Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2021-10-06 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual via Zoom
David Wohl

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds Presents: The Lawrence Earley Annual Memorial Lecture. Featured speaker: Craig Brater, MD, President of AAIM
2021-10-07 12:00 - 13:00 | WebEx
This year’s Lawrence Earley Memorial Lecture topic is: “The Culture of Medicine.”
Craig Brater MD, Lawrence Earley, MD

Dr. Brater is a native of Oak Ridge, Tenn. He attended undergraduate and medical school at Duke University, completed his internship at Duke, and his residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), followed by a fellowship in clinical pharmacology. There he developed a research and clinical interest in diuretics that continues today. After a year as a junior faculty member at UCSF, Dr. Brater spent nine years on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Brater joined the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986, where he began the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine. Four years later he was selected to chair the Department of Medicine, the largest department in the School. In 2000, Dr. Brater was selected to be the ninth dean of the IU School of Medicine.
As dean, Dr. Brater supervised nine campuses across the State of Indiana. The school includes about 2,000 full time faculty and more than 2,200 physicians who serve as volunteer faculty throughout the State of Indiana. The School admits approximately 350 students per year and is the largest medical school in the US.
Dr. Brater also served as Vice President for University Clinical Affairs for IU.
Dr. Brater retired from IU in 2013 and since then serves as Vice President for Programs of the Walther Cancer Foundation and President of the Regenstrief Foundation. He also continues to serve (since 2008) as President of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. The Alliance represents Internal Medicine Department Chairs, residency Program Directors, subspecialty Chiefs and Program Directors, Clerkship Directors and Administrators having close to 10,000 individual members.
Dr. Brater has published more than 130 research articles and 50 books or book chapters. These publications, for the most part, concern diuretics or the effects of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on renal function. He has been awarded memberships in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has been or is currently president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Association of Professors of Medicine, the Central Society for Clinical Research, and the United States Pharmacopoeia. In 2000, his alma mater awarded him the Duke Medical Alumni Award in recognition of his contributions to academic medicine.
Dr. Brater and his wife Stephanie have one daughter Aimee who lives in Seattle where she practices in Psychology focusing on individuals (particularly women) who have substance abuse issues. The Brater’s are actively involved in the IU School of Medicine program in Kenya. Through this program, they met their “Kenyan sons” Michael and Marcel; Michael is a graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and of the IU School of Medicine Master’s in Public Health. He is currently working in the global health program for the University of North Carolina. He and his family are in Malawi as part of that program. Marcel received an MPH from Columbia and works part time with the UN in Nairobi with his full time job being running his own safari company.

STIs
2021-10-13 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Arlene Sena-Soberano

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds: Special: An Abundance of Riches
2021-10-14 12:00 - 14:00
Medicine Grand Round is hosting a special event – Two visiting professors presenting!

Ellen Gravallese, MD
At 12:00-1:00pm Ellen M. Gravallese MD, from Harvard Medical School will be presenting, “Bones of Contention: Controversies in Rheumatic Diseases and Bone.“
Clyde W Yancy, MD, MSc

At 1:00-2:00pm Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, from Northwestern University: Fienberg Medical school will be presenting “Lessons learned from COVID19; A New Path Towards Health Equity.”

2021 20th Annual North Carolina Cardiovascular Update
2021-10-15 | Carolina Club, George Watts Hill Alumni Center, 150 Stadium Drive, Chapel Hill, 27514, United States
The 2021 North Carolina Cardiovascular Update is CME event that will provide a refresher on optimal treatment of various cardiovascular diseases. Also, new technologies and drug therapies will be discussed. Challenging cases will be reviewed to put current treatment recommendations in perspective. Panel discussions will also be held and questions solicited from the audience.
Keynote speaker:
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA
Magerstadt Professor
Vice Dean for Diversity & Inclusion
Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Deputy Editor, JAMA Cardiology

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Richard Shannon, MD: “Is It Time to Reimagine Clinical Quality and Patient Safety in the U.S. Healthcare System?”
2021-10-15 12:00 - 13:00

LGBTQ Center Book Club
2021-10-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-03 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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Trans Talk Tuesday (LGBTQ Center)
2021-10-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-02 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-11-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-12-07 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
2021-10-20 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Sarah Rutstein

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Richard Shannon, MD, Duke University Health System: "Is It Time to Reimagine Clinical Quality and Patient Safety in the U.S. Healthcare System?"
2021-10-21 12:00 - 13:00

Infectious Complications of Burns
2021-10-27 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Anne Lachiewicz

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds - Abhi Khirsargar, MD and Joseph Rossi, MD presenting: "Controversies in Contrast Nephropathy.”
2021-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
Abhi Kshirsagar, MD, MPH
Joseph S. Rossi, MD, MSCI, FACC, FSCAI

Influenza
2021-11-03 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Christopher Hurt

Virtual Medicine Grand Rounds, Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD - "The COVID-19 Pandemic: A View From the Bench."
2021-11-11 12:00 - 13:00
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.

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
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

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
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
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
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
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.
