Neurology Grand Rounds

2009-2010 Grand Rounds
Longwood Area Neurology Grand Rounds are held at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine, 1st floor Seminar Room (the Bray Room) HIM 109 from 9:30am- 10:30am every Wednesday.

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Date Speaker Affiliation Institution Topic
September 2, 2009 Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD. Professor of Neurology, BIDMC; Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
September 9, 2009 Robert J. Schwartzman, MD Professor and Chairman of Neurology Drexel University College of Medicine Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome /Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (CRPS/RSD)
September 16, 2009 P. Ellen Grant, MD, MSc Associate Professor of Radiology; Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center Children’s Hospital Boston The Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center
September 23, 2009 Michael A. Schwarzschild, PhD, MD Associate Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Pursuing Purines in Parkinson’s: from Caffeine to Adenosine to Urate
September 30, 2009 Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD Assistant Professor in Neurology Harvard Medical School; Children’s Hospital Boston Axonal Connectivity in Tuberous Sclerosis as a Model for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
October 7, 2009 Costantino Iadecola, MD Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience Weill Medical College of Cornell University
October 14, 2009 Kari Stefansson, MD, Dr. Med deCode Genetics
October 21, 2009 Jill V. Hunter, MD Section Head for Pediatric Neuroradiology; Associate Professor, Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital; Baylor College of Medicine
October 28, 2009 Anish Bhardwaj, MD Neurologist-in-Chief Tufts; NEMC
November 4, 2009 Steven A. Goldman, MD, PhD Glen-Zutes Chair in Biology of the Aging Brain, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics University of Rochester Cell-based therapies for neurological disease
November 11, 2009 Zahid H. Bajwa, MBBS Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard University; Harvard Medical School
November 18, 2009 Jean Raymond, MD MGH
December 2, 2009 Matthew Rizzo, MD Professor of Neurology University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
December 9, 2009 Ingrid E. Scheffer, MBBS, PhD, FRACP Director of Paediatrics, Austin Health; Professor of Paediatric Neurology Research Department of Medicine, Austin Health; Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children’s Hospital; The University of Melbourne Australia Genotype-phenotype correlation
December 16th, 2009 Kevin Eggan, MD Assistant Professor Dept. of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology; Assistant Investigator Harvard Medical School; Stowers Medical Institute
January 6, 2010 Susan T. Herman, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School; Beth Israel Medical Center
January 20, 2010 Kenneth H. Fishbeck, MD Chief, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Neurogenetics Branch National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Therapeutics Development for Hereditary Neuromuscular Disease
January 27, 2010 Clifford Saper, MD, PhD Professor and Chair of Neurology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
February 3, 2010 Susan E. Swedo, MD Head of the Section on Behavioral Pediatrics, and Chief of the Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch National Institutes of Health Streptococcal Infections and Childhood-Onset OCD – A Conversation About the PANDAS “Controversy”
February 10, 2010 Jeremy M. Shefner Professor and Chair of Neurology Upstate Medical University
February 17, 2010 Stefan M. Pulst, MD, Dr med Professor and Chair of Neurology University of Utah
February 24, 2010 Alfonso Caramazza, MD Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology Harvard Medical School
March 3, 2010 Elaine Wyllie, MD Director of the Center for Pediatric Neurology Cleveland Clinic Surgery for Epilepsy due to Early Brain Lesions: Think Pediatric
March 10, 2010 Bruce L. Miller Interim Department Chair and Professor University of California at San Fransisco
March 17, 2010 Gretchen L. Birbeck, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department of Epidemiology & Neurology; Core Faculty-African Studies Center Michigan State University Epilepsy Care Delivery in Rural Zambia: A Bush Perspective
March 24, 2010 Justin McArthur, MBBS, MPH Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Director of the Center for Novel Therapeutics of HIV-associated Cognitive Disorders; Director of the Cutaneous Nerve Laboratory John Hopkins University School of Medicine
March 31, 2010 Peter R. Camfield, MD, MRCP Professor of Pediatrics; Chair of the Department of Pediatrics’ Research Committee IWK Health Care Center, University of Halifax The Best Care for Children with Epilepsy: Fallacies and Evidence
April 7, 2010 Argye E. Hillis-Trupe MD, MA Professor of Neurology and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Director, Neurology Residency Program;
Deputy Director, Department of Neurology; Co-Director, Cerebrovascular Center		 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
April 14, 2010 Ole Isacson Dr. Med.Sci, MD Professor of Neurology MacLean Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
April 21, 2010 Kapil D. Sethi, MD Professor of Neurology Medical College of Georgia
May 5, 2010 Roy Patchell, MD Professor of Neuro-Oncology University of Kentucky College of Medicine Brain Metastases
May 12, 2010 Marcus E. Raichle, MD Professor: Radiology, Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology Washington University School of Medicine Two Views of Brain Function
May 19, 2010 Karen L. Roos, MD John and Nancy Nelson Professor of Neurology Indiana University
May 26, 2010 Hannah C. Kinney, MD Associate in Medicine; Associate Professor of Pathology Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Pathology; Harvard Medical School Brain Stem Research in SIDS. New Insights
June 2, 2010 Richard A. Rudick, MD Professor of Medicine; Hazel Prior Hostetler Chair of Neurology; Director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research; Vice Chairman of Research and Development in the Neurological Institute at Clevland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic; Case Western University
June 9, 2010 Joseph J. Volpe, MD Director, MRRC; Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology; Neurologist-in-Chief Emeritus Children’s Hospital Boston; Harvard Medical School Brain Injury in the Premature Infant
June 16, 2010 Jarome Posner, MD Evelyn Frew American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor; George C. Cotzias Chair of Neuro-oncology; Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience Weil Medical School of Cornell University; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center