Trans Talk Tuesday (LGBTQ Center)
2022-01-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-05 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

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.

LGBTQ Center Book Club
2022-01-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-01-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-02-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-04 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-01 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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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.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. Seth Berkowitz presenting "Injustice and Health: Epidemiological Perspectives."
2022-02-10 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Berkowitz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He performs research on population management, food insecurity, cost-related medication underuse and the impact of adverse social circumstances on chronic disease management, particularly with regard to diabetes and other cardiometabolic disease. His goal is to develop interventions and care delivery models that address social and economic needs as part of chronic disease management, and then evaluate these for both effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. David Weber Presenting "Infectious Diseases in International Visitors and Afghan Immigrants."
2022-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
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.

UNC Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Ajar Kochar, MD, MHA, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA
2022-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Kochar
Dr. Kochar will present “Shockingly Personal – Outcomes and other Endeavors”

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. Ashley Henderson and Dr. Koyal Jain Presenting "Updates In Undergraduate Medical Education - The Journey So Far And The Road Ahead."
2022-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Ashley Henderson is an associate professor here at UNC in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. When she first moved here (from Texas) in 1996, her plan was to do her 3 year residency and return, but 25 years later she remains at UNC–the school whose medical collaborations and care for patients is second to none. Although she started out in translational and clinical research so she could be on the faculty, her long term goal was to be an educator, and over the years she has held several positions to that aim. In addition to starting with “CC2”, teaching the respiratory block, she helped with the transition to the TEC curriculum both as the respiratory block director and the co-director of medical sciences, and for the last two years has been the co-director of undergraduate medical education for the school of medicine. She also has been the director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program for the last 7.5 years, and continues to stay clinically active with the medical ICU, pulmonary consults, her COPD clinic, and as part of the multidisciplinary vasculitis clinic. She’s grateful to never have a boring day at work.
Dr. Koyal Jain is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Jain serves as the co-director of undergraduate medical education in the Department of Medicine. She is currently the renal block director for first year medical students at UNC and the program director for the nephrology training program. Dr. Jain has won multiple awards for her undergraduate medical education including foundation phase outstanding director awards, best foundation phase block award and excellence in teaching in basic sciences. She was also selected by the medical student body as the Whitehead lecturer for 2020.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. Patricia Rivera and Dr. Jason Long Presenting "Lung Cancer Screening Beyond NLST: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities."
2022-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Rivera is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. She joined the faculty at UNC in 1995 and co-founded the first Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program in the country, a premier program that became the model for multidisciplinary care and defined the vital role pulmonologists play in the care of patients with thoracic malignancies. More recently, she founded the Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Screening Program at UNC and continues to direct both programs. Her expertise includes screening, diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and management of treatment complications.
Dr. Rivera holds several vital leadership roles at UNC and for more than 20 years has served national pulmonary and cancer societies including the American Thoracic Society (ATS, The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Round Table through numerous leadership roles and by sharing her time, knowledge and passion to advance the field of Thoracic Oncology
Dr. Rivera collaborates with colleagues at UNC on NIH/NCI funded research and has co-developed and serves as Co-Investigator of the North Carolina (NC) Lung Screening Registry, a statewide initiative to examine the delivery, quality and outcomes of lung cancer screening and evaluate the extent to which disparities in lung cancer screening outcomes exist. Her ongoing funded research activities also include a multi-institution pilot project exploring presence of coronary artery calcification on lung cancer screening CT and downstream risk stratification and statin delivery and exploring rural/urban disparities associated with biomarker testing in advanced lung cancer.
Dr. Rivera is passionate and committed to medical education and mentoring and has received numerous awards at UNC and from National Societies. She is particularly passionate about developing the next generation of leaders and increasing the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in our field.

Dr. Long is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Dr. Long attended UNC-Chapel Hill for Undergraduate and Wake Forest University for Medical School. He completed his General Surgery Residency at the University of Chicago and completed his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Dr. Long is an American Board Certified Thoracic Surgeon and Return to UNC in 2013. He has been the Co-Director of the UNC Lung Cancer Screening Clinic since 2015, will become the director in April 2022. Dr. Long’s clinical interest are in Thoracic oncology including cancer of lung, esophagus; lung transplantation; minimally invasive thoracic surgery including robotic surgery; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); lung and esophageal surgery. Robotic thoracic surgery, esophagectomy, lung cancer surgery, lung transplantation, chest wall resection and reconstruction, thoracic trauma.

UNC Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Seth S. Martin, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
2022-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Seth Martin
“The Digital Transformation of Cardiovascular Care”

Medicine Grand Rounds - Dr. James Kirkland: "Aging, Cellular Senescence and Senolytics: The Path to Translation."
2022-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D., is Director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging at Mayo Clinic and Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research. Dr. Kirkland’s research is on the contribution of fundamental aging processes, particularly cellular senescence, to age-related and chronic diseases and development of agents and strategies for targeting fundamental aging mechanisms to treat age- and chronic disease-related conditions and morbidities. Additional research areas include molecular and physiological mechanisms of age-related adipose tissue and metabolic dysfunction, frailty, and loss of resilience to infections and acute diseases in old age. Dr. Kirkland’s laboratory published the first article about agents that clear senescent cells – senolytic drugs. Dr. Kirkland demonstrated that senolytic agents enhance healthspan and delay, prevent, or alleviate multiple age-related disorders and diseases in mouse models. He published the first clinical trials of senolytic drugs and is currently conducting multiple clinical trials of senolytics, including three clinical trials for COVID-19. He has more than 225 publications and holds over 20 patents. Dr. Kirkland is Principal Investigator of the Translational Geroscience Network (R33 AG061456), which brings together 8 academic institutions to translate healthspan interventions, including senolytics and other drugs that target fundamental aging processes, from bench to bedside. He is a scientific advisory board member for several companies and academic organizations. He is President of the American Federation for Aging Research, a past member of the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, past chair of the Biological Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America, and past member of the Clinical Trials Advisory Panel of the National Institute on Aging. He is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, geriatrics, and endocrinology and metabolism. Dr. Kirkland is the 2020 recipient of the Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction from the American Federation for Aging Research.

Medicine Grand Rounds - Donald L. Rosenstein, MD - "Screening for Suicide Risk in Health Care Settings."
2022-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Donald L. Rosenstein, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of North Carolina where he is Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program and Division Head of General Adult Psychiatry. Dr. Rosenstein earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from Wesleyan University, his medical degree from Northwestern University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in psychiatry at Yale University. He is the former Clinical Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Past-President of both the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS). Dr. Rosenstein and Justin Yopp, PhD are the authors of The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life (Oxford University Press). His current research projects include a multi-site intervention to address cancer-related financial toxicity and screening initiatives for suicide risk in the medical setting.

UNC Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Kevin Friede, MD, Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Duke University School of Medicine
2022-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Flyer – Dr. Kevin Friede
“Developing Pharmacogenomic Tools for Personalized Antithrombotic Therapy” (In-person and Virtual)
Bondurant Hall G100 & Virtual link below

Medicine Grands Rounds - Catherine Coombs, MD, MS - "Clonal Hematopoiesis and Implications on Health: No Longer Just for Hematologists."
2022-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Coombs graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, followed by internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center and fellowship in hematology and oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before taking a faculty position as an assistant professor at UNC in 2016. Her major areas of interest are in leukemia precursor states including clonal hematopoiesis and clonal cytopenias, in addition to chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma. She is heavily collaborative with her research endeavors, and her research has been published in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Genetics, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, among others. She established a precursor clinic at UNC in 2020 where she focuses on seeing individuals with clonal hematopoiesis and clonal cytopenias.

Medicine Grand Rounds - March 31 - Dr. Thomas Cooney presenting "Health Equity: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic."
2022-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Cooney is Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and is currently Chair, Board of Regents, of the American College of Physicians (ACP). At ACP, he has also served as Chair, Board of Governors and chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee. He was the program director for OHSU’s Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1984 to 2010 and Vice Chair for Education 1995-2019. Dr. Cooney has been a long-standing member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, serving as President 1997-98. He was also a member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine from 2003-2010, including 3 years as Vice Chair. He has been as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Graduate Medical Education since 2012.
