Participating Series

Mass General Brigham Radiology Grand Rounds

Series Director: Pamela W. Schaefer, MD, FACR – Vice Chair, Education, MGH & BWH and Carol B. Benson, MD – Professor of Radiology, HMS; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

This series focuses on emerging technologies and practices to help keep practitioners up to date. There are rapidly changing technologies in imaging and image-guided procedures practitioners need to know about.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe strategies for improving imaging efficiency to provide better patient throughput and access
• Identify tools for improving consistency of interpretation and reporting of radiologic findings to reduce discrepancies and errors
• Describe how artificial intelligence can be used to prioritize worklists and identify pathologies
  requiring urgent treatment such as acute ischemic stroke, acute intracranial hemorrhage, and
  cervical spine fractures.
• Identify ways for expanding diversity and inclusion in radiologic practices.
• Describe how new MRI sequences can be used to shorten protocols, enhance lesion detection and enhance lesion definition.

Format: Hybrid – in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly on Tuesdays, 12:15- 1:15 PM (EST)

NWH/MGH/MEEI Endocrine Oncology Conference

Series Director: Sareh Parangi, MD — Chair, Department of Surgery, Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Endocrine and General Surgery

The Endocrine Oncology Conference will target complex cases that pose either diagnostic or management challenges.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify areas of improvement in management of complex endocrine oncology cases.
• Revise and compare current practice with most current literature.
• Discuss amongst experts’ alternative strategies to manage cases that pose diagnostic or management complexities.
• Discuss most recent guidelines.

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Monthly, Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 PM (EST)

BWH JPNM Seminars in Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging

Series Director: Hyewon Hyun, MD — Program Director, Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

This conference series will invite speakers performing cutting edge research and clinical practice in this field, providing the audience with vital timely information about the field.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe current advances regarding new radiotracers for the diagnosis and response assessment, as well as evolving uses of existing radiotracers, in oncology, neurology and cardiology.
• Analyze the role of theranostic agents in the workflow of clinical oncology care.
• Demonstrate how new research progress in molecular imaging may apply to daily clinical practice

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Weekly on Tuesday’s and once a month on a Thursday, 8:15- 9:15 AM (EST)

MGH Combined Pediatric Pulmonary Conference

Series Director: Ben Nelson, MD — Pediatric Pulmonologist

The goals of this conference are to disseminate up to date information regarding pediatric pulmonary disorders, learn how to effectively communicate with peers in a professional manner, and improve overall skills of physicians who are in varying stages of their careers.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize and understand different approaches to patient care
• Assimilate knowledge of practice guidelines and published standards of care in the diagnosis and management of pediatric pulmonary disease
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with colleagues from different institutions and of various degrees of seniority
• Maintain patient confidentiality regarding information discussed during the conference
• Develop effective presentation skills, including the ability to:
  • Prepare well-organized PowerPoint presentations
  • Lead a discussion among colleagues from different institutions and of varying levels of seniority.

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Wednesdays, 7:30 – 8:30 AM (EST)

MGH Wednesday Harvard Joint Infectious Diseases Conference

Series Director: Molly L. Paras, MD, FIDSA — MGH/BWH ID Fellowship Program Director

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Reflect on self-practice related to the care of an often-stigmatized patient population: patients with substance use disorder. 
• Describe the latest pandemic and biothreat pathogens and summarize the ways all members of the healthcare team (physicians, APPs, nurses) can work to “Identify, Isolate, and Inform” patients under investigation for an emerging/biothreat pathogen.
• Describe the non-infectious clinical syndromes associated with herpesvirus family infections and explain the proposed mechanisms for development.

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Wednesdays, 8:00-9:00 AM (EST)

MEE HMS Retina Service Conference

Series Director: Shizuo Mukai, MD — Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

The conference focusses on differential diagnosis and treatment of retinal conditions in an interactive format.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize and diagnose rare retinal diseases or atypical presentations of more common retinal diseases
• Determine appropriate treatment for retinal conditions
• Evaluate recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and science of retinal diseases
• Develop an understanding of the pathophysiology of retinal diseases

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Mondays, 12:30-1:30 PM (EST)

MGH Medical Grand Rounds

Series Director: Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD — Interim Chair, Department of Medicine; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine

The activity will provide clinical knowledge, approaches to decision making, scientific rationale and epidemiologic evidence to improve the care of patients across the medical service.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Integrate state of the art investigative data on common problems in internal medicine into patient care.
• Apply current state-of-the-art guidelines in internal medicine to the care of patients
• Apply the appropriate methods of differential diagnosis of complex problems to the care of patients.
• Assess new diagnostic and therapeutic innovation in a cost-effective model in the care of patients

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:00 AM (EST)

MEE HMS Ophthalmology Grand Rounds

Series Director: Alice C. Lorch, MD, MPH — Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology; Vice Chair of Education, Harvard Ophthalmology

This activity will share a variety of cases, diagnoses, treatments and technologies to increase awareness among ophthalmology and optometry residents, fellows, and faculty.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Integrate state of the art diagnostic criteria and treatment for a variety of ocular disorders into their care of patients.
• Utilize evidence-based interventions in patient treatment.
• Recognize newly described diseases and disease variation.
• Promote teamwork between members of different professions and staff at different levels of training.

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Thursdays, 8-9 AM (EST) for hybrid sessions, 7:30-8:30 AM (EST) for virtual sessions

MGB Neurology Grand Rounds

Series Director: Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc — Chair, Dept of Neurology, MGH and Tracy Batchelor, MD — Chair, Department of Neurology, BWH

This series will expose participants to a variety of topics relating to the practice and study of neurology, which will help them remain current on the latest advances in medicine and assist in professional development.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Review current clinical care and research efforts in common neurologic disorders (i.e. stroke), state the key clinical and scientific discoveries, and be aware of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic measures to implement evidence-based practice
• Describe recent scientific developments and discoveries in disease-relevant neurobiological research, promoting collaboration within the neurology department
• Identify novel or rare neurologic disease presentations
• Identify areas of cross-disciplinary collaboration between Neurology and other medical specialties via sessions that address neurologic issues from non-neurologic perspectives
• Employ clinical and scientific reasoning to patient problems presented.

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual

Schedule:

Regular lectures: 2x/week on Wednesdays, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm & Thursdays, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Quality Improvement lectures: Quarterly on Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00

MGH Friday HIV Conference

Series Director: Rajesh Gandhi — Professor of Medicine/Director, HIV Clinical Services, MGH

This activity will give providers more knowledge on different topics related to HI. Participants will be better equipped to treat patients who present needing HIV treatment or HIV prevention methods.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Integrate state-of-the art diagnostic and HIV treatment strategies into clinical practice
• Utilize the advice of expert clinicians on the management of challenging HIV cases
• Identify how HIV care is linked to issues of cardiovascular disease, pregnancy, drug resistance, neurology, and other issues that are encountered in patient care
• Integrate the guidelines for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention into clinical practice
• Identify the new advances in HIV pathogenesis and integrate into clinical practice

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Fridays, 8:00-9:00 AM (EST)

BWH International Center for Genetic Disease (iCGD)

Series Director: Alireza Haghighi, MD, DPhil, FACMG — Assistant Professor & Director of iCGD

This series aims to educate scientists and clinicians with the most current topics in genomic medicine, clinical genetics, and genetics research.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize the benefits and limitations of genetic testing and its use in clinical medicine.
• Analyze and interpret the genetic testing results.
• Apply genomics into their clinical decision making: for example, in diagnosis of the disease, in risk assessment for couples who want to have children, and using the right drug, the right dose (e.g., pharmacogenomics).
• Integrate research collaboration between clinicians and researchers working at the interfaces between biomolecular and clinical data.

Format: Virtual
Schedule:Monthly, Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 AM (EST)
Weekly, Fridays, 8:00-11:00 AM (EST)

BWH Harvard Surgical Health Services Research (HSR) Speaker Series

Series Director: Zara Cooper, MD, MSc — Michele and Howard J. Kessler Distinguished Chair of Surgery and Public Health; Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health; Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

The Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a national leader in surgical health services research, committed to educating the next generation of leaders in academic surgier. The goal of this series is to provide more high-quality educational resources and opportunities for national collaborations.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply advanced skills necessary for conducting high-quality surgical research
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with other internal and external academic researchers
• Demonstrate awareness of current ongoing initiatives in surgical health services research
• Employ cutting edge quantitative and qualitative approaches to surgical research

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Monthly, Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00 PM (EST)

MGH Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds

Series Director: Khadidjatou Kane, MD — Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

The goal of this series is to enhance and update the knowledge base and skills of palliative care and geriatric clinicians, so they can provide excellent, evidence-based clinical care to patients, training to our learners, and research design and implementation for the advancement of the field.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate how interprofessional learning can lead to better team integration, sustainability and collaboration in Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine
• Apply the latest clinical approaches to the management of pain in patients with advanced cancer and other serious illness notably the use of buprenorphine and the use of the latest interventional anesthesia techniques
• Describe new approaches to integrating pediatric and adult palliative care in the care of patients with neurological disorders, advanced heart failure, sickle cell disease, cancer and for patients presenting in the Emergency Department with serious illness.
• Describe updates in geriatric science such as frailty, pain management, HIV management, social safety in older patients.
• Apply tools to improve communication and psychological support for patients with communication barriers (deaf, mute, cognitive impairment, language barrier) and patients with cultural and spiritual perspectives unfamiliar to their providers.

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Wednesdays, 8:00 – 9:00 AM (EST)

BWH Transfusion Medicine Conference

Series Director: Wen Lu, MD — Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

The goal of this activity is to interpret and analyze study results from the perspective of study subject demographics to help participants understand when demographics do and do not apply in caring for different patient populations and individual patients.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Discuss how race and ethnicity has played a role in research and the practice of transfusion medicine.
• Recognize when there is and when there is not a genetic / evidence-based cause for differences in tests results in different patient populations
• Recognize when different management approaches are and are not based on robust evidence.
• Critique barriers in access to care and possible solutions.

Format: 
Schedule: Weekly, Fridays, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM (EST)

MGH Update in Clinical Genetics

Series Director: David A. Sweetser, MD, PhD — Chief, Genetics & Metabolism Unit/Pediatrics

The goals of this activity are to broaden participants’ knowledge of genetic disorders and new diagnostic techniques and strategies; teach concepts important for patient counseling; and challenge learners to consider ethical implications of genetic testing.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe the value and limitations of new diagnostic techniques that being incorporated into genetic practice.
• Be able to discuss the ethical considerations in widespread genetic testing in healthy individuals.
• Diagnose and treat specific inborn errors of metabolism.
• Develop consensus management strategies for commonly encountered genetic disorders.

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:00 AM (EST)

MGH Cardiology Grand Rounds

Series Director: Krishna Aragam, MD, MS — Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

The goal of this educational activity is to present state-of-the-art clinical and scientific updates participants in areas including advanced heart failure, electrophysiology, echocardiography, nuclear medicine, preventive cardiology, vascular medicine, interventional cardiology, and basic and clinical
cardiovascular research.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Analyze cutting-edge advances in cardiovascular medicine and apply to the care of patients when appropriate
• Review and apply evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of
  cardiovascular disease
• Evaluate the latest findings regarding important drugs and device commonly used to treat
  cardiovascular disease
• Emphasis the importance of modifiable risk factor management in all 4 disease categories

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:30 PM (EST)

BWH/Boston Children’s Hospital Endocrine Grand Rounds

Series Director: Gail Adler, MD, PhD — Professor of Medicine, HMS; Chief, Cardiovascular Endocrine Section, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The goal of this series is to improve clinical practice of endocrinologists attending the program.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Better assess patients with Adrenal disorders
• Better assess patients with Thyroid disorders, including a review of recent guidelines
• Better assess patients with Diabetes mellitus, including its impact on global health
• Better assess patients with Bone disease, including acid-base balance and bone disease
• Better assess patients with Neuroendocrine disorders

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Wednesdays, 1:15 – 2:15 PM (EST)

BWH Endocrine Research Conference

Series Director: Victor Navarro, PhD — Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS, Division of Endocrinology, BWH

This conference is designed to cover research topics in clinically relevant areas of endocrinology including osteoporosis, calcium metabolism, hypertension, pituitary tumors, diabetes, and thyroid cancer.

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Integrate state of the art research data in the care of patients with adrenal disorders

• Integrate state of the art research data in the care of patients with thyroid disorders

• Integrate state of the art research data in the care of patients with diabetes mellitus

• Integrate state of the art research data in the care of patients with bone disease

• Integrate state of the art research data in the care of patients with neuroendocrine disorders

Format: Hybrid — in-person and virtual
Schedule: Weekly, Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 PM (EST)

MGH Faculty Development Series

Series Director: Darshan H. Mehta, MD, MPH — Director, Office for Well-Being; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

This series covers topics relevant to the development of skills useful for academic and career advancement as well as professional development. 

After this activity, participants should be able to:

• Integrate a subject matter foundation for professional development.
• Develop strategies for professional growth in subject matter (e.g., writing skills, communication skills, mentoring, leadership).
• Utilize a framework for professional growth related to subject matter.
• Identify and manage personal areas of improvement related to subject matter.
• Discuss subject matter to enhance professionalism and teamwork.

Format: Virtual
Schedule: Twice a week with rotating days: Usually 12:00-1:00 PM (EST)