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The Heart and Vascular Center Cardiology Grand Rounds

Cardiology Grand Rounds, 2009-2010
Organized by: David Rosenbaum, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center
Heart & Vascular Conference Center
Take the C elevators to the third floor, Hamann Building
[Directions to MetroHealth Medical Center]
Wednesdays 5:15 - 6:15PM 

 Date

 Speaker

 

Topic 

September 9, 2009

 Lee Gemma, MD
 
Cardiology Fellow

"Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy"

September 16, 2009

 Eckhard Ficker, PhD
 Research
 Heart & Vascular Center

   "Think Outside the Block:  Novel Mechanisms of Acquired Long QT Syndrome"

September 23, 2009

J. Andrew Wasserstrom, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University
Feinberg Medical School

"Why Does the Heart Fail?  A Cell Attrition 
Model of Heart Failure"

September 30, 2009

Cardiology Breakthroughs
Sanjay Gandhi, MD
William Lewis, MD

"Renal Artery Denervation - A Novel Approach to Treatment of Resistant Hypertension"

"Dabigatran for Stroke Prophylaxis in Atrial Fibrillation"

October 7, 2009

Michael Cutler, DO, PhD
Cardiology Fellow

"Systemic Emboli - Is it the Heart's Fault?"

October 14, 2009

Cardiology Breakthroughs
Dilip Pillai, MD
Otto Costantini, MD 

"MADIT-CRT"

"PLATO Comparing Ticagrelor vs Clopidogrel in ACS" 

October 21, 2009

Stephen J. Nicholls, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FACC
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

"HDL:  Has Good Cholesterol Turned Bad?"
 
 

October 28, 2009

David Rosenbaum, MD
Director, Heart & Vascular Center
Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Engineering
          

"How to Give an Oral Presentation to Doctors, Scientist, or Anyone Else Willing to Listen"

November 4, 2009

Blair P. Grubb, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Toledo School of Medicine 

 "Autonomic Causes of Syncope:  A Guide for the Clinician"

November 11, 2009

Brian Griffin, MD, FACC
Director, Cardiovascular Training Program
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine 

"Mitral Valve Prolapse:  An Update" 

November 18, 2009

American Heart Association
Scientific Sessions
Orlando, FL
November 14-18, 2009


No Program Today

November 25, 2009


Holiday Week


No Program Today

 

December 2, 2009

Sumeet S. Chugh, MD
Associate Director of the Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

"Sudden Cardiac Arrest:  Who is Most Susceptible?" 

December 9, 2009

Bruce D. Lindsay, MD
Section Head, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

"Eliminating Triggers of Ventricular Fibrillation:  Physiologic Basis and Clinical Implications"

December 16, 2009

AHA Late Breaking Trials Part I
Moderators: 
Karen Kutoloski, DO
Sanjay Gandhi, MD
Mark Dunlap, MD

"Role of CT Angiography for Assessment of Acute Chest Pain (CT-STAT)" Moderator:  Dr. Kutoloski

"Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events with Aranesp Therapy (TREAT)"  Moderator:  Dr. Gandhi

"Improved Outcomes in Advance Heart Failure Patients Treated with a Continuous Flow LVAD (HeartMate II Trial)"  Moderator:  Dr. Dunlap 

December 23, 2009

Holiday Week

No Program Today

December 30, 2009

Holiday Week

No Program Today

January 6, 2010

AHA Late Breaking Trials Part II
Moderators:
Sanjay Gandhi, MD
William Lewis, MD

"CT-STAT - Role of CT angiography for assessment of acute chest pain" Moderator:  Sanjay Gandhi, MD

"RECORD AF Registry - Difference of clinical outcome with rhythm - and rate - control therapies for atrial fibrillation"  Moderator:  William Lewis, MD 
 

January 13, 2010

Paul Hergenroeder, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Oncology
Case Western Reserve University
MetroHealth Medical Center
 


"Cardiac Complications of Chemotherapy"
 

January 20, 2010

Balaji K. Tamarappoo, PhD, MD
University of California School of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA


"Computed Tomography Based Stress Myocardial
Perfusion Imaging"
 

January 27, 2010

Melvin Scheinman, MD
Professor of Medicine
Walter H. Shorenstein Endowed Chair in Cardiology
University of California
San Francisco
Electrophysiology Service 


 "Early Repolarization Syndromes and
Sudden Cardiac Death"

February 3, 2010

J. Kevin Donahue, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
MetroHealth Medical Center 


"Atrial Fibrillation" 

February 10, 2010

Kristy Freiden
Manager, Performance Management
Human Resource 

"Customer Service Phase II"
Not a CME Activity

February 17, 2010
 

Raza Orakzai, MD
University of California School of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA


"Sub-clinical atherosclerosis and risk assessment: 
Putting Framingham to Test!"

February 24, 2010

Bruce Stambler, MD
Clinical Electrophysiology & Pacing
Professor, Case Western
Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland


"Upstream Antiarrhythmic Mechanisms of
Aldosterone Blockade in Heart Failure"

March 3, 2010

Justin D. Pearlman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Radiology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering/Computer Science
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH

 
 "Translational CMRI:  Angiogenesis & Dynamic Heart Wall Oxygenation"

March 10, 2010

American College of Cardiology
Atlanta, GA
March 14 -16, 2010


No Program Today

March 17, 2010

Glenn I. Fishman, MD
Professor, William Goldring
Professor Medicine
New York University School of Medicine

"Sudden Cardiac Death:  Are We Any Closer to Effective
Anti-Arrhythmic Therapy?" 

March 24, 2010

 


 

March 31, 2010

 Spring Break 

No Program Today

 

April 7, 2010

Gordon A. Ewy, MD
Professor and Chief, Cardiology Director
University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center

"Cardiocerebral Resuscitation Improves Survival of Patients with Primary Cardiac Arrest"
 

April 14, 2010


 


 

April 21, 2010

47th Annual Carl J. Wiggers Memorial Lecture held at The Ritz-Carlton 
Cleveland, Ohio
6:00-9:00pm


No Program Today 

April 28, 2010

 



May 5, 2010

William G. Stevenson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

"Ventricular Scars and Ventricular Tachycardia" 

May 12, 2010

Heart Rhythm Society
Denver, CO
(May 12 - 15, 2010)


No Program Today

May 19, 2010 

 

 

May 26, 2010

 


June 2, 2010

Robert J. Myerburg, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
American Heart Association Chair in Cardiovascular Research
University of Miami School of Medicine

"Prediction and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death -
What We Still Need to Learn"
 Louis Rakita Lectureship Series

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