Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. Stephan Moll presents "Thrombosis, Anticoagulation, Thrombophilia: 2022 Update for UNC Colleagues"; Special performance from DooR to DooR
2022-05-26 11:45 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Old Clinic Auditorium
Stephan Moll, MD
Dr. Moll is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. His clinical expertise is coagulation, with focus on thrombosis and anticoagulation, and research interests include clinical trials on new and established anticoagulants. His main professional goals are to (1) enhance national and local patient and health care provider education activities on venous thromboembolism, (2) continue to build an “Athletes and Blood Clot Program”, (3) support trainees in their career development in coagulation/hematology, and (4) collaborate to find the cause of and determine appropriate treatment for the uncommon thrombotic disorder livedoid vasculopathy.

“Beginning at 11:45 am, there will be a musical performance by the “DooR to DooR” program, a non-profit UNC hospital art program that provides music and art to brighten the days of patients and their family members, as well as of hospital staff. Please connect in person or by Webex at 11:45 am.”

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Sidney C. Smith, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine, UNC Division of Cardiology, presents “Evidence Based Medicine, Quality Improvement Programs and the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease”
2022-05-23 12:00 - 13:00 | G100 Bondurant Hall
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Sidney C. Smith, Jr., M.D. is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology. Dr Smith received his Medical Doctorate from Yale Medical School and completed his medical internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at the Brigham Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Dr Smith is a past president of the American Heart Association (AHA) and has also served as the Chief Science Officer for the AHA. He chaired the ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines, the ACC/AHA committee to revise PCI guidelines, the AHA/ACC Guidelines on Secondary Prevention for patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease and served on the ACC/AHA guideline committees for the management of acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), Blood Cholesterol, Risk Prediction, Lifestyle and Hypertension. Dr. Smith was Co-Chair of the ACC/AHA Bethesda Conference on Professionalism and Ethics.
Dr. Smith is a Past President of the World Heart Federation (WHF). He served as chair of the WHF Scientific Advisory Board and was Co-Chair of the Scientific Programs for the 2006 World Congress of Cardiology (WCC) in Barcelona, the 2008 WCC in Buenos Aires, the 2010 WCC in Beijing, and the 2012 WCC in Dubai. He served as Chair of the Executive Committee for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health’s Integrated Guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Dr Smith has been elected to Fellow status for the American Heart Association, American College of Physicians, European Society of Cardiology, and Royal Society of Medicine. He is a Master Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
He has received the AHA’s Physician of the Year Award, Distinguished National Leadership Award, Gold Heart Award, Eugene Drake Award, Joseph Stokes Award in Preventive Cardiology, Council of Clinical Cardiology Distinguished Achievement Award, Chairman’s Award, the James Herrick Distinguished Clinician Award , and the Ron Haddock International Impact Award as well as the Brazilian Cardiology Society International Teaching Award. Dr. Smith is the recipient of the NHLBI/NIH Award of Special Recognition.
Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored more than 400 published papers and chapters and has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation and JAMA Cardiology. In 2017 he was noted on Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers, which recognizes the top 1 percent of researchers in their field. He has spoken about heart disease and stroke in interviews with CNN, CBS, and NBC, and is quoted widely by multiple national and international media. Yearly since 1998 Dr. Smith has been elected to Best Doctors in America.

LGBTQ Center Book Club
2022-05-20 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-05-06 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-04 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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Medicine Grand Rounds: Chief Residents- Katie Allen, MD; Michael Croglio, MD; Daniel Duddleston, MD; Hillary Spangler, MD; and De-Vaughn (Monty) Williams, MD presents: Year In Review
2022-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Katie Allen, MD

Katie is from Ocala, Florida, described as the horse capital of the world. With her two sisters, she grew up playing the piano and riding horses. While Carolina blue and Michael Jordan were prominent in her childhood, she stayed in state for college, attending the University of South Florida in Tampa for both undergraduate and medical school. As a medical student, she joined the USF Health a cappella group and taught yoga to classmates. During residency, she became involved in helping develop the Medical Education elective, training residents in MAT, and helping lead sessions related to equity in relation to treatment of patients with opiate use disorders. She has a passion for outpatient medicine and is ecstatic to be the outpatient chief this year before she pursues a career in GIM. She also loves cats and has a tuxedo cat named Winston (aka tuxedo cat).
Mike Croglio, MD

Mike was born in Syracuse, New York, where he grew up with his three older siblings. With an internist for a father, he has always been fascinated with the breadth of clinical care afforded by internal medicine. He attended Georgetown University for his undergraduate degree and Stony Brook University for medical school, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. While he remains a Georgetown basketball fan, he has enjoyed rooting for the UNC basketball and football teams since moving to North Carolina. His interests include all things music, golf, baseball, and travel. He will pursue a career in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Daniel Duddleston, MD

Daniel was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi and attended Ole Miss for his undergraduate years, where he studied physics. He is a lifelong Rebel and knows the pain of a cheering for bad football teams. In addition to studying Ole Miss football, Daniel enjoyed learning about the theories of relativity. He put this to good use by spending time researching black holes with the LIGO team. He later attended medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he met his wife, Jessica Duddleston (an ophthalmology resident at UNC!). Daniel and Jessica couples-matched at UNC after meeting his hero and fellow Mississippian, Dr. Andrew Greganti (everyone’s hero, really). In his spare time, Daniel enjoys spending time outside, playing golf, traveling, cooking, and watching sports. He is interested in pursuing a career in cardiology.
Hillary Spangler, MD

Hillary, originally from Asheboro, NC completed her undergraduate work in Nutrition and Biology at NC State and started wearing both red and Carolina Blue when she attended UNC for medical school. During her training, she developed a passion for quality improvement and participated in multiple QI initiatives, including UNC’s Code Sepsis Project and received a 2021-2022 Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement grant for the implementation of a patient deterioration scoring system. Her academic and clinical interests include point-of-care ultrasound, curriculum development, clinical research and quality of life in the geriatric population. Hillary is the author of several children’s books, including most recently, The Sweetest Victory. She is excited and honored to serve as the 2021-2022 Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident and will be applying for geriatrics fellowship.
Monty Williams, MD

His name is De-Vaughn, but family and friends sometimes call him Monty. Born and raised in Boynton Beach, FL, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville where he received a degree in food science and human nutrition. He remained at UF for medical school and was very involved with the student-run free clinics and elected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. De-Vaughn enjoys reading on topics of faith, fantasy, and mystery, as well as gardening, dancing, and experiencing new foods with friends. He is considering general internal medicine.

Trans Talk Tuesday (LGBTQ Center)
2022-05-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-05-03 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-04-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-03-01 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.

Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. John Buse, Dr. Vinay Chaudhry, Dr. Maryam Jowza, Dr. Vibhor Krishna presents "Painful Diabetic Neuropathy: How Many Doctors Does It Take?"
2022-05-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
John Buse, MD, PhD is the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Director of the Diabetes Center, Director of the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He received his MD and PhD from Duke University before training in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Chicago. Dr Buse currently works with a team of investigators and study coordinators at UNC in the conduct of multicenter and single-site studies in the prevention and treatment of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus. Dr. Buse completed service as President for Medicine & Science at the American Diabetes Association in 2008. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2010 Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award and the 2019 American Diabetes Association Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award. He has authored more than 500 publications.

Dr. Chaudhry is the James F. Howard Distinguished Professor, Chief of Division of Neuromuscular Medicine, and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and a fellow of the American Neurological Association. Dr. Chaudhry graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, following which he did training in U.K. leading to membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). His Neurology Residency took place at the Universities of Tennessee, in Memphis, and University of Alabama, in Birmingham. He then finished Neuromuscular Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University and was faculty at that institution for 32 years during which he served as the Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs, Director of Johns Hopkins neurology outpatient center, Director of Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship, Director of Neuromuscular Medicine fellowship, and Director of Neuromuscular Division at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Chaudhry is an adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Neurology Board, Chair of Neuromuscular section of American Academy of Neurology, Board of Directors and Secretary of American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Chaudhry has also served as President of the Aiimsonians of America (AOA) and Association of Indian Neurologists in America. His research focus has been on Wallerian Degeneration in Human Nerves; defining clinical, electrophysiological, and IVIG responsiveness of Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN); and chemotherapy-induced polyneuropathies (CIPN) from taxol, vincristine, suramin, thalidomide, and bortezomib. He has authored 120 publications. He has patent for Total Neuropathy Score (TNC©), an important tool for establishing the severity of CIPN. He is actively involved in trials of myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and amyloid neuropathy. Dr. Chaudhry has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including Frank R. Ford Outstanding Teaching Award John Hopkins University School of Medicine, American Brain Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) and Distinguished Researcher Award from American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (2020).

Dr. Maryam Jowza is an anesthesiologist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including University of North Carolina Hospitals and Chatham Hospital UNC Health Care. She received her medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Dr. Krishna is a board-certified neurosurgeon-scientist with a specialization in functional neurosurgery. He performs surgical procedures to modulate the function of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves to treat conditions like neuropathic pain, essential tremor, Parkinson’s disease, and depression. His research is focused on optimizing the neurosurgical treatments and testing emerging interventions in clinical trials.

Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. J. Michael McWilliams presents "Harnessing Professionalism: The Forgotten Frontier of Quality Improvement?"
2022-05-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a general internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research spans questions related to health care spending, quality, and access, with an overarching goal of informing policies that support efficiency and equity in health care. His work has focused on 4 areas: 1) the design and effects of payment systems, 2) the organization and quality of health care delivery, 3) effects of health insurance coverage, and 4) quasi-experimental methods for causal inference in observational research. He is currently principal investigator of a Program Project (P01) on the Medicare program funded by the National Institute on Aging. In this and other research supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Commonwealth Fund, and Arnold Ventures, he is examining a range of topics, including Medicare Advantage, the design of population-based payment models, risk adjustment, provider consolidation, and strategies for leveraging professionalism more productively in health care.
Dr. McWilliams serves as a Senior Advisor to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and a member of the board of directors for the Institute for Accountable Care. He is also an Associate Editor for JAMA Internal Medicine and a member of the editorial boards for Health Services Research and the American Journal of Managed Care. His work has earned several honors, including the AcademyHealth HSR Impact Award, investigator awards from AcademyHealth and the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), and distinctions for specific papers from AcademyHealth, SGIM, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Health Affairs and NEJM Catalyst. Dr. McWilliams received his BS with highest distinction in biology as a Morehead Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his MD magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School, and his PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University. He completed his residency in general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

UNC Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Brian Jensen, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine & Jiandong Zhang, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow
2022-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | G100 Bondurant Hall
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“Cardioprotection through alpha-1A adrenergic receptors: Time to rethink the paradigm?” (In-person and Virtual)
Bondurant Hall G100 & Virtual link below

Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. Myron Cohen presents "Monoclonal Antibodies in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: How did we get here and where are we going?"
2022-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Myron Scott Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1950. Dr. Cohen received his BS degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1971. He received an MD degree from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois. He completed training in internal medicine at the University of Michigan, and training in infectious diseases at Yale University. After working in 1979 in the Peoples Republic of China on Hemorrhagic Fever with Nephrosonephritis, Dr. Cohen joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1980. He rose to the rank of Professor over 10 years and served as the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 1991 until 2019. He founded the UNC Institute for Global health and Infectious Diseases in 2007. Dr. Cohen has served as Co-PI of the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) since 2012 and as one of the founders and leaders of the NIH COVID Prevention Network (CoVPN) in 2020. Dr. Cohen is the Yeargan-Bate Eminent Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For three decades, Dr. Cohen’s research has focused on the transmission and prevention of transmission of viral pathogens. Importantly, Dr. Cohen led the development of laboratory methods to measure HIV in genital secretions, as well as methods to determine the best antiviral agents to reduce replication of HIV in these compartments in men and women. Dr. Cohen served as Principal Investigator of the multinational HPTN 052 trial, which demonstrated that antiretroviral treatment of people with HIV infection prevents the sexual transmission of the virus. This work was recognized by Science Magazine as the “Breakthrough of the Year” in 2011. The results led immediately to worldwide changes in HIV treatment guidelines and HIV “treatment as prevention” (TASP) as the central strategy for reduction of transmission of HIV. Subsequently, Dr. Cohen has led efforts to develop additional tools to prevent HIV acquisition including long-acting injectable antiviral agents and broad neutralizing antibodies.

Since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Cohen has worked on vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for prevention of COVID-19 as a leader of the NIH CoVPN. Dr. Cohen spearheaded a “proof of concept” study that demonstrated the Eli Lilly drug, bamlanivimab, could prevent COVID-19 in long term care facilities, protecting a profusion of people at highest risk of serious symptoms and death. He worked with Regeneron to show that the combination of antibodies called REGEN-COV prevented COVID-19 for five months after administration.

Dr. Cohen is the author of more than six hundred publications and one book. Dr. Cohen is a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology, the American College of Physicians, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Association of Physicians. Dr. Cohen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Rush Medical College in 2000. He received the Distinguished Career Award for lifetime achievement from the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association in 2005. In 2008, Dr. Cohen received the O. Max Gardner Award, the highest honor in the University of North Carolina System. In 2013 Dr. Cohen received the Smadel Award from the Infectious Disease Society in recognition of his work in public health. Also in 2013, Dr. Cohen received the Award for Science from the State of North Carolina, its highest civilian honor.

Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. Todd Baron presents “Endoscopic Gastroenterology Update”
2022-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Medicine Grand Rounds
Title: “Endoscopic Gastroenterology Update”
Speaker: Todd Baron, MD
Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

UNC Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Rick Stouffer, MD, Chief, UNC Division of Cardiology
2022-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | G100 Bondurant Hall
Flyer – Dr. Stouffer
“Local Efforts to Reduce Disparities in Access to Cardioascular Services” (In-person and Virtual)
Bondurant Hall G100 & Virtual link below

Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. Robert Gabbay presents "American Diabetes Association 2022 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes - New Guidelines"
2022-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP, is the Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the global authority on diabetes. Dr. Gabbay leads the ADA’s efforts to drive discovery within the world of diabetes research, care and prevention.
With over 35 years of clinical and research experience, and as a practicing endocrinologist, Dr. Gabbay has extensive experience in interventions targeting primary care and quality improvement. His research has been focused on innovative models of diabetes care to improve diabetes outcomes and the lives of people with diabetes.
Dr. Gabbay has received funding from the National Institute of Health Diabetes, Digestive and Kidneys Diseases (NIDDK), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation for his care transformation work. The reach of his work has been recognized through leadership roles in national and international activities including serving as a visiting professor, keynote speaker and on organizing committees for global meetings of the ADA, International Diabetes Federation, Endocrine Society, and the Diabetes Technology Society. Along with an extensive peer reviewed publication record, he has also appeared in popular press including the New York Times, CNN, Oprah, the Washington Post and NPR.
Previously, Dr. Gabbay served as the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin Diabetes Center, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. At Joslin, he oversaw the clinical care for over 25,000 patients, as well as the education and care programs Joslin delivers nationally and internationally.
Dr. Gabbay obtained his B.Sc. Degree at McGill University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin where he published on mechanisms of insulin signaling. He received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Brooklyn School of Medicine with a residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell and a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at a joint Joslin-Beth Israel Deaconess-Brigham and Women’s Hospital program at Harvard University. Dr. Gabbay was also a visiting scientist at MIT and a Professor of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Virtual Interactive Medicine Grand Rounds - April 7- Dr. Keisha Gibson & Dr. Stephanie Brown presenting "Understanding and Navigating Microaggressions."
2022-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Keisha L. Gibson, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Nephrology in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the inaugural Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Gibson received her medical degree and Masters of Public Health degree in epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill. She completed a residency in general pediatrics at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and a clinical fellowship in pediatric nephrology from UNC Chapel Hill. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric nephrology.
Her research and clinical interests focus on lupus nephritis and other glomerular diseases. In the area of epidemiology, she is interested in ethnic and socioeconomic disparities and their effect on patient outcomes. She has been involved as a co-investigator with large consortium studies such as the Nephrotic Syndrome Network Study (Neptune Study) and the Cure Glomerulonephropathy Network (Cure GN Study). Her peer-reviewed research articles have appeared in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, Pediatric Nephrology, Clinical Nephrology, Hypertension, Clinical Kidney Journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, and others.
Dr. Gibson has been recognized with numerous honors. In 2018, she received the Hyman Battle Distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2019, was awarded the Foundation Phase Excellence in Teaching Award. On the national stage she is currently serving as Secretary-Treasurer for the American Society of Nephrology and as Nephrology Councilor for the Society of Pediatric Research.

A historian by training, Dr. Stephanie Brown holds a BA and an MA from North Carolina State University and a PhD from UC Berkeley. Before coming to the School of Medicine, Dr. Brown taught undergraduate courses that focused on themes such as culture, religion, race, ethnicity, and social inequality; and directed a research program in the Middle East that sought non-traditional ways to engage with and understand groups that had been historically underrepresented or ignored. In the School of Medicine, Dr. Brown works alongside the SOM’s Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to lead the DEI mission area for the school in addition to co-leading the office’s DEI education and training initiatives.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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. 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.
