Grand Rounds

Spring 2008

Wednesdays 8:00 A.M., Eustis Amphitheater, D-230 Mayo

May

May 7
Agnes Aysola, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota.  "Recombinant Factor VIIa: Is a panacea for all bleeding symptoms?"

May 14
Dr. David Seldin, Chief ad interim, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center.  "Protein Kinase CK2 and Wnt Signaling in Cancer and Development"

May 21
Hsing Jien-Kung, Deputy Director, UCD Cancer Center, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, UCDCC Professor in Basic Cancer Research  "Tyrosine kinases, androgen receptor and prostate cancer"

May 28
Betsy Hirsch, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota. "A New Day in Our Lives in Cytogenetics"

April

April 2
Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery, Departments of Pathology and Oncology, Director, Clinical Gastrointestinal Pathology, Johns Hopkins University.  "Topics in Esophageal Pathology"

April 9
Dr. Deniz Aslan, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Univeristy of Minnesota Medical School, "Pathologic Diagnosis of Small Pulmonary Adencarcinoma"

April 16
Dr. David McKenna, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota and Dr. Jay Traverse, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Interventional cardiologist, Minneapolis Heart Institute. “Cardiovascular Cellular Therapy: Applications in Acute Myocardial Infarction.”

April 23
Dr. Bal Lokeshwar, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Research, Department of Urology, University of Miami, Florida. "Pro-Inflammatory Factors and Prostate Cancer:  All Do Some, Some Do It All"

April 30
Dr. Brent Clark, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota.  "Myotonic Dystrophy: Pathogenetic Mechanisms and CNS Neuropathology".

March

March 5, 2008
Martin H. Kroll, Chief, Deptartment of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Medical Center  "New Aspects of Blood Coagulation"

March 12
Pamela Sakkinen, MD, MPH, Twin Cities DermPath, Minneapolis, MN. 
"Nevoid Melanoma:  When Melanoma Mimics a Nevus"

March 19
Dr. Greg Metzger, CMRR/Radiology, University of Minnesota.  "Magnetic resonance imaging in the management of prostate cancer:  Will the role of pathology be marginalized?"

March 26
Mark Schleiss, M.D., Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota.  "Update on Pathogenesis of Cytomegalovirus Disease"