Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health

Grand Rounds

Upcoming Grand Rounds
The Burden of Obesity in Liver Transplantation: Thinking Beyond NAFLD - Erin Spengler, MD

The Burden of Obesity in Liver Transplantation: Thinking Beyond NAFLD

Erin Spengler, MD

Polycystic Kidney Disease: The Mysteries and the Hopes, Both Old and New - Gauri Bhutani, MD

Polycystic Kidney Disease: The Mysteries and the Hopes, Both Old and New

Gauri Bhutani, MD

Grand Rounds has been canceled for Friday, March 13, 2020

Frozen Colon or Dyssynergia: Why Some Patients Can’t Let It Go - Lisa Jones, MD, MPH, MMCI

Frozen Colon or Dyssynergia: Why Some Patients Can’t Let It Go

Lisa Jones, MD, MPH, MMCI

Update on Cardiac Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients - Fahad Aziz, MD

Update on Cardiac Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Fahad Aziz, MD

"Resident-Directed Curriculum for Bedside Ultrasonography," "Call of Duty: Medical Edition," and "Empathy Training: A New Competency?" - Timothy Rowe, MD & Katherine Fell, MD - Madelyn Alvarez, MD, MS - Miguel Leal, MD

"Resident-Directed Curriculum for Bedside Ultrasonography," "Call of Duty: Medical Edition," and "Empathy Training: A New Competency?"

Medical Education Day (Three 15 Minute Presentations)

Timothy Rowe, MD

Katherine Fell, MD

Madelyn Alvarez, MD, MS

Miguel Leal, MD

Pulmonary Hypertension Physiological Phenotyping and the Role of Exercise - Farhan Raza, MD

Pulmonary Hypertension Physiological Phenotyping and the Role of Exercise

Farhan Raza, MD

Keeping Pace With Technology: Meet the New Pacemakers and Defibrillators - Miguel Leal, MD

Keeping Pace With Technology: Meet the New Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Miguel Leal, MD

Making Sense of Glucose Sensors: A Guide to Continuous Glucose Monitoring for the Internist - Jennifer Poehls, MD

Making Sense of Glucose Sensors: A Guide to Continuous Glucose Monitoring for the Internist

Jennifer Poehls, MD

Brain and Cognitive Changes in Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease: New Findings - Sterling Johnson, PhD and Tobey Betthauser, PhD, MS

Brain and Cognitive Changes in Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease: New Findings

Sterling Johnson, PhD

Tobey Betthauser, PhD, MS

Return of the House Call: Home-Based Primary Care in Research and Practice - Melissa Dattalo, MD, MPH

Return of the House Call: Home-Based Primary Care in Research and Practice

Melissa Dattalo, MD, MPH

Unraveling the Origins of COPD - MeiLan Han, MD, MS

Unraveling the Origins of COPD

MeiLan Han, MD, MS

Eosinophil-Related Inflammation in Asthma: Clinical and Therapeutics Implications - Nizar Jarjour, MD

Eosinophil-Related Inflammation in Asthma: Clinical and Therapeutics Implications

Nizar Jarjour, MD

The Future of Cardiovascular Care - Marvin Konstam, MD, FACC, FAHA

The Future of Cardiovascular Care

Marvin Konstam, MD, FACC, FAHA

Basket and Umbrella Trials: Challenges and Opportunities for Cancer Drug Development - Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD

Basket and Umbrella Trials: Challenges and Opportunities for Cancer Drug Development

Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD

Alcohol Associated Liver Disease in the US: Another Disease of Despair? - Jessica Mellinger, MD, MSc

Alcohol Associated Liver Disease in the US: Another Disease of Despair?

Jessica Mellinger, MD, MSc

Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Disease in Evolution - Luis Lomeli, MD, MPH

Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A Disease in Evolution

Luis Lomeli, MD, MPH

Go Beyond ‘I Just Tripped’- Identifying the Root Cause of Falls and Implementing Successful Interventions - Kathleen Walsh, DO

Go Beyond ‘I Just Tripped’- Identifying the Root Cause of Falls and Implementing Successful Interventions

Kathleen Walsh, DO

Emerging Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Severe Asthma - Loren Denlinger, MD, PhD

Emerging Endotypes and Precision Medicine in Severe Asthma

Loren Denlinger, MD, PhD

Creating a Manageable Cockpit for Clinicians- A Shared Responsibility - Christine Sinsky, MD, FACP

Creating a Manageable Cockpit for Clinicians- A Shared Responsibility

Christine Sinsky, MD, FACP

Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century: The Impact of Global Warming on Human Health - Dennis Maki, MD

Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century: The Impact of Global Warming on Human Health

Dennis Maki, MD

E-Cigarettes and Vaping: A Failed Social Experiment - Brian Williams, MD

E-Cigarettes and Vaping: A Failed Social Experiment

Brian Williams, MD

It’s a Small World After All- Exciting Discoveries in Intraislet Pancreatic Hormone Signaling - Dawn Davis, MD, PhD

It’s a Small World After All- Exciting Discoveries in Intraislet Pancreatic Hormone Signaling

Dawn Davis, MD, PhD

Enrollment Practices Matter: Community-Based Participatory Engagement in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research - Carey Gleason, PhD

Enrollment Practices Matter: Community-Based Participatory Engagement in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research

Carey Gleason, PhD

Adam Gepner, MD

More Pills? I’m Too Old For This! Personalizing Hypertension Management for Older Adults

Adam Gepner, MD

Matthew Churpek, MD, MPH, PhD

Using Big Data to Detect Clinical Deterioration

Matthew Churpek, MD, MPH, PhD

Christie Bartels, MD, MS

Lupus Disease, Disparities and New Directions: Strategies from HIV and Beyond

Christie Bartels, MD, MS

Mark Burkard, MD, PhD

Enhancing Precision of Cancer Treatment

Mark Burkard, MD, PhD

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Understanding Health Disparities & Equity Through the Lens of Kidney Disease

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Matthew Brunner, MD

Evidence Based? The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Modern Healthcare

Matthew Brunner, MD

Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD

Patient Satisfaction: More than Just GomerBlog Fodder

Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD

Tait Shanafelt, MD

Beyond Personal Resilience: Organizational Approaches to Physician Well-Being

Tait Shanafelt, MD

Ann Chodara, MD

It’s a Gut Feeling: The Microbiome in Inflammatory Disease

Ann Chodara, MD

Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, FACP

Defining the Limit of Transplant: Science or an Art?

Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, FACP

Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD

How to Hack P-Values: A User’s Guide

Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD

Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, DABAM

Battle Behind Bars: Addiction, Incarceration & Evidence-Based Treatment

Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, DABAM

Angela Hewlett, MD, MS

Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola: The Nebraska Experience

Angela Hewlett, MD, MS

Serpil Erzurum, MD

Evolutionary Adaptations and Pulmonary Hypertension

Serpil Erzurum, MD

Brian Lewis, MD

Back to the Future: The Resurgence of Home-Based Primary Care

Brian Lewis, MD

Tripti Singh, MD

AKI: Beyond the Dialysis Unit and Into the Community

Tripti Singh, MD

Jessica Cook, PhD

Engaging the Unmotivated Smoker: Innovative Approaches

Jessica Cook, PhD

Ivor Benjamin, MD, FAHA, FACC

Protein Misfolding Diseases: Lessons from Alzheimer’s to Cardiomyopathy

Ivor Benjamin, MD, FAHA, FACC

Renuka Gupta, MD

Wound of Racism: "Physician Heal Thyself"

Renuka Gupta, MD

Elaine Pelley, MD

When a Specialty Becomes “Women’s Work”: Occupational Gender Segregation in Medicine

Elaine Pelley, MD

Sarah Panzer, MD

Chronic Rejection After Kidney Transplantation: Is There Hope?

Sarah Panzer, MD

Joseph McBride, MA, MD

Probiotics: Magic Pill or Load of Waste? What Does Your Gut Say?

Joseph McBride, MA, MD

Kerstin Austin, MD, Jessica Tischendorf, MD & Sara Johnson, MD

DOM Education Day: "Taking Care of Ourselves: Building a Culture of Overuse Injury Prevention in GI Fellowship" and "The Student Becomes the Master: Web-Based Curriculum to Enhance Teaching Skills"

Presentation by faculty members whose projects are funded by DOM Education Innovation Grants

Kerstin Austin, MD

Jessica Tischendorf, MD

Sara Johnson, MD

Donita Croft, MD, MS

Survive But Not Recover? Chronic Critical Illness

Donita Croft, MD, MS

Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS & Dawn Davis, MD, PhD

SCIENCE NOW: "The Future of Diagnosing and Treating Dementia Due to Alzheimer’s Disease" and "From Bedside to Bench and Back Again: Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia Etiology and Treatment"

Back-to-back lectures by faculty members who are currently accepting trainees into their research programs

Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS

Dawn Davis, MD, PhD

Howard Bailey, MD

Cancer Prevention Agent Development: Waiting for Godot?

Howard Bailey, MD

Elizabeth Chapman, MD

How Do You Know What They Know? The Challenges Doctors Have Communicating With Patients and How We Can Do Better

Elizabeth Chapman, MD

Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH

How to Survive a Plague: What the U.S. Response to AIDS Can Teach Us About the Opioid Epidemic

Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH

David Malebranche, MD, MPH

Do We Need a “Hell’s Kitchen”? : Medical Contexts and the HIV Treatment Cascade

David Malebranche, MD, MPH

John Sheehan, MD

The End of Hemophilia?

John Sheehan, MD

Karen Hansen, MD, MS

Clinical Challenges in Osteoporosis Care: A Case-Based Interactive Grand Rounds

Karen Hansen, MD, MS

Steven M Ewer, MD

Current Controversies in Cardio-Oncology

Steven M Ewer, MD

Paul M Matthews, OBE, MD, DPhil, FRCP, FMedSci

How Can We See Disease Before It Happens? Invigorating Epidemiology with Modern Technologies

Paul M Matthews, OBE, MD, DPhil, FRCP, FMedSci

Shivani Garg, MD

Lupus: Past, Present and Future

Shivani Garg, MD

Dennis Maki, MD

The Growing Global Threat of Tick-Borne Disease

Dennis Maki, MD

Marcus Friedrich, MD, MBA

Improving Survival from Sepsis: Lessons from the NY State Initiative

Marcus Friedrich, MD, MBA

Richard Keller, PhD

Climate Change and Health Risk: Learning from Recent Extreme Heat Crises

Richard Keller, PhD

Accreditation Statement

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statement - Medicine Grand Rounds

American Medical Association (AMA): The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this material for maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hour(s). The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing is Iowa Board of Nursing provider 350.


Continuing Education Units: The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for a maximum of 0.1 CEUs or a maximum of 1.0 hour(s).


American Board of Internal Medicine: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.