Spring 2015

• 2/26/15 -"Soundbites From the Quarry: Adventures in Stone Disease" - Dr. Eleanor D. Lederer

• 2/19/15 -"Glucocorticoid-Induced Bone Loss: Management Challenges, Controversies, and Update" - Dr. Karla L. Miller

• 2/5/15 -"Mechanical Ventilation: More Than the Machine" - Dr. Rodrigo Cavallazzi

• 1/29/15 -"How To Do Gene Therapy in the Kitchen: The Role of Gut Bacteria in Brain Disease" - Dr. Robert P. Friedland

• 1/22/15 -"Prediabetes: Consequences, Controversies, and Challenges" - Dr. Sri Prakash L. Mokshagundam

• 1/15/15 -"Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: New Approaches and Challenges" - Dr. Mitchell A. Olman

• 1/8/15 -"In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Fact, Fiction, and The Future" - Dr. Lorrel E. Brown

Fall 2014

• 12/18/14 -"Living Donor Safety: Still Wondering After All These Years" - Dr. Michelle A. Josephson

• 12/11/14 -"Hepatitis C Update" - Dr. Matthew C. Cave

• 12/4/14 -"Mending a Broken Heart: Is Stem Cell Therapy a Tenable Option?" - Dr. John H. Loughran

• 11/13/14 -"University of Louisville Department of Medicine Clinical and Translational Research Support Unit" - Drs. Robert R. Kelley & Timothy L. Wiemken

• 11/6/14 -"Nutrition, Gut Barrier Function, and Liver Disease" - Dr. Craig J. McClain

• 10/30/14 -"An Update on Inflammatory Myopathy" - Dr. Chester V. Oddis (John Walker Moore Lecture)

• 10/23/14 -"Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: A Tale of a Mother, a Child, and an Orphan Disease" - Dr. Robert M. Kotloff

• 10/16/14 -"The Year In Diabetes: Bugs, Bionics, Beasts and Broken Hearts" - Dr. Sathya S. Krishnasamy

• 10/9/14 -"Implantable Artificial Kidney" - Dr. William H. Fissell IV

• 10/2/14 -"Rheumatoid Arthritis: Halfway There" - Dr. David A. Fox (David Neustadt Lecture)

• 9/25/14 -"Breast Cancer: Where We Can Do Less, Where We Should Do More" - Dr. Steven E. Come (Theodore Segal Lecture)

• 9/18/14 -"Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Clinical Challenge, Research Progress" - Dr. Eamonn M.M. Quigley

• 9/11/14 -"The Affordable Care Act: The Louisville, KY Story" - Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt

• 9/4/14 -"A Department Comes To Age: Strategies for Addressing the Needs of Those We Serve" - Dr. Jesse Roman

Spring 2014

• 5/29/14 -"Blue Blood and Bleeding Blues: A Review of Hemophilia" - Dr. Vivek R. Sharma

• 6/5/14 -Awards Day 2014

• 5/29/14 -"Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening: 2014 and Beyond" - Dr. Jason R. Roberts

• 5/22/14 -"Focal Segmental Glomerular Sclerosis: An Example of Progress in Understanding Glomerular Diseases" - Dr. Kenneth R. McLeish

• 5/15/14 -"The Bone & Joint Infection Program at University of Louisville Hospital" - Dr. Julio A. Ramirez

• 5/8/14 -"You and the Choosing Wisely Initiative: Can Physician Stop Thyself?" - Dr. Mark P. Pfeifer (George Pedigo Lecture)

• 4/24/14 -"2013 ACC/AHA Guidelines on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults: What is New, Controversial, and Beyond the Scope" - Dr. Stephen G. Wagner

• 4/17/14 -"Improving  Decision Quality for Implantable Defibrillators (and Beyond)" - Dr. Daniel Matlock (Charles C. Smith Lecture)

• 4/10/14 -"Adherence With Asthma Therapy: Outcomes, Strategies and Innovations" - Dr. Cynthia S. Rand

• 4/3/14 -"Development of a First-In-Class 6-Phosphofructo-2-Kinase (PFKFB3) Inhibitor for Phase I Trial Testing In Advanced Cancer Patients" - Dr. Jason A. Chesney (Theodore Segal Lecture)

• 3/27/14 -"Acromegaly Diagnosis and Therapy: Past, Present, and Future" - Dr. Lawrence A. Frohman (Beverly Todd Towery Lecture)

• 3/20/14 -"Population Health: What Does This Mean?" - Dr. Paula L. Stillman

• 3/13/14 -"Global Health Initiative in the Department of Medicine at University of Louisville" - Drs. Julio A. Ramirez and Ruth M. Carrico

• 3/6/14 -"The Respiratory Microbiome: More Than Just an Infectious Disease" - Dr. Homer L. Twigg III (Nancy Middleton Smith Lecture)

• 2/27/14 - "Updates in Resistant Hypertension" - Dr. Nina Vasavada

• 2/13/14 - "Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapies and Their Development" - Dr. Richard D. Brasington Jr. (David Neustadt Lecture)

• 1/23/14 - "Practicing Precision Medicine with Pharmacogenetics" - Dr. Kristen K. Reynolds

• 1/16/14 - "Overview of Gastrointestinal Electrical Stimulation (GES) for Clinical Disorders" - Dr. Thomas L. Abell

• 1/9/14 - "Adipose Disorders Masquerading as Obesity" - Dr. Betty C. Villafuerte

Fall 2013

• 12/19/13 - "Membranous Nephropathy for the 21st Century Practitioner" - Dr. Laurence H. Beck Jr.

• 12/5/13 - "Cardiac Imaging: Adding Mechanistic Insight Into Cardiac Regenerative Therapies" - Dr. Atul R. Chugh

• 11/14/13 - "Insulin Therapy in the Hospitalized Patient" - Dr. Mary T. Korytkowski

• 10/31/13 - "The Practical Management of Heart Failure: Whose Viewpoint Matters Most?" - Dr. Kelly C. McCants (John Walker Moore Lecture)

• 10/24/13 - "A Re-Evaluation of the Diagnosis and Classification of the Inflammatory Myopathies" - Dr. Charles F. Moore Jr.

• 10/17/13 - "Update on Influenza" - Dr. Julio A. Ramirez

• 10/3/13 - "Interventional Pulmonology: The New Frontier, To Boldly Go Where No Scope Has Gone Before" - Dr. Tanya A. Wiese

• 9/26/13 - "Genomic Insights into Critical Care Illness: Are We Closer to a Therapy?" - Dr. Joe G.N. Garcia

• 9/19/13 - "Nutrition Therapy in the Hospitalized Patient: Is Feeding Less Better?" - Dr. Stephen A. McClave

• 9/12/13 - "Obesity Management: A 2013 Vision" - Dr. Caroline M. Apovian

• 9/5/13 - "Stressors vs. Stimulants: A Department's Approach to the Challenges of the Day" - Dr. Jesse Roman

Spring 2013

• 6/6/13 - Awards Day 2013

• 5/16/13 - "Acute Kidney Injury: A Growing Threat" - Dr. Ashita J. Tolwani

• 5/9/13 - "HPV and Head and Neck Cancer" - Dr. Rebecca A. Redman

• 4/25/13 - "Environmental Cardiology: Air Pollution and Heart Disease" - Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar

• 4/18/13 - "Patients, Sequencing & Informatics: New Pathways for Identifying Molecular Diagnostics/Prognostics & Mechanisms for Inflammatory Premalignant Diseases" - Dr. Curt H. Hagedorn

• 4/11/13 - "'Hoofbeats' of Primary Immune Deficiency" - Dr. Gerald B. Lee

• 4/4/13 - "Travel Medicine" - Dr. Julio A. Ramirez

• 2/28/13 -"Evolving Strategies in Evaluation and Management of Mitral Regurgitation" - Dr. Glenn Hirsch (Nancy Middleton Smith Lecture)

• 2/21/13 - "The Comprehensive Role of Hospital Epidemiology at University of Louisville Hospital" - Dr. Forest W. Arnold | .pdf

• 2/14/13 - "Why Renal Palliative Care is Relevant to Other Chronic Disease States" - Dr. Michael J. Germain

• 2/7/13 - "Confessions of an Addiction Psychiatrist" - Dr. Christopher M. Stewart

• 1/31/13 - "Cardio-Oncology: Evolving Collaborative Field" - Dr. Carrie Geisberg Lenneman

• 1/24/13 - "JAMA: Reflections of Year 1" - Dr. Howard Bauchner

• 1/17/13 - "Is There Anything New That You Need to Know About Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome?" - Dr. Marc Moss

• 1/10/13 - "Best Practice in Advanced Liver Disease: An Evidence-Based Consensus Approach" - Dr. Kevin D. Mullen

• 1/3/13 - "The Endocrinology of Hereditary Hemochromatosis" - Dr. Stephen J. Winters

Fall 2012

• 12/13/12 - "Asthma Update 2012" - Dr. John G. Mastronarde

• 12/6/12 - "Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure with Ventricular Assist Devices" - Dr. Andrew J. Lenneman

• 10/25/12 - "To Shrink a Plaque"- Dr. Sergio Fazio

• 10/18/12 - "Novel Murine Models of Scleroderma" - Dr. W. Neal Roberts (David H. Neustadt Lecture)

• 10/11/12 - "Clinical Genome Sequencing: From Bench to Bedside"- Dr. Patrick M. Gaffney

• 9/27/12 - "Over-Diagnosis in Breast Cancer"- Dr. Elizabeth C. Riley

• 9/13/12 - "Disorders of the Upper Gut Motility: Diagnosis – Treatment" - Dr. Thomas L. Abell

• 9/6/12 - "Lung Transitional Remodeling - A Biological Model That May Inform Department Organization in Times of Uncertainty" - Dr. Jesse Roman

Spring 2012

• 6/7/12 - Awards Day 2012

• 5/24/12 - "Paradigm Shifts in Management Concepts For End Stage Liver Disease"- Dr. Guy Neff

• 5/17/12 - "Addressing Health Literacy to Improve Chronic Disease Care"- Dr. Kerri L. Cavanaugh

• 5/10/12 - "Atypical Femur Fractures: A Long-Term Complication of Bisphosphonates?"- Dr. Diane Schneider (Charles C. Smith Jr. Lecture)

• 5/3/12 - "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: A Comparative Analysis of the Economics of Bismarckian Social Health Insurance: The United States, Germany and Switzerland"- Dr. Sharmila K. Makhija (Chairman's Derby Lecture)

• 4/26/12 - "Delivery of Critical Care in 2012 and Beyond"- Dr. Robert D. Hite

• 4/19/12 - "No Margin, No Mission: Financial Viability of Academic Medical Centers in the Era of Health Care Reform"- Dr. Brad S. Sutton

• 4/12/12 - "Merging Basic and Clinical Research for Emerging Viruses: How Can We Mind the Gap?" - Dr. Colleen B. Jonsson

• 4/5/12 - "101 Years of Allergen Immunotherapy" - Dr. Gerald B. Lee

• 3/22/12 - "State of the State of Breast Cancer Care in the State of Kentucky" - Dr. Anthony E. Dragun

• 3/1/12 -"P4 Medicine: From Genetics to Facebook" - Dr. Clay Marsh (Nancy Middleton Smith Lecture)

• 2/9/12 - "Sleep and Safety: Pilots, Drivers, Doctors" - Dr. David M. Hiestand

• 2/2/12 - "Myocardial Infarctions: Are They All The Same?" - Dr. Andrew P. DeFilippis

• 1/19/12 - "Lung Cancer Chemoprevention: Future Challenges" - Dr. Mark W. Geraci

• 1/5/12 - "Late-Onset Male Hypogonadism" - Dr. Stephen J. Winters