The David Meyers’ Grand Rounds, presented by the Department of Family Medicine
Remembering Dr. David Meyers: A Compassionate Healer Whose Legacy Lives On
Join us in celebrating the extraordinary life of Dr. David Meyers, a compassionate healer whose impact on the lives of countless patients, students, and colleagues will forever be cherished.[Memoriam}
The Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds, a one-hour breakfast lecture series featuring some of the foremost experts in the specialty of Family Medicine, are held the first Thursday of each month at 8 AM in the Warwick Evans Conference Room, Building D at Georgetown University Medical Center. See below for the recent grand rounds lectures:
2024
Chiranjeev Dash, MBBS – Associate Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center – Weight change and metabolic dysfunction in Breast Cancer Prevention – February 1, 2024
Rebecca Fisher, MBBS, MA – General Practitioner in the English NHS, and is Senior Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation – Family Medicine in the English NHS: Trouble in ( Socialized Medicine ) Paradise? – January 4, 2024
2023
Seiji Hayashi, MD, MPH, FAAFP – Lead Medical Director for Government Programs and Interim Chief Medical Officer for the Community Health Plan of DC at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield – Whole Health Care for Patients with Complex Needs: The Role of Managed Care – December 7, 2023
Kathy Stolarz, DO – Associate Director of Global Health for Georgetown University MedStar Academic Affairs and Supervises the MedStar Global Health Equity Track – Refugee & Asylee Health – November 2, 2023
Dan Merenstein, M.D. – Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine – Family Medicine Academic Department and Professor, Georgetown University School of Health – Human Science Academic Department – The Importance and Role of Primary Care in Research (new window) – October 5, 2023
Kelly A Diggs, PhD – Founder and CEO of Kelly A Diggs Consulting, LLC; Principal Facilitator with the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) – Mentoring Across Differences: Optimizing Culturally Responsive Mentoring Practices within STEMM – September 7, 2023
Michael Fine, MD – Chief Health Strategist for the City of Central Falls Rhode Island – What is Medicine Good For? – August 3, 2023
Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, FAAFP – Medical Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University, Family Physician at MedStar Spring Valley Family Medicine – Primary care: A Solution for Communities, Health Systems and the Individual – June 1, 2023
Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS – Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at the Yale School of Medicine, an Associate Physician of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Health System, and Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale – Use of real-world data/evidence for medical product evaluation: promise and perils – Thursday, May 4, 2023
Alison N. Huffstetler, MD – Practicing family physician, Medical Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University – Achieving social accountability in healthcare through graduate medical education – Thursday, April 6, 2023
Nathaniel Hendrix, Ph.D. – Researcher and Data scientist with the American Board of Family Medicine and Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care – Family Physician Experience with Electronic Health Records – Thursday, March 2, 2023
Bryan O. Buckley, DrPH, MPH – Director for Health Equity Initiatives at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) – Building Equity into Your System: The NCQA Journey to Health Equity – Thursday, February 2, 2023
Ashley Walker, MD – Associate Professor Director of Residency Training Department of Psychiatry University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Co-chair National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum & J. Corey Williams, MD, MA – Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Co-chair National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum – (new window)Stigma in Medicine: The Power of Language (new window)– Thursday, January 5, 2023
2022
Jennifer Bacani McKenney, MD, FAAFP – Associate Dean of the Office of Rural Medical Education at the University of Kansas Medical Center – Putting the C in Country: Copperheads, COVID, Companies, and my mom’s Colon – Thursday, November 3, 2022
Dawn K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH – Clinical Biomedical Prevention Activity Lead in the HIV Research Branch of the Division of HIV Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention –
Optimizing HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis in Family Practice – Thursday, October 6, 2022
Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC – Assistant Professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing – Primary Care Practice Considerations for Trans-and Nonbinary Patients Utilizing Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy (new window) – Thursday, September 1, 2022
Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc, FACP – Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of General Medicine and Hospital Medicine – The Affordable Care Act after 10 years: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Health Equity (new window) – Thursday, August 4, 2022
Orlando Sola, MD, MPH – Assitant Professor of Family Medicine at Georgetown University & John Paul Sánchez, MD, MPH – Founder/Principal Investigator of the Building the Next Generation of Academic Physician (BNGAP) Initiative and Co-Founder/President of BNGAP Inc. – Pre-Faculty Development: A Critical Factor in Diversifying Health Professions Faculty – Thursday, May 5, 2022
Rachel Harold, MD – Infectious Disease Physician and Climate Advocate – Code Climate: The Health Impacts of a Warming Planet – Thursday, April 7, 2022
Raj Ratwani, PhD – Vice president of Scientific Affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute & Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare – Electronic Health Record Usability: Implications for Patient Safety and Burnout – Thursday, March 3, 2022
Diljeet K Singh, MD, DrPH – Integrative Gynecologic Oncologist with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group – Universal Health Care Can Save American Medicine – Thursday, February 3, 2022
Michael Kharfen – Deputy Director, Office of Public Health at the New York State Department of Health – Ending the HIV Epidemic in Washington, DC – The Time Has Come – Thursday, January 6, 2022
2021
Beje S. Thomas, MD – Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine – Race Correction Factor in eGFR – What’s the Deal? – Thursday, December 2, 2021
Tracey Henry, MD, MPH, MS – Assistant Health Director of the Grady Primary Care Center and Co-Director of the Health Equity Advocacy Policy track for Emory University School of Medicine Graduate Medical Education programs- “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health from Bedside to Policy” – Thursday, November 4, 2021
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP – VP & Chief Public Health Officer, Georgetown University &Professor of Family Medicine- “Public health, ethical and operational considerations in the implementation of an institutional vaccine mandate: What have we learned?” – Thursday, October 7, 2021
Jack Westfall, MD, MPH – Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care – What’s Population got to do with it? Building a Pathway to Population Health – 2021 – Thursday, September 2, 2021
Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD – Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University Medical Center- PharmedOut: fighting Pharma’s influence on medicine for 15 years – Thursday, August 5, 202
José Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP – Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, University of Utah Health- Family Medicine: A Career in Health Equity – Thursday, June 3, 2021
Douglas Spotts, MD, FAAFP, FCPP – Chief Health Officer at Meritus Health – Leadership: “What’s up Doc?”– Thursday, May 6, 2021
James Huang, MD, FAAP – Board-certified Family Physician at Unity Health Care – Health Equity in the Deaf Community: Best Practices – Thursday, April 1, 2021
Aviad Haramati, PhD – Professor of Integrative Physiology in the Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine (Nephrology) and co-director of the CAM Graduate Program at Georgetown University Medical Center – Fostering Well-being in the Learning Environment: The Imperative for Medical Educators – Thursday, March 4, 2021
Eric D. Anderson, MD, Chavalia Joan Breece, MSN, RN, ACNP-C, Kathryn L. Taylor, Ph.D & Randi M. Williams, Ph.D, MPH– Lung Cancer Screening & Smoking Cessation– Thursday, February 4, 2021
Binny Chokshi, MD– General Pediatrician and Co-Medical Director of the Healthy Generations Program in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC – Trauma-Informed Care: Recognizing and Responding to the Needs of our Patients – Thursday, January 28, 2021
Matthew Burke, MD, FAAFP– Chair for the AAFP’s Climate Change and Environmental Health member interest group- Human Health Harms of a Changing Climate– Thursday, January 7, 2021
2020
Eleni Spartos O’Donovan, MD, SM– Family physician and the Associate Program Director for the National Family Medicine Residency at Unity Health Care in Washington, DC –Community-Oriented Correctional Health Care: Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Health Outcomes Among Persons Experiencing Incarceration and Re-entry–Thursday, December 3, 2020.
Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH-Chief Medical Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network. HEALTH NETWORK – A Care Coordination Program for Mobile Patients. November 5, 2020.
Kathryn Hart, MD, FAAFP- Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine; Director Primary Care Leadership Track; Jeffrey Weinfeld, MD, MBI, FAAFP-Professor in the Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine; Director of Medical Student Education; Xerxeser Kayode, BSN, MHSA- Education Coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine. The Impact of Specialty Disrespect on the Learning Environment. October 1, 2020.
Andrea Anderson, MD, FAAFP- Family Physician and the Associate Chief of the Division of Family Medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. A Key Ingredient: The Role of Professionalism in Maintaining Physician Licensure and Board Certification. September 3, 2020
Sumi Sexton, MD-Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief American Family Physician. Clinical Decision Support, Point of Care Knowledge, and American Family Physician: Challenges and Opportunities. August 6, 2020.
Yalda Jabbarpour, MD– Family physician in Washington, DC and Medical Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies. Primary Care and the COVID-19 Response.June 4, 2020.
Emily Mendenhall, PhD, MPH– Medical anthropologist and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV. May 7, 2020.
Bruce L. Adelson, Esq.– CEO of Federal ComplianceConsulting LLC. Patients with Disabilities and the Law. April 2, 2020.
Diana Burgess, PhD– Core Investigator, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Co-Director VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Health Services Research. Studying the impact of racism on pain: Reflecting on my program of research of racial disparities in pain conducted in an era of opioid promotion. March 5, 2020.
Tobie-Lynn Smith, MD, MPH, MEd, FAAFP– Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine; Director, Family Medicine Clerkship; Director, Ambulatory Care Course Georgetown University School of Medicine. Eithical and Logistical Challenges to Anti-doping Efforts in the 2020’s. January 9, 2020.
2019
Mary Ellsberg, PhD-Founding Director of the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University. Global Best Practices for Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Health Services. December 5, 2019.
Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH -Vice President of American Board of Family Medicine for Research and Policy. Professional Suicide . November 7, 2019.
Amy Collins, MD – Senior Clinical Advisor for Physician Engagement for Health Care Without Harm. Climate change, health and health care: How Physicians can help October 1, 2019.
Jose Rodriguez, MD– Interim Associate Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusion for University of Utah Health. Building Equity Mindedness in Academic Medical Centers September 5, 2019
Ming-Jung Ho, MD, DPhil – Medical Professionalism Education Across Cultures. August 1, 2019.
Michael Fine, MD – Chief Health Strategist to Mayor James Diossa and the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island, and Senior Clinical and Population Health Services Officer of Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, Inc. Standing Together: How Physicians and other Health Care Workers Can organize Ourselves, or colleagues and our communities to build the health care system America needs– block by block, neighborhoods by neighborhood and town by town June 6, 2019.
David O’Gurek, MD -Medical Director of the TRUST Clinic, an office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) program. Overdose Crisis: Learning from the past to face the present and improve the future May 2, 2019.
Raymond C. Martins, MD -Senior Director of Clinical Education and Training at Whitman-Walker Health. HIV Overview for Non- HIV Specialist. April 4, 2019.
Vince WinklerPrins, MD, FAAFP -Assistant Vice President for Student Health at Georgetown University.Medical School Community Faculy- solicting, supporting and embracing our faculty. A preceptor expansion initiative by the society of Teachers of Family medicine – March 7, 2019.
Mary Thoesen Coleman, MD, PhD, FAAFP-Chair of Family Medicine, Director of Community Health and Rural Track Education at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Interprofessional Practice and education (IPE) in Family Medicine_ No Longer the Lone Ranger February 7, 2019.
Caroline Wellbery, MD, PhD-Associate Deputy Editor of American Family Physician and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. The Bigger Picture : Art, Empathy and Finding Meaning in Medicine January 3, 2019.
2018
Marie Steinmetz MD, DABFM , DABoIM,– Board-certified in family practice- Integrative and Functional Medicine: The Science and Clinical December 6, 2018.
Alex Krist, MD, MPH –Professor of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Addressing Determinants of Health in Primary Care. August 2, 2018.
John Epling, Jr., MD, Ms Edu – Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine; Medical Director of Research for Family and Community Medicine; Medical Director of Employee Health and Wellness for the Carilion Clinic. Shared Decision Making in the Context of Prevention Recommendation. April 5, 2018.
Sean Lucan, MD, MPH – Associate Professor of Family and Social Medicine (Mis) Measuring Neighborhood Food Environments – Relevance To Family Medicine, Community Health, and Health Disparities. March 1, 2018. – Associate Professor of Family and Social Medicine (Mis) Measuring Neighborhood Food Environments – Relevance To Family Medicine, Community Health, and Health Disparities. March 1, 2018
Carrie Chen, MD, PhD – Associate Dean of Assessment and Educational Scholarship; Professor of Pediatrics Feedback: What is the Evidence and What Should We be Doing? February 1, 2018.
Christopher Spevak, MD, MPH, JD – Director of the National Capital Region’s Opiod Safety Program and the Deputy Director of the National Capital Region Pain Initiative and Wounded Warrior Pain Care Initiative. Clinical Practice Guidelines-Lessons Learned from Opioid Epidemic. January 4, 2018.
2017
Ed Tori, DO, FACP, CH – Associate Director, MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2), Director, The Influence Center at MI2, Influencing Behaviors. December 7, 2017.
Christopher, King, PhD – Assistant Professor and Director of Experiential Learning and Program Director, MHSA, Director, Health Systems Administration Master’s Program; Assistant Professor, Health Systems Administration Director, Experiential Learning and Professional Development. Advancing Equity by Bridging the Gap between Medical Care and Community: A Case Study. November 2, 2017.
Alan Simon, MD, Medical Officer – Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. HUD Housing Assistance Associated with Lower Uninsurance Rates and Unmet Medical Need. October 5, 2017.
Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FABC, CPE, CMQ – Medical Director, Christiana Care Health System Department of Family & Community Medicine, Wilmington, Delaware and the State of Delaware Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services, The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: An Overview, An Update & The On-going Controversy Around Safety. September 7, 2017.
Hedy Wald, PhD – Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Director, Resident Resilience and Wellbeing, Residency Programs in Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Boston Children’s Hospital-Harvard Medical School. The Becoming: Crafting a Story of You of Resilience and Wellbeing. August 3, 2017.
Shawn Martin – Senior Vice President Advocacy, Practice Advancement. Health Care Policy Update. June 1, 2017.
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP – Professor of Family Medicine, Director, CAPRICORN – Georgetown’s PBRN (Practice-Based Research Network), Director, Global Health Initiatives, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine. Moving across borders: Migration and health. May 4, 2017.
Sherrie Wallington, PhD – Assistant Professor of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Health Disparities and the HPV Vaccine. April 6, 2017.
Robert Saper, MD, MPH – Director of Integrative Medicine, Program for Integrative Medicine & Health Disparities, Chair, Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health, An Evidence-based Integrative Approach to Low Back Pain. March 2, 2017.
Kevin Grigsby, DSW, MSW – Senior Director, Member Organizational Development, Association of American Medical Colleges. Faculty Resilience & Vitality in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambigious Environments. February 2, 2017.
Neil Weissman, MD – President, MedStar Health Research Institute, Setting Research Priorities in a Health System. January 5, 2017.