Grand Rounds

Winter and Spring 2008

Wednesdays 8:00 A.M.

*PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE:  Beginning January 2009 LMP Grand Rounds will meet in 3-125 Mayo

APRIL

April 8
Natasha Kyprianou, PhD Professor of Urology, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery and the Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky "Targeting Prostate Tumor Vascularity via Quinazoline-induced Anoikis"

April 15
Stella M. Davies, MBBS, PhD, MRCP Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cincinnati Children's Hospital "Personalized Therapy for Leukemia. Are We There Yet?"

April 22
Stephen Schmechel, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota "Biomarkers of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness"

April 29
Danny Welch, PhD Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, University of Alabama, Birmingham "Metastasis Suppressors Reveal New Therapeutic Targets for Cancer

MARCH

March 11
José M. Ordovas, PhD, Senior Scientist, Professor, Director of the Nutrition, and Genetics Lab, Tufts University, Boston, "Nutrition Meets Genetics: Is This the End of "One-Size-Fits-All?"

March 18
Karen Santa Cruz, MD, Assistant Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota

March 25
Ruth Lynfield, MD, MN State Epidemiologist & Medical Director for Infectious Disease, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology "Staphylococcus aureus: Epidemiological Insights from a Favorite Foe"

FEBRUARY

February 11
Robert Jenkins, MD, PhD, Pathologist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester "Genetic Studies of Human Gliomas"

February 18
Michael P. Busch, PhD, Director, Blood System Research Institute, San Francisco "Current and potential future risks of transfusion-transmitted viral infections, and scientific insights into these infections from studies of blood donors and recipients"

February 25
Lindsey Henson, MD PhD, Vice Dean for Education, University of Minnesota Medical School "Competency-based Education in a Mastery Learning Model: The MED 2010 Initiative"

JANUARY

January 7, 2009
Suman Setty, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago. "The Impact of Metabolic Status on Evolution of Renal Cell Carcinoma"

January 14, 2009
C. Blake Gilks, BSc, M.D.  Professor, Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia.  "Subclassification of Ovarian Carcinoma Based On a Combination of Morphology and Molecular Abnormalities"

January 21, 2009
David Maurer, M.D.  Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota.  "A Re-Evaluation of Histocompatibility and Its Influence on Organ Transplantation."

January 28, 2009
R. Andrew Baker, M.D.  Chief Medical Examiner, Hennepin County.  "Disaster Preparation for the Pathologist:  Lessons from the I35 Bridge Collapse."

DECEMBER

December 3rd
David Faith, Safety Expert, Nuclear Submarines, US Navy
"Safety and Quality Messages from a U.S. Nuclear Submarine"

December 10th
Scott Dehm, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Cancer Center, University of Minnesota,"The Role of Alternatively Spliced Androgen Receptor Isoforms In Resistance To Prostate Cancer Therapy"

December 17th (3-100 Mayo)
Virginia Kubic, MD, PhD, Medical Director of Hematology and Associate Medical Director of Cytogenetics, Hennepin County Medical Center.  "Molecular Insights into the Pathogenesis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms."

No conferences on December 24th or 31st.

NOVEMBER

November 5th
Behzad Najafian, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota
"Of Zebras and Kidneys: Renal Complications of Fabry's Disease"

November 12th
Chawnshang Chang, MD, Professor, Pathology and Lab Medicine, Urology & Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester, NY
"Differential Androgen Receptor Signals: why Androgen Deprivation Therapy of Prostate Cancer Fails"

November 19th
Suzanne Tyas, BSc, MSc PhD, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Predictors of Alzheimer¿s Disease Across the Lifespan:  An Overview of Findings from the Nun Study"

No conference on November 26th.

October

October 1, 2008
Dr. Jose Jessurun, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, "Fetishism in Pathology"

October 7, 2008
Dr. Derek Radisky, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, "Matrix Metalloproteinase-Induced Fibrosis and Cancer in Breast and Lung"

October 15, 2008
Dr. George Vasmatzis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Rochester, MN.  "Differential transcriptomics for the prognosis and sub-typing of cancer"

October 22, 2008
James R. Stubbs, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Transfusion Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.  "Coagulopathy of Trauma:  Pathophysiology and Management"

October 29, 2008
Dr. Claudio Brunstein, Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota.  "Umbilical Cord Transplants for Children and Adults"

September

September 3
Dr. David A. Potter, Associate Professor of Medicine and the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, "Ritonavir:  From Drug to Pathways in Breast Cancer"

September 10
Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Durham Research Center, Nebraska Medical Center, "Glial Inflammation and Protein Kinases as Therapeutic Targets of Alzheimer¿s and Tauopathy Diseases:  From Animal Models to Therapeutic Inventions"

September 17
Brian Van Ness, Professor and Head, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of Minnesota. "Genomics and Personalized Medicine"

September 24
Lawrence Burgart, MD, Staff Pathologist, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota. "DNA Mismatch and Repair and Colon Cancer"