Pediatric Grand Round Lectures, 2008-09
September 3, 2008 | Brian G. Smith, MD, Yale University | Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Looking Beyond the Bend |
September 10, 2008 | Jeremy Asnes, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology) | Intervention in the Cath Lab |
September 17, 2008 | Mustafa Khokha, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Critical Care Medicine) | Early Embryonic Patterning: Mechanisms on our Construction |
September 24, 2008 | Marjorie Rosenthal, MD, Yale University | Child Care, Development & Mental Health |
October 1, 2008 | Paul McCarthy, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis |
October 8, 2008 | Matthew Bizzarro, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology) | When Good Lines Go Bad: An Effort to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections in the Newborn Special Care Unit |
October 15, 2008 | Precious Lunga, PhD, Yale University | Dav Cooke Lecture – Conducting HIV Prevention Trials in Africa: The Rewards and the Challenges |
October 22, 2008 | Ami Klin, MD, Yale University | Autism Spectrum Disorders in the First Two Years of Life: New Research and Challenges Ahead |
October 29, 2008 | Karen Dorsey, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics | Prevention and Treatment of Obese Children in our Community |
November 5, 2008 | Stuart Weinzimer, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) | High-Tech Diabetes Care for Kids |
November 12, 2008 | Brigette Widemann, MD | Development of Clinical Trials for Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) |
November 19, 2008 | Linda Arnold, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) | Hypnosis in the Acute Care Setting |
December 3, 2008 | Margaret Hostetter, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics | Heparin: Some New Activities |
December 10, 2008 | Geoff Kurland, MD | My Own Medicine: Lessons Learned en route to Remission |
December 17, 2008 | Martina Brueckner, MD & Margretta Seashore, MD, Yale University | Cardiogenetics: From the Lab to the Clinic |
January 7, 2009 | Alda Tufro, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Nephrology) | VEGF and Renal Disease |
January 14, 2009 | Michael Apkon, Md PhD, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital | It Takes A Team - Culture, Communication & Safety |
January 21, 2009 | T.R. Goodman, MD, Yale University | Imaging of the Abdomen |
January 28, 2009 | Richard Kim, MD | TBA |
February 4, 2009 | Adam Hittelman, MD, Yale University, Department of Surgical Urology | Vesicoureteral Reflex |
February 11, 2009 | Laine Friedman-Ross, MD, University of Chicago, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine & Surgery | Ethical Issues in Genetic Testing & Screening of Children and Adolescents |
February 18, 2009 | Eckard Wimmer, MD, Stony Brook University, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Horstman Lecture – Genetics of Poliovirus and its Eradication |
February 25, 2009 | Sheryl Ryan, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine) | Teen Pregnancy: Are there new solutions to this challenging problem? |
March 4, 2009 | Jonathan Winickoff, MD, Harvard Medical School, Center for Child & Adolescent Health Policy | Third Hand Smoke and How to Help Every Family Member Quit Smoking |
March 11, 2009 | Julie Goodwin, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Nephrology) | Sepsis and Steroids: Insights from a Knockout Mouse Model |
March 18, 2009 | Jessica Illuzi, MD MS & Lisbet Lundsberg, PhD, Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric & Environmental Epidemiology | National Children's Study |
March 25, 2009 | Myron Genel, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics & Genetics | Providing Universal Health Care Access in Connecticut: The SustiNet Proposal |
April 1, 2009 | James Goldenring, MD PhD, Vanderbilt University, Department of Surgery | Goldenring Lecture – Zen and the Art of Mucosal Maintenance |
April 8, 2009 | Stephanie Sudikoff, MD PhD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Critical Care Medicine) | High Fidelity Healthcare Simulation at Yale: The State of the Union |
April 15, 2009 | Ronald G. Barr, MD, University of British Columbia, Department of Pediatrics | Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome with the Period of PURPLE Crying |
April 22, 2009 | Moise Levy, MD, Specially for Children Medical Center, Department of Dermatology | Pediatric Dermatological Infections… Is there anything new? |
April 29, 2009 | Sachin Desai, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics | Effectiveness of Rotavirus in Preventing Hospitalization of Young Children |
May 13, 2009 | Shilpa Pai, MD & Mary Ellen Flaherty-Hewitt, MD, Hospital of St. Raphael's, Department of Pediatrics | Resident Education in Advocacy and Community Health |
May 20, 2009 | Ada Fenick, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics | WIC: What's Growing On? |
May 27, 2009 | Marietta Vazquez, MD, Yale University, Department of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) | Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in Preventing Hospitalization of Infants |
June 3, 2009 | Donald R. Mattison, MD, National Institute of Health | Wakeman Lecture – Methylphenidate Treatment in ADHD: Risk of Induced Genetic Damage |

