The David Meyers’ Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds

The Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds is a one-hour lecture series held on the first Thursday of each month at 11am EST.

Remembering Dr. David Meyers

A compassionate healer whose legacy lives on and whose impact on the lives of countless patients, students, and colleagues will forever be cherished.

2024

• December 5 – Aimee R. Eden, PhD, MPH – Growing AHRQ’s Primary Care Research Portfolio Through the National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research
• November 7 – Christopher F. Koller – The Doctor Can’t See You Now: The Status of Public Policy to Improve Access to Primary Care Services in the US
• October 10 – LaTasha Seliby Perkins, MD – Mitigating Vaccine Hesitancy in a Clinical Setting
• September 5 – Rosemary Sokas, MD, MSc – Preventing Occupational Heat Illness: Clinicians Needed
• August 1 – Chandra Char, PhD – Disability, Health Equity & Primary Care
• June 6 – Margot Savoy, MD, MPH – EveryONE Deserves a Family Physician: Creating the Future of Family Medicine
• May 2 – Byron Jasper, MD, MPH – Beyond Insurance: The Direct Primary Care Blueprint for Patient-Centered Medicine
• April 4 – Keisa Fallin-Bennett, MD, MPH – Impact of Anti-transgender Bills on People’s Health and Well-being
• March 7 – Jeff Weinfeld, MD, MBI – Specialty Disrespect, the Hidden Curriculum, and Specialty Choice
• February 1 – Chiranjeev Dash, PhD, MBBS, MA – Weight Change and Metabolic Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Prevention
• January 4 – Rebecca Fisher, MBBS, MA – Family Medicine in the English NHS: Trouble in (Socialized Medicine) Paradise?

2023

• December 7 – Seiji Hayashi, MD, MPH, FAAFP – Whole Health Care for Patients with Complex Needs: The Role of Managed Care

• November 2 – Kathy Stolarz, DO – Refugee & Asylee Health

• October 5 – Dan Merenstein, M.D. – The Importance and Role of Primary Care in Research

• September 7 – Kelly A Diggs, PhD – Mentoring Across Differences: Optimizing Culturally Responsive Mentoring Practices within STEMM

• August 3 – Michael Fine, MD – What is Medicine Good For?

• June 1 – Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, FAAFP – Primary care: A Solution for Communities, Health Systems and the Individual

• May 4 – Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS – Use of real-world data/evidence for medical product evaluation: promise and perils

• April 6 – Alison N. Huffstetler, MD – Achieving social accountability in healthcare through graduate medical education

• March 2 – Nathaniel Hendrix, Ph.D. – Family Physician Experience with Electronic Health Records

• February 2 – Bryan O. Buckley, DrPH, MPH  – Building Equity into Your System: The NCQA Journey to Health Equity

• January 5 – Ashley Walker, MD & J. Corey Williams, MD, MA – Stigma in Medicine: The Power of Language

2022

• November 3 – Jennifer Bacani McKenney, MD, FAAFP – Putting the C in Country: Copperheads, COVID, Companies, and my mom’s Colon 
• October 6 –Dawn K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH – Optimizing HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis in Family Practice 
• September 1 – Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC – Primary Care Practice Considerations for Trans-and Nonbinary Patients Utilizing Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy 
• August 4 – Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc, FACP – The Affordable Care Act after 10 years: Progress and Challenges in Achieving Health Equity 
• May 5 – Orlando Sola, MD, MPH & John Paul Sánchez, MD, MPH – Pre-Faculty Development: A Critical Factor in Diversifying Health Professions Faculty 
• April 7 – Rachel Harold, MD – Code Climate: The Health Impacts of a Warming Planet 
• March 3 – Raj Ratwani, PhD – Electronic Health Record Usability: Implications for Patient Safety and Burnout 
• February 3 – Diljeet K Singh, MD, DrPH – Universal Health Care Can Save American Medicine 
• January 6 – Michael Kharfen – Ending the HIV Epidemic in Washington, DC – The Time Has Come

2021

• December 2 – Beje S. Thomas, MD – Race Correction Factor in eGFR – What’s the Deal? 
• November 4 – Tracey Henry, MD, MPH, MS – Addressing the Social Determinants of Health from Bedside to Policy
• October 7 – Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP – Public health, ethical and operational considerations in the implementation of an institutional vaccine mandate: What have we learned? 
• September 2 – Jack Westfall, MD, MPH – What’s Population got to do with it?  Building a Pathway to Population Health
• August 5 – Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD – PharmedOut: fighting Pharma’s influence on medicine for 15 years
• June 3 – José Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP – Family Medicine: A Career in Health Equity
• May 6 – Douglas Spotts, MD, FAAFP, FCPP – Leadership: “What’s up Doc?”
• April 1 – James Huang, MD, FAAP – Health Equity in the Deaf Community: Best Practices
• March 4 – Aviad Haramati, PhD – Fostering Well-being in the Learning Environment: The Imperative for Medical Educators 
• February 4 – 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
• January 28 – Binny Chokshi, MD – Trauma-Informed Care: Recognizing and Responding to the Needs of our Patients 
• January 7 – Matthew Burke, MD, FAAFP – Human Health Harms of a Changing Climate 

2020

• December 3 – Eleni Spartos O’Donovan, MD, SM – Community-Oriented Correctional Health Care: Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Health Outcomes Among Persons Experiencing Incarceration and Re-entry
• November 5 – Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH – A Care Coordination Program for Mobile Patients.
• October 1 – Kathryn Hart, MD, FAAFP, Jeffrey Weinfeld, MD, MBI, FAAFP, Xerxeser Kayode, BSN, MHSA – The Impact of Specialty Disrespect on the Learning Environment
• September 3 – Andrea Anderson, MD, FAAFP – A Key Ingredient: The Role of Professionalism in Maintaining Physician Licensure and Board Certification
• August 6 –  Sumi Sexton, MD – Clinical Decision Support, Point of Care Knowledge, and American Family Physician: Challenges and Opportunities.
• June 4 – Yalda Jabbarpour, MD – Primary Care and the COVID-19 Response.
• May 7 – Emily Mendenhall, PhD, MPH – Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV
• April 2 – Bruce L. Adelson, Esq. – Patients with Disabilities and the Law
• March 5 – Diana Burgess, PhD – 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
• January 9 – Tobie-Lynn Smith, MD, MPH, MEd, FAAFP – Ethical and Logistical Challenges to Anti-doping Efforts in the 2020’s

2019

• December 5 – Mary Ellsberg, PhD – Global Best Practices for Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Health Services
• November 7 – Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH – Professional Suicide 
• October 1 – Amy Collins, MD – Climate change, health and health care: How Physicians can help 
• September 5 – Jose Rodriguez, MD –  Building Equity Mindedness in Academic Medical Centers
• August 1 – Ming-Jung Ho, MD, DPhil 
• June 6 – Michael Fine, MD – 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 
• May 2 – David O’Gurek, MD – Overdose Crisis: Learning from the past to face the present and improve the future 
• April 4 – Raymond C. Martins, MD – HIV Overview for Non- HIV Specialist
• March 7 – Vince WinklerPrins, MD, FAAFP – Medical School Community Faculy- solicting, supporting and embracing our faculty. A preceptor expansion initiative by the society of Teachers of Family medicine
• February 7 – Mary Thoesen Coleman, MD, PhD, FAAFP –  Interprofessional Practice and education (IPE) in Family Medicine – No Longer the Lone Ranger  
• January 3 – Caroline Wellbery, MD, PhD – The Bigger Picture : Art, Empathy and Finding Meaning in Medicine

2018

• December 6 – Marie Steinmetz MD, DABFM, DABoIM – Integrative and Functional Medicine: The Science and Clinical
• November 1 – Benjamin F Simmons III, MD – LGBT and Aging 
• August 2 – Alex Krist, MD, MPH – Addressing Determinants of Health in Primary Care
• May 3, 2018 – Robert Zarr, MD, MPh – A scalable model for prescribing parks in the clinical setting 
• April 5 – John Epling, Jr., MD, Ms Edu – Shared Decision Making in the Context of Prevention Recommendation
• March 1 – Sean Lucan, MD, MPH – Relevance To Family Medicine, Community Health, and Health Disparities
• February 1 – Carrie Chen, MD, PhD – Feedback: What is the Evidence and What Should We be Doing?
• January 4 – Christopher Spevak, MD, MPH, JD 

2017

• December 7 – Ed Tori, DO, FACP – The Influence Center at MI2, Influencing Behaviors.
•  November 2 – Christopher, King, PhD – Advancing Equity by Bridging the Gap between Medical Care and Community: A Case Study
• October 5 – Alan Simon, MD
• September 7 – Margot Savoy, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FABC, CPE, CMQ – The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: An Overview, An Update & The On-going Controversy Around Safety
• August 3 – Hedy Wald, PhD – The Becoming: Crafting a Story of You of Resilience and Wellbeing.
• June 1 – Shawn Martin – Practice Advancement. Health Care Policy Update
• May 4 – Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP – Moving across borders: Migration and health
• April 6 – Sherrie Wallington, PhD – Health Disparities and the HPV Vaccine
• March 2 – Robert Saper, MD, MPH – An Evidence-based Integrative Approach to Low Back Pain 
• February 2 – Kevin Grigsby, DSW, MSW – Faculty Resilience & Vitality in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous Environments
• January 5 – Neil Weissman, MD – Setting Research Priorities in a Health System