2008-2009

Date: September 24, 2008 Chertow

Speaker: Dr. Glenn Chertow, MD, MPH
Affiliations:
Nephrology Division Chief and Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Title: “Intensity of Dialysis in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury”
Handout: None
Webcast: Yes - click here for webcast

Poster

Date: October 15, 2008 Bierman2

Speaker: Dr. Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS
Affiliations:
Ontario Women’s Health Council Chair in Women’s Health
Associate Professor, Laurence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, HPME, Medicine, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
Title: “Quality Improvement, Performance Measurement and Equity: Meeting the Challenge in Practice and Policy”
Handout: Yes - click here for slides handout
Webcast: Yes - click here for webcast

Poster

Date: November 19, 2008 Connon

Speaker: Dr. Joe Connon, MD, FRCPC
Affiliations:
Staff Gastroenterologist, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: “Starvation, potatoes, and the Irish”
Handout: None
Webcast: No
Poster

Date: January 21, 2009 Falk

Speaker: Dr. Ronald J. Falk, MD
Affiliations:
Doc J. Thurston Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension
Director, UNC Kidney Center
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Title: “ANCA Small vessel vasculitis: Understanding cause may have a therapeutic effect”
Handout: None
Webcast: Yes - Click here for webcast

Poster

Date: February 18, 2009

Speaker: Dr. David Juurlink, MD, FRCPC
Affiliations:
Head, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Sunnybrook HSC
Medical Toxicologist, Ontario Poison Centre
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics & HPME
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: “Studying Drug Safety in the Real World”
Handout: None
Webcast: No
Poster

Date: March 18, 2009 Black

Speaker: Dr. Sandra E. Black, MD, FRCPC
Affiliations:
Brill Chair in Neurology and Brain Sciences Research Program Director,
Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Medical Director, Regional Stroke Centre, North & East Greater Toronto Area
Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: “It Takes Two to Tangle: Unravelling Interactions of Alzheimer's and Vascular Disease in the Aging Brain”
Handouts:
Updated slides
Annotated bibliography
Webcast: Yes - click here for webcast

Poster

Date: April 29, 2009
Speakers:
Dr. Sarita Verma, Deputy Dean and Vice Dean PGME, LLB, MD, CCFP
Dr. Susan Glover Takahashi, Director, Education & Research, PhD
Ms. Caroline Abrahams, Director, Policy and Analysis, BA MPH
Affiliations:
Postgraduate Medical Education Office, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: "Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto – The Present Status and Future Trends"
Handout: None
Webcast: No
Poster

Date: May 6, 2009 Drazen

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Affiliations:
Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Title: "The cholesterol-lowering story: The role of medical journals"
Handout: No
Webcast: No
Poster

Date: May 20, 2009 Wachter
Speaker: Dr. Robert M. Wachter, MD
Affiliations:
Professor and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine
Chief of Medical Service - UCSF Medical Center
University of California, San Francisco
Title: “The End of the Beginning: Patient Safety Ten Years after the IOM Report on Medical Errors.”
Handout: Slides
Webcast: Yes - click here for webcast
Poster

Date: June 17, 2009 Blume photo
Speaker: Dr. Warren Blume, MD, FRCPC
Affiliations:
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Western Ontario
Title: “Precipitating Factors of Epileptic Seizures”
Handout: None
Webcast: Yes - Click here for webcast
Poster

City Wide Medical Grand Rounds (CWMGRs) are generally held from 12:00 to 13:00 on the third Wednesday of each month during the September to June academic year, except in December. Variations are occasionally made to accomodate special visiting speakers and may include a date change or an additional CWMGR in a given month.

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