UCSD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF

UCSD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCES
NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS SUMMARY
2014 Grand Rounds Summary
Date
Location
Title
01/03/14
CNCB
“Variations on a Theme of CIDP:
Lewis-Sumner Syndrome and
Multifocal Motor Neuropathy”
01/10/14
CNCB
“Handwriting Kinematics in
Movement Disorders”
01/17/14
CNCB
“Exploring the Human Brain
Function with Intracranial EEG and
Electrical Brain Stimulation”
01/24/14
CNCB
“Lessons Learned in the Electric
Brain”
01/31/14
CNCB
“Medulloblastoma: Transition to
Molecular-Based Therapy and the
Challenges Ahead”
Speaker
Richard Lewis, M.D.
Director of the EMG Laboratory
Co-Director of the Neuromuscular
Clinic
Department of Neurology
Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Michael Caligirui, Ph.D.
Professor -in-Residence,
Department of Psychiatry and
Director, Human Research
Protections Program
University of California, San Diego
Josef Parvizi, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Stanford Human Intracranial
Cognitive Electrophysiology
Program (SHICEP)
Director, Stanford Program for Intractab
Epilepsy
Stanford University
Michael Okun, M.D.
Administrative Director,
Co-Director, Center for Movement
Disorders and Neurorestoration
Professor, Departments of Neurology,
Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Psychiatry
and History
University of Florida, Gainesville
Roger J. Packer, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
and Pediatrics
Senior Vice-President,
Center for Neuroscience and
Behavioral Medicine
Gilbert Professor in
Neurofibromatosis
Director, Brain Tumor Institute and
Director, Gilbert Family
Neurofibromatosis Institute
Children’s National
02/07/14
CNCB
“The Lewy Body Dementias”
02/14/14
CNCB
“The Use of Personalized Medicine
to Improve the Safety and
Outcomes of Care: Examples in
PCI and Acute Ischemic Stroke”
02/21/14
CNCB
“Parkinson’s disease, from an
integrated molecular
perspective”
02/28/14
CNCB
"Eye of the Tiger"
03/07/14
CNCB
“Neurophysiology of Language”
03/14/14
CNCB
“Neurogenetics: a medical
geneticist’s view from the
trenches”
03/21/14
CNCB
“CSF: Insights into MS”
03/28/14
CNCB
“Neuroprotective studies in
Parkinson’s disease. Can we
face the challenge?”
George Washington University
James B. Leverenz, M.D.
Director, Cleveland Lou Ruvo Center
for Brain Health
Dr. Joseph Hahn Chair of
Neurological Sciences
Cleveland Clinic
John Spertus, M.D., MPH, FACC
FAHA
Lauer/Missouri Endowed Chair and
Professor,
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Clinical Director of Cardiovascular
Education and Outcomes Research
Mid America Heart Institute
Matt Farrer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medical
Genetics,
Canada Excellence Research Chair,
Don Rix BC Leadership Chair in
Genetic Medicine,
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Kapil Sethi, M.D., FRCP, FAAN
Director Movement Disorders Program
Professor of Neurology
Georgia Health Sciences University
Eric Halgren, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences and
Psychiatry,
Co-director Multimodal Imaging Laborator
University of California, San Diego
Maren T. Scheuner, M.D., MPH, FACMG
Chief, Medical Genetics
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Director, VISN 22 Clinical Genetics Service
Associate Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at
University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia Coyle, M.D.
Professor, Department of Neurology
Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs
Director, MS Comprehensive Care Center
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY
Tanya Simuni, M.D.
Arthur C. Nielsen Professor of Neurology
Director, Parkinson's disease and Moveme
04/04/14
CNCB
“The Rising Cost of MS Drugs:
Too Big to Fail?”
04/11/14
CNCB
"Discovering the Early
Behavioral and Neural
Phenotype of Autism"
04/18/14
CNCB
04/25/14
CNCB
"Restoring Function Through
Neurology, Neuroscience and
Neurotechnology"
“PFO Closure: New Frontier or
Fool’s Gold?”
05/02/14
CNCB
No Grand Rounds
05/09/14
CNCB
“Mindfulness For Our Patients,
Mindfulness for Ourselves”
05/16/14
CBCB
“Molecular diagnostics and the
treatment of gliomas”
05/23/14
CNCB
“Developing treatment for
Kennedy’s disease”
05/30/14
CNCB
“Essential Tremor: Not your
mother's benign familial
tremors...”
06/06/14
CNCB
"A Translational Approach to
Disorders Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School o
Medicine
Dennis Bourdette, MD, FAAN, FANA
Chair and Roy & Eulalia Swank Family
Research Professor
Department of Neurology, School of
Medicine, Oregon Health & Science
University
Portland, Oregon
Karen Pierce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Department of
Neurosciences, UCSD
Assistant Director, Autism Center of
Excellence,
University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey Ling, M.D., Ph.D., FAAN, FANA
Deputy Director of the Defense Sciences
Office
John Volpi, M.D.
Co-Director, Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center
Director, Cerebral Blood Flow Lab
Medical Director, Neurology Clinic
Methodist Neurological Institute
Assistant Professor Weill Cornell
Medical College
Houston, Texas
AAN Annual Meeting
Steven Hickman, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Director, UCSD Center for Mindfulness
Associate Clinical Professor, Departments
Psychiatry & Family & Preventive Medicine
University of California, San Diego
David Piccioni, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Neu
Oncology
University of California, San Diego
Kenneth Fischbeck, M.D.
Chief, Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Fatta Nahab, M.D., FANA
Associate Professor of Neurosciences
Movement Disorders
University of California, San Diego
Michael Shy, M.D.
the Inherited Neuropathies"
06/13/14
“Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy”
06/20/14
”Epileptic Encephalopathies”
06/27/14
" Neuro-ophthalmologic
Problems Encountered by the
Neurologist"
07/04/14
CNCB
No Grand Rounds
Holiday
“ From Synapse to Sickness:
Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor
Signaling in Brain Diseases”
07/11/14
CNCB
07/18/14
CNCB
"Advancing Reperfusion Therapies
for Stroke: The CLOTBUSTER
Story"
07/25/14
CNCB
“Nodes and Networks: What
have we learned from pediatric
epilepsy surgery?”
08/01/14
CNCB
“When patients and doctors
disagree on reasonable risk:
lessons on the proper uses of
knowledge, insight and empathy in
Professor of Neurology
Pediatrics and Physiology
Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Timothy Furnish, M.D
Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiolo
Center for Pain Medicine
Pain Fellowship Program Director
University of California, San Diego Medica
Center
Raidah Al-Baradie, M.D., ABMS, EMSHA
Consultant Pediatric Neurologist/
Epileptologist at King Fahd Specialist
HospitalDammam & Dammam University, Director
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at KFSH
& Chairman of Pediatric Neurology
Department at KFSH-D.
Peter Savino, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology &
Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
Nicole Calakos, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and
Neurobiology
Center for Translational Neuroscience
Duke University Medical Center
Andre Alexandrov, M.D.
Semmes-Murphey Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology,
The University of Tennessee Health Scienc
Center
Michael Duchowny, M.D.
Director, Neurology Training and the
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Miami Children's Hospital
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of Miami Miller School of Medici
Clinical Professor, Department of Neurolog
Florida International University College of
Medicine
Norman Kachuck, M.D.
MS Comprehensive Care Center
Department of Neurology
Keck School of Medicine
neurology practice”
08/08/14
CNCB
"ALS and frontotemporal
dementia"
08/15/14
CNCB
“Neuroimaging of Epilepsy
Multimodality-Multidisciplinary
approach”
08/22/14
CNCB
08/29/14
CNCB
09/05/14
CNCB
“Increasing Thrombolysis in Acute
Stroke: The SMART Approach.”
09/12/14
CNCB
“Translational research in central
nervous system Injury: A tale of
sex, drugs, and pork.”
09/19/14
CBCB
“Impact of neurogenetic advances
on diagnosis and treatment of the
hereditary spastic paraplegias”
09/26/15
CNCB
10/03/14
CNCB
“Techniques, Concepts and
Pitfalls in Dynamic ContrastEnhanced Neuroimaging,
Focusing on CT Angiography.”
“Dynamic Magnetic Flux in
Managing Headaches”
“The Emergence
of Neurohospitalists and the
Future of Inpatient Neurologic
Care”
“Advances in EEG-Based
Neurodiagnostics”
University of Southern California
Cathy Lomen-Hoerth, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Director of the ALS Clinic
University of California,
San Francisco
Noriko Salamon, M.D.
Professor in residence
Director of Neuroradiology Fellowship
Program
Department of Radiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
S. Andrew Josephson M.D.
Acting Chair, UCSF Department of Neurolo
Director, Neurohospitalist Program
Medical Director, Inpatient Neurology
Jeffrey Gertsch, M.D.
Medical Director, Surgical Neurophysiology
Department of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
David C. Tong MD, FAHA, FAAN FANA
Medical Director
California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC)
Comprehensive Stroke Center (CCSC)
Director
Clinical Professor of Neurology Geisel Scho
of Medicine at Dartmouth
CPMC Center for Stroke Research
San Francisco, CA
Candace L. Floyd, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Research
Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Craig Blackstone, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator, Neurogenetics Branch
NINDS
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
James Chen, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology
UC San Diego Health System
San Diego VA Medical Center
Albert Leung, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
and
10/10/14
CNCB
“Epilepsy in Pregnancy”
10/17/14
CNCB
“Come into the light—
Understanding Photophobia”
10/24/14
CNCB
“Preclinical AD: The Path
Forward in AD Drug
Development”
10/31/14
CNCB
“How can MRI be used in
clinical practice to monitor and
manage MS patients?”
11/07/14
CNCB
“Mitochondrial Disorders”
11/14/14
CNCB
“Neurologic Limitations on Free
Will”
11/21/14
CBCB
11/28/14
CNCB
12/05/14
CNCB
“Primary Progressive Apraxia of
Speech: Clinical, neuroimaging
and molecular features”
No Grand Rounds
Happy Thanksgiving
“Inflammatory Myopathies:
Translational Studies.”
12/12/14
CNCB
"Medicines and Markers:
Pain management
University of California, San Diego
Kimford J. Meador, M.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology & Neurological
Sciences Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy
Center Stanford University School of
Medicine
and
Brandy Parker-McFadden
Executive Director/Founder
“My Epilepsy Story”
Kathleen B. Digre M.D.
Professor Neurology, Ophthalmology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Paul Aisen, M.D.
Professor of Neurosciences
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative
Study
University of California San Diego
Revere (Rip) Kinkel M.D.
Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program
Department of Neurosciences
University of California San Diego
Richard Haas, MB, BChir
Profes
of Neurosciences & Pediatrics
Co-director of UCSD Mitrochondrial &
Metabolic Disease Center University of
California, San Diego
Ihtsham Haq, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Movement Disorders
Medical Director Janeway & Davie Neurolo
Clinics
Fellowship Director for Movement Disorde
Wake Forest University Medical Center
Keith A. Josephs Jr., M.D., M.S.T., MSc.
Professor and Consultant of Neurology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Steven A. Greenberg, M.D.
Associate Neurologist, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard
Medical School
Steven Mark Greenberg, M.D.,Ph.D.
Treatment Trials for Cerebral
Amyloid Angiopathy."
12/19/14
CNCB
“Rapidly Progressive Dementia:
New Findings in Prion Disease
and Autoimmune Dementia.”
12/27/14
CNCB
Holiday-No Grand Rounds
Director, Hemorrhagic Stroke Research
Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical
School
Michael Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D
UCSF Memory and Aging Center
Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco