Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds

2008-2009

Friday Speaker Title
    Introduction to Hematology
July 11, 2008 Morey Blinder Overview of anemia (PowerPoint)
July 18 Morey Blinder Peripheral blood morphology (PowerPoint)
July 25 Morey Blinder Disorders of hemoglobin and gammopathies (PowerPoint)
August 1 Morey Blinder Bleeding, blood products and transfusion therapy (PowerPoint)
August 15 Doug Tollefsen Anticoagulants and HIT (PowerPoint)
August 22 Morey Blinder Sickle cell anemia (PowerPoint)
August 29 Chuck Eby Laboratory testing for venous thromboembolism risk assessment (PowerPoint)
    Grand Rounds
September 5 Giri Ramsingh Genomic instability and multiple mutations in cancer (PowerPoint)
  Mark Schroeder Donor lymphocyte infusions for the treatment of hematologic malignancies (PowerPoint)
September 12 Kerry Williams Sickle cell hepatopathy and the role of liver transplantation (PowerPoint)
  Brian Van Tine Chemotherapy during pregnancy (PowerPoint)
September 19 Mike Martin Management of the advanced phases of CML (PowerPoint)
(Leuk Lymphoma 2008 Dec 29:1-10)
  Emily Jungheim (Ob/Gyn) Fertility preservation in 2008: options for patients facing gonadotoxic therapies (PowerPoint)
September 26 Evan Sadler Tick bites, fever, pancytopenia (PowerPoint)
  George Ansstas Update on advanced liver cancer treatments (PowerPoint)
October 3 Saiama Waqar Diagnostic strategies for carcinoma of unknown primary (PowerPoint)
  Keith Stockerl-Goldstein Creating a stem cell donor (PowerPoint)
October 10 Meagan Jacoby Treatment-related MDS/AML (PowerPoint)
  Priya Gopalan Bone metastases in solid tumors (PowerPoint)
October 17 James Mosley Recent advances in the treatment of CLL
  Cynthia Ma Targeting Chk1 in TP53 mutated triple negative breast cancer
October 24 Phil Majerus Iron deficiency vs anemia of chronic disease (PowerPoint)
October 31 Yee Chia Role of imaging in oncology (PowerPoint)
  Loren Michel Analysis of Trop-2 function in epithelial carcinogenesis
November 7 Allen Lichter (ASCO) Carlos Perez Lecture: The cost of cancer care – an unsustainable trend
(Steinberg Amphitheater)
November 14 Jane Chawla The natural killer cell neoplasms: can we overcome treatment-resistance? (PowerPoint)
  Stuart Kornfeld Use of very low doses of single chain bivalent antibodies in the immunotherapy of cancer (PowerPoint)
November 21 Daniel Morgensztern Update on small cell lung cancer (PowerPoint)
November 28 Thanksgiving  
December 5 ASH  
December 12 Scot Hickman DVTs - old and potentially new therapy modalities (PowerPoint)
  Suresh Vedantham (Radiology) Endovascular thrombolytic therapy for acute DVT (PowerPoint)
December 19 Mike Martin Abigail, Ezekiel and Freireich (PowerPoint)
  Coy Heldermon Splenomegaly and cytopenia: please wait for the path! (PowerPoint)
December 26 Christmas  
January 2, 2009 New Year's  
January 9 Kerry Williams EWS-WT1 gene fusion: the case of a small round tumor (PowerPoint)
  David Tran Glioblastoma multiforme (PowerPoint)
January 16 George Ansstas Multiple myeloma: review and update (PowerPoint)
  Saiama Waqar Primary intraocular lymphoma (PowerPoint)
January 23 Janakiraman Subramanian Small cell, big problem! Are stem cells the root cause? (PowerPoint)
  Jill Azok (Pediatrics) Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in children (PowerPoint)
January 30 Jane Chawla Pharmacogenetics and chemotherapy (PowerPoint)
  Yee Chia The role of PET imaging in Hodgkin's disease (PowerPoint)
February 6 Brian Van Tine New pager system orientation (PowerPoint)
  Priya Gopalan Bone marrow micrometastases (PowerPoint)
February 13 John Welch ITP and thrombopoiesis (PowerPoint)
  Laura Schuettpelz (Pediatrics) Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (PowerPoint)
February 20 Elaine Majerus Eculizumab and atypical HUS (PowerPoint)
February 27 Jeevan Sekhar Adult T cell lymphoma/leukemia (PowerPoint)
  Jane Chawla Acute intermittent porphyria (PowerPoint)
March 6 Meagan Jacoby A typical medicine patient with an atypical hematologic problem (PowerPoint)
  Josh Field Asthma as a modifier of sickle cell disease severity (PowerPoint)
March 13 Saiama Waqar Cutaneous toxicities of cancer therapy (PowerPoint)
  Todd Fehniger Lenalidomide therapy for untreated acute myeloid leukemia in older (>60 years) adults (PowerPoint)
March 20 Yee Chia Neoadjuvant therapy in potentially resectable pancreatic cancer (PowerPoint)
  Jeevan Sekhar I cured my own GVHD (PowerPoint)
March 27 Pablo Ramirez Umbilical cord blood transplantation in acute leukemias (PowerPoint)
  Matt Walter DNA copy number alterations in acute leukemia (PowerPoint)
April 3 Giri Ramsingh RNA based therapy (PowerPoint)
April 10 George Ansstas Treatment options for castrate-resistant prostate cancer (PowerPoint)
  Bo Goodgame Old dogmas, new tricks: the changing treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (PowerPoint)
April 17 Rama Suresh Zoledronic acid in early stage breast cancer (PowerPoint)
  David Tran Can iron deficiency cause thrombocytopenia? (PowerPoint)
April 24 Mark Schroeder Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for MDS: are we putting the cart before the horse? (PowerPoint)
  Chuck Eby ABO incompatible red cell transfusions: incidence, consequences, management, and prevention (PowerPoint)
May 1 Jeevan Sekhar Pharmacologic thrombopoiesis: past, present, and future (PowerPoint)
  Dan Link Molecular pathogenesis of severe congenital neutropenia (PowerPoint)
May 8 John Welch Waldenström's: treatment and transformation (PowerPoint)
  Steve Sorscher Mitochondrial DNA and cancer (PowerPoint)
May 15 Jane Chawla Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer (PowerPoint)
  Ravi Vij Hypomethylation: turning on silenced genes and silencing the critics? (PowerPoint)
May 22 Saiama Waqar Evolving treatment paradigms for stage III NSCLC (PowerPoint)
  Craig Lockhart Pharmacogenomics in cancer clinical trials (PowerPoint)
May 29 ASCO  
June 5 Kathy Ponder A 57 year old Filipino man with a hemoglobin of 3.3 (PowerPoint)
June 12 James Mosley Treatment trends for soft tissue sarcomas
  Andrea Wang-Gillam Novel targets in pancreatic cancer (PowerPoint)
June 19 George Ansstas Update on GIST (PowerPoint)
  Yee Chia Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer (PowerPoint)
June 26 Orientation