Grand Rounds - Fall 2007 & Spring 2008

Thursday, 12:00pm MSB 1400 Auditorium

• September 6: Chick LaPointe, Ph.D., Frances Eppes Professor of Communication Disorders, FSU. “Please help me I’m falling. The effects of cognitive loading on risk for injurious falls in Parkinson’s Disease.” Host: Charles Ouimet, Ph.D.
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• September 13: SIGH (Students Interested in Global Health), FSU College of Medicine. “Global health, healthcare, culture, and student experiences in Ghana.” Organizer: Camille Hippolyte, M.D. student, Class of 2010.
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• September 20: Zuoxin Wang, Ph.D., Full Professor of Psychology, FSU. “The monogamous male brain.” Host: Mohamed Kabbaj, Ph.D.
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• September 27: Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology, FSU. “Human Factors in E-Health Interventions.” Host: Myra Hurt, Ph.D.
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• October 4: Graham Patrick, Ph.D., Joseph Gabriel, Ph.D., and Leslie Parsons, D.O. Depts. Of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Clinical Sciences, FSU COM. “Cocaine—The Third Scourge of Mankind.” Host: Gene Ryerson, M.D.
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• October 11: National Primary Care Week Presentation: Gail R. Bellamy, Ph.D., Director, Community Studies, West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research. “Primary Care: Necessary (essential even) but is it sufficient?" Host: Robert Brooks, M.D., M.B.A.
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• October 18: Medical Student Research Fellowship Presentations: Elizabeth Brooks, “Geriatric Syndromes—A Quality Improvement Initiative in a Family Medicine Residency.” Faculty Adviser: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
  Amy Butterworth, "Examining the evidence behind common practices in the medical history and physical examination." Faculty Advisor: Lisa Granville, M.D.
  Bridgette Provost, “Promoting Physical Activity among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in a Community-Based Clinic.” Faculty Adviser: Gareth Dutton, Ph.D.
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• October 25: College of Medicine Faculty Meeting. Alice Pomidor, M.D., President, COM Faculty Council
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• November 1: Thomas J. Stegmann, M.D., Professor of Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fulda Medical Center, Germany. Chief Medical Officer, CardioVascular BioTherapeutics. “ Angiogenesis: A New Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease.” Host: Mike Blaber, Ph.D.
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• November 8: Jim Jones, Ph.D., historian and author. “The Tuskegee Experiment: History and Lessons for Today.” Dr. Jones is author of Bad Blood, The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Host: Jeffrey Spike, Ph.D.
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• November 15: Emily Hauenstein, Ph.D., Professor of Nursing and Director of the Southeastern Rural Mental Health Center, University of Virginia. “Too Little to Transform—Generation and Implementation of Mental Health Services and Services Research in Rural Places.” Host: Kathryn Rost, Ph.D.
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• November 22: No Grand Rounds – Thanksgiving
   
• November 29: Charles Ritchie (COM MS4) and M. Oleksyk, M.D., Pensacola Regional Campus, FSU COM. “Creutzfeldt-Jacobs Disease---A case report.” Host: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
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• December 6: Paul Kaufman, Ph.D., Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School. “Chromatin assembly and genome maintenance.” Host: Akash Gunjan, Ph.D.
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• December 13: Lee Lipsenthal, M.D., Founder and CEO, Finding Balance in a Medical Life. “Physician, Heal Thyself.” Host: Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D.
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• January 3: No Grand Rounds
   
• January 10: Medical Student Research Fellowship Presentations:
  Naderge Pierre, “Cancer awareness in an underserved population.” Faculty adviser: Jose Rodriguez, M.D.
  James Boron, “The hypotensive and vasodilatory effects of chronic low dose administration of leptin.” Faculty adviser: Michael Overton, Ph.D.
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• January 17: Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Pharmacology and System Therapeutics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. “Neurobiology of Addiction Disorders: Genetics and Developmental Risk Factors." Host: Suzanne Cappendijk, Ph.D.
   
• January 24: Jasminka Illich-Ernst, Ph.D., R.D., Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University.
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• January 31: Velma McBride Murray, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Family Research, Institute for Behavioral Research, Professor of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia. “Preventing Risk Behaviors among Rural African American Youth through the Strong African American Families Program.” Host: Kathryn Rost, Ph.D.
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• February 7: Gregg Warshaw, M.D., Director of the Office of Geriatric Medicine and the Martha Betty Semmons Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Cincinnati College of Medicine. “The nursing home-hospital interface.” Host: Lisa Granville, M.D.
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• February 14: Michael Joyner, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. “Postural Tachycardia Syndrome”. Host: Mike Overton, Ph.D.
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• February 21: Celeste Bricker Hart, M.D., North Florida Thyroid Center. “Osteoporosis Update—Latest Trends in Prevention and Treatment.” Host: Alma Littles, M.D.
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• February 28: Spring College Faculty Meeting
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• March 6: Ariel Cole, M.D., Geriatric Clerkship Director, Orlando Campus, FSU COM. “Plagiarism and the lack of professionalism in medical education.” Host: Myra Hurt, Ph.D.
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• March 13: No Grand Rounds – Spring Break
   
• March 20: No Grand Rounds – Match Day
   
• March 27: Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., Martin Luther King Professor of History and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, and Director of the Institute of Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, Rutgers, N.J. “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in 20th Century America.” Host: Joseph Gabriel, Ph.D. Dr. Wailoo is author of several best-selling books.
   
• April 3: Mark W. Kline, M.D., Professor and Chief, Retrovirology; President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine. “Global Pediatric AIDS: At the Tipping Point.” Host: Myra Hurt, Ph.D.
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• April 10: Neil Shulman, M.D., Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine. “The Struggle to Keep Public Hospitals Alive: A Safety Net for Millions.” Host: Daniel Van Durme, M.D.
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• April 17: David Toczyski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cancer Research Institute, University of California-San Francisco. “Activating the DNA damage checkpoint.” Host: Yanchang Wang, Ph.D.
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• April 24: No Grand Rounds – Finals Week
   

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