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Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LMC): Detection, treatment, and surveillance strategies, Speaker: Na Tosha Gatson

Title: Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LMC): Detection, treatment, and surveillance strategies
Speaker: Na Tosha Gatson
Objectives: 

  1. Discuss the diagnosis and pathophysiology of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC). 
  2. Review cases that are important to understanding LMC presentation.
  3. Identify mechanisms by which to treat LMC.
  4. Define opportunities for overlapping hospitalist with neuro-oncologists in the acute care setting.

Date: October 14, 2022

Renal Failure in Cirrhosis, Current Management and Future Treatment Options, Speaker: Florence Wong

Title: Renal Failure in Cirrhosis, Current Management and Future Treatment Options
Speaker: Florence Wong
Objectives: 
  1. Have a better understanding of the pathophysiology of renal dysfunction in cirrhosis, mechanism of action of vasoconstrictors, treatment regimens and their side effects.
  2. Learn about potential new treatment options for renal failure in cirrhosis.
Date: October 7, 2022

Resistant Hypertension: How to Approach the Patient Whose BP Can't Be Controlled, Speaker: Jan Basile

Title: Resistant Hypertension: How to Approach the Patient Whose BP Can't Be Controlled
Speaker: Jan Basile
Objectives
  1. Understand the new definition of resistant hypertension.
  2. Review the clinical workup of resistant hypertension including the importance of ruling out medication non-adherence, obtaining out-of-office or a 24-hr ABPM and ruling out secondary causes of hypertension.
  3. Recognize the importance of lifestyle modification and the evidence for the use of chlorthalidone rather than hydrochlorothiazide, and a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist to improve BP control in those with resistant hypertension after excluding a secondary cause of hypertension.
Date: September 23, 2022

What's Love Got to do With It? The Case for Workforce Thriving to Enhance Patient Safety, Speaker: Read G. Pierce

Title: What's Love Got to do With It? The Case for Workforce Thriving to Enhance Patient Safety

Speaker: Read G. Pierce

Date: September 16, 2022

Status of Women in Medicine & Science, Speaker: Pamela Garcia-Fillion

Title: Status of Women in Medicine & Science

Speaker: Pamela Garcia-Fillion

Date: September 9, 2022

Management of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis, Speaker: Gaurav Syal

Title: Management of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis

Speaker: Gaurav Syal

Date: August 26, 2022

Myth Busting: OUD & MAT/MOUD, Speaker: Jerry W. Snow

Title: Myth Busting: OUD & MAT/MOUD

Speaker: Jerry W. Snow

Date: August 19. 2022

Public Health Update: COVID-19, Monkeypox and the Role of the Medical Community in Outbreak Response, Speaker: R. Nicholas Staab

Title: Public Health Update: COVID-19, Monkeypox and the Role of the Medical Community in Outbreak Response

Speaker: R. Nicholas Staab

Date: August 12, 2022

Diagnosing tuberculosis - Progress ad remaining challenges, Speaker: Jacqueline M. Achkar

Title: Diagnosing tuberculosis - Progress ad remaining challenges

Speaker: Jacqueline M. Achkar

Date: July 15, 2022