Grand Rounds - Fall 2006/Spring 2007

• August 31: David Gilbert, Ph.D. Professor and J. Herbert Taylor Endowed Chairholder, Department of Biological Science, FSU. “Chromosome Duplication and Cellular Re-Programming during Development: It’s not just DNA replication, anymore!” Host: Myra Hurt, Ph.D.
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• September 7: Jose Rodriguez, M.D. Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, FSU College of Medicine. “Health, Not Cosmetics: Medical Student Projects on Treating Obesity”.
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• September 14: Michael Blaber, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, FSU College of Medicine. “Protein Engineering in the Development of a Novel Angiogenic Therapy for “No-Option” Cardiac Ischemia Patients”.
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• September 21: No Grand Rounds - AAMC event, Student Affairs.
   
• September 28: Charles Moore, M.D. “Facial Reconstruction”. Host: Jeffrey Spike, Ph.D.
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• October 5: Mark Albanese, Ph.D. Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. “Competency-Based Medical Education, Why It’s Needed Now”. Host: Dave Steele, Ph.D.
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• October 12: "Intracellular Signaling, Reward and Pain" - Neuroscience Mini-Symposium. Sponsored by Program In Neuroscience, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and COM Office of Research. 8:30am-1pm.
  
  John MacDonald, Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology, University of Toronto. “The Convergence of G-Protein Coupled Receptor Signaling on Hippocampal NMDA Receptors”
  Yu Tian Wang, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Univ. of British Columbia. “Synaptic Plasticity in Learning and Memory”.
  Karen Berkley, Ph.D., Dept. of Psychology, FSU. “Painful Pathophysiology, Silent Pathophysiology, and Reproductive Status”.
  Michael Salter, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Pain Research, Univ. of Toronto. “Microglia-Neuron Signaling: Plasticity of Inhibition in Neuropathic Pain”.
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• October 19: Thomas C. Rosenthal, M.D., Professor of Family Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Director of the New York State AHEC. “The Doctor’s Future: Medical Markets and Caring for Everyone”. National Primary Care Week Invited Speaker Host: Daniel Van Durme, M.D.
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• October 26: Cathy Levenson, Ph.D. Hazel K Stiebeling Associate Professor of Nutrition and Program in Neuroscience, FSU. "Stressed and Depressed? How Nutrition, Exercise, and Antidepressant Drugs Regulate Adult Stem Cell Proliferation and Neurogenesis." Host: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
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• November 2: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D. Professor and Chair of Geriatrics, FSU College of Medicine. “Why a Single Payer National Health Insurance Program is the Solution We Can Afford.”
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• November 9: Xi He, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Neuroscience, Childrens’ Hospital, Harvard Medical School. “Understanding Wnt signaling in development and disease.” Host: Yoichi Kato, M.D., Ph.D.
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• November 16: Aviad Haramati, Ph.D., Professor, Depts. Of Physiology & Biophysics and Medicine (Nephrology), Georgetown University School of Medicine. "The Intersection of Medical Science, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Professionalism: A New Approach to Medical Education”. Host: Myra M. Hurt, Ph.D.
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• November 30: Charles Ouimet, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, FSU College of Medicine. “The Brain’s Response to Damage; Molecular and Morphological Changes”.
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• December 7:  Dr. Brummel-Smith, M.D. Professor and Chair, Dept. of Geriatrics, FSU College of Medicine. “Evidence-based Strategies for Assessing Medication Appropriateness in Older Patients”.
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• January 18: Mark Quirk, Ed.D. Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical Center. “Clinical Expertise: What is it? How do we teach it?” Host: David Steele, Ph.D.
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• January 25: Ronald H. Saff, M.D. Environmental Medicine. "Your daily exposure to carcinogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine disruptor." Host: Robert Brooks, M.D.
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• February 1: Nancy Van Vessem, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Capital Health Plan. “Diabetes Care: Improving Outcomes by Improving Systems”. Host: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
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• February 15: Daniel Van Durme, M.D. Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Rural Health. FSU College of Medicine. “The History and Future of Family Medicine”.
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• February 22: Curtis C. Stine, M.D. Education Director, Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health. FSU College of Medicine “Integrating Geriatrics Throughout the Curriculum: Opportunities in the Family Medicine Clerkship”
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• March 1: Mary Ann Osley, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico. “Interplay between histone H2B ubiquitylation and histone chaperones during transcription”. Host: Akash Gunjun.
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• March 22: FSU Cares Student Presentations: “Cross cultural medicine: How public health issues there impact us here”
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• March 29: Robert Steinmetz, M.D. “Retinal Diseases”. Host: Gene Ryerson, M.D.
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• April 5: Elena Reyes, Ph.D., FSU College of Medicine. “Mental Health of Latino Immigrant Children and Adolescents.”
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