2010-2011 Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors:
Grand Rounds are held each Monday at 7:30 a.m., Room 309L, School of Medicine.
Effective Monday 02 May, 2011, M&M will be held each Monday at 5 p.m., Room 309L, School of Medicine.
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a
maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Final Grand Rounds of this academic year was May 23, 2011. Grand Rounds will resume on July 25, 2011.
Past Presentations - 2010-2011 Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors:
Monday, May 30, 2011 — University Holiday — No Grand Rounds
Monday, May 23, 2011
Johnson Center for Surgical Innovation 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture:
Daniel J. Scott, MD, Associate Professor
Frank H. Kidd, Jr., MD Distinguished Professorship in Surgery
Director, Southwestern Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas |
More about Dr. Scott
Topic: Simulation in Surgery – Current best practices and remaining challenges
Monday, May 16, 2011 — Combined Surgery/Anesthesiology
THIS DAY ONLY — Start Time 6:30AM
Department of Anesthesiology Speaker – Maxim Eckmann, MD,
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
UT School of Medicine San Antonio
Topic: Updates in perioperative pain management
View presentation
Dr. Eckmann has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, Chairman of the Department of Surgery
Jocelyn and Joe Straus Endowed Chair in Trauma Research |
More about Dr. Stewart
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: General principles of operative trauma care
Dr. Stewart has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Gustavo Guajardo, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Guajardo
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Mr. Hybrid and the new era of cardiac surgery
Dr. Guajardo has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, April 25, 2011 — CANCELLED — No Grand Rounds
Monday, April 18, 2011
Lisa Thomas, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Thomas
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Surgery on the cirrhotic patient
Dr. Thomas has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, April 11, 2011 — Visiting Distinguished Lecturer
Carl J. Hauser, MD, Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA |
More about Dr. Hauser
Topic: Inflammation after injury ... Sniffing the trail from
femur fractures to formyl peptides
Dr. Hauser has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Steve Wolf, MD, Vice Chairman for Research and Professor of Surgery |
More about Dr. Wolf
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: TBA
Dr. Wolf has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Rafael Diaz, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Diaz
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Surgery & Public Health
Dr. Diaz has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Richard M. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACS, Director, UT Center for Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
UT Weight Loss website |
More about Dr. Peterson
Topic: Downsizing America – Surgery's answer to the obesity epidemic
Dr. Peterson has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, March 14, 2011 — Spring Break - No Grand Rounds
Monday, March 7, 2011
Adham Saad, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Saad
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Is medicine a business?
Dr. Saad has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, February 28, 2011 — Visiting Distinguished Lecturer
William F. Anderson, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
US Dept of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD |
More about Dr. Anderson
Topic: Causal relationships in cancer medicine &mdash Assessing efficacy vs. effectiveness
Dr. Anderson has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sam Bastani, DO, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Bastani
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Myths & facts of myocardial revascularization – To stent or bypass?
Dr. Bastani has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, February 14, 2011 — Combined Surgery/Anesthesiology
THIS DAY ONLY — Start Time 6:30AM
Department of Surgery Speaker – Michael Corneille, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Trauma and Emergency Surgery, University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Tight glycemic control in the ICU: What we think we know
Dr. Corneille has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Vinay Rai, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Rai
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Rectal cancer
Dr. Rai has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, January 31, 2011 — No Grand Rounds — ABSITE
Monday, January 24, 2011
Peter Learn, MD, USAF General Surgeon
Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
Topic: Autoimmune pancreatitis — Why do surgeons keep operating on a medical disease?
Dr. Learn has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, January 17, 2011 — No Grand Rounds — University Holiday
Monday, January 10, 2011
Kent Van Sickle, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery, UT School of Medicine San Antonio Department of Surgery
More about Dr. Van Sickle
Topic: 2011 – A Hernia Odyssey
Dr. Van Sickle has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Francis Ali-Osman, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Ali-Osman
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Abdominal vascular injuries
Dr. Ali-Osman has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, December 27, 2010 — No Grand Rounds — Winter Break
Monday, December 20, 2010 — No Grand Rounds — Winter Break
Monday, December 13, 2010
3rd Annual H.D. Root Lecture
Adam Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS, International Humanitarian Surgeon
Founder & Director, Surgeons OverSeas (SOS)
Lecturer in Surgery, Columbia University |
More about Dr. Kushner
Topic: International Humanitarian Surgery: Surgery for the rest of the world
Dr. Kushner has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Adham Saad, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Saad
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Medullary thyroid cancer
Dr. Saad has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, November 29, 2010 — No Grand Rounds
Monday, November 22, 2010 — No Grand Rounds — Thanksgiving Week Holiday
Monday, November 15, 2010
Distinguished Visiting Professor
William G. Cioffi, Jr., MD
J. Murray Beardsley Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
More about Dr. Cioffi
Topic: Changing physician behavior or Why we do what we do
Dr. Cioffi has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Gustavo Guajardo, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Guajardo
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Sclerosing cholangitis
Dr. Guajardo has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, November 1, 2010 — Combined Surgery/Anesthesiology
THIS DAY ONLY — Start Time 6:30AM
James D. Kelso, JD, LLM
Private practice attorney specializing in legal services for physicians
San Antonio, Texas
Topic: The consideration of employment contracts
Mr. Kelso has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ismail Jatoi, MD, PhD, FACS, Professor and Chief, Surgical Oncology
Dale H. Dorn Chair in Surgery | More about Dr. Jaoti
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: The role of surgery in cancer prevention
Dr. Jatoi has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Jose Almeda, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery |
More about Dr. Almeda
Assistant Professor, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, UT Transplant Center
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Director, Pediatric Transplant Surgery, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Topic: Pancreatic cancer surgery
Dr. Almeda has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Vinay Rai, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Rai
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Gastric Cancer
Dr. Rai has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, October 4, 2010 — No Grand Rounds
ACS Conference , Washington DC, Oct 3rd-7th, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Rafael Diaz, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Diaz
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: GIST tumors
Dr. Diaz has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, September 20, 2010 — Combined Surgery/Anesthesiology
THIS DAY ONLY — Start Time 6:30AM
Andriy Batchinsky, MD, Research Scientist |
More about Dr. Batchinsky
US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Ft. Sam Houston, TX
Topic: From complicated to complex: Viewing the patient as a complex
system or, the next paradigm in patient monitoring
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sam Bastani, DO, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Bastani
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Melanoma
Dr. Bastani has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, September 6, 2010 — No Grand Rounds — Labor Day Holiday
Monday, August 30, 2010
Steve Wolf, MD, Vice Chairman for Research and Professor of Surgery |
More about Dr. Wolf
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Wound healing
Dr. Wolf has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Lisa Thomas, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Thomas
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Mesenteric Ischaemia
Dr. Thomas has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Dan Dent, MD, Professor of Surgery
Director, General Surgery Residency Program
UT School of Medicine Department of Surgery, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
More about Dr. Dent
Topic: Hematology for surgeons
Dr. Dent has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Patrick Nguyen, MD, Assistant Professor
General & Laparoendoscopic Surgery
UT School of Medicine Department of Surgery, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
More about Dr. Nguyen
Topic: Benign diseases of the gallbladder
Dr. Nguyen has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Francis Ali-Osman, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident |
More about Dr. Ali-Osman
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: Pancreatic pseudocyst
Dr. Ali-Osman has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Benjamin J. Pearce, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular / Endovascular Surgery
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
More about Dr. Pearce
Topic: Upddate on carotid stenting in the post-CREST era
Dr. Pearce has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Lois L. Bready, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education |
More about Dr. Bready
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: ACGME Quality Care and Professionalism Task Force – Draft Standards Overview
Dr. Bready has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, Interim Chairman of the Department of Surgery
Jocelyn and Joe Straus Endowed Chair in Trauma Research |
More about Dr. Stewart
University of Texas School of Medicine San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Topic: The Care of the Patient — Science and Service
Dr. Stewart has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
MONDAY MAY 24, 2010
Speaker: Raul Ramos, MD
Clinical Professor, UT School of Medicine San Antonio Department of Surgery
Digestive Surgery Center, San Antonio, Texas |
More about Dr. Ramos
Topic: Diverticulitis 2010
Dr. Ramos has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
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