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Cardiovascular (CV) Grand Rounds - HUP

Time: Thursdays, from 7:30AM - 8:30AM.
Location: HUP's 5 Maloney Conference Room.
Contact: Denice Susini, (215) 662-3140.
Past Grand Rounds: 2009 / 2008 / 2007

2009 - 2010 Grand Rounds

November 19 Cancelled - AHA Conference
 
 
November 26 Cancelled - Thanksgiving
 
 
December 3 "Cardiac Melanocytes: A novel population of cells that may trigger atrial arrhythmias"
Vickas V. Patel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Molecular Arrhythmia Research
University of Pennsylvania


Recent Publication »
December 10 "The Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease: Long, dazed journey into clinic"
Bruce Gelb, MD
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Center for Molecular Cardiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
December 17 Morbidity and Mortality Conference
 
 
December 24 Cancelled - Christmas
 
 
December 31 Cancelled - New Year’s Eve
 
 
January 7 "Topic To Be Announced"
Steve Kawut, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
January 14 To Be Announced
 
 
January 21 "Topic To Be Announced"
Emile Mohler, MD
Director, Vascular Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
January 28 "Topic To Be Announced"
Douglas W. Losordo, MD
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
Director, Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
Northwestern University
February 4 To Be Announced
 
 
February 11 Morbidity and Mortality Conference
 
 
February 18 "Topic To Be Announced"
Roger J. Hajjar, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
Arthur & Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
February 25 "Topic To Be Announced"
Ronald Fairman, MD
Clyde F. Barker-William Maul Measey Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
University of Pennsylvania
March 4 To Be Announced
 
 
March 11 To Be Announced / Pre ACC
 
 
March 18 Morbidity and Mortality Conference
 
 
March 25 "Topic To Be Announced"
Michael Mendelsohn, MD
Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Center, New England Medical Center
Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry
Tufts University School of Medicine
April 1 "Topic To Be Announced"
Ken Margulies, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Director, Heart Failure/ Transplantation
University of Pennsylvania
April 8 "Topic To Be Announced"
Arthur Moss, MD
Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
Heart Research Follow-Up Program
University of Rochester Medical Center
April 15 To Be Announced
 
 
April 22 "Topic To Be Announced"
Tom Cappola, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
April 29 To Be Announced
 
 
May 6 To Be Announced
 
 
May 13 Morbidity and Mortality Conference
 
 
May 20 To Be Announced
 
 
May 27 "Topic To Be Announced"
Eric J. Olson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Center for Sleep Medicine
Mayo Clinic
June 3 To Be Announced
 
 
June 10 To Be Announced
 
 
June 17 To Be Announced
 
 

2009 Past Grand Rounds

November 12 "Vascular Stability and Human Disease"
Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD
HA and Edna Benning Endowed Professor in Medicine and Cardiology
Director, Molecular Medicine Progrram
University of Utah
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
November 5 "Ablation of ventricular tachycardia: treatment of last resort?"
David Callans, MD
Director, Electrophysiology Laboratory, Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
October 29 "MRI of Patients with Implanted Pacemakers and Defibrillators"
Harold Litt, MD, PhD,
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging Section, Radiology
University of Pennsylvania
October 22 "Morbidity and Mortality"
Suraj Kappa, MD
Kurt Schillinger, MD, PhD
Gregory Supple, MD
Penn Cardiology Fellows
October 15 "Sudden Cardiac Death:
What clinical trials say, What the guidelines recommend, and What do we do with the information"

Andrew E. Epstein, MD
Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Chief of Cardiology
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
October 8 "Human Translational Studies of Inflammation, Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis"
Nehal Mehta, MD, FACP
Preventive Cardiology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
October 1 "Insights into catheter ablation of persistent AF gained by FFT analysis"
Fred Morady, MD
McKay Professor of Cardiovascular Disease
University of Michigan
September 24 Cancelled - resumes October 1
 
 
September 17 "Emerging Therapies: AF Associated Stroke"
Michael Ezekowitz, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice President, Clinical Research, Main Line Hospitals
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research
June 18 "The Utility of Echo and Heart Failure"
Dr. Martin St. John Sutton, MBBCh

Director, Noninvasive Imaging
University of Pennsylvania
June 11 Cancelled
"Autologous CD34 Cell Therapy for Myocardial Ischemia"
Dr. Douglas Losordo

Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
Northwestern University
June 4 Morbidity & Mortality Conference
Suraj Kappa, MD
Kurt Schillinger, MD, PhD
Gregory Supple, MD
Penn Cardiology Fellows
May 28 "Diagnosis and Management of Inherited Heart Disease"
Dr. Calum MacRae

Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
May 21 NOTE: No CME Credit!
"Pharmacogenetic Development of Cardiovascular Drugs"
Dr. Michael Bristow, Ph.D

Co-Director, Cardiovascular Institute
University of Colorado Health Science Center
May 14 "Time has come today: Genetic testing for cardiovascular diseases"
Dr. Cam Patterson

Chief, Division of Cardiology
University of North Carolina
April 30 "Circulating Neuregulin–1β in Human Heart Failure"
Dr. Bonnie Ky

University of Pennsylvania
April 23 "Atrial flutter: History, mechanisms and therapy"
Professor Nadir Saoudi

Chef de Service, Cardiologie
Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, Monaco
April 16 "3D Echocardiography: The Benefits of the Additional Dimension"
Dr. Roberto Lang

Director, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Lab
University of Chicago
April 9 Cancelled - Passover
 
 
April 2 "Therapeutic Angiogenesis- from Concepts to Clinical Reality"
Dr. Michael Simons

Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
March 26 Cancelled
 
March 19 Cancelled
 
March 12 Morbidity & Mortality
 
 
March 5 "Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging: Will It Live Up to Its Potential?"
Dr. Victor Ferrari

Associate Director, Noninvasive Imaging
University of Pennsylvania
February 26 "Typical Atrial Flutter: New Insights"
Dr. Sanjay Dixit

Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
University of Pennsylvania
February 19 "Seven Transmembrane Receptor Signaling and Heart Failure"
Dr. Howard Rockman

Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke Univeristy Medical Center
February 12 "Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Translating Mechanisms to Therapy"
Dr. Mark Creager

Director, Vascular Center
Brigham and Women's
February 5 "Prediction and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death"
Dr. Jeffrey Olgin

Chief, Cardiac Electrophysiology,
UC San Francisco
January 29 "Biometrics in Cardiology: A Paradigm for Personalized Medicine?"
Dr. James De Lemos

UT Southwestern Medical Center
About the Dallas Heart Study »
January 22 "Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation"
Dr. Howard C. Herrmann, MD

Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania
About the PARTNER Clinical Trial »
January 15 Morbidity & Mortality
Penn Cardiology Fellows:
David Frankel, Daniel Schwartz, Gregory Supple
January 8 "Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2: Biomarker of or Major Player in the Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis?"
Dr. Robert Wilensky,

Director, Interventional Cardiology Research,
University of Pennsylvania
January 1 Cancelled - New Year's Day

2008 Grand Rounds

December 25 Cancelled - Christmas  
December 18 Dr. Daniel Levy
Director, Framingham Heart Study, NHLBI
"New Developments in Understanding the Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease"
December 11 Dr. Marc Semigran
Medical Director
Heart Failure and Transplant Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Say NO to Heart Failure: Nitric Oxide Signaling and the Potential of Type 5 Phosphodiesterase Inhibition for the Treatment of Heart Failure"
December 4 Dr. Michael Acker
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
"Controversies in MR"
November 27 Cancelled - Thanksgiving  
November 20 Dr. Peter Stone
Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Harvard University
"In-vivo Profiling of Endothelial Shear Stress to Predict Coronary Atherosclerosis Progression and Plaque Rupture in Man"
November 13

Please Note Separate Times & Locations !
Dr. Gaetano Thiene
Padua Center for Sports Medicine
University of Padua, Italy

"Definition and Classification of Cardiomyopathies"
7:30AM, 5 Maloney Conference Room
Cristina Basso, MD, PhD
Department of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Sciences,
University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy

"Arrhythmogenic RV Cardiomyopathy"
12:30PM, Room 253, Biomedical Research Building II/III
November 6 Cancelled - AHA Scientific Sessions »  
October 30 Dr. Raymond Kim
Duke University Medical Center
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center
"Cardiovascular MRI - Revisiting fundamental concepts in myocardial viability assessment"
October 23 Morbidity & Mortality  
October 16 Dr. Patricia Pellikka
Mayo Clinic
"Noninvasive Detection of Coronary Artery Disease in Women"
October 9 Cancelled - Yom Kippur  
October 2 Dr. Joshua Cooper
University of Pennsylvania
"Options and Techniques for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Optimization"
September 25 Cancelled
 
 
September 18 Dr. Edward Gerstenfeld
University of Pennsylvania
"Frequency Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation: Lessons Learned From Humans and Animal Models"
June 19 Dr. Bradley Knight,
University of Chicago
"Management of Supraventricular Tachycardia in 2008"
June 12 Cancelled Grand Rounds resume on June 19
June 5 John Lee, MD, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
"Role of Klf2 in vascular development and function"
May 29 Dr. Dan Dries,
University of Pennsylvania
"Recent Advances in Natriuretic Peptide Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease"
May 22 Morbidity and Mortality Dr. Eron Sturm
Dr. Wendy Tzou
May 15 Dr. Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center "Murine echocardiography: linking basic and clinical investigations in heart failure"
May 8 Dr. Paul Forfia,
University of Pennsylvania
"Why and How the Right Ventricle Fails:
Characterizing RV failure in various disease stages"
May 1 Dr. Stuart Rich,
University of Chicago
"The Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Past, Present and Future"
April 24 Dr. Kim Eagle,
University of Michigan
"Acute Aortic Syndromes: Questions that Keep Me Awake at Night"
April 17 Dr. David Drucker,
Mercer Bucks Cardiology
Carotid Artery Stenting
April 10 Morbidity and Mortality Maxwell Prempeh, MD
Stacey Rentschler, MD, PhD
Amresh Raina, MD
April 3 Dr. Harold Palevsky,
University of Pennsylvania
"Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – 2008"
March 27 Dr. Warren Manning,
Harvard University
"Non-invasive coronary artery imaging: Focus on CMR"
March 20 Dr. Vasan Ramachandran,
Boston University
Epidemiology of Heart failure and Left Ventricular Remodeling: Insights from the Framingham Heart Study
March 13 Dr. Valentin Fuster,
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
"Promoting Health Through Non-invasive Imaging"
March 6 Dr. Clyde Yancy,
Baylor
"Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) - A Clinical Conundrum"
February 28 Dr. Frank Marchlinski,
University of Pennsylvania
Non-Ischemic RV ad LV Cardiomyopathies: Lessons Learned About Pathophysiology from Mapping and Ablation
February 21 Dr. Robert Bonow,
Northwestern
Evidence-based Management of Valvular Heart Disease
February 14 Morbidity and Mortality Presenters: Dr. Steven Farmer, Dr. David Frankel, Dr. Jay Giri
Cardiovascular Fellows, University of Pennsylvania
February 7 Dr. Lynne Stevenson,
Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program
Brigham and Women's
Coming In Out of the Rain: De-Congesting Heart Failure
January 31 Dr. David Callans,
University of Pennsylvania
Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure
January 24 Dr. Wayne Levy,
University of Washington
Can We Predict Mortality in Heart Failure?
January 17 Dr. Muredach Reilly,
University of Pennsylvania
Genome Wide Association and Replication of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
January 10 Dr. Stanley Schwartz,
University of Pennsylvania
History of the Thiazolidinediones: Implications for Understanding Current Controversies and Use
January 3 Morbidity and Mortality Dr. Anjali Owens,
Dr. Alexander Opotowsky,
Dr. Jeffrey Testani,
University of Pennsylvania

2007 Grand Rounds

Date Speaker Topic
December 20 / 27 Cancelled Holiday
December 13 Dr. Vickas Patel
University of Pennsylvania
A Population of Melanocyte-like Cells in the Heart and Pulmonary Veins are a Source of Triggers for Atrial Arrhythmias
December 6 Dr. Barry Fuchs,
University of Pennsylvania
Education on Clinical Documentation
November 29 Dr. John Webb,
Medical Director, Catheterization Lab
Director, Interventional Cardiology Research St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia
Balloon Expandable Aortic Valve Implantation: The First 100 Canadian Procedures
November 22 Cancelled Thanksgiving Holiday
November 15 Dr. Jeffrey Olin,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Management of Renal Artery Disease for the Cardiovascular Specialist
November 8 Cancelled Cancelled
November 1 Cancelled Pre-AHA Scientific Sessions
October 25 Dr. John Miller,
Krannert Institute of Cardiology,
Indiana School of Medicine
Common Fibs about Atrial Fib
October 18 Morbidity and Mortality
Elad Anter, MD
Joshua Moss, MD
Atif Qasim, MD
Cardiovascular Fellows
University of Pennsylvania
 
October 11 Dr. Matthais Friedrich,
Director, Stephenson Cardiovascular MR Centre
University of Calgary
Myocardial Tissue Characterization by Cardiovascular MRI
October 4 Dr. Aaron Proweller,
University of Pennsylvania
Notch Signaling Dysregulation in Cerebrovascular Syndromes
September 27 CANCELLED Cancelled
September 20 Dr. Leslie Miller,
Walters Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Director of Cardiology Programs, Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Hospital
Cardiac Remodeling:
Lessons from Ventricular Assist Devices
September 13 Cancelled Rosh Hashanah Holiday
06/21/07 Dr. Frederick Samaha,
University of Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: Beyond LDL Cholesterol Lowering
06/0707 CANCELLED  
06/14/07 Dr. Sanjay Dixit,
University of Pennsylvania
AF Ablation: Where We Are and Where Do We Go from Here
05/31/07 Morbidity and Mortality Presenters:
Suzanne Brown, M.D., Quang Bui, M.D., Nehal Mehta, M.D.
05/24/07 Dr. Edward Gerstenfeld,
University of Pennsylvania
Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes
05/17/07 Dr. Jeffery Molkentin,
Cincinnati Children's
Role of PKC as a regulator of contractility and heart failure
05/10/07 Dr. Marvin Konstam,
Tufts University
Cardio-Renal-Vascular Dysfunction and the
Syndromes of Heart Failure
05/03/07 Dr. Ken Margulies,
University of Pennsylvania
Endogenous Cardiac Repair Potential in Human Hearts
04/26/07 Dr. Deepak Bhatt,
Cleveland Clinic
Advances in Atherothrombosis
04/19/07 Morbidity and Mortality Steven A. Farmer, MD
Nazanin Moghbeli, MD
David Scollan, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Fellows University of Pennsylvania
04/12/07 Dr. Emile Mohler,
University of Pennsylvania
Vascular Jeopardy II
04/05/07 Kathleen Daily Mock, RN, BSN, JD, LL.M,
Mylotte, David & Fitzpatrick
Risk Reduction Procedure Lecture -
Mandatory Faculty Attendance


Faculty need to attend one of the sessions, Fellows are encouraged to attend, be sure to sign-in.

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*If unable to attend Thursday, please plan on attending another lecture.

Gastroenterology » Weds., April 4, 2007 from 5-6 PM in 5 Maloney
Cardiology » Thurs., April 5, 2007 from 7:30-8:30 AM in 5 Maloney*
Pulmonary » Mon., April 9, 2007 from 7:30-8:30 AM in 8 Maloney.
03/29/07 ACC New Orleans No Grand Rounds
03/22/07 ACC New Orleans No Grand Rounds
03/15/07 Dr. Thomas Cappola,
University of Pennsylvania
Genomics of Cardiac Remodeling in Human Heart Failure
03/08/07 Dr. Gerald Dorn,
University of Cincinnati
Adrenergic Polymorphisms:
ature’s Proof of the Neurohormonal Theory for Heart Failure
03/01/07 Morbidity and Mortality  
02/22/07 Dr. John Gorcsan,
University of Pittsburgh
Echocardiography and Pacing Therapy for Heart Failure:
Mechanisms and Mechanics
02/15/07 Dr. Robert Wilensky,
University of Pennsylvania
What’s Going on with Drug-Eluting Stents
02/08/07 Dr. Beth McNally,
University of Chicago
Genetic mechanisms in cardiovascular disease:
Lessons from single gene disorders
02/01/07 Dr. Karl T. Weber,
University of Tennessee
Congestive Heart Failure, A Systemic Illness
01/25/07 Dr. Joseph Savino,
University of Pennsylvania
USNWR Methods:
How do we apply these methods to improve patient care?
01/18/07 Dr. Howard Herrmann,
University of Pennsylvania
Will Percutaneous Therapies Replace Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation?
01/11/07 Samy Mir, MD
Maxwell Prempeh, MD
Wendy Tzou, MD

Cardiovascular Fellows
University of Pennsylvania
Morbidity and Mortality
01/04/07 Dr. Zahi A. Fayad,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
MR, PET, CT for Atherosclerotic plaque imaging and differentiation

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