Conferences

Memorial Day - No Conferences

12:00 - 1:00 PM
Resident Noon Conference - Block Orientation
Bridges Conference Room

12:00 - 1:00 PM
Resident Noon Conference
Bridges Conference Room

12:15 - 1:00 PM
Grand Rounds
“TBD”
Joe Maakaron, MD

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12:00 - 1:00 PM
Resident Noon Conference
Bridges Conference Room

12:15 - 1:15 PM
Special Seminar in lieu of M&M Conference
“History and Impact of Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine”
Special Guest Speaker: Professor Juleen R. Zierath
HSEC 3-150

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No CME or MOC Credit will be given

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

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; Septermber 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