2014 Grand Rounds | Department of Surgery

Surgical Grand Rounds are conducted on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 7:15 A.M. in the 4th floor Old Clinic auditorium.

12/31/2014		Winter Break
12/24/2014		Winter Break
12/17/2014	Felicia Williams, MD NC Jaycee Burn Center	The Evolution of Burns and the Burn Surgeon: Looking Beyond Skin Grafting
12/10/2014	Ashish Jain, MD General Surgery ResidentRaeshell Sweeting, MD General Surgery Resident	Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: Discrepancies in Organ Allocation TBA
12/3/2014		No Grand Rounds
11/26/2014		Thanksgiving Break
11/19/2014		Mock Orals
11/12/2014	Special Presentation	Colin G. Thomas Jr., MD: His Impact on The University of North Carolina
11/5/2014	Todd Baron, MD Division of GI and Hepatology	Frontiers of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
10/22/2014	William A. Fischer II, MD Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine	The Struggle to Contain Ebola- From Outbreak to Epidemic
10/15/2014	Clara Lee, MD Plastic Surgery	Decision Making about Breast Cancer Treatments
10/8/2014	Chris Tignanelli, MD General Surgery ResidentTrista Reid, MD General Surgery Residents	Sedation in the ICU
10/1/2014	Lynn Damitz, MD Plastic Surgery	Innovations in Urogenital Neurosensory Assessment and its Clinical Implications
9/24/2014	Chris Tignanelli, MD General Surgery ResidentNicole Lopez, MD General Surgery Resident Arun Ganesh, MD Anesthesiology Resident	Joint Anesthesia and Department of Surgery Interdisciplinary M&M Conference
9/17/2014	David Van Duin, MD, PhD Associate Professor or Infectious DiseasesAnne Lachiewicz, MD, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases	Infections in Burn Patients
9/10/2014	Michael Philips, MD UNC School of MedicineAshok Venkataraman, MD UNC School of Medicine	Is Resection Necessary? Open vs Thorascopic
9/3/2014	Richard J. Ohye, MD Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University of Michigan	Lesson Learned from Running the Multi-Center Randomized Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial
8/27/2014	Chris Dekaney, PhD UNC School of Medicine	Intestinal Stem Cell Biology during Epithelial Repair
8/20/2014	HJ Kim, MD Division Chief, Surgical Oncology UNC School of Medicine	Making Sense of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms
8/13/2014	Krista Evans, MD General Surgery Chief ResidentLaura Boschini, MD General Surgery Resident	Changes in Management of Diverticulitis
8/6/2014	Sasha Adams, MD Trauma	Surgery in the Elderly: Adjustments in Evaluation and Care
7/30/2014	Andy C. Kiser, MD Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery	Launch Out into the Deep: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Surgery
7/23/2014	Nancy Klauber-DeMore, MD Professor of Surgery, Surgical Oncology	A Decade’s Worth Pursuit of Target Discovery, Validation and Drug Development
7/16/2014	Sang II Lee, MD Division Of Pediatric Surgery	The Evolution of Wilms Tumor Management
7/9/2014	Kirk Caddell, MD General Surgery ResidentJaveria Qureshi, MD General Surgery Resident	Gastric Cancer Surgical Management Gastric Cancer Systemic Therapy
7/2/2014	Dominika L. James, MD Department of Anesthesiology	The Basics of Perioperative Pain Management
6/25/2014	Raeshell Sweeting, MD General Surgery	Interdisciplinary M&M Conference in Trauma/General Surgery
6/18/2014	C. Scott Hultman, MD, MBA Program Director and Chief of Plastic Surgery	Far Away, So Close: Successful Reduction of Hospital-Associated Infections in Burn Patients
6/11/2014		Awards Presentation
6/4/2014		Mock Orals
5/28/2014	Laura Boschini, MD Michael Phillips, MD Jennifer Samples, MD Christopher Tiganelli, MD General Surgery Residents	Research Updates and Current Works in Progress
5/21/2014	Christopher Tignanelli, MD General Surgery ResidentGenevieve Embree, MD Preventative Medicine	UNC Hospital Interdisciplinary M&M Conference
5/14/2014	Nicole Chaumont, MD General Surgery ResidentEmily Fontenot, MD General Surgery Chief Resident	Nonsurgical Treatment of Appendiceal Abscess or Phlegmon Screening for Breast Cancer: US Preventative Task Force Recommendations
5/7/2014	Benjamin F. Calvo, MD Chief of Surgical Oncology	Rectal Cancer Treatment and Research at UNC
4/30/2014	Michael F. Szwerc, MD Chief of Thoracic Surgery Leigh Valley Health Network	Utilizing Robotic Technology to Improve the Options for Minimally Invasive Lung, Esophageal, and Mediastinal Surgery
4/23/2014	David B. Peden, MD, MS Chief of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases	When Smoke Gets in Your Lungs: From Air Pollution to Smoke Inhalation
4/9/2014	Megan Fuller, MD General Surgery Chief Resident	Effect of Who Checklists on In-Hospital Mortality
4/2/2014	Bruce A. Cairns, MD Director, NC Jaycee Burn CenterJulia Malik, Laurel Kartchner, Brandon Linz Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Students	Immune Dysfunction Following Burn Injury: Use of Animal Models to Elucidate Alterations in the Immune System
3/26/2014	Charles B. Cairns, MD, FACEP, FAHA Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at UNC	Time Makes a Difference to Everyone, Everywhere: Critical Opportunities in Emergency Care
3/19/2014	Lewis Rubinson, MD, PhD Director, Critical Care Resuscitation Unit in Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD	University of Maryland’s Critical Care Resuscitation: High Quality Multi-Specialty Care for Critically Ill Patients with Immediate Need for Transfers to an Academic Center
3/12/2014	Scott Moore, MD Sumayah Hargette, MD General Surgery Residents	Long Term Effects of ASA on Colorectal Cancer Treatment Options for Graves Disease
3/5/2014	Lawrence T. Kim, MD, FACS UNC Surgical Oncology	The Thyroid Nodule and Thyroid Cancer: Update in Diagnosis and Management
2/26/2014	Booker T. King, MD, FACS Director, US Army Institute Surgical Burn Center Fort Sam Houston, TX	The Spectrum of Combat Casualty Care
2/19/2014	American College of Surgeons Surgical Health Care Quality Forum
2/12/2014	Jessica Pretti, MD Sumayah Hargette, MD General Surgery Residents	Effect of Stitch Length on Wound Complications Treatment Options for Graves Disease
2/5/2014	Michelle C. Roughton, MD Director of Microsurgery UNC School of Medicine	Advances in Breast Reconstruction
1/29/2014	William T. Adamson, MD Divison Chief, Pediatric Surgery UNC School of Medicine	Massive Transfusion Protocols: From the Battlefield to EPIC
1/15/2014	Benjamin E. Haithcock, MD Cardiothoracic Surgery	Evaluation of the Pulmonary Nodule
1/8/2014	Ashok Venkatarman, MD General Surgery Resident	Biliary Tract Disease and Pregnancy

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Division of GI Surgery