease program, program director of the Structural Heart Fellowship program and associate program director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and Interventional Cardiovascular Fellowship programs. Dr. Vavalle’s main areas of interest is in percutaneous structural and valvular heart disease interventions, as well as coronary interventions. As Medical Director of the Structural Heart Disease Program at UNC, he successfully performed the first TAVR procedure at UNC in 2014. Dr. Vavalle also leads the UNC Heart Valve Clinic where a multi-disciplinary team of cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, and advanced practice providers evaluate patients with valvular heart disease to determine the best treatment options available. With the rapid evolution in the fields of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery, Dr. Vavalle focuses on increasing partnerships between the two specialties to create a seamless program where cardiologists and cardiac surgeons work together to perform hybrid and minimally invasive cardiac procedures. Dr. Vavalle also offers procedural expertise in complex coronary interventions, transcatheter closure of paravalvular leaks, repair of congenital cardiac defects, and closure of coronary fistulas. In addition to the UNC Heart Valve Clinic located at the UNC Medical Center, Dr. Vavalle sees patients in a general cardiology clinic at UNC Heart & Vascular at Meadowmont.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Ria Dancel, MD and David Tierney, MD - "Our Return to the Bedside: Implementation and Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Within Internal Medicine"
2022-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Ria Dancel (Ria.Dancel@unchealth.unc.edu) is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She has been the director of the Medicine Procedure Service since its inception in 2014 and directs the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) elective curriculum and required intern longitudinal curriculum for the Department of Medicine. She is on the steering committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine – American College of Chest Physicians POCUS certificate of completion program and also serves on the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine POCUS task force. She has directed and has been invited to serve as faculty for POCUS workshops and conferences nationally. She is also an award-winning educator, having won the Med-Peds faculty member of the year award multiple times, Internal Medicine inpatient faculty of the year, the Academy of Educators mentor award, and the 2021 Pediatric Hospital Medicine national Educational Excellence Award.

Dr. Tierney is an internal medicine physician at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he has practiced since 2003. He is the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and clinically works as a hospitalist and proceduralist. He is the founder and director of the Internal Medicine Bedside Ultrasound program (known as IMBUS) that has trained over 300 inpatient and outpatient internal medicine residents & faculty since its inception in 2009. He serves as a co-chair of the American College of Physicians Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program, is a member of both the Society of Hospital Medicine’s and AAIM’s Point-of-Care Ultrasound Task Force, and is the course director for several local and national ultrasound courses.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz presenting "University Update and Carolina Next."
2022-02-03 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Kevin M. Guskiewicz, a neuroscientist, academic leader and concussion researcher, is the 12th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prior to his appointment as chancellor, Guskiewicz served as the interim chancellor from February 2019 until December 2019. In that role, he held over 25 listening and learning sessions with constituents across campus. He was instrumental in shaping Carolina’s new strategic plan, Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good that outlines a roadmap for the University’s priorities moving forward. He relaunched the Tar Heel Bus Tour with 90 faculty and campus leaders, demonstrating Carolina’s commitment to the state.
A Kenan Distinguished Professor of Exercise and Sport Science, he has been a member of Carolina’s faculty since 1995. He is co-director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. Guskiewicz is a nationally recognized expert on sport-related concussions. He maintains an active research portfolio and is principal investigator or co-principal investigator on three active research grants totaling over $20 million. His groundbreaking work has garnered numerous awards and has influenced concussion guidelines in the NCAA and the NFL.
