Please join us for dermatology and cutaneous surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Jie Li, M.D., Ph.D., research associate professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present "Extracellular Matrix Laminin-511 in Squamous Cell Carcinoma."

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Amir K. Jaffer, M.D., associate professor of medicine and chief of hospital medicine, will present "Update in Hospital Medicine." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to outline high impact studies of relevance to inpatient internal and hospital medicine in 2008 and early 2009, review the methodology, results and conclusions of the studies, and discuss the implications of the studies on internal and hospital medicine clinical practices.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Linda S. Cox, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine, will present "Allergen Immunotherapy in Pediatric Allergic Disease: Does it Work? Does it Prevent, and is it Safe?"

Please join us for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Third-year residents Brian Keegan, M.D., Ph.D., and Robb Marchione, M.D., will present their research projects.

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Urban Ungerstedt, Ph.D., professor of neuropsychopharmacology at the Karolinka Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, will present "Monitoring Human Neurochemistry in the ICU with Microdialysis."

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine will present Grand Rounds on Monday, August 24, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Silvina Levis, M.D., professor of medicine, will present "Osteoporosis Management-Current and Future Therapies."

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Mustafa Tekin, M.D., associate professor of human genetics, will present "Genetics of Hearing Loss: A Review for Pediatricians."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. First-year resident Tace Rico, M.D., and third-year resident Julia Tzu, M.D., will present their research projects.

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Miguel Marrero, M.D., chair of anesthesiology and director of pediatric anesthesiology at the University of Puerto Rico, will present "Regional Anesthesia in Pediatric Patients."

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday, from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will host Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Central Building, second-floor auditorium. Silvia Munoz-Price, M.D., medical director for the Division of Infectious Diseases, will present "The Environment as a Source of Contamination."

For more information, please call Karen Harvey at 305-243-1497.

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. David Lubarsky, M.D., M.B.A., Emanuel M. Papper Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, will present "Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair and Endovascular Stenting."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 ext. 2-2 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds this Thursday, from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Freddie H. Fu, M.D., the David Silver Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Division of Sports Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will present "Anatomic ACL Reconstruction."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Lt. Col. George Garcia, M.D., director of the Army Trauma Training Center, will present "Surgery at the Frontier of Freedom." Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to discuss the role of the forward surgical team in combat operations and the role of the Army Trauma Training Center.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or earguelles@med.miami.edu.

The Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology will present joint Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Roberto C. Heros, M.D., professor and co-chair of neurological surgery, will present a lecture titled "Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations."

For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Rafael E. Campo, M.D., professor of clinical medicine and medical director for employee health, will present "Patient Safety First - Influenza Vaccination and Hand Hygiene." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to determine the epidemiology of seasonal and pandemic influenza, evaluate the benefits of influenza vaccination and employ enhanced hand hygiene to help prevent the spread of influenza.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Miguel Weil, Ph.D., director of The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences graduate school at Tel-Aviv University in New York, will present "Mesenchymal Stem Cells from ALS Patients as Possible Tools to Study the Disease."

For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or JBusquets@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 11 a.m. to noon in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Morris D. Groves, M.D., J.D., associate professor of neuro-oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will present "Malignant Meningitis: Diagnosis, Management and the Future."

For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or JBusquets@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Jeffrey S. Wagener, M.D., professor of pediatrics, will present "Cystic Fibrosis: Finding a Cure."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. William H. Sauer, M.D., director of cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Colorado, will present "Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients Who Already Have an ICD."

For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Medicine will present Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Guest lecturer Michael D. Iseman, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will present "Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease."

For more information, please contact Cristina Flores at cflores2@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.
Raymond Robinson, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedics, will present "Performance of the Fifth-Generation HSS Knee."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., associate chair and professor of pediatrics, will present "CNS and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease: Issues Across the Lifespan."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Central Building, second-floor auditorium. Shirin Shafazand, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, will present "Pulmonary Hypertension: When the Problem is the Right Side of the Heart."

The Division of Plastic Surgery will present Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Michael Lake, M.D., plastic surgery resident, will present "Vascular Anomalies."

For more information, please contact Myra Ramos at 305-585-5285 or mramos4@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Family Medicine and Community Health Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Highland Professional Building, room 418. Edward Dauer, M.D., research associate professor of biomedical engineering, will present "ICU Radiology."

For more information, please contact Shelley Manning at 305-243-2951 or smanning2@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Kristine O'Phelan, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, and Stephen Olvey, M.D., associate professor of neurological surgery, will present "End of Life Care in the ICU."

A second Grand Rounds will take place immediately following from 8 to 9 a.m. Michael Norenberg, M.D., professor of pathology, will present "Neuropathology Review Lecture."

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Martin Roche, M.D., chief of orthopaedics at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, will present "The Role of Robotics in Knee Surgery."

Please join us for Pathology Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at Holtz Children's Hospital, conference room 2034. Timothy J. Cleary, Ph.D., will present a lecture titled "Influenza -- What's New Since Last Year?"

For more information, please contact Jamie Silva at 305-585-8381 or jsilva@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Grand Rounds with Jeremy Lazarus, M.D., speaker of the House of Delegates at the American Medical Association. Dr. Lazarus will present "Health System Reform and Psychiatry" this Friday from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. The lecture will discuss the current landscape in health system reform, explain the role of organized medicine and psychiatry in the debate, and assess how health system reform may impact psychiatric practice.

This educational activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and one continuing education unit. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or cbou@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine will host Grand Rounds on Monday, October 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Kevin Dalal, M.D., assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, will present "Spontaneous Thoracic Myelopathy/Spine and Musculoskeletal Injury."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, contact Coretha Davis at 305-585-1431.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Jennifer Garcia, M.D., pediatric fellow, will present "Update on Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Disease."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Eduardo de Marchena, M.D., professor of medicine and surgery and director of the International Medicine Institute, will present "CoreValve Experience."

For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Yvonne Diaz, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, and Paul Menendez, M.D., associate professor of medicine, will present "Teaching Tools for Residents as Teachers."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 ext. 2-2 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.  

Please join us for Family Medicine and Community Health Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Highland Professional Building, room 418. Michael Light, M.D., professor of medicine and clinical pediatrics, will present "The Future of Cystic Fibrosis."

For more information, please contact Shelley Manning at 305-243-2951 or smanning2@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. David Andrews, M.D., assistant professor of clinical pathology, will present "Multi-Disease Genes: Ethical and Educational Challenges."

For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Grand Rounds this Friday, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Stephen Weiss, Ph.D.; Deborah Jones, Ph.D.; Maria Lopez, Ph.D.; Olga Villar-Loubet, Ph.D.; and Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Ph.D., will present "Improving the Health Status of HIV and High-Risk Populations in the U.S., Zambia and India." The speakers will discuss potential limiting factors to the efficacy of sexual risk reduction intervention and explain the associations between HIV, neuropsychology, medication adherence and health literacy.

This educational activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit for physicians and continuing education credit for psychologists and social workers. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or cbou@med.miami.edu.

Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., founding chief of the Division of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the NIH, will present Bioethics Grand Rounds on Friday, October 30, at 2 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Dr. Emanuel will present "Research in Developing Countries: How Can We Make it Ethical?"

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Alberto Pugliese, M.D., professor of medicine, and microbiology and immunology, will present "Clinical Trials for Type 1 Diabetes: An Update."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Central Building, second-floor auditorium. Maria Alcaide, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, will present "Catheter-Related Infections, 2009 IDSA Guidelines Update."

If you have any questions, please call Karen Harvey at 305-243-1497.

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Robert C. Hendel, M.D., professor of medicine at Rush Medical College, will present "Quality and Appropriateness in Cardiac Imaging."

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Sunil Eappen, M.D., vice chair of clinical affairs at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will present "Turnover Time: Is It Important?"

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 ext. 2-2 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics.

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Robert W. Keane, Ph.D., professor of physiology and biophysics, will present "Inflammasome Activation in the CNS."

For more information, please contact Judith Cox at 305-243-8184.

The Department of Neurology will present Grand Rounds this Friday in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Paul Schiller, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and biochemistry and molecular biology, will present "Potential Applications of Adult Marrow Stem Cells in Neurological Conditions" from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and Morris D. Groves, M.D., J.D., associate professor of neuro-oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will present "Malignant Meningitis: Diagnosis, Management and the Future" from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.  

For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or jbusquets@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Stephanie R. Brown, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, will present "Adult Pediatric Patients: Transition of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will host Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. William O'Neill, M.D., executive dean for clinical affairs and chief medical officer for UHealth, will present "High Risk PCI."

The Department of Orthopaedics will host Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Marjorie J. Albohm, manager of fellowship programs and clinical research at Ossur Americas and president of the National Athletic Trainers' Association, will present "Non-Invasive Management of Knee OA -- What Research is Saying and What New Questions Need to be Asked."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Norman Ellsworth McSwain, M.D., vice chairman of surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, will present "Shock Resuscitation and Hemorrhage Control." Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to discuss the new resources for shock resuscitation and hemorrhage control.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or earguelles@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics related to neuropathology.

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Dao M. Nguyen, M.D., associate professor of surgery and chief of the cardiothoracic division, will present "Management of Pleural Effusion-2009." By attending this lecture, participants will be able to comprehend the systematic work-up of pleural effusion, determine appropriate treatment options for pleural effusion and review non-surgical therapy for loculated pleural effusion. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists and hospitalists.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Sean Savitz, M.D., associate professor of neurology and co-director of the stroke program at the University of Texas Medical School, will present "Bone Marrow Cell Therapy for Stroke" from 10 to 11 a.m., and Cynthia Harden, M.D., professor of clinical neurology and chief of the epilepsy division at the Miller School, will present "Management of Women with Epilepsy During Pregnancy" from 11 a.m. to noon. 

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or JBusquets@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Grand Rounds this Friday, from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Lawrence E. Brownstein, private practice attorney in West Palm Beach, will present "Psychiatric Malpractice: A Legal Perspective." Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to discuss common themes giving rise to malpractice claims from patient suicide, employ the best risk management practices to help avoid a lawsuit, analyze a case presentation, and discuss the standard of care for suicide risk assessment.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Continuing education credit will be awarded to psychologists and social workers who attend. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or cbou@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Luisa Utset-Ward, D.M.D., director of the University of Miami PATCH program, will present "Oral Health -- An Integral Part of the Overall Health and Well-Being of Children."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Dr. Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D., the James L. Knight Professor of Health Psychology and director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center, will present "How Stress Affects Wound Healing."

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Department of Orthopaedics will host Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Scott D. Boden, M.D., professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Center at Emory University School of Medicine, will present "Bone Graft Substitutes -- Update 2009."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics related to neuropathology.

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Roger G. Carrillo, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, will present "Pacemaker Lead Management 2009." By attending this lecture, participants will be able to comprehend management of infected devices, distinguish prevalence of device complications and review methods of pacemaker lead removal. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists and hospitalists.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine will host Grand Rounds on Monday, November 23, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Juan Solano, M.D., assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will present "Hypoxia as a Secondary Insult After TBI in Children -- Implications for Prognosis and Recovery."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Coretha Davis at 305-585-1431.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Holly L. Neville, M.D., assistant professor of clinical surgery, will present "Recognition of Pediatric Surgical Emergencies."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. The dermatology movie Caro Diario by Nanni Moretti will be presented.

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Athos Bousvaros, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, will present "Update on Inflammatory Bowel Disease."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

Ralph Sacco, M.D., the Olemberg Family Chair in Neurological Diseases and chairman of neurology, will present Cardiovascular Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Dr. Sacco will present "Predicting and Preventing Stroke."

For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.  

The Division of Plastic Surgery will present Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Brian Berman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present "Minimizing Scars and Keloids -- Update."

For more information, please contact Myra Ramos at 305-585-5285 or mramos4@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery Grand Rounds tomorrow (Wednesday) from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 2090. Anne Burdick, M.D., associate dean for telehealth and clinical outreach and professor of dermatology and cutaneous surgery, will present "Catalyzing Health Care Transformation Via TeleHealth."

For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Marc Rozner, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, will present "Controversies in Perioperative Pacemaker and Defibrillator Management."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 ext. 2-2 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics from 7 to 8 a.m. and Roberto C. Heros, M.D., professor and co-chair of neurological surgery, will present "ACGME Core Competencies" from 8 to 9 a.m. 

For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

Fifth-year resident Stephen Richard Zavoyski, M.D., will present "Mobile Bearing Total Knee Replacement" for Orthopaedic Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.  

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. David A. Geller, M.D., the Richard L. Simmons Professor of Surgery and co-director of the Liver Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh, will present "Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Cancer." Upon completion of the lecture, participants will be able to analyze the outcome of laparoscopic liver resection for primary and metastatic hepatic tumors.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or earguelles@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Otolaryngology Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Brian Jewett, M.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology, and David Neskey, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present "Facial Reanimation." By attending the lecture, participants will be able to describe dynamic versus static facial reanimation.

For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Maria Hurtado at 305-243-3773 or MHurtado@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pathology Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon in Holtz Children's Hospital, conference room 2034. Joycelyn Bruce, M.D., will present a lecture titled "On Social Entrepreneurship – There is Life Outside of Pathology."

For more information, please contact Jamie Silva at 305-585-8381 or jsilva@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Carol L. Koski, M.D., medical director of the GBS/CIDP Foundation International, will present "Advances in the Management of CIPD: Practical Insights from Neuromuscular Experts" from 10 to 11 a.m., and Roberto Lopez-Alberola, M.D., assistant professor of neurology and pediatrics and chief of the Pediatric Neurology Division, will present "Cerebral Palsy" from 11 a.m. to noon. 

For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or JBusquets@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites you to Psychiatry Grand Rounds this Friday from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Vineeth John, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Adult Outpatient Clinic, will present "Medical Errors Prevention, Part One." Dr. John will provide definition and examples of medical errors, define various components of root-cause analysis and state various modalities for medical error reduction and prevention, leading to enhanced patient safety.

Part Two will be presented at a later date next year. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or cbou@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Seth R. Thaller, M.D., D.M.D., professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery, will present "Facial Clefting and Reconstruction."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will host Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Alexandre Ferreira, M.D., clinical chief of cardiology at Jackson Health System, will present "The Elegant Messiness of the Evidence-Based Approach for Treating Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease: A Tangled Magnificence or Just Pure Chaos?"

For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Charles A. Popkin, M.D., fifth-year resident, will present "Proximal Opening Wedge Osteotomy of the First Metatarsal with Plate Fixation for Hallux Valgus."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Harlan I. Wald, M.D., J.D., attorney at Roselli and McNelis law firm, will present "Malpractice Lawsuit Prevention." Upon completion of the lecture, participants will be able to discuss the frequent causes of and preventive measures for malpractice lawsuits.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or earguelles@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Neurological Surgery will host Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics related to neuropathology.

For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Otolaryngology Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, room 989. Jose Moreno, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, and Jessica Kulak, M.D., otolaryngology resident, will present "Allergic Rhinitis." The lecture will review how to diagnose and manage allergic rhinitis.

For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Maria Hurtado at 305-243-3773 or MHurtado@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Noel Emmanuelli, R.D., LD/N, clinical dietitian for UM's Hospital Food and Nutrition Services Department, will present "Understanding Enteral/Parenteral Nutrition - 2009." By attending this lecture, participants will be able to adequately calculate nutritional needs, including calorie, protein and fluid requirements, distinguish between enteral and parenteral nutrition, and calculate and order enteral and parenteral nutrition. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists and hospitalists. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.

For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Ralph Sacco, M.D., professor and chair of neurology, will present "Searching for New Approaches to Prevent Stroke."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Jessica Busquets at jbusquets@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Eman Al-Khadra, M.D., M.P.H., research assistant professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will present "The Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia and the Role of Immunity."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Cardiovascular Division will host Oliver Lenz, M.D., associate professor of medicine, for Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Dr. Lenz will present "Chronic Kidney Disease: Can We Reduce Cardiovascular Risk?"

For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or ytabraue@med.miami.edu.  

The Department of Orthopaedics will present Grand Rounds on Thursday, December 17, from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Roberto Augusto Miki, M.D., assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics, will present "Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint Arthritis."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Surgical Grand Rounds this Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Tomas Salerno, M.D., director of cardiothoracic surgery, and Eduardo de Marchena, M.D., associate dean of international medicine, will present "Percutaneous Treatment of Aortic Valve Disease." Upon completion of the lecture, participants will be able to discuss new techniques for aortic valve surgery.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Neurological surgery residents will present on various topics related to neuropathology.

For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Joseph Jankovic, M.D., professor of neurology and director of the Parkinson Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine, will present "Movement Disorders of Childhood."

For more information, please contact Jessica Suarez at 304-243-8785 or jsuarez5@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will present Grand Rounds this Friday from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Amy Weisman de Mamani, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, will present "Culturally-Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia." By attending, participants will learn the importance of collaboration with family, drawing upon spiritual- and religious-based techniques and interventions, and using culturally informed interventions that are relevant to the patient's ethnicity, religion and gender when treating schizophrenia.

This educational activity is approved for 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits for physicians. Psychologists can earn 1.25 continuing education units and social workers can earn one. For additional information, please contact Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073 or cbou@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Medicine will present a special guest lecture this Friday at 3 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. David A. Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., Harry and Edith Gladstein Chair in Cancer Genomics and chief of clinical pharmacology at Indiana University, will present "Clinical Pharmacogenomics in Clinical Practice."

For more information, please contact Terri Hnatyszyn at 305-243-2139.

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Cristina Pierry, M.D., pediatrician at Hospital San Juan de Dios in Chile, will present "TB 2000: A Perspective From Chile."

For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or jsalazar@med.miami.edu.

The Division of Hospital Medicine will present Grand Rounds this Thursday at noon at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Jonathan Cohen, M.D., voluntary associate professor of medicine, will present "Thrombocytopenia in the Clinical Setting - 2009." By attending this lecture, participants will be able to evaluate and review the clinical setting for and manage the treatment of thrombocytopenia. The lecture is designed for family practitioners, emergency physicians, surgeons, internists and hospitalists.

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, please contact Janette Jurado at jjurado2@med.miami.edu or visit www.cme.med.miami.edu.

The Department of Anesthesiology will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Sorin Brull, M.D., professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic, will present "Neuromuscular Monitoring and New Reversal Agents."

This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For further information, please contact Marsha Williams at 305-585-1191 ext. 2-2 or mwilliams@med.miami.edu.

Chad E. Aarons, M.D., fifth-year resident, will present Orthopaedic Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Dr. Aarons' lecture is titled "Chondrosarcoma: A Review and Look at a Less Invasive Treatment Protocol."

For more information, please contact Ledinaida Figueroa at lfigueroa@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery will present Grand Rounds this Thursday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. David Benglis, M.D., neurological surgery resident, will present "Contemporary Management of Metastatic Brain Lesions."

For more information or to add your name to our educational announcement distribution list, please contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or nrstraining@med.miami.edu.

The Department of Neurological Surgery invites you to Grand Rounds this Thursday at 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Rachel E. Cowan, Ph.D., post-doctoral associate for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will present "Self-Reported Exercise Barriers in Persons with SCI: Exercisers Versus Non-Exercisers."

For more information, please call 305-243-7108.

Please join us for Neurology Grand Rounds this Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Stephan Zuchner, M.D., associate professor in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and director of the Center for Human Molecular Genomics at the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, will present "Current Research Themes in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease."

The Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) will present Research Rounds on Monday, January 11, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building, conference room 813. Ian McNiece, Ph.D., professor of medicine and director of the Experimental and Clinical Cell-Based Therapies Program, will present "Hematopoietic Stem Cells."

The Cardiovascular Division will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center. Joshua M. Hare, M.D., Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine and director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, will present "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: Preclinical and Clinical Results."

For more information, contact Raquel Mota at 305-243-9120 or rmota2@med.miami.edu.  

David Lawrence Jr. will present Grand Rounds for the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity today (Tuesday) at noon in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. 

The Division of General Internal Medicine will present Grand Rounds today (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Central Building, second-floor auditorium. Vivian Obeso, M.D., assistant professor of clinical medicine, will present "Teaching Cardiac Auscultation."

For more information, please contact Iris Gomez at igomez2@med.miami.edu.