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Seminar Series Schedule 2025

As part of our effort to expand interest in digestive disease and liver research on campus, we have created two Seminar Series through the DDRCC Enrichment Program. This includes the GI Grand Rounds series hosted by the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Medicine and select presentations in the Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology Department seminar series. These series feature presentations from internationally renowned investigators, whose research exploits innovative approaches in the study and treatment of digestive and liver disease. 

DDRCC / CDLD / GI and Hepatology Grand Rounds

Virtual Grand Rounds: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 at 7 a.m. EST on Wednesdays

Date Presenter Title
05/14/25
 Dennis Shung, Yale Medical School
 The AI flywheel: generative artificial intelligence transforming patient-centered clinical decision support.
04/23/25
 Rajender Reddy, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
 Recompensation in decompensated cirrhosis.
04/02/25
 Sonia Kupfer, M.D., University of Chicago
 Inheritied GI cancer syndromes: needles in haystacks?
03/19/25
 Detlef Schuppan, M.D., Unimedizin Mainz, Germany
 When food drives disease: Celiac disease and other inflammatory wheat sensitivities.
03/12/25
 Edward Barnes, M.D., UNC Chapel Hill
 Speaking the same language and improving outcomes? Pouchitis and other inflammatory conditions of the pouch
03/05/25
 Michael Camilleri, M.D., D.Sc, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science
 Pathophysiological biomarkers for disorders of colonic function.
02/15/25
 Michael Smith, M.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
 The role of cryotherapy in the management of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer.
01/29/24
 David Assis, M.D.,Yale Medical School
 New therapies for cholestatic liver disease.
01/15/24
 Anna Tavakkoli, M.D.,UT Southwestern Medical Center
 The future of endobariatrics in the GLP-1 era.
01/08/24
 Lise Gluud, M.D., University of Copehagen
 Emerging treatments for MASH.
12/11/24
 Jonathan Fallowfield, M.D., University of Edinburgh
 Novel treatments for chronic liver disease (serelaxin).
12/04/24
 Pavel Strnad, M.D., University Hospital, Aachen Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency: a poster child for gene therapy.
11/13/24 Marvin Ryou, M.D.,Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
 Endohepatology.
11/06/24
 Piet de Groen, M.D., University of Minnesota
 AI in gastroenterology.
10/30/24
 Nitin Ahuja, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
 Sustainable gastroenterology: adapting our work to a changing world.
10/02/24
 Mattias Mandorfer, M.D., Medical University of Vienna
 Non-invasive assessment of portal hypertension
09/18/24 Tim Gardner, M.D., Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine The exocrine pancreas - no longer the hermit of the abdomen

DDRCC / CDLD / Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology Virtual Seminar Series

Virtual Seminars: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 at  11 am EST on Wednesdays

Full schedule and details available at the Regenerative Medicine Department Seminar website

Date Presenter Title
05/28/25 Jashodeep Datta, M.D., University of Miami Exploiting functional specialization of myeloid-derived suppressor cells to overcome therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer.
05/07/25
 Dipak Panigrahy, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 Eicosanoid regulation of cancer via resolution of inflammation.
04/30/25
 Xia Xiao, Ph.D.,Massachusetts General Hospital
 BMP-SMAD signaling pathway in iron homeostasis and liver fibrosis.
04/23/25
 Stacey S. Huppert, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
 Mechanisms regulating hepatic epithelial cell plasticity and identity.
04/02/25
 Sonia Kupfer, M.D., University of Chicago
 Modeling inter-individual gene-environment interactions in human colonic organoids.
02/26/25
 Art Beyer, M.D.., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
 Gut mechanobiology in health and disease
02/05/25 Evan Delgado, Ph.D., University of PIttsburgh, PLRC
 Metabolic heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma: implications for the immune microenvironment.
01/29/25
 David Assis, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine
 Emerging insights into primary sclerosing cholangitis through bile-derived organoids.
01/15/25
 Udayan Apte, Ph.D., University of Kansas
 Role of HNF4a in liver regeneration.
12/11/24
 Scott Magness, Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill
 Division and death dynamics: preserving and protecting intestinal stem cell-driven repair after injury
11/20/24 Elizabeth Nemeth, M.D., UCLA New iron biology: from anemias to iron overload and infection.
11/13/24
 Rajan Singh, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
 A paradigm shift in deciphering the pathophysiology and therapeutics of gastroparesis, a disorder of gut-brain interaction.
11/06/24
 Piet de Groen, M.D., University of Minnesota Life is a puzzle; let’s try to solve it: what we can learn from the colon (and astrophysics) about intrinsic human diseases, human reproduction, genetics, and evolution.
10/09/24
 Kate Hamilton, Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania
 IMP-lications for cell plasticity in the regenerating intestine
09/18/24 Siyan Cao, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis ER stress controls innate lymphoid cells in IBD
*Works in progress seminar