McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Young-sup Yoon, M.D., Ph.D
2019-01-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | NC
Speaker: Young-sup Yoon, M.D., Ph.D, Emory University

Medicine Grand Rounds, Timothy Ives "Medical Uses of Cannabinoids"
2019-01-17 12:00 - 13:00
This presentation will cover the current medical uses of cannabinoids, such as those found in marijuana or hemp products. The action of these agents, as well as a review the evidence-based literature for their use for common medical conditions will also be provided.
Dr. Timothy Ives is the Director of Pain Management Service, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacy. His research interests are in the area of inflammation and chronic pain management, with neuropathic pain in particular.
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Laurence E. Earley Lecture: Cornelia Dean "Doctors and Patients: Ignorance, Irrationality and Risk"
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00
When ordinary people attempt to understand scientific, medical or other technical information, they may find themselves hampered by ignorance, irrational patterns of thinking and erroneous ideas about risk. These problems are always unfortunate, but when the information people are trying to understand relates to their own health, they are particularly unfortunate.Clinicians can do a lot to reduce this kind of trouble, Some useful steps are relatively simple, others are more complicated. As the practice of medicine becomes more and more complex, it is important for clinicians to embrace and adopt them.
Cornelia Dean is a lecturer at Brown University and a science writer and former science editor of The New York Times. In her editing tenure in the newspaper’s science department, members of its staff won every major journalism prize as well as the Lasker Award for public service.
The Laurence E. Earley lecture honors Dr. Earley (1931-2012), an internationally known nephrologist who retired from UNC in 2000.
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Hyman Muss "Personalizing Care for the Older Cancer Patient"
2019-01-03 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Muss is a translational researcher who is involved in the design and of both clinical trials that contain collaborative trials involving both laboratory and health services research. His major interest is in cancer in older patients with a focus on the treatment of breast cancer in older women. Breast cancer is a disease of aging and the majority of women who die of breast cancer are 65 years and older. Older patients frequently receive poorer cancer treatment and Dr. Muss is interested in improving cancer care in such patients. He also has a major interest in biomarkers of aging and geriatric assessment in older patients with cancer. Dr. Muss and his colleagues at the Lineberger Cancer Center have developed a geriatric oncology program for the cancer center including a geriatric oncology consultation clinic.

McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Ann Murphy
2018-12-19 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Ann Murphy, Johns Hopkins University

Medicine Grand Rounds, Sidney Smith "Key Messages from the 2018 Guidelines for the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol"
2018-12-13 12:00 - 13:00
Sidney Smith is a professor of medicine, an active clinical cardiologist and a clinical researcher. He is a past president of the American Heart Association and a world-recognized expert on developing national and international guidelines for assessment of cardiovascular risk and for treatment of cardiovascular disorders including hypertension, cholesterol abnormalities, and acute coronary syndromes.
At UNC, he performs invasive cardiology procedures to assist with the management of a broad variety of cardiovascular problems, including coronary heart disease and valvular heart disease.
He also sees patients for the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and then management valvular heart disease. He is an attending physician for cardiac rehabilitation.
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Medicine Grand Rounds: Sidney Smith, Key Messages from the 2018 Guidelines for the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol
2018-12-13 12:00 - 13:00

Medicine Grand Rounds, Wesley Burks "Peanut Allergy: Why Are All These Families Going Nuts?"
2018-12-06 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Burks will address anxieties families have concerning peanut allergy, how to respond to a reaction, and will describe the current research and treatments. In his Chair’s Corner podcast with Dr. Falk, Dr. Burks explains “You have to ingest the food to have serious life-threatening reaction—it’s not touching it, it’s not smelling it, it’s not sitting next to somebody in school or a ballgame…That’s not going to cause an allergic reaction—you have to eat the food. That’s the biggest thing for a family to understand.”
Dr. Wesley Burks is the Curnen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UNC and the Executive Dean for the School of Medicine. Dr. Burks is a pediatric allergist and immunologist, and is the Executive Director for the UNC Food Allergy Initiative.
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Da-zhi Wang
2018-12-05 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Da-zhi Wang, Harvard University

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Wayne Cascio
2018-12-03 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Cascio, EPA

Medicine Grand Rounds, Katie Reeder-Hayes and Louise Henderson, "Mammography, When to Start, How Often, When to Stop"
2018-11-29 12:00 - 13:00
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. Routine screening mammography is recommended by most groups issuing breast cancer screening guidelines. There are, however, important considerations for who should be screened, when screening should start, how often they should be screened, and when screening should stop. Drs. Reeder-Hayes and Henderson will discuss current breast cancer screening guidelines, the evaluation of benefits and risks of breast cancer screening in average risk women, newer breast imaging technologies (i.e. tomosynthesis,) and the role of mammographic breast density in screening.

Dr. Reeder-Hayes is an oncologist specializing in breast cancer with a research focus in comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments and cancer treatment disparities. Her research interests include the contribution of treatment variations and organizational characteristics to race and age disparities in cancer outcomes, effectiveness of breast cancer treatment paradigms in elderly women, and adherence to endocrine therapy in breast cancer survivors. Her training and experience includes analysis of large secondary databases, cost-effectiveness analysis, survey development and qualitative methods.
Dr. Louise Henderson is Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of the Carolina Mammography Registry. Her research interests focus on cancer screening and the application of linked cancer outcomes and Medicare/administrative data to assess patterns and outcomes of care. She is particularly interested in breast cancer screening and the performance of imaging technologies, comparative effectiveness research, and disparities in cancer screening and treatment.
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Matthew C. Zimmerman
2018-11-28 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Matthew C Zimmerman, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Medicine Grand Rounds: Point/Counterpoint: Raj Kasthuri and Joseph Rossi, Catheter-Directed Therapies for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
2018-11-15 12:00 - 13:00

Medicine Grand Rounds, Point/Counterpoint: Raj Kasthuri and Joseph Rossi "Catheter-Directed Therapies for Acute Pulmonary Embolism"
2018-11-15 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Raj Kasthuri is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and is the Director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence. He is a member of the UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. Dr. Kasthuri’s clinical and research interests are in bleeding and clotting disorders, and HHT.
Dr. Joseph Rossi is Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Program Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, and Co-Director of Cardiology Clinical Trials. He specializes in interventional cardiology.

Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Ron Falk, Chair of the Department of Medicine, will provide updates on the department. Dr. Wesley Burks, Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, also will make a presentation. This meeting replaces Medicine Grand Rounds and is for faculty, fellows and residents. A boxed lunch will be served.
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Matthias Nahrendorf,“Myeloid cells in cardiovascular disease”
2018-11-07 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Matthias Nahrendorf, Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard UniversityTopic: Myeloid cells in cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Gregory Sprung
2018-11-05 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker, Gregory Sprung, MD, UNC Cardiology Fellow

Medicine Grand Rounds, David Weber "Vaccines: New ACIP Recommendations and Rationale"
2018-11-01 12:00 - 13:00
Through his roles as medical director of hospital epidemiology and associate chief medical officer of UNC Health Care, Dr. Weber works to prevent hospital-acquired infections in patients and staff at UNC Hospitals.
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Nicholas Shaheen "PPI Therapy: Is the Risk Worth the Benefit?"
2018-10-25 12:00 - 13:00
The internet is rife with warnings about the side effects of acid suppressants. With millions of people taking these drugs, new reports about dementia, kidney damage, bone fracture and other putative side effects cause much concern for patients and providers. But how much of it is true? And what should we do about it? The goals of this lecture are to review the possible side effects of acid suppressants, to provide a framework for understanding the convoluted literature on PPI side effects, and to give some practical guidance for advising your patients regarding the use of acid suppressants.
Dr. Shaheen is Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He has performed extensive clinical and translational research in diseases of the esophagus, include GERD, Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal cancer. He has authored over 300 articles on these diseases, including national guidelines for the care of patients with GERD and Barrett’s esophagus.
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Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Robert Rayson, “Percutaneous Mechanical Support in STEMI: Options, Patient Selection & Future Directions"
2018-10-22 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Robert Rayson, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: “Percutaneous Mechanical Support in STEMI: Options, Patient Selection & Future Directions”

Echocardiography Before & After TAVR: Assessment of Aortic Valve Disease
2018-10-20 08:00 - 12:00
A Satellite Symposium at the North Carolina Cardiovascular Update
YOU’RE INVITEDThe UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care is pleased to present an Echo Satellite Symposium at the 2018 North Carolina Cardiovascular Update.1. Enhance sonographers’ clinical knowledge of the prevalence, incidence, prognosis and progression of aortic stenosis (AS).2. Enhance sonographers’ clinical knowledge of the pathophysiology of AS.3. Improve ability to detect hemodynamic progression of AS by Doppler echocardiography.4. Gain a solid understanding of the classification and determination of severity as it pertains to AS.5. Introduce sonographers’ to the proper assessment of AS through live hands on simulation.
CREDIT DESIGNATIONThe American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will be providing 4.0 ASE CEU’s for this conference. These credits are accepted by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) and Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI).
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2018 North Carolina Cardiovascular Update
2018-10-19 13:00 - 2018-10-20 18:00
Target Audience
Cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, internists, family practice and primary care physicians, emergency physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other health professionals involved in the treatment of cardiovascular disease
Objectives
Identify and integrate various state-of-the art treatments for cardiovascular disease utilized by primary care physicians and cardiologists, including percutaneous and surgical therapies
Review state-of-the-art diagnostic techniques and imaging options for assessing patients with cardiovascular disease
Review important clinical trials in cardiology that have been completed within the past year, including but not limited to cholesterol-lowering drugs, and apply the information learned to daily practice

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Medicine Grand Rounds Ernest and Hazel Craige Lecture, Patrick O'Gara "Infective Endocarditis"
2018-10-18 12:00 - 13:00
Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, is the Director of Strategic Planning for the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Watkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His clinical activities are focused on patients with valvular heart disease, other structural heart diseases and aortic diseases, although he also maintains a large practice of general cardiology. Since 2001, he has been named annually among the Top Doctors in Boston and the U.S.
Dr. O’Gara is presenting the annual Ernest and Hazel Craige lecture which honors Dr. Ernest Craige, the first chief of the UNC Division of Cardiology, who served from 1952 until 1978.
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Lena Claesson-Walsh
2018-10-12 10:00 - 2018-10-13 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Lena Claesson-Walsh, Uppsala University

Medicine Grand Rounds, Gary Jay "Minor Traumatic Brain Injury, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Post Traumatic Headaches"
2018-10-11 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Jay will discuss the diagnosis and pathophysiology of minor Traumatic Brain Injury, along with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. He also will describe the most common forms of Post-Traumatic Headache, including diagnosis and treatment.
Gary Jay specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of headache and pain of all types including migraine with and without aura, chronic daily headaches, tension-type headaches (episodic and chronic), medication overuse headaches, cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. His research interests include analgesic drug development. Dr. Jay is a professor in the UNC Department of Neurology.
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McAllister Seminar Series: Dr. Brian Kim
2018-10-10 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Brian Kim, Stanford University

Medicine Grand Rounds, Katya Rubinow "Can Sex Steroids Help Elucidate the Utility of HDL As an Index of Cardiovascular Risk?"
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:00
In epidemiologic studies, sex steroid deficiency predicts cardiovascular risk in both men and women, but the utility of hormone replacement therapy for reducing cardiovascular risk remains uncertain. Exogenous sex steroids regulate plasma concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), but little is known about sex steroid-mediated effects on other metrics of HDL composition and function. Understanding the roles of sex steroids in regulating the function and composition of HDL particles may lend new insight into the cardioprotective potential of hormone replacement therapy and, further, may help elucidate the utility of HDL-based metrics for predicting cardiovascular risk on an individual basis.
Katya Rubinow, MD, is a board-certified physician at the Endocrinology/Diabetes Clinic at Harborview and a University of Washington assistant professor of Medicine and Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition. Dr. Rubinow cares for patients with diabetes, thyroid disease and a broad spectrum of other endocrine disorders. She strives to help patients feel supported and understood and to provide information that will enable them to be powerful advocates for their own health.
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Medicine Grand Rounds, Christine Sinsky "Joy in Medicine"
2018-09-27 12:00 - 13:00
Professional satisfaction is a powerful driver of patient experience, quality of care and wise resource use. Burnout is widespread among physicians and is the result of health system dysfunctions, rather than weakness on the part of individuals. Improvements in clinical workflow, teamwork and leadership are among the most potent anecdotes to the burnout. This session will describe approaches that institutions and individual practices can take reduce burnout and improve the joy, purpose and meaning in work for health professionals.
Christine Sinsky, MD, is the vice president of professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association. She is also a practicing internist in Dubuque, Iowa, and the Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. A frequent invited lecturer on practice innovation, redesign and physician satisfaction, Dr. Sinsky has presented widely, both nationally and internationally.
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McAllister Heart Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Anne Marie Schmidt, "Rage/Diaph1 Mechanism of Diabetic Complications and Metabolic Dysfunction"
2018-09-26 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker: Dr. Anne Marie Schmidt, New York UniversitySubject: Rage/Diaph1 Mechanism of Diabetic Complications and Metabolic Dysfunction

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Bo Jiang, "Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease"
2018-09-24 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Bo Jiang, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease
