Spring 2017

• 5/25/17-"Top 10 Things to Know about Managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome" - Dr. Philip S. Schoenfeld

• 5/18/17-"Renal Transplantation in the Elderly: Is 80 the New 60?" - Dr. David J. Cohen

• 5/11/17-"Controlling Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Bacteria in the Healthcare Setting – The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist" - Dr. Forest W. Arnold

• 4/27/17-"How to Write an Exercise Prescription: Examples From Blending Exercise and Critical Care Sciences" - Dr. Peter E. Morris

• 4/20/17-"Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation" - Drs. Rakesh Gopinathannair and Marcus F. Stoddard

• 4/13/17-"The Long Journey of Improving Health Care Quality and Safety" - Dr. Nathan O. Spell III

• 4/6/17-"Graft vs. Host Disease for Dummies" - Dr. Maxwell M. Krem

• 3/23/17 -"Hearing Voices" - Dr. André L. Churchwell (Charles C. Smith Jr. Lecture)

• 3/16/17 -"Insulin, Androgens and Cardiometabolic Risk in Women" - Dr. Andrea E. Dunaif (Beverly Todd Towery Lecture)

• 3/9/17 -"Sarcoidosis: From Hutchinson to Russell" - Dr. Sterling G. West (David Neustadt Lecture)

• 3/2/17-"Redox Regulation in Health and Disease" - Dr. Walter H. "Bert" Watson

• 2/23/17-"Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus" - Dr. Jeff M. Sands

• 2/16/17-"Global Outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera Infections after Cardiothoracic Surgery" - Dr. Julio A. Ramirez

• 2/2/17-"Graft Dysfunction and Rejection in the Transplanted Heart" - Dr. Rajakrishnan Vijayakrishnan

• 1/26/17-"Hallucinations and Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease" - Dr. Kathrin LaFaver

• 1/19/17-"Controversies in the Medical Management of Obesity" - Dr. Betty C. Villafuerte

• 1/12/17-"Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies in Clinical Medicine: Diagnose That Deficiency" - Dr. Craig J. McClain

Fall 2016

• 11/10/16-"Breast Cancer Genetics: Identifying and Managing Risks" - Dr. Mounika Mandadi

• 11/3/16-"Principles of Oxygen Therapy 101" - Dr. Rafael L. Perez

• 10/27/16-"Acute Graft vs. Host Disease After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation – A Long Known, Long Battled, Yet Still Not Vanquished Enemy" - Dr. Gerhard C. Hildebrandt

• 10/20/16-"Immune Myopathies: Pathologic Analysis Directs Diagnosis and Treatment" - Dr. Alan Pestronk

• 10/13/16-"From Darkness to Light, From Unreal to Real: Shades of Hypoglycemia" - Dr. Sathya S. Krishnasamy

• 9/29/16-"Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – Novel Insights" - Dr. Jesse Roman

• 9/15/16-"Drug and Dietary Supplement Induced Liver Injury - DILI Experience" - Dr. Raj K. Vuppalanchi

• 9/8/16-"Narcotics in Kentucky: Past, Present and Future" - Dr. Gregory A. Hood

• 8/18/16-"Leadership in the Time of Cholera" - Dr. Jesse Roman

Spring 2016

• 5/26/16-2016 Awards Day

• 5/12/16-"The Intersection of Clinical Research and Quality Improvement" - Dr. Julio A. Ramirez

• 4/28/16-"The History of an Oxy-phile" - Dr. Jesse Roman

• 4/21/16-"Invasive Hemodynamics: Inpatient versus Outpatient" - Dr. Rajakrishnan Vijayakrishnan

• 4/14/16-"Nazi Medicine, Physicians and the Problem of Collective Evil" - Dr. Salvatore Mangione (Charles C. Smith Jr. Lecture)

• 3/31/16-"Truth or Consequences: Prognostication in Cancer" - Dr. Laurel J. Lyckholm

• 3/17/16-"Making the Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome During the Obesity Epidemic" - Dr. Lynnette K. Nieman (Beverly Todd Towery Lecture)

• 3/3/16-"Second Wind: Lung Transplantation in the 21st Century" - Dr. David R. Nunley

• 2/25/16-"Facing Kidney Transplantation in 2016: Obstacles and Opportunities" - Dr. Milagros D. Samaniego-Picota

• 2/18/16-"Zika Virus Infection: An Update" - Dr. Anupama Raghuram

• 2/4/16-"Patient Evaluation for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies" - Dr. Dmitry Abramov

• 1/28/16-"Finding The Weak Spot: A Localization Approach to Neuromuscular Weakness" - Dr. Safiullah M. Shareef

• 1/14/16-"New Insights on Nausea and Vomiting: Gastroparesis and Gastroparesis-Like Syndrome" - Dr. Thomas L. Abell

• 1/7/16-"Undone in the ICU: Towards an Understanding of the Long-Term Consequences of Critical Illness" - Dr. Nathan E. Brummel

Fall 2015

• 12/17/15 -"Finding Treatments for Diabetic Kidney Disease" - Dr. Frank C. Brosius III

• 12/10/15 -"Alcoholic Liver Disease: Bench to Bedside to Bench" - Dr. Craig J. McClain

• 12/3/15 -"Resistant Hypertension: Tricks of the Trade for BP Control 2015" - Dr. Jan N. Basile

• 11/19/15 -"Update on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 2015: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment" - Dr. Bevra H. Hahn (David Neustadt Lecture)

• 11/12/15 -"Novel Targeted Therapy for Low-Grade Lymphoid Malignancies" - Dr. Maxwell M. Krem

• 10/29/15 -"Our Journey into Patient-Centered Medical Care: From the Ryan White Program to the Global Medical Home" - Dr. Paula Peyrani

• 10/15/15 -"Lifestyle Medicine: Why Are We Not Doing More to Help our Patient be Healthier?" - Dr. Robert F. Kushner

• 10/8/15 -"Membranous Nephropathy: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again" - Dr. Dawn J. Caster

• 9/24/15 -"Islet Auto Transplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis: An Overview and Update of the Program" - Dr. Michael G. Hughes

• 9/17/15 -"The Non-Cancer Provider: An Untapped Resource in the War on Cancer" - Dr. Jorge A. Rios

• 9/10/15 -"Incorporating Transgender Care into Everyday Primary Care" - Dr. Henry H. Ng

• 9/3/15 -"Our Place in Time: A Department of Medicine Defining its Path" - Dr. Jesse Roman

Spring 2015

• 6/11/15 -"Cancer-Associated Thrombosis: Mechanisms and Therapies" - Dr. Adam A. Rojan

• 6/4/15 -Awards Day 2015

• 5/28/15 -"The Management of Lupus Nephritis in 2015: A Nephrologist's Perspective" - Dr. Brad H. Rovin

• 5/21/15 -"Management of C. difficile Infection" - Dr. Kristine J. Krueger

• 5/14/15 -"University of Louisville Center of Excellence in Refugee Health" - Drs. Rahel S. Bosson & Ruth L. Carrico

• 4/30/15 -"Education Technologies for the Clinician Educator" - Dr. Gerald B. Lee

• 4/23/15 -"Cardiovascular Risk Prediction" - Dr. Andrew P. DeFilippis

• 4/9/15 -"Our Discomfort with Death: It's Time to Get Over It" - Dr. Joseph D. Rotella

• 3/26/15 -"Why Doctors Support Single Payer" - Dr. Garrett Adams

• 3/19/15 -"Osteoporosis: Current Management Controversies and New Targets for Possible Therapeutics" - Dr. Dolores M. Shoback (Beverly Todd Towery Lecture)

• 3/12/15 -"Travel Medicine for the Primary Care Physician" - Dr. Anupama Raghuram

• 3/5/15 -"Can Exercise Teach Us to Treat Heart Disease?" - Dr. Anthony Rosenzweig (Nancy Middleton Smith Lecture)

• 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