Medicine Grand Rounds Library
The Medicine Grand Rounds (MGR) is a forum for the DoM to promote excellence and quality in medicine by providing clinicians with state-of-the-art information and reasoning in medical care, as well as providing updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine.
We profoundly thank our presenters for sharing their time and expertise to bring you topics that enrich the program helping physicians (both faculty and in the community), students, residents, fellows, members of multidisciplinary teams, and other healthcare professionals, keep up-to-date in continuous professional development, knowledge translation, and important evolving areas that may be outside their core practice.
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Topics and Speaker Ideas
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Latest MGR Video Recordings
Here are the latest six weeks of Medicine Grand Rounds:
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- Resident Skits
- Dr. Carrie Ye, Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, U of A
(Statistical) Power in numbers: leveraging the CanRIO database to better understand rheumatic toxicities of immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer - Dr. Satish Raj, Professor, Cardiac Sciences; Chair, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service;
Medical Director, Cardiac Sciences; University of Calgary
Approach and Management of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: It is almost 2025 - Dr. Norah Terrault, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of GI and Liver, Neil Kaplowitz Chair in Liver Diseases, University of Southern California
The Wensel Sherbaniuk Founders Lecture: Chronic Hepatitis B — The Rocky Road to Functional Cure - Dr. Darren Lau, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, U of A, and Tawnya Perry, RN CDE.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - Digital Health for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes - Dr. David JT Campbell, Associate Professor & Consultant Endocrinologist
Departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
"LOW", a short narrative film about the challenges of diabetes and homelessness. (Recording not available; please contact Dr. Campbell if you would like to see the film at one of its screenings.) - Dr. Paul Armstrong (10th Chair), Dr. Tom Marrie (11th Chair), Dr. Jon Meddings (13th Chair), Dr. Barbara Ballermann (14th Chair)
Former Chairs Panel: In celebration of the Department of Medicine's 100 Years, this distinguished panel of former chairs share their most important learnings and what they consider as their most significant legacy.
2024/25 Medicine Grand Rounds
Here are this year's MGRs to date, listed in order by subjects and then by first presenter.
Dept Updates | EDI Wellness | General | Medical Education | New Professor Series | Research Grand Rounds
Divisions: Cardiology | Dermatology | Endocrinology and Metabolism | Gastroenterology | General Internal Medicine | Geriatric Medicine | Hematology | Infectious Diseases | Nephrology | Neurology | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Preventive Medicine | Pulmonary Medicine | Rheumatology
Department Updates
- Dr. Paul Armstrong (10th Chair), Dr. Tom Marrie (11th Chair), Dr. Jon Meddings (13th Chair), Dr. Barbara Ballermann (14th Chair)
Former Chairs Panel: In celebration of the Department of Medicine's 100 Years, this distinguished panel of former chairs share their most important learnings and what they consider as their most significant legacy. - Dr. Narmin Kassam, Chair and Professor, Dept of Medicine, U of A
State of the Department
EDI Wellness
- Dr. David JT Campbell, Associate Professor & Consultant Endocrinologist
Departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
"LOW", a short narrative film about the challenges of diabetes and homelessness. (Recording not available; please contact Dr. Campbell if you would like to see the film at one of its screenings.)
General
- Dr. Nevicia Case, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
The evolving regulatory landscape of therapies using a patient's own stem cells: The patient perspective - Dr. Stephen Russell, Instructional Assistant, McMaster University
Talking your Language: Decoding Medical Terminology
Medical Education
New Professor Series
Research Grand Rounds
- Dr. John Ussher, Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Is Diastolic Dysfunction an Important Target for Management in People with Early Stage Type 2 Diabetes?
Cardiology
- Dr. Satish Raj, Professor, Cardiac Sciences; Chair, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service;
Medical Director, Cardiac Sciences; University of Calgary
Approach and Management of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: It is almost 2025
Dermatology
Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Dr. David JT Campbell, Associate Professor & Consultant Endocrinologist
Departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
"LOW", a short narrative film about the challenges of diabetes and homelessness. (Recording not available; please contact Dr. Campbell if you would like to see the film at one of its screenings.) - Dr. Darren Lau, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, U of A, and Tawnya Perry, RN CDE.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - Digital Health for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Gastroenterology
- Dr. Norah Terrault, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of GI and Liver, Neil Kaplowitz Chair in Liver Diseases, University of Southern California
The Wensel Sherbaniuk Founders Lecture: Chronic Hepatitis B — The Rocky Road to Functional Cure
General Internal Medicine
- Dr. Darren Lau, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, U of A, and Tawnya Perry, RN CDE.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - Digital Health for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes - Dr. Fahad Razak, Internist, St. Michael’s Hospital; Provincial Clinical Lead, Ontario Health; Co-Lead GEMINI; Canada Research Chair in Data-Informed Healthcare Improvement, University of Toronto
Using Hospital Big Data to Guide Quality of Care - Learning from GEMINI
Geriatric Medicine
Hematology
- Dr. Monika Oliver, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Hematology
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH): Identifying, Diagnosing, and Managing a Rare Hematologic Condition
Infectious Diseases
- Dr. Norah Terrault, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of GI and Liver, Neil Kaplowitz Chair in Liver Diseases, University of Southern California
The Wensel Sherbaniuk Founders Lecture: Chronic Hepatitis B — The Rocky Road to Functional Cure
Nephrology
Neurology
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Preventive Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
- Dr. Paul O'Byrne, Dean McMaster University
Dean Befus Lecture: Allergen-Induced Asthma
Rheumatology
- Dr. Carrie Ye, Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, U of A
(Statistical) Power in numbers: leveraging the CanRIO database to better understand rheumatic toxicities of immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer
Previous Medicine Grand Rounds
Listed in order by the following subjects and then by first presenter.
Dept Updates | EDI Wellness | General | Medical Education | New Professor Series | Research Grand Rounds
Divisions: Cardiology | Dermatology | Endocrinology and Metabolism | Gastroenterology | General Internal Medicine | Geriatric Medicine | Hematology | Infectious Diseases | Nephrology | Neurology | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Preventive Medicine | Pulmonary Medicine | Rheumatology
Department Updates
- Dr. Narmin Kassam, Chair and Professor, Dept of Medicine, U of A
State of the Department - Strategic Planning Town Hall Meeting - January 12, 2024
EDI Wellness
- Dr. Fiona Rawle, Co-Chair, Toronto Initiative for Diversity & Excellence, University of Toronto Mississauga
The Landscape of Bias in Academic Medicine - Speakers: Dr. Zoya Zaeem, Resident, Division of Neurology, Dr. Melanie Lewis, Chief Wellness Officer, FoMD
Panelists: Dr. Penelope Smyth, Professor, Director of Neurology, and Dr. Shannon Ruzycki, Acting Vice Dean, Faculty of Nursing
Experiences in Systemic Discrimination and Harassment within Residency: A Cross-Sectional Study
General
- Dr. Khaldoon Aljerian, Clinical Professor, John Dossetor Health Ethics Committee
The Final Consultation (Autopsy) - Dr. Kirsten Patrick, CMAJ Editor in Chief
In partnership with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
Medical journals: an important part of health systems or increasingly irrelevant?
Medical Education
- Dr. Anthony A. Donato, Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
A. M. Edwards Lectureship in Clinical Education
Prioritizing Learning in the Era of Big Data
New Professor Series
- Dr. Steven Katz, Professor and Director, Division of Rheumatology
Looking for Scholarship in Leadership - Dr. Adriana Lazarescu, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology
Achalasia and beyond: Advances in esophageal motility - Dr. Penny Smyth, Professor, Division of Neurology
A journey to professorship along a winding path
Research Grand Rounds
- Dr. Satyabrata Kar, Professor of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Potential of Native PLGA Nanoparticles in the Treatment and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease - Dr. Finlay McAlister, Dr. Jeffrey Bakal, Dr. Stephanie Montesanti, and Kelli Buckreus
Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit: What We Can Do For You — Our Research Services, Training Programs, and Impacts
Cardiology
- Dr. Heather Ross, Professor of Medicine, Head of Division of Cardiology and the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Site Lead for Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Digital health for heart failure
Dermatology
- Dr. Muba Taher, Clinical Professor, Division of Dermatology
Skin Cancer Burden in Solid Organ Transplant Patients
Gastroenterology
- Dr. Michael Camilleri, Professor, Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
The Wensel Sherbaniuk Founders Lecture
10 Reasons Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists Should Be Treating Obesity - Dr. Adriana Lazarescu, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology
Achalasia and beyond: Advances in esophageal motility
General Internal Medicine
- Dr. Neeja Bakshi, Associate Clinical Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine
Chronic Fatigue, POTS, and CSS: The Internist's Challenge - Dr. S. Monty Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, DoM
An approach to individuals experiencing homelessness and an introduction to Edmonton's new Respite to Recovery program - Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Critical Care Physician, University of Ottawa and Host of the Solving Healthcare podcast
Navigating Life After a Global Pandemic - Dr. Ross Mitchell, PhD, Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine
AI and Precision Health - Dr. Janis Miyasaki, Division Director of Neurology and Zone Section Head Neurology, Edmonton Zone, and Dr. Sarah Burton-MacLeod, Division of Palliative Care Medicine and Assistant Dean, Office of Advocacy & Wellbeing, FoMD
Palliative Care and Internal Medicine: Natural Partners Improving the Lives of Patients and Families - Dr. Stuart Turvey, Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Precision Health, Aubrey J. Tingle Professor of Pediatric Immunology, University of British Columbia
Henry Pabst Lectureship in Clinical Immunology
The Power of Partnerships: Discovery of new genetic causes of severe human allergic disease
Geriatric Medicine
- Dr. Frances Carr, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Diana Rucker, Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Improving the odds of your older frail patient going home: Revisiting GAT and Rehab - Dr. Naheed Rajabali, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Clarity on states of “confusion”: Distinguishing Delirium vs. Dementia vs. BPSD vs. Primary Psychiatric disorders - Dr. Adrian Wagg, Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Anticholinergic exposure in older adults - confusing or what?
Hematology
- Dr. David Lillicrap, Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queens University
Hemophilia Gene Therapy: Progress towards a long-term Cure?
Infectious Diseases
- Dr. Todd Lee, Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University
Tom Marrie Lecture
Less is more: Evolving the practice of infectious diseases - Dr. Vanessa Meier-Stephenson, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
An Update on Hepatitis B Virus: Where we are and where we could be - Dr. Sangita Sharma, Canada Research Chair in Population Health and
Professor in Indigenous and Global Health Research, DoM
COVID-19 in Indigenous communities in Arctic Canada (recording not available)
Neurology
- Dr. Satyabrata Kar, Professor of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Potential of Native PLGA Nanoparticles in the Treatment and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease - Dr. Peter Liu, Chief Scientific Officer, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Brain-Heart Interconnections - Time for a New Look at the Science and Care through Collaboration - Dr. Janis Miyasaki, Division Director of Neurology and Zone Section Head Neurology, Edmonton Zone, and Dr. Sarah Burton-MacLeod, Division of Palliative Care Medicine and Assistant Dean, Office of Advocacy & Wellbeing, FoMD
Palliative Care and Internal Medicine: Natural Partners Improving the Lives of Patients and Families
Preventive Medicine
- Dr. Sebastian Straube, Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine
Cannabidiol: ineffective analgesic and potentially harmful (recording not available)
Pulmonary Medicine
- Dr. Giovanni Ferrara, Professor and Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Big data enriched clinical trials and the Digital Health Unit (recording not available) - Dr. Giovanni Ferrara, Professor and Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Climate change and respiratory disease - Dr. Angela Lau, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, DoM and Dr. Courtney Heffernan, Senior Research Associate and Manager, Tuberculosis Program Evaluation
Studies in Subclinical Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Rheumatology
- Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy, Professor of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Percy Russell Lecture
Undertaking Prediction and Prevention of Rheumatoid Arthritis in First Nations - Dr. Walter P. Maksymowych, Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
Identification of spinal inflammatory arthritis: from diagnosis and classification to e-learning (recording not available)
Listed in order of the first presenter:
Drs. Lindsay Bridgland, Jennifer Ringrose, Dominic Mudiayi and Nabil Mitha:
EDI matters: Raising awareness of bias within the CaRMS interviewing process for GIM
Dr. Kim Connelly, Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto:
SGLT2 inhibitors – miracle drugs, but how do they work?
Faculty Annual Reporting System - A walkthrough and discussion
Dr. Ron Damant:
The post COVID-19 condition stigma questionnaire: Measuring the "mark" of long COVID
Drs. Gabriel Fabreau and Molly Whalen-Browne:
Refugee health and health care in Canada: An Alberta perspective
Dr. Monty Ghosh:
Harm reduction approaches in acute care settings
Dr. Dawna Gilchrist:
A history of pandemics (recording not available)
Dr. Troy Harkness:
Translating aging and cancer from yeast to humans
Drs. Rob Hayward and Anna Purdy:
Becoming a learning healthcare organization using internal evidence for improvement
(must have a AHS account to view)
Dr. Marc Humbert, Dean, Université Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine:
Targeting the transforming growth factor beta super-family in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Dr. Miles Marchand:
Indigenous heart health: Perspectives of a First Nations cardiology fellow
Drs. Evangelos Michelakis, Gopi Sutendra, Nadia Jahroudi & Steven Katz:
Guidelines and regulations for supervision of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents: an informative discussion (recording not available)
Equity, diversity and inclusion in DoM: A path forward
Dr. Subhabrata Moitra:
Obesity and asthma: The bi-directional relationship between the two epidemics
Heidi Olstad, MSc, RD and Michelle Letourneau, BSc, RD:
Household food insecurity: Guidelines for supporting clients
Dr. Gavin Oudit:
SARS-CoV-2, ACE2 and COVID-19: a time for science, reason and humanity
Dr. Reena Pattani:
Learner mistreatment in medicine (recording not available)
Dr. Robert Pauly:
Psychological safety in the clinical & academic workplace. Is it too much to expect?
Dr. Kyra Pyke:
Endothelial function and vascular health: Mechanisms and assessment
Drs. Keysun Ranjbar and Naheed Rajabali:
Heart failure management strategies: Tailoring care based on disease presentation and the extent of fitness-frailty
Dr. Lynora M. Saxinger:
A nontraditional academic path, a provocation, and an invitation: Could academics help fix the messes of today's world?
Dr. Nikhil Shah:
Medical uncertainty and crowdsourcing - #AskRenal - A nephrology social media experiment
Dr. Jonathan Sherbino:
A.M. (Buzz) Edwards Lectureship in Clinical Education - Hacking education: Myths vs. evidence in teaching and learning
Drs. Stephanie Smith, Lynora Saxinger and Robyn Harrison:
Modern times: Your Fall ‘22 update on COVID-19
Drs. Stephanie Smith, Lynora Saxinger and Robyn Harrison:
Respiratory viruses - what does the future hold? Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV
Gopinath Sutendra, PhD:
Can tissue-specific differences in redox status provide therapeutic selectivity?
Dr. Jason Weatherald:
Awake prone positioning for COVID-19: a journey from pandemic Twitter idea to RCTs and global practice guidelines
Dr. Clarence Wong:
Prevention and management of gastrointestinal cancers: Innovation and program development
Dr. Verna Yiu:
The COVID war: Road to recovery, rebuilding and reimagining our healthcare system
Listed in order of the first presenter:
Dr. Robyn Harrison and Dr. Stephanie Smith:
Omicron update: Vaccinations, treatment considerations, and infection control — Part I (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Narmin Kassam:
Chair's State of the Department address
Dr. Finlay McAlister and Dr. Lynora Saxinger:
COVID-19 update #2: The numbers
Ross Mitchell, PhD:
Applications of AI for precision health
Drs. Fraulein Morales, Saifal Anwar, Caitlyn Collins and Stephanie Smith:
Navigating the COVID Ward 2.0 (no recording)
Dr. Robert Pauly:
The Electronic Health Record: The thing we love to hate and what it means for clinician wellbeing
Drs. Stephanie Smith, Lynora Saxinger and Robyn Harrison:
Omicron update: Vaccinations, treatment considerations, and infection control — Part II - Omicron and IPC: What has changed? (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert:
Secrets and lies in rheumatology: What doctors can learn from painters
(Please contact Dr. Jan Willen Cohern Tervaert to view.)
Listed in order of the first presenter:
Dr. Nigel Ashworth:
Complaints, prescribing and evidence-based regulation at the CPSA
(Please contact Dr. Nigel Ashworth to view.)
Drs. Jonathan Choy, Suddha Koppula, Anna Oswald, and Lyn Sonnenberg:
Teaching clinical learners in the virtual environment
Dr. Vijay Daniels:
New Professor Series - A clinician-educator’s journey from teaching, to
innovating, to administrating
Dr. Robert Hayward:
Connecting Care with Inquiry (recording not available)
Dr. Adam Hill:
Long walk out of the woods: A physician’s story of addiction, depression,
hope, and recovery
In collaboration with UAH/STO Medical Staff Society; sponsored by AMA Physician and Family Support Program (recording not available)
Dr. Deena Hinshaw:
COVID-19: Where have we come from and where are we going? (must have a CCID to view)
Drs. Shannon Ip, Caitlyn Collins, Wendy Sligl and Neeja Bakshi:
Managing an in-patient COVID ward
Dr. Narmin Kassam:
State of the Department Address
Dr. Rshmi Khurana:
New Professor Series: The birth and growth of obstetric medicine
Dr. Andrew Mason:
Bench to Bedside: Modelling primary biliary cholangitis as a retroviral
infection
Dr. Nicholas Mitchell:
Alberta's Mental Health Act: Changes and implications for the medical unit
Dr. Aldo Montano-Loza:
New Professor Series: A journey from autoimmune liver diseases to
body composition in cirrhosis
Dr. Nicola Murgia:
Occupational burden of respiratory diseases
Dr. Patrick Pilarski:
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Definitions, implications, and future impact
Dr. Jaggi Rao:
Applications of AI for precision health
Drs. Lynora Saxinger, Stephanie Smith and Robyn Harrison:
COVID-19 here we go again... (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Ilan Schwartz:
Why we need randomized control trials in COVID-19 (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Fergus Shanahan:
The Wensel Sherbaniuk Founders Lecture - The language of illness
Dr. Lorne Tyrrell:
Securing the COVID-19 vaccine for Canada
Dr. Debrah Wirtzfeld:
Becoming a better leader: Lessons learned from COVID-19
Listed in order of the first presenter:
Dr. Timothy Chan:
Medical Jeopardy, pandemic edition (recording not available)
Dr. Andrea Cossarizza:
COVID-19: Immune changes during COVID-19 pneumonia - data from Italy (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Alexander Doroshenko:
COVID-19: The role of mathematical modeling and pragmatic approaches
in public health practice and during pandemic
Dr. Mattias Gotte:
Remdesivir: from Ebola to emergency use authorization for the treatment of COVID-19
Scott Kaatz, Sean Drake, Mayur Ramesh, and Eric Scher:
The Henry Ford Hospital experience with COVID-19 surge: Patient experience and health system response (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Richard Lewanczuk:
The challenges of managing chronic disease in the era of COVID
Dr. Jennifer McCombe:
Possible and probable neurological sequelae of COVID-19: expected or unexpected? (must have a CCID to view)
Drs. Anna Oswald, Jacques Romney and Jonathan Choy
COVID-19 — Virtual health care: The new reality (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Darryl Rolfson:
Frailty inclusive care during COVID-19
Drs. Lynora Saxinger, Stephanie Smith, and Robyn Harrison:
COVID-19: Here we go....3,2,1, re-Launch...with care! Focus on evidence
for transmission and prevention of COVID-19
Dr. Sebastian Straube:
An evidence-based approach to COVID-19: Exposure control and beyond (recording not available)
Dr. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert and Dr. Daniah Basodan:
The immune system in COVID-19 infection: the good, the bad, and the ugly (must have a CCID to view)
Dr. Vincent Thai and Dr. Ingrid DeKock:
Who lives and who dies......how can we care for both in the COVID-19 world
Dr. Cynthia Wu:
COVID-19 coagulopathy and thrombosis: Emerging evidence and growing awareness