Grand Rounds and M&M

July

• "Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT): a template for improving transitions in health care" Alison Galdys, MD; July 30, 2026
• "The 'Goldilocks' Estimate: Which kidney function equation is 'just right' to inform medication dosing?" Diana Langworthy, PharmD, BCPS; July 24, 2026
• "Type 1 Diabetes in 2026: What Every Clinician Should Know" Jacob Kohlenberg, MD; July 16, 2026
• "Climate Change and Health: Practical Strategies for Climate-Aware Clinical Practice" Kristi White, PhD, LP, ABPP; July 9, 2026

June

• "Understanding the Porphyrias" Brendan McGuire, MD, MS; June 25, 2026
• "Updates in Liver Transplant Oncology" Elizabeth Aby, MD; June 18, 2026
• "Continuous Glucose Monitoring: A Tool of the Future" Megan Kristan, MD; June 11, 2026
• "Hormetic Stress" James Langland, MD, FACP; June 4, 2026

May

• "Sjögren's Disease - An Update for Clinicians" Parastoo Fazeli, MD; May 28, 2026
• "Special Pathogens Unit UMMC : When and how would we activate? For what diseases? What about the Andes Virus?" Susan Kline, MD, MPH; May 21, 2026 
• "Training in Compassion: Enhancing One’s Capacity for Compassion" David R. Shlim, MD; May 14, 2026 
• "Repurposing Drugs and Hot Hearts" Mark Anderson, MD, PhD; May 7, 2026

April

• "Neoadjuvant Therapy of Early Breast Cancer" David Potter, MD, PhD; April 30, 2026
• "Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and the Lung" Nathaniel Gaeckle, MD; April 23, 2026
• "Celiac Disease: From Ancient History to Modern Immunology" Alexa Weingarden, MD, PhD; April 16, 2026
• "Teaching Health Equity - From Building Evidence to Building Education" Suman Pal, MBBS, FACP; April 2, 2026

March

• "HFpEF, CKD, DM: Exploring the Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Crossroads" Gautam Shroff, MBBS, FACC; March 26, 2026
• "Kidney Transplantation Update" Richard Spong, MD, MHA; March 29, 2026
• "Care for the Here and Now: CUHCC’s Role in Community Health" Lan Luu, MD, MPH, Calla Brown, MD, MHR, and Jessica Melnik; March 12, 2026

February

• "Update in Primary Aldosteronism" Kidmealem Zekarias, MD; February 26, 2026
• "Ischemic Heart Disease in Women – Role of Multimodality Imaging and Multidisciplinary Approach for Better Outcomes" Selma Carlson, MD; February 19, 2026
• "Feedback: An Educator’s Most Important Procedure" Erica Levine, MD, Colin Turner, MD, Mary L. Fredrickson, MD, and Haruka Torok, MD; February 5, 2026

January

• "Genomics in Kidney Transplant: Paving the Path to Precision Medicine" Rasha El-Rifai, MD; January 29, 2026
• "Human Cell-Free DNA and Its Potential Applications in Infectious Diseases" Yasir Hamad, MBBS; January 22, 2026
• "AI in Medical Education" Tseganesh Selameab, MD, and Cade Arries, MD; January 15, 2026

December

• "Renal Denervation for the Treatment of Hypertension and Other Kidney Diseases" Alexander Dayton, MD, PhD; December 18, 2025
• "Workforce Development Toward Indigenous Wellness: Encouraging Clinical Education" Donovan Williams, MD, Michael Sundberg, MD; December 11, 2025
• "The Early Phase Clinical Trials Program in Colorectal Cancer" Ajay Prakash MD, PhD; December 4, 2025

November

• "The Role of Fasting in Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes: A Focus on Human Studies and Time-Restricted Eating" Lisa Chow, MD; November 20, 2025
• "From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Land of the Free: Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) in the US" Peter Draganov, MD; November 6, 2025

October

• "From Bedside to Bench: Physicians’ Roles in Human Rights Advocacy" Michael Aylward, MD; October 30, 2025
• "Lung Cancer Screening and Implementation Strategies to Enhance Adoption" Abbie Begnaud, MD; October 23, 2025
• "From Discovery to Delivery: Bispecific Antibodies in Solid Tumor Treatment and Community Integration" Nicholas Zorko, MD, PhD; October 9, 2025

• "Restorative Justice Frameworks in the Clinical Learning Environment" Aarti Bhatt, MD, Adriana Dhawan, MD, Jessica Hane, MD and Angelica Willis, MD, MPH; October 2, 2025

September

• Wesley Spink Memorial Lecture "From birth to aging: The role of vaccines in lifelong health" Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH; September 18, 2025
• "Beyond Translation: Language, Power, and Epistemic Injustice in Clinical Encounters" Jennifer Needle-Suarez, MD, MPH, HEC-C; September 11, 2025
• "Metabolic Comorbidities in the New Age of Cystic Fibrosis" Amir Moheet, MBBS; September 4, 2025

August

• "Inflammatory Pathway and Treatment of HFpEF" Bradley Bart, MD; August 28, 2025
• "Advances in Metabolic and Bariatric Endoscopy" Ahmed Dirweesh, MD, DABOM; August 21, 2025
• "Interstitial Lung Disease, Decoding Acronyms" Aahd Kubbara, MD; August 14, 2025
• "Histoplasmosis: Emerging Data and Unanswered Questions" Alessandro Pasqualotto, MD, PhD, MBA, FECMM; August 7, 2025

July

• "Fueling the Kidneys: The Role of Amino Acids in Preventing Postoperative AKI" Milind Junghare, MD; July 31, 2025
• "Optimizing GLP-1 Use in Obesity and Diabetes: What Clinicians Need to Know" Kylee Funk, PharmD, BCPS; July 24, 2025
• "Learning through Caregiving: A Medical Student Elective for New Parents" Sally Mung Ting Yung, MD; July 17, 2025
• "Geriatric Oncology" Stuart Bloom, MD; July 10, 2025

June

• "Watson Lecture - Heme, Liver and the Porphyrias" Bruce Wang, MD; June 26, 2025
• "Nuances of Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: An Evidence-Based Update from Comparative Effectiveness Trials" Deborah Wexler, MD; June 12, 2025
• "The Power of Joy: Strength, Renewal, and Purpose" Tseganesh Selameab, MD; June 5, 2025

May

• "Fertility and Pregnancy in IBD" Eugenia Shmidt, MD; May 29, 2025
• "VEXAS Syndrome" Matthew Koster, MD; May 22, 2025
• "Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Over the Lifecourse"  Mark Schleiss, MD, Caleb Skipper, MD; May  15, 2025
• "Medical Education Scholarship: Building Evidence for Educational Practice" May 8, 2025; Sophie Gladding, PhD
• "Building Community Trust Through Mobile Health: Advancing Preventative Care in Uncertain Times" May 1, 2025; Dr. Jessica Hane, MD, Dr. Jonathan Kirsch, MD, Dr. Shahid Jaffer, MD

April

• "Lung Transplant in People with CF: From Referral to Post-operative Care" Dr. Joanne Billings, MD & Dr. Jagadish Patil, MD; April 24, 2025
• "Smoking Cessation and Mood Management Following an Acute Coronary Event: Primary Outcomes of the Post-Acute Coronary Event Smoking (PACES) Study" Andrew Busch, PhD, LP; April 17, 2025
• "The Global Burden of Skin Disease 2025" Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH; April 10, 2025
• "Inclusion and Empowerment: Promoting Physician Workforce Wellbeing via Advocacy for Gender Equity and Support for Global Talent" Ariela Marshall, MD; April 3, 2025

March

• "The Future of Nephrology is No Dialysis: Delaying Kidney Disease Progression in 2025" Mirna Boumitri, MD; March 21, 2025
• "From Tradition to Innovation: Buildling the Future of IM Residency at the University of Minnesota" Melissa Plesac, MD; March 13, 2025
• "When Patients Say No: Autonomy, Constraints, and the Weight of Moral Distress" Jennifer Needle-Suarez, MD, MPH, HEC-C; March 6, 2025

February

• "The Vascular Endothelium as a Barometer of Health" Mukesh Jain, MD; February 28th, 2025
• "Diagnostic Error" Michelle Carlson, MD, FACC; February 20, 2025
• "HIV Care, Cure, and Prevention in 2025" Timothy Schacker, MD; February 13, 2025
• "Hypoglycemia in Diabetes" Elizabeth Seaquist, MD; February 6, 2025

January

• Angie Lobo, MD; January 30, 2025
• "Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnea" Snigdha Pusalavidyasagar, MD; January 23, 2025
• "Genomic Mastery: How HBV Mutations Orchestrate Liver Disease Progression" Dr. Guisheng Song, PhD; January 16, 2025
• "Empowering Excellence: The Role of Coaching in Medicine" Kimberly Tartaglia, MD; January 9, 2025

December

• "The Road to Precision Medicine for Acute Kidney Injury" Bethany Birkelo, DO, MSCI; December 19, 2024
• "Metformin for Acute Covid: Rationale, Results, Reflections" Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH; December 12, 2024
• "Translating Genomic Tests to Improve Patient Care in Oncology Clinics" Justin Hwang, PhD; December 5, 2024

November

• "Polyps I have Known" David L. Carr-Locke, MD; November 7, 2024
• "Adrenal Incidentaloma and Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion: A Clinical Update" Angela Radulescu, MD; November 14, 2024

October

• "The Data Gets You in the Door: Using wellness data to drive meaningful change in medical staff work-life" Elizabeth Goelz, MD; October 31, 2024
• "Getting Off the RVU Treadmill: How Research Could Reshape the Business of Medicine and Reduce Your Risk of Burnout" R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA; October 25, 2024
• "The evolving landscape of cancer therapeutics and subcellular oncology: Connecting the dots between tumor cell neighborhoods and beyond" Emil Lou, MD, PhD, FACP; October 10, 2024

September

• "Tackling Climate Change, Our Apex Predator" Dr. Mark Shapiro, M.D, FHM, FACP; September 26, 2024
• "Responding to Hope for a Miracle" Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C; September 12, 2024
• "Sarcopenia: A Diagnosis and A Review on Investigational Medications" Darin Ruanpeng, MD; September 5, 2024

August

• "IgA Nephropathy: an exemplar of drug licensing in a chronic kidney disease" Patrick Nachman, MD; August 29, 2024
• "The Tip of the Iceberg: Liver transplantation within the spectrum of alcohol related disease" Nicholas Lim, MB, BCh, BAO; August 15, 2024
• "Climate Change and Respiratory Health" Christine Wendt, MD; August 8, 2024
• "Human mobility and health: Public health and clinical implications of human migration and travel" William Stauffer, MD, MSPH, FASTMH; August 1, 2024

July

• "Moving from Cockcroft Gault eCrCL to eGFR for Medication-Related Decision-Making" Wendy L. St. Peter, PharmD, FCCP, FASN, FNKF; July 27
• "Believe the hype? Can AI really help doctors write notes?"  Rebecca Markowitz, MD, MA; July 18, 2024
• "Time, Logistic, and Administrative Burdens of Cancer Care" Arjun Gupta, MBBS; July 11, 2024

June

• "Watson Lecture: Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis" Dr. Vijay Shah, MD; June 27, 2024
• "Harm Reduction: Navigating the Path to Sustainable Addiction Care" Ryan Kelly, MD, MS, Cuong Pham, MD; June 20, 2024
• "Updates in Osteoporosis Management" Susanne Trost, MD; June 13, 2024
• "A Systems Based Approach to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening in the VA" Jill Bowman Peterson, MD; June 6, 24

May

• "Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)" Mary Thomson, MD, MSc; May 30, 2024
• "Lupus: An Update" Parastoo Fazeli, MD; May 23, 2024
• "What do I need to know about Candida Auris?" Serin Edwin Erayil, MD; May 16, 2024
• "Stem Cells and Genomics for Precision Medicine" Joseph Wu, MD, PhD; May 2, 2024

April

• "Geographic Disparities in Lung Health and Impact of Rurality in Interstitial Lung Disease" Hyun Kim, MD; April 25, 2024
• "Assessing and Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care" Elizabeth Rogers, MD, MAS; April 18, 2024
• "Hidradenitis Suppurativa Management for the Internist" Dr. Noah Goldfarb, MD; April 11, 2024
• "Rapid Prospective Evaluation of Healthcare Innovations at the UMN" Drs. Webber, Hilliard, Beebe, and Kaltenborn; April 4, 2024

March

• "Arrhythmia Induced Cardiomyopathy" Venkat N. Tholakanahalli, MD, FHRS; March 28, 2024
• "A Brief Introduction To Precision Medical Education" Peter Thorn, MD; March 21, 2024
• "Taking Action Against Burnout" Liselotte Dyrbye, MD MHPE; March 14, 2024

February 

• "Immune-Related Adverse Events- A New Spectrum of Adverse Events in Patients with Cancer" Amit Kulkarni MBBS; February 29, 2024
• "Top 10 Most Overrated Concepts in Infectious Diseases" Don Bambino Geno Tai, MD, MBA; February 15, 2024
• "Mass Communications for MDs: Focus On Identifying Bias and Misinformation" Kristina Krohn, MD & Zeke McKinney, MD; February 8, 2024

January

• "-Omics, endotypes and septic shock: A clinician’s and clinical researcher’s field guide", David Wacker, MD; January 18, 2024
• "Build the Bridge: Making Rare Disease Lifespan Care a Reality", Alex Boucher, MD and Brandon M. Nathan, MD; January 4, 2024

December

• "Binge Eating Disorder in Healthcare" Rachel Barnes, PhD; December 14, 2023
• "Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Inflammation: Cause and Consequence" Jeremy Allred, MD; December 7, 2023

November

• "Hypothyroidism: what every primary care provider should know" Lynn Burmeister, MD; November 16, 2023
• "Issues in Colorectal Cancer Screening 2023" David Lieberman, MD; November 2, 2023

October

• "Evolving Use of Point of Care Ultrasound in Critical Care" Sami Safadi, MD & Hem Desai, MBBS, MPH; October 26, 2023
• "Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy Diagnostic evolution and CV genetics" Henri Roukoz, MD FACC FHRS; October 19, 2023
• "Aging, Age Acceleration and the Cancer Survivor" Anne Blaes, MD MS; October 12, 2023

September

• "Are they really dead? Ethical Controversies related to Normothermic Regional Perfusion Donation after Cardiac Death" Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C & Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, HEC-C; September 14, 2023

August

• "Pragmatic Trials: Comparison of Chlorthalidone vs. Hydrochlorothiazide for the prevention of cardiovascular outcomes" Areef Ishani, MD ; August 31, 2023
• "Long Covid: Modifying the Vascular Endothelium" Marc Pritzker, MD, FACC; August 24, 2023
• "Shifting Paradigms: Moving Towards Minimally Invasive Critical Care Medicine" Katie Pendleton, MD; August 10, 2023
• "Therapeutic Responses to New Infectious Threats: Lessons from a Pandemic" Joshua Rhein, MD; August 3, 2023

July

• "Clinical Primer on VMAT2 Inhibitor" Mark E. Schniderhan, PharmD, BCPP; July 20, 2023
• "Decoding Patient Deterioration" Tom Byrd, MD, MS; July 13, 2023
• "Multiple Myeloma - The Current Treatment Landscape and Mechanisms of Resistance" Aimee Merino MD PhD; July 6, 2023

June

• "Making Clicks Count - Metadata in Acute Care" Andrew Olson, MD & Dori Cross, PhD; June 22, 2023
• "Diagnosing C. difficile infection" Byron Vaughn, MD, MS; June 16, 2023
• "Women's Health and Kidney Disease" Sahar Koubar, MBBS; June 8, 2023
• "Diagnosis and Treatment of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms in 2023: Linking Biology To Novel Treatments" Joan Beckman, MD, PhD; June 1, 2023

May

• "CAR-T and Beyond" Joseph Maakaron, MD; May 25, 2023
• "Lung Transplantation: Past, Present, and Near-future" Marshall Hertz, MD; May 18, 2023
• "Therapy for Heart Failure in 2023 and What’s Coming" JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD; May 4, 2023

April

• "Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease" Deepthi Malepati, MBBS; April 27, 2023
• "Naloxone Training: Recognizing and Responding to an Opioid Overdose" Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT, Elisabeth Bilden, MD, Marcia Gurno, M.E.D. Health Educator; April 20, 2023
• "Standards of Care for Transgender Adults" Aaron Wasson, MD; April 6, 2023

March

• "Contingency to Crisis Care: The Minnesota Pandemic Experience" Jeffrey Dichter, MD, Sarah Kesler, MD, MPA, CTropMed®; March 30, 2023
• "Oral Encochleated Amphotericin B for Cryptococcal Meningitis: a Phase II Randomized Trial" Caleb Skipper, MD; March 23, 2023
• "Competency-Based Education: From UMN to GME" Kathleen Lane, MD; March 9, 2023
• "Thrombosis and Hemostasis in eCPR: Current Concepts and Challenges" Alejandra Gutierrez, MD; March 2, 2023

February

• "Third Space Endoscopy" Nabeel Azeem, MD; February 23, 2023
• "Updates on Incretin-Based Therapies in the Management of Obesity and DM2" Hind Alameddine, MD; February 16, 2023
• "Complement-Mediated Kidney Diseases: Pathophysiology and Treatment Paradigm in 2023"  Nattawat Klomjit, MD, FASN; February 9, 2023
• “Curative Therapies for Adults with Hemoglobinopathies” Roy Kao, MD, Assistant Professor; February 2, 2023

January

• “The Evolving Landscape of Heart Transplantation” Tamas Alexy, MD, PhD, FACC, FHFSA; January 26, 2023
• “‘They Make You Feel Like You Shouldn’t Be Here.’ Addressing Bias and Mistreatment in our Residency Program”
  Adriana Dhawan, MD, Colin Turner, MD, Anthony Williams, MD; January 19, 2023
• “Treatment Options for Older People with MDS”  Mark Juckett, MD, MHCM; January 12, 2023
• "The Disability Paradox and Medical Decision-Making" Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH & Jaime Konerman-Sease PhD, HEC-C; January 5, 2023

December

• "Addressing Patient Questions and Misperceptions About Osteoporosis" Nolawit Tesfaye, MD; December 15, 2022
• "Post-Roe Implications for Reproductive Health Care and Beyond" Christy Boraas, MD, MPD, Department Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, Assistant Professor; Jessika Ralph, MD,MSCI, Department Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, Assistant Professor; Jill Hasday, JD, UMN Law School, Professor of Law, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Centennial Professor of Law ; December 8, 2022
• "Right Heart Failure; An Engine Out of Fuel" Felipe Kazmirczak, MD; December 1, 2022

November

• "Breast Cancer Subtypes in 2022, A Changing Landscape" Heather Beckwith, MD; November 17, 2022
• "Don’t Forget About Influenza – An Update for Clinicians" Annual Wesley Spink Lecture, Timothy Uyeki, MD, MPH, MPP, Chief Medical Officer of the Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; November 10, 2022
• "Does this patient need to be admitted: Acute care at home" Kiril Dimitrov, MD; November 3, 2020

October

• “Quantifying sarcopenia in the advanced heart failure population - a research journey; Rebecca Cogswell, MD; October 20, 2022
• "Clinical Pearls: Inpatient Management of Diabetes Mellitus" Jacob Kohlenberg, MD; October 13, 2022
• "Sleep & Sleep Disorders during Menopausal Transition" Snigdha Sagar, MD; October 6, 2022

September

• "Hidradenitis Suppurativa" Noah Goldfarb, MD; September 29, 2022
• "Should metformin be in Covid treatment guidelines? Results of a phase 3 trial" Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH; September 15, 2022
• "Going Viral: The history and future of bacteriophage therapy" Anne-Marie Leuck, MD; September 8, 2022
• "Time Toxicity of Cancer Care" Arjun Gupta, MBBS; September 1, 2022

August

• "The Outpatient Approach to Severe Asthma: Clinical Phenotypes, Biologics and Bronchial Thermoplasty" Charlene E. McEvoy, MD, MPH; August 18, 2022
• "Cardiac Amyloidosis" Valmiki Maharaj, MD; August 11, 2022
• "Diabetes and Pregnancy: Preconception, Antepartum and Postpartum" Megan Kristan, MD; August 4, 2022

July

• "Working in the Gap: Where you can’t do what you think you should do" Joan Henriksen, PhD, RN, HEC-C; July 28, 2022
• "From Burnout to Wellness: An Introduction" Stuart Bloom, MD, MSC; July 21, 2022
• "Age Friendly Health Systems" Edward Ratner, MD; July 14, 2022
• "New Non-Race Based eGFR: Implications for Medication-Related Decision-Making" Wendy L. St. Peter, PharmD, FNKF, FASN, FCCP; July 7, 2022

June

• "Epidemiological and clinical aspects of the current multi-country monkeypox outbreak" Alison Galdys, MD; June 30, 2022
• "GIM WIM: Lessons Learned in Emergent Strategy" Molly Wyman, MD, FAAP, Adriana Dhawan, MD; June 23, 2022
• "Use of Ultrasound to Assess Hemodynamics in Acutely Ill Patients" Sami Safadi, MD; June 16, 2022
• "Towards Individualized Health in Rheumatology: Examples from Scleroderma" Ami A. Shah, MD, MHS, Ji Soo Kim, PhD; June 9, 2022
• "How the Electronic Health Record can Enhance Clinical Discovery: Use in Obesity Research" Eric Bomberg, MD, MAS; June 6, 2022

May

• "72 hours in the ICU: A plea for help and a call to action" William Browne, MD; May 26, 2022
• "Eosinophilic Esophagitis" Joshua Sloan, DO; May 18, 2022
• "Heart Failure with an Improved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Mechanisms, Models and Management" Douglas Mann, MD; May 5, 2022

April

• "Challenges in Liver Transplantation For “Alcoholic Hepatitis" Nicholas Lim, MD; April 28, 2022
• "Long Term Pulmonary Effects of Covid-19 Infection" Hem Desai, MBBS, MPH; April 21, 2022
• "Advances in Immunotherapy for Psoriatic Arthritis" Eric Peterson, MD; April 14, 2022
• "Look and You will Find It - What is Unsought will go Undetected". - Sophocles. Primary Aldosteronism (PA) in Resistant Hypertension (RH)" Kidmealem Zekarias, MD; April 7, 2022

March

• "Do you have the GUTS? Updates on anticoagulant use in patients with bariatric surgery history"; Diana Langworthy, PharmD, BCPS; March 31, 2022
• "Hospitals: Coming to a Couch Near You—The Past, Present, and Future of Inpatient Telehealth"; Rebecca Markowitz, MD, MA; March 10, 2022

February

• "To Err in Gastroenterology is Human"; Piet de Groen, MD; February 24, 2022
• "Update on Endocrine Complications of Cystic Fibrosis" Amir Moheet, MBBS; February 17, 2022
• "Sepsis and Rapid Response at UMMC" Ben Webber, MD, Matthew Yocum, MD, MS; February 3, 2022

January

• "Neoadjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer" David Potter, MD, PhD; January 27, 2022
• "Peritoneal Dialysis: The Future of Dialysis?" Katti Woerner, DO; January 13, 2022
• “Requests for Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment” Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C, Jaime Konerman-Sease; January 6, 2022

December

• “Medication Management for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (and the Impact of the Cardiovascular Outcome Trials” Anne Bantle, MD; December 17, 2021
• "Natural History of Sickle Cell Disease-Related Glomerulopathy: Implications for Therapy" Kenneth I. Ataga, MD, Plough Foundation Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Director, UTHSC Center for Sickle Cell Disease; December 9, 2021
• "Breast Cancer in Cancer Survivors" Anne Blaes, MD; December 2, 2021

November

• “A Multidisciplinary Attack on Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Dysfunction” Kurt Prins, MD, PhD; November 18, 2021
• “Global Health Perspectives on the Treatment of COVID-19 Disease – A Focus on Clinical Trials That Inform Clinical Practice” Dr. Constance Benson, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health University of California San Diego; November 4, 2021

October

• “Striking a Balance in Immunosuppression: The Role of Immune Monitoring in Kidney Transplantation” Rasha El-Rifai, MD; October 28, 2021
• “Building Trustworthy Systems for Childbirth” Neel Shah, MD, MPP, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; October 21, 2021
• “Is Hypothermia Cool Anymore? Exploration of the literature and gaps in the literature for cooling patients post cardiac arrest” Andrea Elliott, MD; October 14, 2021
• “KDIGO 2020 Clinical Practice Guideline on Diabetes Management in CKD” Luiza Caramori, MD, MSc, PhD; October 7, 2021

September

• “Making sense of conflicting C. difficile guidelines” Byron Vaughn, MD, MS; September 30, 2021
• “Advances in Management of Autoimmune Blistering Diseases” Brittney Schultz, MD, FAAD; September 23, 2021
• "Restless Legs Syndrome & REM Sleep Behavior Disorder" Michael Howell, MD, Bimaje Akpa, MBBS; September 16, 2021
• “Not All who Wander are Lost: The Journey of Medical Storytelling” Ben Trappey, MD, Maren Olson, MD, MPH, MEd; Anthony Williams, MD, MS; September 9, 2021

August

• “The Importance of Gut Microbiota in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies” Armin Rashidi, MD; August 26, 2021
• “AKI: Why haven't you started dialysis yet?" Millind Junghare, MD; August 19, 2021
• "A Roadmap for Lung Cancer Screening: New Guidelines Highlight Pitfalls and Opportunities" Dr. Anne Melzer; Dr. Abbie Begnaud; August 12, 2021
• “Idiopathic Ventricular Arrhythmias: Definition, Anatomy, ECG diagnosis, Management” Takumi Yamada, MD, PhD; August 5, 2021

July

• “Hypoglycemia in diabetes: Risks and Practical Prevention” Elizabeth Seaquist, MD; July 29, 2021
• “The Impact of Crowd Control Weapons on Public Health & Safety” David Satin, MD; Erika Kaske, BS; David Darrow, MD, MPH; Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD; and Joel Wu, JD, MA, MPH; July 22, 2021
• “Pacritinib with sirolimus & low-dose tacrolimus in GVHD Prevention: Preclinical & Phase I Trial Results” Brian Betts, MD; July 15, 2021
• “Advances in Interprofessional Education at the University of Minnesota” Brain Sick, MD, Erica Levine, MD, Sara North, DPT, Melissa Plesac, MD, Cyndee Stull, DHSc; July 8, 2021
• “Ensuring a Resilient Drug Supply & Reducing Drug Shortages in the U.S.” Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, PharmD, MPubAdm, PhD, FAPhA; July 1, 2021

June

• Watson Lecture: “Why Professor Watson is Smiling: Update on Pathogenesis, Clinical Manifestations, and Management of Acute Hepatic Porphyrias” Herbert L. Bonkovsky, MD; June 24, 2021
• “From She-cession to Her-Turn” Nissrine Nakib, MD; June 17, 2021
• “Sjogren’s Disease in Non-Caucasion Patients at Hennepin Healthcare: Where is the Data?” Rawad Nasr, MD; June 3, 2021

May

• “Academic Health Center Partnerships with Rural Native American Communities: Practical Collaborations Toward Greater Health Equity” Tsige Gebreslasse, MD, Mary Owen, MD, Michael Sundberg, MD, MPH; May 20, 2021
• "One Pound of Feather, One Pound of Gold, Race and eGFR" Samy Riad, MD; May 13, 2021
• “Contemporary Heart Failure Treatment in 2021: What’s new? What you need to know? What’s next?” Clyde W Yancy, MD, MSc; May 6, 2021

April

• “Sepsis in 2021 and Beyond” Ron Reilkoff, MD, David Wacker, MD; April 29, 2021
• “GERD Diagnosis and Management in 2021” Marcia Irene Canto, MD, MHS; April 22, 2021
• “Adrenal: What the Internist Needs to Know” William Young, Jr., MD, MSc; April 15, 2021
• “The Case of KB, a Federal Prisoner Seeking Compassionate Release” Daniel Mueller, MD; April 8, 2021
• “Cardiovascular Outcomes and Clinical Application of Newer Antiglycemic Agents” Kylee Funk, PharmD, BCPS; April 1, 2021

March

• "Hepatocellular Carcinoma, A Global Perspective" Jose Debes, MD; March 25, 2021
• “Considering social needs and treatment burden to improve outcomes in diabetes care” Elizabeth Rogers, MD, MAS; March 11, 2021
• “Update on vaping and EVALI” Helena Molero, MD; March 4, 2021

February

• “Advancing care for patients with pancreatitis: TPIAT and Pancreatogenic Diabetes” Melena Bellin, MD, February 25, 2021
• “Challenges in Osteoporosis Treatment” Susanne Trost, MD; February 18, 2021
• “Lessons from Meta-analysis: Paclitaxel-coated Devices and Mortality in PAD” Sue Duval, PhD, FAHA, February 11, 2021
• “Mobile Health and Health Equity” Jonathan Kirsch, MD, February 4, 2021

January

• “TTP-HUS, TTP, or HUS? Modern Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Thrombotic Microangiopathies” Marshall Mazepa, MD”; January 28, 2021
• “Improving Diagnosis in Medicine” Andrew Olson, MD; January 21, 2021
• “TTP-HUS, TTP, or HUS? Modern Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Thrombotic Microangiopathies.” Marshall Mazepa, MD; January 18, 2021
• “BK Virus in Kidney Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future” Adam Bregman, MD, MBA; January 14, 2021
• “Ethical Approaches to Futility and Scarcity During COVID-19” Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, Joel Wu, JD, MPH, HEC-C, Sarah Kesler, MD; January 7, 2021

December

• “Life is a Puzzle: Let’s Solve It! “ Piet de Groen; December 10, 2020
• "Immunotherapy Combinations for NSCLC" Manish Patel, MD; December 3, 2020

November

• “Heart Rate - Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Use” Markus Meyer, MD; November 19, 2020
• “Pathogenesis of COVID-19” Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iowa; November 12, 2020
• “IgA Nephropathy” Patrick Nachman, MD; November 5, 2020

October

• "Acute Coronary Syndrome in COVID-19" Sergey Gurevich; October 29, 2020
• "Ethical Issues in COVID 19 Response: Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative" Debra DeBruin, PhD, Susan Wolf, JD; October 22, 2020
• "Why I quit my dream job: physician wellness in the era of COVID-19" Meghan Rothenberger, MD; October 15, 2020
• “Beyond CPAP: Alternative Treatments for Sleep Related Breathing Disorders” Umesh Goswami, MD; October 1, 2020

September

• “Closing the Doctor-Patient Gap: Communicating Better “Because” of the Challenges of 2020” Brian Sostek; September 24, 2020
• "Use of artificial intelligence to enhance everyday practice: Are we there yet?” Sameh Hozayen, MD; September 16, 2020
• “Waste in Health Care: Research Approaches to Identifying and Reducing It” R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBS; September 3, 2020

August

• "Dietary protein and kidney health: Should we focus on animal flesh or plants?" Sarah Elfering, MD; August 27, 2020
• "Treating Diabetes after Solid or Transplantation" Tasma Harindhanavudhi, MD; August 20, 2020
• “Preventive Cardiology: Who, What, Where?” Jeremy Van’t Hof, MD, MS; August 13, 2020
• "Human CD83-Targeted CAR T Cells to Prevent GVHD and Eliminate AML" Brian Betts, MD; August 6, 2020

July

• "Updates in Multiple Myeloma and Precursor Conditions" Murali Janakiram, MD, MS; July 23, 2020
• “Migrant Health in the Mediterranean” Nathan Bertelsen, MD; July 16, 2020
• “Coagulopathy and Thrombosis in COVID-19” Surbhi Shah, MD; June 25, 2020

June

• “Telehealth and Diabetes Care” Samar Malaeb, MD; June 18, 2020
• “Updates in severe acute and necrotizing pancreatitis” Guru Trikudanathan, MD; June 11, 2020

May

• “COVID-19 Research at the U of M” Hosted by Peter Crawford, MD, and Paul Drawz, MD, with presentations from Tyler Bold, MD, PhD; Eva Enns, PhD; and Chris Tignanelli, MD; May 22, 2020
• “Teaching at the Bedside: A lost art?” James Nixon, MD; May 14, 2020
• “Biological vs. Statistical Approach to Preventing Morbid Cardiovascular Events” Jay Cohn, MD; May 7, 2020

April

• “COVID-19 Preparedness, System planning at the Minnesota State Level” Jeff Dichter, MD; April 30, 2020
• “Bear Bile, Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19” Clifford Steer, MD; April 23, 2020
• “COVID-19: The University of Minnesota Response” Brad Benson, MD & Timothy Schacker, MD; April 9, 2020
• “Supporting Women through Menopause: Evidence of Risks and Benefits of MHT” Sarah Westberg, PharmD; Co-Associate Dean For Clinical Affairs, College of Pharmacy; University of Minnesota; April 2, 2020

March

• “Embracing Uncertainty in the Evolution of Sepsis Care” Michael Usher, MD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota; March 26, 2020
• “Making Precision Medicine Socially Precise” Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Science & Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); March 19. 2020
• “COVID-19: Quarantine, Containment and Mitigation” Susan Kline, MD, MPH; March 12, 2020
• “Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Care: Adapting Practice to Provide Care to Racial Minorities” Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP, FCCM; March 5, 2020

February

• “Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Management: Updates for Internists” Matt Ciorba, MD; February 27, 2020
• “Primary Aldosteronism”- Kidmi Zekarias, MD; February 20, 2020
• “Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy” Cindy Martin, MD; February 13, 2020
• “The Opioid Crisis: Hidden Barriers” Ryan Kelly, MD &  Cuong Pham, MD; February 6, 2020

January

• “Liquid Biopsies in Prostate Cancer” Arpit Rao, MD; January 30, 2020
• “Don’t Stew. Do: Translating Sociopolitical Angst into Advocacy and Action” Michael Aylward, MD; January 23, 2020
• “Acute Kidney Injury of Kidney Allografts” Richard Spong, MD; January 16, 2020
• “Diversity in Medicine and Health Equity: Two Sides of the Same Coin” Said Ibrahim, MD; January 9, 2020

• “Winning the War on Kidney Disease: The Time is Now” Mark Rosenberg, MD; November 21, 2019  
• “IRIS in HIV Infection: From Bedside to Bench and Back” Irini Sereti, MD; November 14, 2019
• “Atrial Fibrillation Management: Rate vs Rhythm Control and Ablation” Henri Roukoz, MD; November 7, 2019  
• “Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Skeletal Myogenesis” Alessandro Magli, PhD; October 31, 2019 
• “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: How Unseen Organizational Factors Shape Professionalism” Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD; October 24, 2019
• “Natural Killer Cells and Malaria” Geoffrey Hart, MD; October 17, 2019
• “Building a Team for Genetic Skin Diseases” Christina Boull, MD; October 10, 2019 
• “The Burden of Liver Disease in the East African Immigrant Community” Mohamed Hassan, MD & Nicholas Lim, MD; September 26, 2019
• Why “Mirth”: The Power of Story and Therapeutic Aspects of Narrative Medicine” Heather Thompson Buum, MD; September 19, 2019
• “Challenges of Emerging Microbiome Diagnostics and Therapeutics ” Alexander Khoruts, MD; September 12, 2019
• "ANCA Vasculitis: A Review and Update" Patrick Nachman, MD; 08-29-2019
• "Hypoglycemia in Diabetes - Impact, Prevention and Treatment- Amir Moheet, MBBS, 08-22-2019
• The Molecular Evolution of Prostate Cancer: Trying to Hit a Moving Target, Charles Ryan, MD, 08-08-2019
• Understanding Lupus Nephritis - Are We Getting There?, Surabhi Thakar, MD, 07-25-2019
• Climate Health Emergency: From Awareness to Action, Laalitha Surapaneni, MD, 07-18-2019
• Teamwork = Dreamwork? How Teamwork can Improve Joy in Work in Healthcare, Kylee Funk, PharmD, BCPS, 07-11-2019
• Gene Modified Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells in Lymphoma: A New Paradigm in Oncology, Veronika Bachanova, MD, PhD, 06-27- 2019
• Current Concepts in Severe Acute & Necrotizing Pancreatitis, Guru Trikudanathan, MD, 06-20-2019
• Diabetes Care in 2019: Applying the Standards of Care in Your Practice, Anne Bantle, MD, 06-13-2019
• Uncontrolled Hypertension - An Opportunity to Improve Care, Paul Drawz, MD, MHS, MS, 05-30-2019
• Clonal Hematopoiesis Connects Aging, Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer, Peter Libby, MD, 05-16-2019
• An Update in Management of SLE, Parastoo Fazeli, MD, 05-09-2019Sarcoidosis: New Therapies and Directions, David Perlman, MD, 05-02-2019
• SGLT2 as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetes: Basic Physiology and Consequences, Luisa Caramori, MD, 4-18-2019
• The United Nations Agency for Migration and UMN Capacity Building Collaborative: The Global is Local, William Stauffer, MD & Andrew Olson, MD, 03-28-2019
• Reversible Cardiomyopathies. IIknur Can, MD, 03-21-2019
• Hypertension: A Nephrocentric View of the Recent Guidelines, Mirna Boumitri, MD, 03-14-2019
• Medication Trends in the US CKD Population, Robert Foley, MD, 01-17-2019
• Sleep in Women Across the Stages of Life, Snigdha Sagar, MD, 01-10-2019
• Follow-up of Patients with Stable Endocrine Disorders. Collaborative Care Projects to Minimize Waste & Disruption & to Improve Specialty Access. Hypothyroidism as an Example, Lynn Burmeister, MD, 01-03-2019