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2009-2010 Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors:

Grand Rounds are held each Monday at 7:30 a.m., Room 409L, School of Medicine.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The RSS Surgery Grand Rounds & Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conferences Planning Committee (Ronald M. Stewart, MD; Daniel Dent, MD; Ross Willis, PhD, and Steven Wolf, MD) has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

PLEASE NOTE: Effective 01 August 2009 location change to 409L, Medical School

MONDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2009 - Thanksgiving Week Holiday - No M&M or Grand Rounds

MONDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Speaker: Joseph L. Messina, PhD
Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama
Department of Pathology, Physiology and Biochemistry, Division of Molecular and Ceullular Pathology
More about Dr. Messina | Dr. Messina's CV
Topic: Acute insulin resistance following injury

MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 2009
Speaker: Steve Duffy, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY DECEMBER 21, 2009 - Winter Holiday - No M&M or Grand Rounds

MONDAY DECEMBER 28, 2009 - Winter Holiday - No M&M or Grand Rounds

 

MONDAY JANUARY 4, 2010
Speaker: Danny Kim, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY JANUARY 18, 2010 - Martin Luther King Day - No M&M or Grand Rounds

 

MONDAY JANUARY 25, 2010
Speaker: Lillian Liao, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

THIS DAY ONLY: Grand Rounds at 6:30 a.m. and M&M at 7:30 a.m. - 409L Medical School
MONDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2010 - Combined Grand Rounds - Surgery and Anesthesiology
Speaker: Mike Corneille, MD, Assistant Professor
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2010 - Presidents' Day - No M&M or Grand Rounds

 

MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Speaker: Juan Mejia, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MARCH 1, 2010
VISITING LECTURER: Thomas H. Cogbill, MD, General Surgeon
Program Director of the Surgical Residency Program, Gundersen/Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin | More about Dr. Cogbill
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010
Speaker: Bianca Vazquez, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MARCH 15, 2010
Speaker: Megan Steigelman, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MARCH 29, 2010
VISITING LECTURER: L.D. Britt, MD, MPH
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar
Vice-Chair, ACGME Residency Review Committee for Surgery
Chair of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Board of the Regents | More about Dr. Britt
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY APRIL 5, 2010
Speaker: Fia Yi, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

 

MONDAY MAY 3, 2010
Speaker: William G. Cioffi, Jr., MD
J. Murray Beardsley Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island
Surgeon-in-Chief, Rhode Island Hospital | More about Dr. Cioffi | Dr. Cioffi's CV
Topic: TBA

 

THIS DAY ONLY: Grand Rounds at 6:30 a.m. and M&M at 7:30 a.m. - 409L Medical School
MONDAY MAY 10, 2010 - Combined Grand Rounds - Surgery and Anesthesiology
Speaker: TBA
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Anesthesiology
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MAY 24, 2010 - FACULTY RESEARCH DAY
Speakers: TBA
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: TBA

 

MONDAY MAY 31, 2010 - Memorial Day - No M&M or Grand Rounds

 

Past Presentations - 2009-2010 Grand Rounds & Visiting Professors:

MONDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2009
VISITING LECTURER: James Henry "Red" Duke, Jr., MD
Professor of Surgery and John B. Holmes Professor of Clinical Sciences
Vice Chairman of Development and Vice Chairman for Surgical Development
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas | Dr. Duke's CV
Topic: The inevitability of change
View Dr. Duke's presentation

 

THIS DAY ONLY: Grand Rounds at 6:30 a.m. and M&M at 7:30 a.m. - 409L Medical School
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - Combined Grand Rounds - Surgery and Anesthesiology
Speaker: Max Eckmann, MD, Assistant Professor
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Anesthesiology | Dr. Eckmann's CV
Topic: Thoracic epidural analgesia: Effects, applications, and outcomes

 

MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Speaker: Ronald M. Stewart, MD, Professor and Interim Chairman
Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery | More about Dr. Stewart
Topic: Compartment syndrome and fasciotomy

 

MONDAY OCTOBER 26, 2009
Speaker: Joey Bluhm, MD, General Surgery Chief Resident
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery | More about Dr. Bluhm
Topic: Beyond duty hours: Improving surgical resident education

 

MONDAY OCTOBER 19, 2009
Speaker: Sumeru Mehta, MD, FACEP
Assistant Medical Director, Methodist Stone Oak Hospital, San Antonio, Texas | Dr. Mehta's CV
Topic: Reflections on a combat sabbatical: Trauma care in the combat zone

 

MONDAY OCTOBER 12, 2009 - No M&M or Grand Rounds
ACS 95th Annual Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL

MONDAY OCTOBER 5, 2009 - RESEARCH DAY
Fruzsina Johnson, MD, Trauma Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio | More about Dr. Johnson
Topic: An experimental model of trauma and transfusion-related acute lung injury

Xiaowu Wu, MD, Trauma Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio | More about Dr. Wu
Topic: The impact of muscle disuse on muscle atrophy after severe burn in rats

 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
JOHNSON CENTER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Neal Seymour, MD
Associate Director, Surgery Residency Program and
Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA | Dr. Seymour's CV
Topic: Simulation and the changing face of surgical training

 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Speaker: Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH, Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, New York | Dr. Todd's CV
Topic: Pain Matters

 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
VISITING LECTURER: Fiemu E. Nwariaku, MD, FACS
Malcolm O. Perry, M.D. Professorship In Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery and Vice Chairman of Research
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas | Dr. Nwariaku's CV
Topic: Advances in endocrine surgery

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 - Labor Day Holiday - No M&M or Grand Rounds

MONDAY AUGUST 31, 2009
VISITING LECTURER: Dan Beauchamp, MD, FACS
J.C. Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Section of Surgical Sciences
Surgeon-in-Chief, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Topic: Regulation of colon cancer metastasis

 

MONDAY AUGUST 24, 2009
Speaker: Michelle Savu, MD, General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery | More about Dr. Savu
Topic: Bariatric surgery update: Who, what, when and why

 

MONDAY AUGUST 17, 2009
Speaker: Steve Wolf, MD, Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma | More about Dr. Wolf
Topic: Glucose Metabolism

 

MONDAY AUGUST 10, 2009
Speaker: Luis Alejandro Jaramillo, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | More about Dr. Jaramillo
Topic: Abdominal and Perineal Reconstruction

photo MONDAY AUGUST 3, 2009
VISITING LECTURER: Clinton K. Murray, MD, MAJ US Army MC
Program Director, Infectious Disease Fellowship
Associate Professor, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
Assistant Chief, Infectious Disease, Brooke Army Medical Center, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas | Dr. Murray's CV
Topic: Combat-related infections and infection control

MONDAY JULY 27, 2009
Speaker: Steve Wolf, MD, Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Surgery
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma | More about Dr. Wolf
Topic: Diabetic Feet

 

MONDAY JULY 20, 2009
Speaker: Robert L. Levine, MD, FCCP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX | Dr. Levine's CV
Topic: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in critically ill and emergency department patients

MONDAY JULY 13, 2009
Speaker: Dan Dent, MD, Associate Professor and
Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery | More about Dr. Dent
Topic: Ethics - Duty Hours

MONDAY JULY 6, 2009
Speaker: Carlos Pestana, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery
Topic: The History of Surgery
More about Dr. Pestana

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