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Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Hyman Muss presents: “Cancer and Aging: The Challenges of Cancer Care in Older Patients”

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Hyman B. Muss MD is an experienced clinician-scientist, the Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professor of Geriatric Oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Director of the Geriatric Oncology Program at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Program. His interest in education and research focused on cancer in older patients and … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. George Karam in honor of the Third Annual Alan Jacobs Memorial Lecture presents: ” Understanding Humanism”

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Dr. Karam is a graduate of LSU School of Medicine New Orleans, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.  He did his residency in internal medicine, a year as Chief Resident, and his fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  He joined the full-time faculty at LSU … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Professor Heather Webb presents: “A History of Cardiac Sensation”

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Heather Webb (Ph.D. Stanford 2004) is a Professor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on medieval ideas of physiology and emotion. Her books explore changing ideas of bodies and depictions of the human over time, including The Medieval Heart (Yale, 2010), Dante's Persons; An Ethics of the … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. James Howard Jr. presents: “Reducing the Burdens of Myasthenia Gravis: A Tale of Two Targets”

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Dr. Howard is a Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Allied Health in the Department of Neurology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.   He is the former James F Howard Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Disease and the prior Chief of the Neuromuscular Disorders Section at UNC.  He received his medical … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Joshua Berkowitz presents: “Novel, minimally-invasive therapies in Orthopaedics: Between cortisone and the OR”

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Dr. Josh Berkowitz is a Tar Heel through and through, receiving both his undergraduate and medical degrees at UNC before going on to complete combined residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC Hospitals.  After residency, he served as Chief Resident across both departments and subsequently completed Sports Medicine fellowship training here as well. … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Robert Yeh presents: “The Uneasy Relationship Between Health Policy and Cardiovascular Care”

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Robert W. Yeh, MD MSc is the Founding Director of the Richard and Susan Smith Center for Outcomes Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He holds the Katz-Silver Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Yeh is also the Associate Chief of … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. David Systrom presents: “Advanced Exercise Testing for Evaluation of ME/CFS and Long Covid”

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Dr. David M. Systrom is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School (now known as Geisel School of Medicine). He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Emory University Hospital, followed by a … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos Presents: “Antimicrobial Stewardship at UNC Medical Center”

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Dr. Nikolaos Mavrogiorgos divides his time between clinical infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship. He sees patients both in the inpatient and outpatient settings and is interested in general infectious diseases including endocarditis, joint and bone infections, diabetic foot infections, skin infections, and soft tissue infections.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor and the Medical Director … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Adrian Di Bisceglie Presents: “Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Pathogenesis and Management”

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Dr. Di Bisceglie completed his medical school education and internal medicine residency in South Africa before coming to the NIH in Bethesda, MD to complete a fellowship in liver diseases.  There, he rose through the ranks to become Chief of the Liver Diseases Section before moving to join the faculty of Saint Louis University in … Read more

Medicine Grand Rounds- Scott Keller, De Vaughn (Monty) Williams, MD, & John Falk Presents: “Enhancing Clinical Communication to Improve Patient Care and Reputational Metrics”

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Scott is the Director of Business Development in the Department of Medicine at UNC. In this role, he works throughout the health care system to help implement and support new projects focused on delivering higher value care and improving the way we operate. He has worked at UNC since 2010 and is a graduate of … Read more