January 5, 2022

Department of Medicine announces January Medicine Grand Rounds

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Medicine will host the upcoming Medicine Grand Rounds on Thursdays at 8 a.m. in January. Lectures will be live streamed and open to the medical community, including those outside Vanderbilt. Free CME credit is also provided with advanced registration 

January 6: David Rabin Lectureship: “Management Challenges in Thyroid Dysfunction: The Older Patient, the Worried Patient, and the Unhappy Patient” 

  • Speaker: Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Director, Penn Medical Communication Research Institute; Director, Clinical Research, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

January 13: Leonard Lectureship: “Healing of America: Antidote to Bigotry and Hate” 

  • Speaker: Michael Eric Dyson, PhD, Centennial Chair and University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University  

January 20: “SARS CoV-2 vaccine-induced immune responses: Decoding the correlates of protection”

  • Speaker: Spyros Kalams, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, VUMC 

January 27: “Breast Cancer Immunotherapy” 

  • Speaker: Leisha A. Emens, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology; Co-leader, Hillman Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 

For more information, visit medicine.vumc.org/dom-medicine-grand-rounds. 

To register and obtain CME credit for Medicine Grand Rounds, participants will need to submit a one-time opt-in to the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds distribution list here (https://medicine.vumc.org/medicine-grand-rounds-signup), and create a free VUMC Cloud CME account here (https://vumc.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx). 

For questions regarding registration, please email Attallah Stout, Medicine Grand Rounds Program Manager, at attallah.stout@vumc.org