Upcoming Events
Check out a couple of photos from our resident skip day at a recent Richmond Flying Squirrels game.
Check out photos of our residents and faculty at Night of the Cases - a yearly event for our PGY-3s to present exciting cases to our faculty.
Be sure to follow us on Instagram at VCUNeuroResidency for additional photos and to see the latest from our adult and child neurology residency programs.
Upcoming events:
- New Resident Orientation - Please look for more information from the VCU GME Office.
Resident Graduation 2024 Gallery
Prior Grand Rounds
December 29, 2023: Winter Break
December 22, 2023: Winter Break
December 15, 2023: Recruitment Interviews/Wellness Day
December 8, 2023: David Greer, MD – “Update on Brain death”
December 1, 2023: Recruitment Interviews/Wellness Day
November 24, 2023: Thanksgiving Break
November 17, 2023: Ajay Sampat, MD – “My ALS Journey: thoughts, reflections and unsolicited advice for healthcare providers”
November 10, 2023: Recruitment Interviews
November 3, 2023: Recruitment Interviews
October 20, 2023: Recruitment Interviews
October 13, 2023: John Stern, MD – “Mind the Gap: The Evolution of Epileptology”
September 29, 2023: Pearce Korb, MD – Lecture
September 22, 2023: Ewa Way, MD – Lecture
September 15, 2023: No meeting, Faculty Retreat
September 8, 2023: Health Equity Rounds Committee – “Health Equity Rounds: Limited English Proficiency”
September 1, 2023: Gordon Smith, MD – “An Update on Common Axonal Peripheral Neuropathies”
August 25, 2023: Neuro-Quality Conf Board Review
August 18, 2023: James (Trey) Bateman, MD – “Alzheimer’s Disease in 2024”
August 11, 2023: Maha Alattar, MD – Lecture
August 4, 2023: Shraddha Mainali, MD – “Current State and Future Directions in Curing Coma and Disorders of Consciousness: Can We Improve Outcomes After Stroke?”
July 28, 2023: Shraddha Mainali, MD – Lecture
July 21, 2023: Rashid Hussain, MD – Lecture
July 14, 2023: Michael Marmura, MD – “Pharmacological advances in migraine: how have new treatments changed our approach?”
July 7, 2023: Neel Dixit, MD – “STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE STUDENT TEACHING AND EVALUATION”
June 23, 2023: Kelly Gwathmey, MD – “Delay to diagnosis in ALS: How can we do better?”
June 16, 2023: No meeting
June 9, 2023” Junghoon Ha, MD – “Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease”
June 2, 2023: Vivek Patel, MD – “Updates in Mechanical Thrombectomy: Getting to the Core of the Problem”
May 26, 2023: Mark Magharious, MD – “An Update on MOGAD (Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease)”
May 19, 2023: Carrie Ham – Lecture
May 12, 2023: Tiffany Braley, MD – “Fatigue In Neurological Disorders: Spotlight On Multiple Sclerosis”
May 5, 2023: Philip Lee, MD “The Movement Disorders of Cirrhosis”
April 28 , 2023: No meeting
April 21, 2023: Jane Chang, MD – “Me, Myself, and AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact the Practice of Neurology”
April 14, 2023: Christopher Bird, MD – “The Language of Medicine. A History”
April 7, 2023: Deep Patel, MD – “Teleneurology: Current and Future Tools”
March 31, 2023: Gordon Baltuch, MD – “Focused Ultrasound in the Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders: An Update and Critical Appraisal”
March 24, 2023: Unsung Oh, MD – “An Update on Multiple Sclerosis”
March 17, 2023: Christopher Henry, MD – “Addressing Conflicts that Arise from Therapeutic Noise”
March 10, 2023: Lauren Menzies, MD – “Hearts and Minds: Exploring the Neuro-Cardiac Axis”
March 3, 2023: Pearce Korb, MD – Lecture
February 24, 2023: Seyed Mohammad Gharavi, MD – “Imaging of CNS Vascular Malformations and Aneurysms”
February 10, 2023: Phillip Gastrell, MD – “Autoimmune Encephalitis & Seizures”
February 3, 2023: Taylor Haight, MD – “One Year After Go-Live: An Epic Refresher”
January 27, 2023: Cameron Miller-Patterson, MD – “The Role of Autonomic Failure in Parkinson's Disease Progression: What We Know and Future Research Directions”
November 11, 2022: Lana Chahine, MD – “Identifying Individuals At Risk for Parkinson’s Disease for Clinical Trials”
November 4, 2022: No speaker
October 28, 2022: Ali Hamedani, MD – “National Health Surveys In Neurodegenerative Disease Research”
October 21, 2022: Resident Mentor/Mentee Meetings
October 14, 2022: Kathryn Holloway, MD and Paul Koch, MD – “DBS and FUS: The Right Candidate for the Right Procedure”
September 23, 2022: Woodford Beach, MD – “Primary Progressive Aphasia”
September 9, 2022: Scott Haines, MD – “Photophobia: Update on the neurologic basis of symptoms and options for management”
September 2, 2022: Xinli Du & Carlos Puig Gilbert, MD – “Myasthenia Gravis management with a focus on thymectomy”
August 26, 2022: Mathula Thangarajh, MD – “21st Century Innovative & Translational Tools To Solve A 19th Century Observation. A Play In Two Parts”
July 29, 2022: Vishal Yajnik, MD – "Diversity and Disparities in Critical Illness"
July 8, 2022: Delaram Safarpour, MD – “Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease”
July 1, 2022: Jennifer Haynes, MD – “MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like Episodes) Presenting as Adult Onset Epilepsy”
June 24, 2022: Stephanie Bissonnette, MD – “Listen and Learn: Understanding Diverse Perspectives in Parkinson's Disease”
June 10, 2022: Khan and Nogles – “Neurotropism of SARS-COV-2. The Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and Structural Brain Changes Seen in COVID-19/The Stroke Gap: Sex Differences in Cryptogenic Stroke”
June 3, 2022: Cox and Haley – “CHARACTERISTICS OF ALS IN BLACK AMERICANS AT A SINGLE-CENTER MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CLINIC/A Stimulating Comparison on the Use of VNS, RNS, and DBS in Focal Onset Epilepsy”
May 27, 2022: Alwood and Padia – “Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Acute Stroke/Sleep Medicines”
May 20, 2022: Anderson and Ostashako – “THE HISTORY OF THE RELEX HAMMER/ PML: Unmet Need for Therapeutic Advances”
May 13, 2022: Arun Kalra, MD – “Neuropathic Pain & Clinical Hypnosis in a child” (Live case presentation)
May 6, 2022: Thomas "Tom" Bleck, MD – “ICP to BOOST3: A Play In Five Acts”
April 22, 2022: Thomas Yeh, MD / Aida Sehic, PhD – “The Role of Neuromonitoring in Cardiac Surgery”
April 15, 2022: Christine Esper, MD – “Clinical 3D Motion Capture in Movement Disorders: Tremor and Gait Analysis”
March 25, 2022: Leonel Estofan, MD – “An Update In Convulsive Status Epilepticus”
March 11, 2022: Thomas "Tom" Chelimsky, MD – “How Life Could be so Much Easier if we Just Applied what we Know”
February 25, 2022: Corey Trankle, MD – “Intracardiac Thrombus: Implications for Stroke Risk and Current Controversies”
February 11, 2022: Claire Riley, MD – “Immunotherapy in Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from CSF Single Cell RNA Sequencing”
February 4, 2022: Stanislav (Stan) Naydin, MD – “Stroke Intervention: Past, Present, Future”
January 28, 2022: John Burkett, MD – “A Review of Medication Overuse Headache”
January 21, 2022: Camilo Gutierrez, MD – “Racial Health Disparities in Epilepsy”
January 14, 2022: “Sleep, Epilepsy, and SUDEP”
December 24 - 31, 2021: Winter Break
December 17, 2021: Deepal Shah-Zamora, M.D., - "Therapeutic Applications of Music in Neurology"
December 10, 2021: Qihua Fan, M.D., -"Clinical Outcome Measures: Lessons from CIDP"
December 3, 2021: James Howard, M.D., - "Specific Targeting of the Mechanisms of Disease as a Rationale Approach to Treat Myasthenia Gravis"
November 26, 2021: Thanksgiving Holiday
November 19, 2021: No meeting
November 12, 2021: Aditya Pawar MD, and William Howlett, Ph.D., - "Neurological Disorders in Africa"
November 5, 2021: Riley Bove, M.D., - "Sex differences matter in neurology: insights from MS"
October 29, 2021: Taylor Haight, - "Cognitive Bias in Medical Decision Making"
October 22, 2021: Ram Saha, - "COVID and Cerebrovascular Events"
October 15, 2021: Carla Lopinto-Khoury, - "Long-term Effects of Anti-seizure Medications"
October 8, 2021: NO GR - Faculty Meeting
October 1, 2021: NO GR - Faculty Meeting
September 24, 2021: G. Peter Gliebus, - "Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus"
September 17, 2021: NO GR - Faculty Retreat
September 10, 2021: Erol Veznedaroglu, - "Innovations in Neurosciences"
September 3, 2021: Elisabeth Marsh, - "Poststroke Cognitive Dysfunction: Timing, Associated Factors, Novel Physiologic Underpinnings, and Recovery"
August 27, 2021: Sarah Lageman, - "Exploration of Parkinson's Disease Symptomatology Subtypes from the Caregiver Perspective: Implications for Caregiver Burden, Depression, and Anxiety"
August 20, 2021: Pearce Korb, - "Kids These Days: Generational Differences in Medical Education"
August 13, 2021: Lealani Acosta mAb, - "Maybe Not: Monoclonal Antibodies (mAb) and Other Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutic Updates"
August 6, 2021: Elizabeth Sonntag, - "A case study in brain death determination: The Jahi McMath Case"
July 30, 2021: Kerstin Bettermann, - "Cerebral Small Vessel Disease"
July 23, 2021: Matthew Barrett, - "Subtyping Parkinson disease: Why and How?"
July 16, 2021: Leslie Cloud, - "Gastrointestinal Pathology in Parkinson's Disease: The State of the Science"
July 9, 2021: Richard Mayeaux, - "THE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE GENETICS CONSORTIUM: NEW GENES, FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS & REDEFINING PHENOTYPE"
July 2, 2021: Brad Klein, - "US HEALTHCARE: HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
February 26, 2021: Jonathan Bekenstein, MD, PhD - "Epilepsy, Behavior, Circuits and Dendritic Spines“ | GR 02.26.2021
February 19, 2021: Kelsey Satkowiak, MD - “Neuromuscular Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors” | GR 02.19.2021 PDF
February 12, 2021: Maha Alattar, MD - "Neurology in Music and Musicians" | GR 02.12.2021 PDF
February 5, 2021: Sherita Chapman, MD - "Updates in Secondary Stroke Medical Management” | GR 02.05.2021 PDF
January 29, 2021: Elysha Dinh - "Peripheral Nerve Stimulation"
January 22, 2021: Jean Bailey, PhD and Cherie Edwards, PhD - "Getting Started in Medical Education Research" | GR 01.22.2021 PDF
January 15, 2021: David Cifu, MD - "Concussion Care 2021 Or 'I think I have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy': A Clinician's Guide to Managing a Research Phenomenon" | GR 01.15.2021 PDF
January 8, 2021: Aatif M. Husain, MD - "Status Epilepticus Treatment Trials: The Role of EEG" | GR 01.08.2021 PDF
December 18, 2020 - Ryan Nord, MD - “Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation for OSA” | GR 12.18.2020 PDF
December 11, 2020 - Juan Lu, MD, Ph.D. - “Clinical Epidemiology: Research, Designs, Validity, Relevance and Generalizability” | GR 12.11.2020 PDF
December 04, 2020 - M. Imad Damaj, Ph.D. - "Translational Studies of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Animal Models" | GR 12.04.2020 PDF
November 20, 2020: Dr. Scott Otallah - "The Clinical Spectrum of MOG Antibodies" | GR 11.20.2020 PDF
November 13, 2020: Dr. Steven Kates - "Delirium in the Orthopedic Patient" | GR 11.13.2020 PDF
November 6, 2020: Dr. Kathryn Holloway - "The Utility of Adding a VIM Lead to GPI DBS for Parkinsonian Patients with Medication Unresponsive Tremor" | GR 11.06.2020 PDF
October 30, 2020: Dr. Hope Richard - "Neuropathology of Seizures" | GR 10.30.2020 PDF
October 23, 2020: Dr. Charlene Gamaldo - "Creating a Neurology Department Built on Inclusive HealthCare Excellence: The What? Why? How?" | GR 10.23.2020 PDF
October 16, 2020: Dr. Marcelo Rocha - "Update on the Pathophysiology of Stroke Due to Large Vessel Occlusion" | GR 10.16.2020 PDF
October 9, 2020: Dr. Scott Haines - "Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Neuro-Ophthalmology."
October 2, 2020: Dr. Joseph Safdieh - "Career Development for Clinician Educators.”
September 25, 2020: Dr. Woodford A. Beach - “Functional Speech Disorders."
September 18, 2020: Dr. Warren Felton - “Optic Neuritis 2020."
September 11, 2020: Dr. Andrew Southerland - "Stroke and COVID-19: Contagion, Co-incidence, and Collateral Effects.”
September 4, 2020: Dr. Jaffar Khan and Dr. Lenora Higginbotham - “What Has Neurology Done for You Lately: A Tale of Two Careers.”
August 28, 2020: Dr. Xinli Du - "A Review of Guillain-Barre Syndrom-From AIDP to Nodo-Paranodopathy."
August 21, 2020: Ginger Norris - "A Brief Review of Neurologic, Triplet Repeat Diseases "
August 14, 2020: Dr. Kelly Gwathmey - "Telemedicine in the ALS Clinic and Beyond: A New Beginning During the Era of COVID-19"
August 7, 2020: Dr. Ann Ritter - "Option for Surgical Repair of Craniosynostosis"
July 31, 2020: Jonathan Snider, M.D. - "The Spanish Flu, Post-encephalitic Parkinsonism, and the Rise of the Action Neurologist"
July 24, 2020: Gary W Tye, M.D. - "Pediatric Neurosurgical Mission Tips"
July 17, 2020: Subhendu Rath, M.D. - "EEG in COVID-19"
July 10, 2020: Chad Johnson, PhD - "Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Pediatric Epilepsy Patient"
June 26, 2020: Dr. Umar Alam - "Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes, an Approach"
September 20, 2019: Cyrus K. Dastur, M.D. - "Ethics in the NeuroICU: Pitfalls of Prognostication"
September 6, 2019: Nicole M. Deiorio, M.D. - "How Coaching Can Help Your Learners - And You"
August 23, 2019: Kelly Gwathmey, M.D. - "At the Intersection of Neurology and Rheumatology: The Impact of Systemic Inflammatory Disease on the Peripheral Nervous System"
August 9, 2019: Mark Baron, M.D. - "Movement Disorders: What, How, And Where"
July 26, 2019: Warren Felton, III, M.D. - "Acute Stroke, 2019 Evolution in Diagnosis, Management, and Clinical Research"
July 19, 2019: Nicole Calakos, M.D., Ph.D. - "Found in Translation: A Pathway Mechanism for Dystonia"
Contact
To request an invite to join Grand Rounds, please contact:
Sabrina Montague, MBA
Administrative Assistant
Department of Neurology, Education Division
Email: Sabrina.Montague@vcuhealth.org
Phone: (804) 828-2515
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