Grand rounds are an integral component of medical education, consisting of presenting new innovations in medicine to an audience of doctors, residents and medical students. Presentations are given by faculty members from each of our divisions as well as invited guest speakers from across the nation. Grand rounds attendees qualify for CME credit.
They are held every Friday at noon except the second Friday of every month, September through June.
"COPD: Therapies and Biology"
September 5, 2008 - Victor J. Cardenas, Jr. MD., Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
FY 2007 - 2008
"Death, Grief and Bereavement"
June 27, 2008 - Lee Grumbles, MD, Division of Geriatrics
"NASA-UTMB Life Sciences Research in Preparation for Interplanetary Exploration"
June 20, 2008 - Don W. Powell, MD, Division of Gastroenterology; Janice V. Meck, PhD, NASA; Ronita L. Cromwell, PhD, NASA
"Thyroid Test, Treatments and Tempests"
June 6, 2008 - Kevin H. McKinney, MD, Division of Endocrinology
"Screening for Cardiovascular Disease: Today and Tomorrow"
May 30, 2008 - Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Life's Lessons Learned and Unlearned through the Eye of a Storm, Flooding, and Standing Water"
May 22, 2008 - Vincent G. Valentine, MD, UTMB Texas Transplant Center
"Geriatric Rehabilitation"
May 16, 2008 - Neil J. Nusbaum, JD, MD, Division of Geriatrics