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Grand Rounds

2025

June 10

Kredel Springs Lecture
Gilbert R Upchurch, Jr, M.D.
Edward M. Copeland III and Ann & Ira Horowitz Chair
Professor of Vascular Surgery

July 29

Michael Maddaus, M.D.
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon Minneapolis, Minnesota

August 12

TBD

September 9

TBD

September 30

TBD

October 14

State of the Department
Prabhakar Baliga, M.D.
Chair, Department of Surgery

October 24

Surgery Recognition Research Day & Eric R. Frykberg, M.D. Lecture
Allan Kirk, M.D.
David C. Sabiston, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Chair of Surgery
Professor in Integrative Immunobiology
Professor in Pediatrics
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

November 11

TBD

December 2

TBD

December 30

TBD

Past Grand Rounds

May 13

Awards Day
Surgical Leadership Outside of the OR

Megan Baker, M.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Director of Roper St. Francis Healthcare Cancer Center
Medical Director of Roper's Oncology Integrated Practice Network
Roper St. Francis Healthcare

April 29

Does QI improve Quality in Surgery?
Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS
Professor, Vice Chair of Surgery
Chief of Colorectal Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Professor of Health Services Research at the UCLA School of Public Health
Director of the Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care at the American College of Surgeons

April 8

Embracing Culture and Community in Surgical Practice: Are we thinking beyond our knives?
Moderator: A.Sharee Wright, MD, RPVI, FACS
Panelist:
Tamara Butler, Ph.D., Executive Director, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
Lisa M. Collins, Chief, Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians
Sean P. Haley, MD, MPH, Vice Chair Director of Medical Student Education, MUSC Dept of Family Medicine, Medical Director, MUSC CARES Clinic

March 11

Surgery's Role in the Changing Landscape of Multidisciplinary Gastroesophageal Cancer Care
Mitchell C. Posner, M.D.

February 25

Callisia Clarke, M.D., MS
Douglas B. Evans Endowed Chair for Surgical Research
Division Chief of Surgical Oncology
Co-Associate Director of Clinical Research, MCW Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Surgery
Medical College of Wisconsin

May 14

Awards Ceremony GR
Jacob Robison, M.D.

April 9

MUSC Obesity Management
Rana Pullatt, M.D.
Schiller Innovation Award Winners & Presentations

March 12

Marion Anderson Lecture
Robert C.G. Martin II, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery
University of Louisville Health – Brown Cancer Center

February 27

The Power of Quality
Patricia Turner MD MBA
Executive Director and CEO of the American College of Surgeons

April 9

MUSC Obesity Management
Rana Pullatt, M.D.
Schiller Innovation Award Winners & Presentations

March 12

Marion Anderson Lecture
Robert C.G. Martin II, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery
University of Louisville Health – Brown Cancer Center

February 27

The Power of Quality
Patricia Turner MD MBA
Executive Director and CEO of the American College of Surgeons

January 9

Raphael Lee, M.D. Ph.D.
Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor Departments of Surgery and Medicine Committee on Molecular Medicine/MPMM Director, Laboratory for Molecular Regeneration Pritzer School of Medicine, University of Chicago

January 30

Vascular Surgery VAVS Visiting Lectureship
Naixin Kang,M.D. Assistant Professor DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

December 12

Informatics, Robotics & the Augmented Surgeon
Patrick Thomas, M.D. COM class of 1998
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Director of Digital Innovation in Pediatric Surgery
University of Nebraska Medical Center

November 14

Horace G. Smithy Lecture

October 31

State of the Department

August 29

A historical perspective of adrenalectomy
Bernice Huang, M.D.
Surgical Education of the Millennial and Gen-Z Trainees
Jeffrey Sutton, M.D.

July 11

State of the Department: Education
Cynthia Talley, M.D
“You’re Doing Fine,” The Power of Feedback
Andrea Abbott, M.D. MSCR

August 8

“Envisioning Your Future: Your Personal Mission Statement”
Kimberly Lumpkins, M.D. University of Maryland

December 13

Digital Transformation of a Department
Christopher Tignanelli MD MS
University of Minnesota

November 29

Brian Gary MD Sharee Wright MD and Keith Smalls

November 8

"Peer Support: Mitigating the Emotional Stressors Faced by Clinicians"
Jo Shapiro, MD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School

October 14

Research Recognition Day and Eric R. Frykberg, M.D. Lecture
Confronting controversy and changing practice…with evidence and courage, as a resident!
Julie Ann Sosa, M.D., UCSF
Chair Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

October 4

Horace G. Smithy Lecture
Richard Ohye, M.D.Associate Chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery
Head of the Section of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery
Co-Director of the University of Michigan Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Center

September 13

Surgeons May be Better Leaders Than They Think
Jon Chilingerian, Ph.D. Brandeis University

August 30

Bringing Cancer Genetic Testing into Standard Clinical Practice
Dr. Kevin Hughes
Rejecting the Status Quo: Innovations in Surgery
Dr. Joseph Scalea

August 9

Quality
Dr. Danielle Scheurer,
Dr. Ken Catchpole, and Dr. Tim Brendle

July 12

State of the Department
Prabhakar Baliga MD, Chair
Cynthia Talley, M.D. Vice Chair of Education

June 14

Kredel-Springs Lecture

May 31

Every Generation is the Greatest
David B. Adams MD
Awards Session

May 10

Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds
Vivian Gahtan, M.D., Chair Loyola University - Chicago

April 26

MUSC Faculty: Lucas McDuffie, M.D. and Deepak Ozhathil, M.D.

March 29

MUSC Faculty
Nicolas Pope, M.D. and Isis Scomacao, M.D.
Prevention and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms: Is Medical Therapy a Viable Option?
Advances in Plastic Surgery (microsurgery)

April 12

What if Burnout is More Like SIRS? A New Paradigm for Physician Well-Being
Mary Brandt M.D.
Tulane University

March 8

Marion Anderson Lecture - postponed

February 15

Autonomy in the ORENT NS Ortho Surgery Combined GR

January 11

postponed

January 4

James Moore, Ph.D.
CDO / Vice Provost for DI - OSU

Effective Strategies for Compassionate Allyship
Jen Bennett LPC MAOwner: Therapy Studios, LLC

November 16

7-8 a.m. BE100 | Virtual
The Surgeon and Engineer Meet at Dinner
AATS Foundation Gardner Lectureship
Yolonda Colson, M.D. Ph.D.
Chief for the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School

October 12

Lessons in Leadership
Harvey Schiller
Brigadier General, USAF Ret., Ph.D.

September 14

Effective Speaking Learning From TEDx: “The Art of the Talk”
Sewell I. Kahn, M.D.
Consultant in Healthcare Relations Management

August 31

Artificial Intelligence in Surgery
Thomas Brothers, M.D. and Arman Kilic, M.D.

August 10

State of the Department

July 13

Living Your Best Work Life
Tenelle O. Jones, MA, LMFT, LAC
MUSC Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

June 8

Kredel-Springs Lecture
Mary Hawn
Chair, Department of Surgery Stanford University

May 11

Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds
Secrets to Success in Academic Vascular Surgery
Invited Speaker Ronald L. Dalman, M.D.
Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery Stanford University

April 13

Bedside Teaching in Surgery: Dissecting the Most Effective Educational Approaches
Presenters:
Marc Heincelman,
M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Interim Director Division of Hospital Medicine Department of Medicine Clerkship Director
David Mills,
M.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Pediatric Hospitalist Pediatric Residency Program Director

March 30

Clinical Research
Building a Competitive Clinical Research Proposal
Heather Evans, M.D., MS
Industry-Supported, Investigator-Initiated Research: The What, Why and How
David J. Taber, Pharm.D., BCPS
South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative Data Analytics
Thomas Curran, M.D., MPH & Patrick Mauldin, Ph.D.
Innovating in Healthcare - Becoming a Surgeon
CEO Leah Plumblee, M.D. ,PGY-3, Julie Siegel, M.D., PGY-3, & Kristen Quinn, M.D., PGY-3

March 9

Marion C. Anderson M.D. Lecture
The Evolution of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

Invited Speaker: Cristina Ferrone M.D.
Surgical Director, Liver Program Division of General & Gastrointestinal Surgery
Massachusetts General Surgery

January 12

The Ergonomic Basics of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Visiting faculty: Ramon Berguer, M.D., General Surgeon, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center

December 8, 2020

State of the Department: Operations and Research
How will my paycheck change over the next 4 years?
David Mahvi, M.D.
Chief of Oncologic and Endocrine Surgery
Innovation and Research in the Department of Surgery
Michael Yost, Ph.D. Vice Chair of Research

December 29

Canceled: Happy Holidays!

November 10

State of the Department: Res Ipsa Loquitur
Prabhakar Baliga, M.D.Chair MUSC Department of Surgery
Invited Speakers:
Ozanan Meireles, M.D.Assistant Professor of SurgeryDepartment of Surgery Harvard Medical School Director,
Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel Hashimoto, M.D. Chief Resident Department of Surgery
Harvard Medical School Associate Director, Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory Massachusetts General Hospital

October 30

The Future of Surgery
Allan Kirk, M.D. Chair Department of Surgery Duke University Eric R Frykberg MD invited Lecturer

October 13

Outcomes Disparities in Trauma Care — Who, Why, When
Edward Eugene Cornwell III, M.D. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. Professor and Chair Department of Surgery Howard University

September 29, 2020

State of the Department Research
rescheduled7 - 8 a.m. Zoom

September 8, 2020

State of the Department: Education Faculty Development: Feedback
Cynthia Talley, M.D.

August 11, 2020

Unconscious Bias in Surgery: A Panel Discussion
Andrea Abbott, M.D., MSCR, Nancy DeMore, M.D., Elizabeth Genovese, M.D., MS

July 21, 2020

Trauma Before and After the Violence: Understanding and Treating Trauma in All of Our Surgical Patients
Ashley Hink, MD MPH

June 9, 2020

Kredel Springs Lecture
Fanning the Burnout Fire: How Our Misconceptions and Good Intentions Could Fail Tomorrow’s Surgeons

Karl Y. Bilimoria, M.D., MS
John B. Murphy Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

May 12, 2020

Understanding Your Clean Cell Facility: The impact of the Center for Cellular Therapy
Satish Nadig, M.D., Honjun Wang, Ph.D., Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D.
Let’s Do Human Centered Design -- from idea to device in 2 weeks!
David Mahvi, M.D., Joshua Kim, MS

September 10, 2019

Can Surgeons be Educators/Advisors in the Medical School?
Ross Milner, M.D. FACS

September 20, 2019

Eric. R. Frykberg, M.D. Lecture and Surgery Research Recognition Day
BE 110, 1 p.m.
Invited Speaker: Gerard Doherty, M.D.

October 1, 2019

Horace G. Smithy, M.D. Lecture
BE 110 7 a.m.
Invited speaker: Thomas Krummel, M.D.

October 29

Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Anand Ghanekar, M.D., Ph.D.

November 11, 2019

Transformation to Population Health
Michael Shawn Stinson, M.D.

December 10, 2019

Velma, Sepsis, and Adult Re-education
Robert Sawyer, M.D.

February 25, 2020

Dr. B. DaNine J. Fleming

July 30

Liver Transplantation at MUSC: Evolving indications, Referral Disparity, and Outreach Initiatives
Speaker: Jared A. White, M.D., FACS
The Regional Burn Center at MUSC: Back to the Future
Speaker: Steven A. Kahn, M.D.
Location: 2-West Amphitheater, Main University Hospital

August 13

State of the Union Chairman's Update
Dr. Baliga
Clinical Operations Update
Dr. Mahvi
Location: 2-West Amphitheater, Main University Hospital

January 8

Dr. Peggy Knudson

January 29

ABSITE: Feedback and Assessment
Dr. Elisha Brownfield

February 12

Marion Anderson Lecture
Dr. Timothy Pawli

April 30

Bedisde Teaching
Dr. David Mills Faculty Development

May 14

Dr. Edgerton

June 11

Kredel Springs Lecture
Dr. Taylor Riall cancelled

July 9

"State of the Union: Education in the Department of Surgery" and “Research in the Department of Surgery: Growth and Opportunities” along with “Updates on Basic/Translational Research and Clinical Trials in the Department”