Medicine Grand Rounds: Dr. Alex Duncan presents: “The Clap is back: Challenges and Progress towards a Gonorrhea Vaccine that is Needed Now More Than Ever.”
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
My lab focuses on studies of the molecular mechanisms by which pathogens interaction with host immune responses influence infection pathogenesis. Our lab began with studies of the activation of the family of innate immune signaling proteins known as NOD-like receptors (NLRs) by bacterial pathogens. Our lab has focused on studying the molecular mechanisms of NLR protein ligand recognition and activation, particularly NLRP3 which forms a Caspase-1 activating, IL-1 processing complex known as the inflammasome upon activation. In addition to biochemical and molecular work focused on mechanisms of innate immune signaling, we have studied the host innate and adaptive immune responses that influence N. gonorrhoeae infection pathogenesis. My lab discovered that N. gonorrhoeae suppresses host antigen presenting cells’ ability to stimulate T lymphocyte proliferation and has ongoing studies to understand the mechanisms that support this immune evasion. Our studies of N. gonorrhoeae pathogenesis and immunity have been bolstered by the use of a human challenge model for N. gonorrhoeae infection. I have worked in collaboration with Dr. Marcia Hobbs here at UNC running unique experimental human gonococcal infection program for nearly a decade. We have used this model to study N. gonorrhoeae pathogenesis comparing isogenic mutant strains of N. gonorrhoeae. We collaborated on a study of the efficacy of a novel antibody-based therapeutic in the prevention of N. gonorrhoeae infection using the human challenge model. We also have ongoing research projects studying the cross-reactive immune responses against N. gonorrhoeae that are induced by outer-membrane vesicle-based vaccines against the related pathogen, N. meningitidis using a combination of mouse and human infection models.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody presents: "Developing Precision Medicine Approaches in Psychiatry-- Research Innovation to Improve Treatment of Perinatal Depression"
2023-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders. As Chair, Dr. Meltzer-Brody directs one of the largest public university departments of psychiatry in the United States and collaborates with UNC Health and the state of North Carolina on broad-based initiatives to improve mental health.
She is a passionate advocate for innovation and transformation of mental health care. She has also served in leadership roles in physician and health care worker mental health and well-being in the School of Medicine and UNC Health. Dr. Meltzer-Brody is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in perinatal depression. Her research investigates the epidemiologic and biological predictors of perinatal depression and innovative treatment approaches (pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic), which have taken her across the globe including sub-Saharan Africa. She had led the MOMS GENES study—the largest global genetic study of postpartum depression (PPD) using app-based tools. She also served as the academic PI for the novel psychopharmacologic clinical trials developing the first FDA-approved medication for postpartum depression (brexanolone) and also served an investigator for the newly approved oral drug (zuranolone) for PPD.
Dr. Meltzer-Brody has received numerous awards for her work. She was awarded the 2023 NIH Clinical Center Distinguished Clinical Research Scholar and Educator in Residence, and the 2020 UNC O Max Gardner Award, a UNC System Award (17 universities) for the highest faculty honor. Dr. Meltzer-Brody is also the recipient of the 2019 American Psychiatric Association Alexandra Symonds Award in Women’s Mental Health. She was named to the 2022, Forbes List of 16 Healthcare Innovators You Should Know, the 2021 Forbes The Visionary List: Women Over 50 Shaping The Future Of Science, Technology And Art, and the Forbes List of ‘Women over 50 Working to Improve our Collective Mental Health”. She was also ranked in 2021 by Expertscape, as the number one expert in the world for postpartum depression.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Furman McDonald presents: "Evidence Based Education: Medical Knowledge, Acquisition and Associations with Patient Relevant Outcomes"
2023-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. McDonald, a board-certified internist and Senior Vice President for Academic and Medical Affairs at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) provides physician leadership for the effective functioning of the ABIM Council and Specialty Boards, graduate medical education (GME)–related leadership, and oversight for the consistent quality/integrity of ABIM’s certification programs. In these roles, he supports the development and implementation of integrated policy and standards for the Certification programs of the specialty and subspecialties of Internal Medicine and discipline-specific aspects of Maintenance of Certification (MOC).

Prior to joining ABIM, Dr. McDonald held numerous GME-related positions. He was program director of one of the largest internal medicine residencies in the nation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he led the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Educational Innovations Project. Dr. McDonald was also a member of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) during the transition to the Next Accreditation System (NAS) and remains on the RRC-IM ex officio.

Dr. McDonald’s career-long scholarly passion has been to study the links between graduate medical education and patient-relevant outcomes using sound evidence-based methods. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has won numerous awards for medical education research and teaching, including the 2019 Alliance for Academic Medicine (AAIM) Special Recognition Award “…presented to an individual who has contributed most to helping the Alliance meet its mission which “promotes the advancement and professional development of its members who prepare the next generation of internal medicine physicians and leaders through education, research, engagement, and collaboration.”

He holds the rank of Adjunct Professor of Medicine at both the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minn, and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. McDonald remains clinically active as a supervising physician for the resident continuity clinic in the J. Edwin Wood Clinic of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia PA.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Thomas Nasca presents: "Discussion of Professionalism"
2023-11-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP is president and chief executive officer of the ACGME; Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College; and senior scholar in the Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine.
Dr. Nasca graduated from the University of Notre Dame with High Honors and is an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of Jefferson Medical College. Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Nasca served as senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Thomas Jefferson University, and as the Anthony and Gertrude DePalma Dean of Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Nasca left the deanship at Jefferson to assume the leadership of the ACGME in December 2007. In May 2009, Dr. Nasca became the founding president of ACGME-International.
Dr. Nasca is board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology. He has been a member and leader of a number of organizations with a mission of advancing excellence in medical education. He was a member of the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), having served as both secretary-treasurer and president. He served as associate editor of the Nephrology Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program for the American College of Physicians and was a member of the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Steering and Writing Committees, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, and the Federated Council for Internal Medicine. He is a former chair of the ACGME Review Committee for Internal Medicine and a former member of the Board of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. Dr. Nasca served on the Initiative to Transform Medical Education of the American Medical Association and on the Committee to Evaluate the US Medical Licensing Examination and is a past member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Dr. Nasca was a member of the Council on Graduate Medical Education of the Department of Health and Human Services and the US Congress. He is a Co-Chair of the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Nasca was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2006, received the Dema C. Daley Founders Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine Education from APDIM, the Rev. Clarence Shaffrey Award from St. Joseph’s University, the John C. Leonard Award from the Association of Hospital Medical Education, the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Achievement Award, the Founders Award from the Dr. Thomas Dooley Society of the University of Notre Dame, the Weinberger Award for Leadership from the American College of Physicians, the Miller Award from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Federation of State Medical Licensing Board’s Distinguished Service Award. He was named one of the 50 Most Powerful/Influential Physician Executives in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 by Modern Healthcare. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and other publications, and has delivered more than 500 invited lectures on topics related to medical education to national and international audiences.

Medicine Grand Rounds- "2023 Merrimon Lecture" I. Glenn Cohen presents: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Health Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges
2023-10-26 12:00 - 13:30 | NC
Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. He has advised the U.S. Vice President on reproductive rights, discussed medical AI policy with members of the Korean Congress, and lectured to legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world. His work has been frequently covered by or appeared in PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and many other media venues.
He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history.
Prof. Cohen’s current projects relate to medical AI, mobile health and other health information technologies, abortion, reproduction/reproductive technology, the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, medical tourism and many other topics.
He is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics) and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Time Magazine, and other venues.
Cohen is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 18 books. They include: Reproductive Technologies and the Law (Caroline Academic Press, 2022);The Future of Medical Device Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Considerations (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (Carolina Academic Press, 2020); Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen, 2018); Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Specimen Science (MIT Press, 2017); Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (John Hopkins University Press, 2016) The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law (Oxford University Press, 2016); FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies (Columbia University Press, 2015); Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2015); Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014); Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT Press, 2014); The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013).
For his law school teaching he was awarded the HLS Student Government Teaching and Advising Award in 2017. He also sometimes teaches courses at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. For the public he created the free online Harvard X class Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics, which was nominated by Harvard for the Japan Prize. More than 97,000 students have taken the course so far. You can also watch his Tedx talk, Are There Non-Human Persons? Are There Non-Person Humans? He is also the faculty lead on Zero-L, an online course to help law students transition to law school that has been used by more than half of all U.S. law schools.
Prior to becoming a professor he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office) in the U.S. Supreme Court. In his spare time (where he can find any!) he still litigates, having authored an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court for leading gene scientist Eric Lander in Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, concerning whether human genes are patent eligible subject matter, a brief that was extensively discussed by the Justices at oral argument. Most recently he submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt (the Texas abortion case, on behalf of himself, Melissa Murray, and B. Jessie Hill). He also provides expert testimony in health law and bioethics litigation.
Cohen was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2012-2013 year and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. He is also a Fellow at the Hastings Center, the leading bioethics think tank in the United States as well as being a fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. He leads the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL), which is part of the larger Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). He co-leads the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center program. He is also the lead on the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR). He previously served as one of the key co-investigators on the multi-million dollar Football Players Health Study at Harvard which is committed to improving the health of NFL players (for more on this work click here). He is also one of three editors-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press and serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics. He served on the Steering Committee for Ethics for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian counterpart to the NIH, and the Ethics Committee for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). He currently serves on the Ethics Committee of the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). He has also served on the bioethics advisory groups for life sciences companies like Otsuka, Illumina, and Bayer.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Clare Mock presents: "From Just Culture to the Criminalization of Human Error: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the current state of Patient Safety in the US"
2023-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Clare Mock, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UNC. Her primary academic interests are in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, with an emphasis on responding to and learning from medical errors. Her other interests are professionalism in medicine and working to create more efficient and effective processes and workflows. Dr Mock holds a BA from Miami University (Ohio) and an MD from Ohio State College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 2011. She has undergone training in Lean and Six Sigma improvement methodologies, TeamSTEPPS master training, and Human Factors Engineering and has served as an external medical expert witness. Prior to her role as Director for Safety for the Department of Medicine, she served as Medical Director for the UNC Hillsborough Campus and served as the Medical Director for the Medical Center’s Mortality Reduction Program. She has three children – 9, 7 & 2 – and her husband is also faculty at UNC with dual Pulmonary/CC and Microbiology appointments.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Nigil Haroon "John B. Winfield Visiting Scholar" presents: "The New Age of Spondyloarthritis Care: Unpacking Two Decades of Transformation in Ancient Disease"
2023-10-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr Nigil Haroon is a world-renowned rheumatologist and clinical immunologist located in Toronto, Canada. He is a Clinician Scientist at the University Health Network, the largest research hospital in Canada with over 17,000 active staff members (ranked top 5 in the world). He is an associate professor of medicine and rheumatology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Krembil Research Institute.
His current leadership positions include

Head, Division of Rheumatology, University Health Network and Sinai Health, Toronto
President, Canadian Rheumatology Association
Treasurer, Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN)

He is qualified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology and has a PhD in Functional Genomics and Immunology. He completed an MBA in Health and Life Sciences from the prestigious Rotman School of Business.
His area of research includes predicting radiographic progression, identifying novel therapeutic targets and understanding the immunology and genetic basis of ankylosing spondylitis. He is well-funded and has over 100 high-impact publications in this area. Dr Haroon is a Vanier Scholar and has won several awards, including the Jane Bruckel Award of the Spondylitis Association of America.

Medicine Grand Rounds- "2023 Craige Visiting Professor" presenter: Dr. Michelle Albert
2023-10-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Michelle A. Albert, MD MPH is the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Admissions Dean for UCSF Medical School and Director of the Center for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). Dr. Albert is a graduate of Haverford College, the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health. She completed Internal Medicine Residency and served as Chief Medical Resident at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr. Albert then completed a Cardiovascular Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she rose in the ranks to an Associate Professor in Medicine. She was previously the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor/Chair and Chief of Cardiology at Howard University.
Dr. Albert’s clinical expertise involves both taking care of the most critically ill heart disease patients and preventive cardiology at UCSF. As a physician-scientist-epidemiologist, Dr. Albert has had a longstanding commitment to health equity and is engaged in cutting-edge research that innovatively seeks to incorporate “biology” with social determinants of health to transform CVD science and healthcare of global populations, i.e “the biology of adversity”. Her research has followed a bold, non-traditional path for cardiovascular disease research. A central component of her current work focuses on developing innovative implementation strategies to curb adversity-related CVD risk, particularly in women and diverse racial and ethnic populations with a focus on cumulative toxic stress. She is the recipient of sustained research funding as principal investigator including NIH R01 funding, funding from Robert Wood Johnson (Harold Amos Scholar), Kellogg and Doris Duke Foundations. Dr. Albert is also a recipient of the American Heart Association (AHA) COVID-19 Rapid Track Grant. Additionally, she is one of two recipients nationally of the prestigious 2018 AHA Merit award for visionary research and is the first woman and under-represented racial/ethnic person to receive this award. Dr. Albert also received the distinguished 2020 AHA Population Science Award.
Dr. Albert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC), the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).
She is the 86th President of the American Heart Association (AHA: 2022-2023), Immediate-Past President of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc (ABC: 2020-2022), the Past 60th President of the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC: 2021-2022). She is the first person in history to serve collectively and concurrently as President of these three of the most prestigious cardiovascular societies. Dr. Albert is the first woman of color and Black woman to serve as AHA President and AUC President.
Albert currently serves as a member of the federal Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACD), NHLBI Board of External Experts (BEE), 2019 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Prevention Guidelines committee and previously served as a standing committee member of NIH study section – Mechanisms, Emotion, Sleep & Health (MESH.
Dr. Albert has also served/serves on multiple national AHA and American College of Cardiology (ACC) committees including on the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Medical Research Foundation Board of Directors.
Dr. Albert is a member of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) Your Health Advisory Board and the Health/Cardiovascular Advisory Board for Women’s Day Magazine. Her research has been featured on national and international media outlets such as the BBC, Canada Broadcasting Corporation, TIME, CNN, Today Show, CBS, Associated Press, NPR, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post. She is a sought-after interviewee/speaker on multiple news outlets including TV, digital and print media about especially about topics pertaining to research, cardiovascular health, maternal health and health equity.
Dr. Albert enjoys mentoring trainees at all levels across the United States. She was a nominee/finalist for the competitive 2011-2012 Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School and the recipient of the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award from the AHA (2016). She received the ACC Heart of Women’s Health Credo Award (2012), Woman’s Day Magazine’s Red Dress Award (2014), the 2018 Daniel D. Savage Science Award (ABC’s highest honor) and the Haverford College Alumni Award (2015) — given to an alumnus whose “work typifies the values of the college and is of outstanding service to humanity”.
Dr. Albert is named on the 2022 Forbes 50 over 50 list for her Impact.

Medicine Grand Rounds- "The 2023 Fried Lecture" presenter: Dr. Norah Terrault
2023-09-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, FAASLD, is shaping how the hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are treated nationally and internationally through her leadership and groundbreaking research in the field.

Dr. Terrault coedited Zakim and Boyer’s Hepatology: A Textbook of Liver Disease, 7thedition. She has written more than 330 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, and invited reviews, along with United States national guidelines for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C. She recently was elected senior councilor on the executive committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and will serve as AASLD president in 2023.

In addition to HBV, HCV, and NASH, Dr. Terrault’s research interests include fatty liver, cirrhosis, and liver transplantation. She has led multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded studies, including the HBV Clinical Research Network (CRN) and NASH CRN.

A dedicated educator, she founded ECHO-Plus, a telementoring program that trains and supports primary care physicians in California in treating patients with hepatitis.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Janice Hwang presents: "Metabolism and Carolina in my Mind"
2023-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Old Clinic Auditorium
Dr. Hwang is an endocrinologist as well as an Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2001 with a major in molecular biology followed by Harvard Medical School in 2006. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, and also served as a Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Hwang received her fellowship training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital, graduating in 2012. Between 2012-2022, she was an Instructor and then Assistant Professor in Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine before joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2022.

Dr. Hwang’s academic interests are at the intersection of metabolism, neuroscience and neuroimaging. In particular, her work has focused on understanding the effects of diabetes and obesity on brain energy metabolism. She leads a highly collaborative research group specializing in mechanistic, physiology-based human studies as well as in vivo rodent models using novel neuroimaging modalities (including functional magnetic resonance imaging, 1H and 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy, PET) coupled with classic metabolic techniques. Since 2017, she has been the principal investigator on several research awards including an American Diabetes Association Innovative Clinical and Translational Science Award, and several R-level awards (awarded in 2019, 2020, 2021)

Medicine Grand Rounds- Professor Robert Capra presents: "How does AI/ChatGPT change how people search for information online? What are implications for health information seeking?"
2023-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Robert Capra is a Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His interests include human-computer interaction and information retrieval. His research focuses on how people search for information and on developing tools to support users’ search needs. He regularly teaches courses on programming, databases, and human-computer interaction. Dr. Capra is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER grant and he publishes regularly in top computer and information science conferences and journals.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Ron Falk, MD, FACP, FASN Chair of the DOM presents: "De-Widgetizing" Clinical Care in the Department of Medicine- An Experiment
2023-09-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Falk was appointed as Chair of the University of North Carolina Department of Medicine in July 2015 after having served as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension from July 1993 through May 2015.
Dr. Falk is recognized as an international expert in vasculitis and autoimmune kidney disease. His career as a translational physician-scientist spans more than three decades. His practice and translational research focus on characterizing the cell, tissue, and physiologic changes in the development of specific autoimmune kidney diseases and developing new approaches for studying autoimmunity, inflammation, and basic neutrophil/monocyte biology. After the discovery in 1988 by Dr. Falk and colleagues of myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (MPO-ANCA), his laboratory has focused on clinical and translational science investigation of the immunogenesis, pathogenesis, and response to treatment of ANCA vasculitis and other autoimmune kidney diseases.
Dr. Falk is a highly respected scholar and mentor who has guided, for over three decades, young physicians, scientists, and physician-scientists to successful careers in academia and industry.
Dr. Falk has served in various capacities within the American Society of Nephrology, including numerous committees and the ASN Council. He served as its president from 2011-12. A notable achievement during his term as president was the founding of the Kidney Health Initiative in 2012, which is a public/private partnership of the American Society of Nephrology and the U.S. FDA. During his tenure as ASN President, the American Society of Nephrology Foundation for Kidney Research was established with a substantial endowment. He has also served or chaired numerous study sections and special emphasis panels within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Falk continues to receive funding in a P01 Program Project Grant, “ANCA Glomerulonephritis: From Molecules to Man,” UM1, “GDCN Clinical Center—Advancing Clinical Research in Primary Glomerular Diseases,” and a T32 Renal Epidemiology Training Grant.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dean Wesley Burks & Executive Dean Cristen Page presents: "Dean's Office Update"
2023-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Wesley Burks is CEO of UNC Health, Dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He has led the statewide academic health system since January, 2019.
UNC Health’s network spans the state of North Carolina, currently including 16 hospitals or hospital systems, the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine, and an expansive provider network. The UNC School of Medicine is consistently rated as one of the nation’s leading public medical schools for both research and clinical training.
During Burks’ tenure as CEO, UNC Health has expanded its network, adding multiple hospitals and establishing new clinical and educational partnerships. Burks has also spearheaded work to better unify and integrate UNC Health’s statewide system and to create a world class workplace culture. Each of these changes is meant to help UNC Health better meet its mission to “improve the health and well-being of the people of North Carolina.”
Prior to being named Dean and CEO, Burks spent more than 30 years taking care of patients, conducting research, and helping to educate trainees. He joined UNC-Chapel Hill in 2011 as physician-in-chief of the North Carolina Children’s Hospital and was named chair of the Department of Pediatrics in 2012, as well as the Curnen Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics. In 2015, he was named executive dean of the UNC School of Medicine, during which he oversaw the school’s focus on rural health initiatives, and primary care education, a program has been consistently rated among the nation’s best.
An internationally renowned expert on food allergies, specifically peanut allergy, Burks and colleagues lead several immunotherapy clinical studies, and his initial work on peanut allergies is cited as the basis for potential peanut allergy treatment regimens currently under FDA review. Burks is a past chair and member of the NIH Hypersensitivity, Autoimmune, and Immune-mediated Diseases study section and is Past President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Burks graduated from the University of Central Arkansas and then the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He completed a pediatric residency at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in allergy and immunology at Duke University Medical Center. He served on the faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Duke University Medical Center before joining the UNC School of Medicine.

Cristy Page, MD, MPH, is a family physician and national leader in rural healthcare delivery and workforce development.
She currently serves as Executive Dean of the UNC School of Medicine, a position she has held since 2019. In this role, she oversees the school’s tripartite mission of clinical care, teaching, and research. Under Page’s leadership, the UNC School of Medicine has made great strides toward realizing the vision of being known as the nation’s leading public school of medicine.
Page has overseen a continual increase in research funding. In 2022, funding exceeded $600 million for the first time, growing by more than $100 million since 2019. The School is also in the midst of a period of growth in medical education. In the spring of 2023, the UNC School of Medicine will open Roper Hall, a new medical education building. In the coming years, the School will also expand its class size to better meet the healthcare needs of North Carolina.
In addition to her leadership within the UNC School of Medicine, Page also serves as the Chief Academic Officer of UNC Health. In this role, she oversees the educational and research enterprise across UNC Health’s statewide system. She is responsible for the expansion and development of branch campuses to train more health providers, strategic growth of residency programs in affiliated hospitals, expansion of clinical trials to new communities, and leadership of statewide faculty, among other priorities.
She is also a member of the UNC Health Board of Directors and UNC Health Executive Council, where she collaborates with other senior leaders to set the vision and oversee strategic planning, financial management, and operations for the statewide UNC Health system, as well as a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, where she previously served as Chair.
Page’s vision and leadership have also helped expand the clinical, research, and educational footprint of the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health. She has been instrumental in a partnership with fellow North Carolina system Novant Health to work together in the Wilmington, North Carolina region. This work includes expanded educational opportunities for medical and other health affairs students, as well as access to clinical trials and expanded pediatric specialty care in the region.
Page’s leadership also expands well beyond UNC. As the founder of the Rural GME and Teaching Health Center GME Center, Page and colleagues have worked to enhance access to care in underserved areas across the nation. The consortium focuses on increasing access to care through support for the development of new rural residency programs across multiple specialties as well as health policy and health workforce scholarship. The consortium has produced extensive research on rural health workforce development and successfully informed policies that support increased access to underserved care. Since 2018, the consortium has directly supported 58 new programs that received funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program, as well as an additional 46 programs through the Teaching Health Center Planning and Development (THCPD) Program. A total of 463 new rural training positions have been accredited since the program’s inception. Federal funding for the national centers over the last 3 years is nearly $13 million, with an additional $2M pending.
A native of Wilmington and lifelong North Carolinian, Page first came to UNC as a Morehead Scholar before going on to complete her Medical Doctorate, Master of Public Health, family medicine residency, chief resident position, and faculty development fellowship in Chapel Hill. She has served on the UNC School of Medicine faculty since 2006.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Matthew Nielsen presents: " Hiding in Plain Sight: Prostate Cancer and Health Equity."
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Matthew Nielsen, MD MS FACS is The John Sloan Rhodes and John Flint Rhodes Distinguished Professor and Chair for the UNC Department of Urology. His clinical practice focused on urologic oncology dovetails with his research in medical decision-making, cancer care quality and treatment outcomes, nationally recognized by the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award. In 2018, he was recognized as a Young Urologist of the Year by the American Urological Association.
Dr. Nielsen is also actively engaged in quality improvement and patient safety efforts as Associate Director of the UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement and UNC Faculty Physicians’ Director of Quality. He serves the AUA as Chair of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee and Chair of the Science and Quality Council. He has also served on the American College of Physicians High-Value Care Task Force and Performance Measurement Committee. In 2019, he was appointed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panel for the CMS Quality Measure Development Plan and Quality Measure Index

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Evan Dellon presents: "Update in Eosinophilic Esophagitis: You’ve Probably Got Cases in your clinic!"
2023-06-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. Dr. Dellon received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He performed a clinical and a research fellowship in Adult Gastroenterology at UNC, during which he also received a Masters of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health. Dr. Dellon is currently the Director of the UNC Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing (CEDAS) and has served as an Associate Editor for Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Dellon’s main research interest is in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and eosinophilic GI diseases (EGIDs). The goal of his research is to improve the lives of patients with EoE and EGIDs by learning how to better diagnose, treat, and monitor these conditions.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Gaurav Dave presents: "Addressing Adverse Social Determinants of Health In Rural North Carolina."
2023-06-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Dave is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Director of Abacus Evaluation, and the Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Dr. Dave trained as an emergency medicine physician in India with a master’s and a doctorate in public health from UNC-Greensboro. He has over 20 years of experience in clinical, public health, and evaluation research. Dr. Dave is an MPI for the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP). The RADx-UP Program provides critical findings to inform ongoing SARS-CoV-2 public health efforts to improve the reach, acceptance, uptake, and sustainability of COVID-19 testing and prevention in marginalized and vulnerable communities across the United States. Dr. Dave is a Principal Investigator for two NHLBI-funded R01 studies that aim to address adverse social determinants of health associated with chronic disease risk in rural North Carolina. He is also a site Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple grants funded by the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Dave’s research focuses on mitigating adverse social determinants of health and eliminating health inequities associated with chronic conditions in historically marginalized and rural communities.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. David Rubinow presents: "Is Depression Just a State of Mind?"
2023-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Rubinow is Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also founded the UNC Women’s Mood Disorders Center. Prior to assuming these positions, he was the Clinical Director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1987-2006 and the Chief of the Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, NIMH from l996-2006. His research has focused largely on the mechanisms underlying reproductive endocrine-related mood disorders and the neurobehavioral effects of gonadal steroids. He is the past President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the American College of Neuropharmacology. His many awards include the William C. Menninger Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians, the Mood Disorders Research Award from the American College of Psychiatrists, and the Gold Medal Award for Research from the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Medicine Grand Rounds Dr. David Weber presents: "Covid-19 Update"
2023-05-18 12:00 - 17:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. David Jay Weber is currently the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Dr. Weber received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977, a Master’s in Public Health 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 is the Vice President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Deputy Editor of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Vaccine. Dr. Weber has published more than 525 scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature cited in PubMed and more than 650 total papers and chapters. He is a member of the CDC working groups on Orthopox virus vaccines, Ebola vaccines, Elimination of TB, Occupational Health for Healthcare Personnel, and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 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, newly emerging pathogens including Candida auris), response to biothreats, nontuberculous mycobacteria, control of drug-resistant pathogens immunization practices, zoonotic diseases, and epidemiology of tuberculosis.

Medicine Grand Rounds-Dr. John Batsis presents: "Geriatrics Update.
2023-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
JOHN A. BATSIS, MD, FACP, FTOS, AGSF, FGSA is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, the Division of Geriatric Medicine. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Batsis was previously on the faculty as an Associate Professor at Dartmouth from 2008 to 2020, after which he joined UNC Chapel Hill in September 2020. He provides clinical care in the outpatient and nursing home setting to older adults with obesity, multimorbidity, and frailty. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Geriatrics Society, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Obesity Society
Dr. Batsis is a geriatrician and health services researcher. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Obesity Medicine. His work has focused on understanding the interplay between fat and muscle in older adults in large datasets but also in conducting clinical trials in older adults focusing on improving physical function during weight loss efforts. He is a transdisciplinary team scientist, working collaboratively with engineers and computer scientists in the development, validation, and application of different types of research-grade and commercial technologies for health promotion in older adult populations, including using remote patient monitoring and telemedicine.
Dr. Batsis is funded by the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, and has published over 185 papers. He is heavily involved at the national level in many levels. He is Chair-Elect of The Obesity Society’s Clinical Research Section, a long-standing member of the American Geriatrics Society’s research committee, Co-Chair of its Diversity in Research Subcommittee, and Chair of the Research Methods Subcommittee. In addition, he is co-Chair of the Obesity Section of the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Batsis is on the editorial boards of two prominent aging journals, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journal of Gerontological Medical Sciences. Finally, he is a member of a recently published consensus statement put forth by the European Association for the Study of Obesity and the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition on the Diagnosis of Sarcopenic Obesity and a member of the Global Initiative for the Study of Sarcopenia Initiative.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Stephan Moll presents: " Coagulation Update"
2023-05-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Moll is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. His clinical expertise is coagulation, with a focus on thrombosis and anticoagulation, and his 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 the appropriate treatment for the uncommon thrombotic disorder livedoid vasculopathy

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Martin Shapiro presents: " The Present Illness: American Health Care and It's Afflictions
2023-04-27 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Dr. Martin Shapiro obtained his medical degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in history and a Master’s in Public Health from UCLA. He is a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Prior to coming to Cornell, he spent many years at UCLA, where he was chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research for 25 years. He is a general internist who has practiced both inpatient and outpatient GIM. He also is a health services researcher who has studied accessibility of care and health disparities, scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical advertising, and scientific authorship, among other topics. He led a major national study of care for HIV disease. He is also interested in such conditions as hypertension and hepatitis C, in empowering communities in relation to the research enterprise, and in trying to improve health and health care for those most in need. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and of the Association of American Physicians and is a past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine. He enjoys mentoring students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty members. His new book, The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions, has just been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

46th Annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium
2023-04-24 - 2023-04-25 | NC

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Leslie Appleton, Dr. Megan Hoppens, Dr. Michael Rydberg, Dr. Aaron Fried, and Dr. Casey Birschbach presents: "Year In Review: Chief Residents."
2023-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Leslie Appleton, MD, MPH
Inpatient Chief Resident
Leslie Appleton is a native Arizonan who earned her MD MPH from the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix. She earned her BA in politics from Pomona College, after which she joined President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign in Chicago. In 2013, Leslie began working for the federal government, holding positions in both the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services. She is an avid reader and otherwise enjoys cooking, playing sports, enjoying the outdoors, and seeing the world.

Casey Birschbach, MD
Outpatient Chief Resident
Casey grew up in the small town of Deerfield, Wisconsin and studied biology and global cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught seventh-grade math and reading in Milwaukee for a year before returning to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health for medical school. There, she developed her interests in Internal Medicine and medical education. She journeyed down south to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her residency in Internal Medicine and now serves as the Ambulatory Chief Resident for the program. Following her Chief Residency year, she plans to pursue primary care. In her free time, Casey enjoys cooking, true crime podcasts, and exploring local restaurants with her husband, Ryan.

Aaron Fried, MD, MBA
Inpatient Chief Resident
Aaron grew up outside of Los Angeles before completing his undergraduate work in Biology and Hispanic Studies at Boston College. He spent one year with a biopharmaceutical research team in Boston before moving yet again for medical school, this time to the Midwest. At Creighton University, Aaron completed a dual MD/MBA degree program and was inducted into the AOA and Gold Humanism Honor Society. Now in North Carolina, Aaron stays busy outside of work with his two young daughters, Addison and Elise, and his wife, Katie. They love to explore the outdoors, eat their way around the Triangle, and have game nights with family and friends. Aaron also loves to play basketball, golf, table tennis, surf, and snowboard. His academic interests include medical education, health process innovation, and quality improvement, and he plans to pursue a career in hospital medicine.

Megan Hoppens, MD
Med-Peds Chief Resident
Megan was born in Fort Collins, CO, and attended Tulane University for her undergraduate work in Neuroscience. Not ready to leave New Orleans, she continued her training at LSU School of Medicine. In medical school, Megan was inducted into AOA and was an active member of the Flu Fighters Band and founding member of the Dermatones Accapella Group. She enjoyed the rich culture of New Orleans food and music, as well as frequent fishing trips with her dad. She couples matched with her classmate and now husband, Mark Hoppens, at UNC for residency. During her 4th year of residency, she welcomed a beautiful baby girl and her pride and joy, Diana Marie. After her chief year, Megan plans to pursue a career in primary care with a particular interest in medically underserved patient populations and outpatient procedures. During her free time, Megan enjoys listening to live music any chance she gets, hiking with her family, and traveling to new places.

Michael Rydberg, MD
Wake-Med Chief Resident
Michael is a Minnesota native who attended Davidson for college, studying biology and ultimate frisbee. After working in Charlotte for a year doing research and quality improvement work, Michael went to the University of Chicago for medical school. He was torn between urology and medicine and spent 2 years in Urology residency at the Cleveland Clinic before deciding to follow his heart and switch to medicine. He is currently the UNC chief resident at WakeMed. Following the chief year, Michael will pursue fellowship training in geriatrics.
Outside of the hospital, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife and young son, playing all the sports, and spending time outdoors.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Mariana Castells presents: "Mast Cell Activation Syndromes"
2023-04-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Mariana Castells, M.D., Ph.D. is a clinician-scientist with over 30 years of experience in allergy and immunology. Additionally, she is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School with over 200 publications. She is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s Mastocytosis Center one of the few nationally and internationally recognized centers of excellence which provides diagnosis, management, and treatment options for patients with mastocytosis and mast cell activation disorders, which are rare and potentially deadly disorders currently addressed with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. Additionally, she is the Director of the Drug Hypersensitivity and Desensitization Center at Brigham and Women’s and Dana Farber Cancer Institute which provides over 900 high risk desensitization’s per year for over 20 years to patients with cancer, severe infections and inflammatory diseases who are allergic to their first line therapy, increasing their life expectancy and quality of life.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. John Abramson presents: "Why We Can't Trust the Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine"
2023-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
After completing a residency in Family Medicine and a 2-year Robert Wood Johnson fellowship, Dr. John Abramson practiced as a family physician for 20 years in a small town an hour north of Boston. He also served for 7 years as chair of the department of family practice at Lahey Clinic. He has been on the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1997 and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy.
In 2002, after becoming aware of the uncorrected misrepresentations about the benefits and dangers of Vioxx and Celebrex in our most respected medical journals, Dr. Abramson left his practice to devote his full attention to researching the quality of the information doctors must rely on. In September 2004 he published Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine. Just one week later, Vioxx was withdrawn in the biggest drug recall ever, but not before it had killed between 40 and 60,000 Americans, despite providing no better relief than inexpensive OTC anti-inflammatory drugs.
From 2005 through the present, Dr. Abramson has continued his research and served as an expert in litigation involving prescription drugs and medical devices, with each case giving him access to millions of pages of confidential corporate documents and unreleased clinical trial data. He has also served as a consultant to the FBI and U. S. Department of Justice, including a case that led to what was, at the time, the largest criminal fine in U.S. history.
Dr. Abramson has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals, made numerous national media appearances, and written many op-ed pieces, including 2 in the New York Times. His primary research interest is the extent to which the commercial takeover of medical knowledge, primarily by drug companies, is compromising the quality of medical information available to even the most dedicated doctors, harming our health, and wasting enormous amounts of Americans’ wealth. In February 2022 Dr. Abramson published his second book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Caleb King and Dr. Louise King presents: "A Vertical Approach to Global Health: Our Experience in Rwanda"
2023-03-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Louise King an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the Dept of Internal medicine, in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. She received her medical degree from Harvard University and did her residency in Internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has a special interest in resource-limited settings and spent 16 years practicing medicine in Rwanda, providing medical relief and medical education to postgraduates at the University of Rwanda. She is interested in the intersection of infectious diseases and chronic illness.
Dr. Caleb King primarily works for the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Convergent Science (ICS). He is interested in cross-disciplinary studies within the sciences. Dr. King holds a medical degree and engineering degrees which he utilized in his 16 years in Rwanda to help the citizens of Rwanda medically and structurally by building a power grid in remote regions. His goal is to train students to be able to apply their knowledge across a variety of fields in the sciences.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. John Buse presents: "Diabetes Care- How We Arrived Where We Are Today."
2023-03-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
John Buse, MD, PhD is the Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor, 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 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.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Kelly Hathorn presents: "Endoscopic Bariatric and Metabolic Therapy (EBMT): The Intersection between Endoscopy and Obesity."
2023-03-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Hathorn is a board-certified gastroenterologist specializing in Bariatric Endoscopy and Advanced/Interventional Endoscopy. She completed her medical training at Duke University School of Medicine and subsequently completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
After residency, she remained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she completed her general gastroenterology fellowship and a formal one-year Bariatric Endoscopy Fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher C. Thompson. To date, this is the only formal bariatric endoscopy fellowship in the United States. Most recently, she completed her advanced endoscopy fellowship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and remained on staff as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Director of Bariatric Endoscopy.

Medicine Grand Rounds-Dr. Raj Kasthuri presents: "Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia: State of the Art in 2023."
2023-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Raj Kasthuri is a Professor in the Division of Hematology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kasthuri completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago before pursuing a fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Minnesota. He joined the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in 2007.
Dr. Kasthuri’s clinical and research interests are in disorders of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). He is the Director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence and the Associate Director for Clinical Research at the UNC Blood Research Center. He was involved in the design and conduct of a number of clinical trials in HHT, two of which are ongoing.
The UNC HHT Center is one of a few centers in the country that were awarded federal funding by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in 2022. Dr. Kasthuri has collaborated with the Cure HHT foundation on a number of physician and patient education efforts over the last 12 years.

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Katherine Reeder-Hayes presents: "Big Data, Small Steps: Improving The Quality & Equity OF Breast Cancer Care in North Carolina."
2023-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. Reeder-Hayes is a health services researcher with a focus on Black-White racial breast cancer disparities and the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments in diverse populations. In addition to her clinical training as a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, her research training includes a master’s degree in clinical research from the UNC School of Public Health and a post-doctoral fellowship in comparative effectiveness research from the UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She has previously led Big Data analyses of race and age disparities in the receipt of breast cancer surgery, endocrine therapy initiation and adherence, use of HER2-directed therapy, and use of gene expression profiling, and is the Medical Director of the UNC Cancer Informatics and Population Health Resource (CIPHR) linked data repository, where her lab focuses on how race and geography impact the quality and timeliness of cancer care. She also works with patient-reported, biological, and medical record data from the Carolina Breast Cancer Study to model genomic and treatment contributors to racial disparities in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. She has an extensive portfolio of research in the area of adherence to breast cancer endocrine therapy as it relates to racial disparities in HR+ breast cancer, and co-leads the national, R01-funded GETSET randomized control trial, testing a variety of technology-based interventions to improve adherence to endocrine therapy in diverse breast cancer patients through the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. She is a national leader of organizations impacting breast cancer disparities, as past Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Health Equity Committee and a member of the Alliance Health Disparities and Breast committees.
