Grand Rounds
Academic Year 2008-2009
Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 AM
Cherkasky Auditorium, Montefiore Medical Center |
| September 2008 |
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| 4 |
Wendy L. Wright, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Emory University Hospital
"Brain-Oriented Intensive Care"
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| 11 |
H. Christian Schumacher, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology – Vascular Neurology
Department of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
“Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis: Medical and Endovascular Treatment – a case-based approach”
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| 18 |
Dennis D. Spencer, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
Yale University School of Medicine
"Epilepsy Surgery"
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| 25 |
Steven M. Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Co-Director of Clinical Trials Unit
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
"Stroke, Amyloid Angiopathy and Dementia"
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| October 2008 |
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| 2 |
Peter J. Goadsby, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Director of Headache Center
Department of Neurology
UCSF School of Medicine
"Headache"
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| 9 |
Yom Kippur- No grand round
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| 16 |
Robert Y. Moore, M.D., Ph.D.
Love Family Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Neurophysiological Basis of Circadian Rhythms"
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| 23 |
Marcy E. MacDonald, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology (Genetics)
Harvard Medical School
Center for Human Genetic Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard B. Simches Research Center
"Neurodegenerative Diseases HD/ NCL"
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| 30 |
Michio Hirano, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Director, Adult Muscular Dystrophy Association Neuromuscular Clinic
Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurogenetics
Department of Neurology
Columbia University School of Medicine
"VAPB: New Genetic Clues to The Pathogenesis of ALS"
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| November 2008 |
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| 6 |
John W. Krakauer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Co-director of Motor Performance Laboratory
Department of Neurology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
"Motor Recovery After Stroke"
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| 13 |
David Sulzer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology
Columbia University
"Synapses & Circuits, Neural Degeneration & Repair"
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| 20 |
Un Jung Kang, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology & Physiological Sciences
Co-Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
University of Chicago
"Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders"
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| 27 |
No Conference
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| December 2008 |
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| 4 |
Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Neurology and Neuroscience
Department of Neurology, and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"ALS and Neurodegeneration"
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| 11 |
Mitchell Max, M.D.
Professor, and Director
Molecular Epidemiology Pain Program
Pain Research Center
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh
"Genetics of Pain"
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| 18 |
Helen S. Mayberg, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
"Functional Imaging in Neurological/Psychiatric Diseases"
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| 25 |
No Conference
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| January 2009 |
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| 1 |
No Conference
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| 8 |
Barry Kosofsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
Department of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical Center
"Batten's Disease and Gene Therapy"
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| 15 |
Roger Packer, M.D.
Executive Chair of Neurology
Children's Research Institute
Center for Neuroscience Research
Children's National Medical Center
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
"Childhood Brain Tumors"
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| 22 |
Maja Bucan, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Interim Director of Penn Center for Bioinformatics
Department of Genetics
University of Pennsylvania
"Genetic and Functional Genomics Approach to Autism"
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| 29 |
Robert H. Brown Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Massachusetts School of Medicine
"ALS and Neurodegeneration"
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| February 2009 |
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| 5 |
Beth Ann Malow, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Vanderbilt University
"Sleep and Epilepsy"
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| 12 |
Barbara E. Jones, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
McGill University
Montreal Neurological Institute
"Neuroanatomy and Neurochemistry of Sleep"
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| 19 |
P. Ellen Grant, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Radiology
Director, Pediatric Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
"Pediatric Neuroimaging"
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| 26 |
Stephan A. Mayer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Director, Critical Care Neurology
Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Columbia University Medical Center
New York Neurological Institute
"Neurocritical Care of Cerebrovascular Diseases"
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| March 2009 |
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| 5 |
Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular and Human Genetics
Director, Blue Bird Circle Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory
Vice Chair for Research
Department of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
"Epilepsy and Inherited Neurological Disease"
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| 12 |
Laura R. Ment, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics
Yale- New Haven Children's Hospital
Yale University
"Perinatal Asphysia"
|
| 19 |
Steven U. Walkley, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience
Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Sphingolipidosis"
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| 26 |
Jaideep Kapur, M.D., Ph.D.
Harrison Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
University of Virginia Medical Center
"GABA Receptor Internalization and Epilepsy"
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| April 2009 |
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| 2 |
Ralph L. Sacco, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Miami School of Medicine
"Cerebrovascular Diseases"
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| 9 |
Aleksandra Djukic, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Department of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Progress in Autism Research and AECOM Center for Autism"
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| 16 |
Jerome M. Siegel, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief of Neurobiology Research
UCLA Sleep Lab
Brain Research Institute
University of California Los Angeles
"Sleep in Animals"
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| 23 |
David, J. Fink, M.D.
Robert Brear Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Michigan Medical School
"Gene Therapy in Pain Management"
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| 30 |
No Conference
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| May 2009 |
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| 7 |
Stefan M. Pulst, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Utah School of Medicine
"Hereditary Neurodegenerative Diseases"
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| 14 |
Joseph Jankovic, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders
Director, Parkinson Disease Center and Movement Disorder Clinic
Co-director, Parkinson Disease Research Laboratory
Department of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
"Update on Parkinson's Disease Research"
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| 21 |
John Trojanowski, M.D., Ph.D.
William Maul Measey-Truman G. Schnabel, Jr. MD
Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
"Neurofibrillary Tangles and the Tauopathies- Part 1"
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| 28 |
Leon G. Epstein, M.D.
Derry A and Donald L. Shoemaker Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Head, Division of Neurology
Associate Chair for Research
Department of Pediatrics
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago
"HHV6/7 in Status Epilepticus"
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| June 2009 |
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| 4 |
Elizabeth A. Thiele, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Program
Department of Neurology and Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
"Tuberosclerosis"
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| 11 |
Robert L. Macdonald, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Vanderbilt University
"GABA Receptor and Epilepsy"
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| 18 |
Jeffery L. Neul, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Section of Neurology
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
"Rett Syndrome"
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| 25 |
John Swann, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Department of Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Director, The Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories
Baylor College of Medicine
"Infantile Spasm"
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