Highlight the key differences in the new American College of Rheumatology guidelines for the treatment of RA in terms of development process, recommendations, and the inclusion of updated data and new treatment options
Apply the new ACR guidelines to clinical decision making in patients with RA

Past Topics & Speakers

Date	Title	Author
9/22/2017	Examining the 2015 ACR Guidelines for the Treatment of RA	Nancy Lane, MD
9/15/2017	Severe Refractory Asthma	Richard Tejedor, MD
9/8/2017	Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows	Scott Embley, LCSW, CEAP
9/1/2017	Snakebites	Robert A. Barish, MD, MBA
8/25/2017	Critical Care Nephrology: A New Frontier	Mihran Naljayan, MD, FASN, FNKF
8/18/2017	Are All NOAC's Created Equally	Frank Smart, M.D.
8/11/2017	Syphilis: Our Old Imitator and New Diagnostic Tests	Stephanie Taylor, M.D.
8/4/2017	Corticosteroids for Community Acquired Pneumonia: ready for Prime Time?	Kyle Happel, M.D.
7/28/2017	Caring for the Hospitalized Older Patientq	Kristi Boudreaux, M.D.
7/21/2017	Carcinoma of Unknown Primary (CUP): aunique clinical entity	Agustin Garcia, M.D.
7/14/2017	Adult Vaccines 2017	David Borne, M.D.
6/16/2017	Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplant	Victoria Burke, M.D.
6/9/2017	Is a Prison Sentence Always a Death Sentence? Healthcare Disparities in the Incarcerated Curing Sepsis? A Controversial new Piece of Literature	Jenna Jordan, M.D. Bobby Mathew, M.D.
6/2/2017	What Have We Learned From Recent Emerging Infections?	Christian Chidiac, MD
5/26/2017	LSU 32 and You...The Lost Art of Bedside Teaching	Najy Masri, MD
5/19/2017	Screening Breast Imaging: What's Up, What's Clear? Who Says?	Michael Morin, MD
5/12/2017	Syncope State of the Art: What Works, What Doesn't	Paul LeLorier, MD
5/5/2017	Lyme Disease: Facts and Fiction	Paul G. Auwaerter, MD
4/28/2017	Learning and Teaching Clinical Reasoning	Robert L. Trowbridge, MD
4/21/2017	Mental Health Across the Educational Continuum: Challenges and Opporutnities	Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd
4/7/2017	Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome	Neil MacIntyre, MD
3/31/2017	Revisiting Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): Inroads to ROME IV	John Hutchings, MD
3/24/2017	Optimizing Statin Utilization and Treatment Adherence Among Patients who Discontinue Statins Due to Adverse Muscle Complaints	Robert Rosenson, MD
3/17/2017	Diets Gone Wild: An Overview of Nutritional Recommendations	Paul Thien, MD
3/10/2017	Evaluating the Cause of Cardiac Arrest: When it's Not that Obvious	Andrew Krahn, MD
3/3/2017	Overview of the Genitourinary Malignancies	Rajasree Pia Chwodry, MD
2/24/2017	A Sobering Look at the Opiate Epidemic in the United States	Jorge Martiinez, MD, JD
2/17/2017	Osteomyelitis: Review and Update	C. Lynn Besch, MD
2/10/2017	ALS: A Report from the Field	Stephen Kantrow, MD
2/3/2017	Cryptococcosis: What is known from a 40 Year Journey	John R. Perfect
1/27/2017	Diversity and Equity in Academic Medicine	Angela McLean, MD
1/20/2017	Emergency Airway Management of the Medically Ill at UMCNO	Bruce Hurley, MD, MPH
1/13/2017	The Janus-faces of Nicotine on Renal Function and Injury	Luis Juncos, MD, FAHA, FASN
1/7/2017	Infectious Disease: Clinical Pearls for the Internist	Leonardo Seone, MD, FCCP, Chayan Chakraborti, MD. FACP, FHM, and Fred Lopez, MD, MACP
12/16/2016	To move or not to move? Exercise: does it matter and how much?	Diana Thien, MD
12/9/2016	The Treatment of Avascular Necrosis	Tracy LeGros, MD, PhD
12/2/2016	Syncope in the Elderly	Paul LeLorier, MD
11/18/2016	Insights into Inflammatory Myositis	Steven R. Ytterber, MD
11/11/2016	Pulmonary ARterial Hypertension: The Diagnosis You Don't Want to Miss	Robert Frantz, MD
11/4/2016	Long-Term HIV Management: Multi-dsciplinary Teamwork and Future Direcations in Clinical Care	Sara Pullen, DPT, MPH
10/28/2016	Metformin 2016: Beyond Glycemic Control (Not Your Mother's Diabetes Drug)	Taniya de Silva, MD
10/21/2016	Evo or Devo: Healthcare and Physicianship in the Electronic Age	Julio Figueroa, II, MD
10/14/2016	The Evolving Practice of Primary Care	Le Nguyen, MD
10/7/2016	Replacing the Stethoscope? Ultrasound as a Physical Exam Tool in the Intensive Care Unit	Matthew Lammi, MD, MSCR
9/30/2016	Computational Fluid Dynamics Characterization of Pulsatile Flow in Systemic to Pulmonary Shunts: Relevance to Shear Stress Induced, Platelet-Mediated Thrombosis	Robert J. Ascuitto, PhD, MD
9/23/2016	Diagnostic Reasoning: The Most Important Skill in Internal Medicine AND the Most Difficult to Teach	John Amoss, MD
9/16/2016	Advances in IBS 2016	Brooks D. Cash, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE
9/9/2016	Nutritional Considerations in Nephrology	Farshid Yazdi, MD, MSPH
9/2/2016	Geriatrics Literature Update 2016	Abir Abdo, MD
8/26/2016	Percutaneous Therapy for complex coronary ARtery Disease in Complex Patients	Robert T. Pyo, MD
8/19/2016	High Dose of Oxygen Resuscitation	Keith Van Meter, MD
8/12/2016	Reactive Arthiritis: An Appraisal	Luis R. Espinoza, MD
8/5/2016	Preventing Anal Cancer in Louisiana	Michael E. Hagensee, MD
7/29/2016	Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	Richard Tejedor, MD
7/22/2016	Adult Attention Deficit Disorder	Janice Nugent, MD
7/15/2016	Summer Beach Reads: Oncology 2016	Brian Boulmay, MD
7/8/2016	Procalcitonin: A User's Guide	Ross McCarron, MD
6/17/2016	Medicine Hodge Podge: Factors That Will Affect Your Practice of Medicine and a Little ID or A Grand Rounds for the Attention Span Deficient	Lee S. Engel, MD, PhD, FACP
6/10/2016	Targeted Oxygen Application to Improve Tissue Salvage & Provide Regeneration after Limb Trauma	Mimi Sammarco, MD
6/3/2016	TSH, T4: What is it Good For? and Mutational Analysis in Cancer: Therapeutic Implications	Rachel Coleman, MD and Daniel Johnson, MD
5/27/2016	Approach to the Patient with Abnormal Liver Tests	Jorge L. Herrera, MD, MACG
5/20/2016	Clothes Make the Doctor?	Julio Figueroa, MD
5/13/2016	New Findings About Reproductive Health Services for Young Women with Cerebral Palsy	Susan Gray, MD
5/6/2016	Understanding and Improving Outcomes after Critical Illness	Catherine "Terri" Hough, MD, MSc
4/29/2016	The Neuroevolution of Complex PTSD and Somatoform Disorders	Erich J. Conrad, MD, FAPM
4/22/2016	Lessons from a Medical Education Journeyman	Dan Hunt, MD, MBA
4/15/2016	Gene Therapy for Genetic Disease Including Genetic Emphysema	Terence R. Flotte, MD
4/8/2016	Trains, Planes, and Automobiles - and Zika!: How travel Medicine is Influenced by the Emerging Infection deJour	Sara L.F. McLellan, MD., MPH
4/1/2016	Hepatitis C for Primary Care Providers	Cassandra D. Youmans, MD, MPH, MS-HCM
3/11/2016	Cancelled
3/4/2016	Food for Though: Understanding the recent Evidence Around Nutrition Practicies in Critically Ill Patients	Todd W. Rice, MD, MSc
2/26/2016	Platelets	Perry Rigby, MD
2/19/2016	Rethinking Readmissions? An Update on the Readmission Reduction Program	Shane Guillory, MD
2/12/2016	Diagnosis, therapy and Challenges of Dementia	Thomas Reske, MD
2/5/2016	TB Through Time	Carol Mason, MD
1/29/2016	Beating the Blues - Approaches to Evidence-based Care of Depression Among Medical Patients	Benjamin Springgate, MD, MPH
1/20/2016	Bench to Bedside: Developing a New Treatment for virus-Associated Lymphoma	Chris Parsons, MD
1/15/2016	Is the Physical Exam Obsolete?	Charles V. Sanders, MD
1/8//2016	Get On Your Feet! The Diabetic Foot, Are You Handling it Right?	Heather Murphy-Lavoie, MD
12/18/2015	Going Down the Escalator and Through the Rabbit Hole...: Tales From an Antibiotic Steward	Julio E. Figueroa, II, MD
12/11/2015	Stuff We Don't Do In the ICU Anymore	David Janz, MD
12/4/2015	The Medical Student of the Future	Robert Eubanks, MD
11/20/2015	"Can I stop taking Coumadin?" Non-Pharmacologic means for Stroke Reduction for Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation	Jameel Ahmed, MD
11/13/2015	*Can we control Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States? The Chlamydia trachomatis* Infection Prevention Program as Paradigm**	Davide Martin, MD
11/06/2015	A History of Charity Hospital	Shane Sanne, MD
10/30/2015	Immunizatiojns - Not just for kids!	Betty Lo, MD
10/23/2015	Psoriatic Arthritis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Why?	James S. Louie, MD, MD MACR, FACP
10/16/2015	Quality and Safety in Hospital Systems	Murtuza Ali, MD
10/09/2015	Caridac Sarcoidosis. Underdiagnosed? Undertreated?	David Birnie, MD
10/02/2015	Inpatient Management of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis	Kara De Felice, MD
09/25/2015	Can a pill a day keep the doctor away? What you should know about HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.	Paula Seal, MD
09/18/2015	Pain Medicine	Charles E. Schlosser, III, MD
09/11/2015	Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know	Agustin A. Garcia, MD
09/04/2015	Update on Intensive Insulin	Robert Richards, MD
08/28/2015	Kidney Disease in the Geriatric Population	Erwin Aguilar, PharmD, MSc, MPH
08/21/2015	How Cultural Competence Impacts Our Clinical Communications	Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD
08/14/22015	The Evidence For Compassion	Marcelle M. Rousseau, MD
08/07/2015	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Some Review and What's New	Stephanie N. Taylor, MD
07/31/2015	Biomarkers & Omic - The Roadmap in Cardiology	Vijayendra Jaligam, MD
07/24/2015	Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension	David B. Badesch, MD
07/17/2015	IVIg: Old Dog New Tricks	Sanjay Kamboj, MD
07/10/2015	Interprofessional Hotspotting in New Orleans: Student-Driven, Patient-Centered Care Coordination	Jessica L. Johnson, PharmD, Jake Quinton, MPH-L3, Madeline B. DuBas, RN, BSN
07/03/2015	HOLIDAY
06/19/2015	Diabetic Kidney Disease 2015: A Clinician’s Guide	Mark D. Williams, MD
06/12/2015	1. Doing the Right Things Right: Exploring Barriers to Planning, Iplementing, and Assessing Quality Initiative (QI) Projects and Strategies for Improvement 2. The Computer Who Wore a Lab Coat: The Past & Future of Diagnostic Systems 3. Resident Update and Resident Choice Awards	1. Daniel Englert, MD 2. Matthew Jordan, DO 3. Drs. Englert & Jordan
06/05/2015	Update on Medical Billing and Coding	Daniel Raines, MD
05/29/2015	Improving Outcomes in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)	Jonathan Owen, MD
05/22/2015	Update in the Treatment of MRSA Bacteremia and Skin and Skin Structure Infections	Rebecca Lillis, MD
05/15/2015	Direct Primary Care: A Better Way to Pactice Medicine	Steven M. Manning, MD
05/08/2015	Use of Innovative Technologies to Manage Obesity in Prenatal and Postnatal Women	Leanne M. Redman, PhD
05/01/2014	Access to Care in New Orleans Today: Beginnings of the Post-Safety Net Era	Joseph M. Kanter, MD, MPH
04/24/2015	Health Care in the Era of the Affordable Care Act: A Focus on Medicaid	Rebekah Gee, MD, MS, MPH
04/17/2015	Genetic Screening and *Testing in the Post-Genome Era*	Deborah A. Driscoll, MD
04/10/2015	Geriatric Medicine Update	Thomas M. Reske, MD, PhD
04/03/2015	HOLIDAY
03/27/2015	The Practice of Medicine: *The Game That Will Tie You Up in Knots*	Catherine M. Hebert, MD
03/20/2014	MATCH DAY
03/13/2014	Obesity, Diet and Physical Activity: A Gastroenterologist’s Journey into the World of Nutrition	Uri Ladabaum, MD,
03/06/2014	Screening of Young Athletes	Allen J. Solomon, MD
02/27/2015	New and Experimental Therapies for RA	Ernest Brahn MD
02/20/2015	ECMO Advances in Adult Cardio-RespiratorySupport	Frank Smart, MD
02/13/2015	Headaches in the ER	Caroline Barton, MD
01/06/2015	Personalized Molecular Therapy for Breast Cancer	Debasish Tripathy, MD
01/30/2015	Is More Always Better in Medicine: The Challenge to do Less?	Angela Johnson, MD
01/23/2015	Influenza: The Killer Amongst Us	Seema Walvekar, MD
01/16/2015	History of Pain	Stephen Kishner, MD
01/09/2015	Measures of Asthma Control	Kyle Happel, MD
12/19/2014	A Baker’s Dozen: A Guide to Adult Immunizations	David M. Borne, MD
12/12/2014	Current Approaches to Cancer Screening	Vince D. Cataldo, MD
12/06/2014	Enterococci: Examples of How to Make Second (or Third) Rate Pathogens into a First Rate Problem	Barbara E. Murray, MD
11/21/2014	Infectious Diseases: Clinical Pearls for the Internist	Leonardo Seoane, MD; Chad S. Miller, MD; and Fred A. Lopez, MD
11/14/2014	How Long Do I Have? The Lost Art of Prognostication in Medical Disease	Kristi Boudreaux, MD
11/07/2014	Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly	Koonlawee Nademanee, MD
10/31/2014	RACAT Science: An Approach to Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis	Lynell W. Klassen, MD
10/24/2014	Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Clinical Manifestations, Prospects for Treatment, and Perspectives from the Front Line	George Risi, MD, MSc
10/17/2014	Ethics in Global Health	Annelies De Wulf, MD
10/10/2014	Differential Diagnosis of Dementia	Abir Abdo, MD
10/03/2014	Sexually Transmitted Infections Update	David Martin, MD
09/26/2014	THE OBAMACARE REPORT CARD: Grading the Major Elements of Health Care Reform	Najy Masri, MD
09/19/2014	A 21^st Century Approach to Managing and Monitoring IBD	Jennifer A. Strople, MD
09/12/2014	Strategies for the Use of Simulation Technologies in Medical Education	Matthew Carlisle, MD
09/05/2014	Lost in Translation: Caring for Non-English Speaking Patients inan English Speaking Healthcare System	Kate Brown, MD
08/29/2014	Statin Myopathy: An Autoimmune Disease?	Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD, MPH
08/22/2014`	Pediatric Obesity and Later Health Outcomes	Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD
08/15/2014	New Developments in Renal Cell Carcinoma	Marc R. Matrana, MD, MSc
08/08/2014	“Only” Skin Deep? A Guided Tour of Diagnosis, Treatment and Serious Consequences of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections	C. Lynn Besch, MD
07/25/2014	Exploring a Diversity of Ideas On Medically Relevant Topics	Judd Shellito, MD; Stephen Kantrow, MD; Bennett deBoisblanc, MD
07/18/2014	The Evolution of Breast Cancer Therapy	Michelle Loch, MD
07/11/2014	Medical Marijuana: Therapeutic Option or Public Health Concern	Jorge A. Martinez, MD, JD
07/04/2014	HOLIDAY
06/20/2014	Infection Prevention and Control – Not Just for Bean Counters Anymore	Joanne T. Maffei, MD
06/13/2014	Clinical Cases from Chief Year	Carrie Caruthers, MD and Adrienne Arbour, MD
06/06/2014	The Achilles’ Heel of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – The Athletic Heart	Michael Foster, MD
05/30/2014	The Medical & Surgical Experiences of An LSU School of Medicine Alumnus In Africa and Beyond	Bert B. Oubre, MD
05/23/2014	New Cholesterol Guidelines: Where Have All The Targets Gone?	Diana Thien, MD
05/16/2014	The Role of Autopsy in Modern Day Clinical Medicine	Robin McGoey, MSGC, MD
05/09/2014	Hospital Medicine: Not Just the Latest Fad	Paul Thien, MD
05/03/2014	Development of a Novel Adenosine-Eluting Guidewire (Adenowire) for Coronary Vasodilatation During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	Mervyn B. Forman, MD, PhD
04/25/2014	The ABCs of ARVs: Negotiating the Maze of HIV Treatments	Rebecca Clark, MD
04/18/2014	HOLIDAY
04/11/2014	The Centrality of Life Experience: Behavioral & Health Implications of Child Traumatic Stress	Robert S. Pynoos, MD
04/04/2014	Acute Pancreatitis: Update 2014	Stephen Landreneau, MD
03/28/2014	When Hypothermia is Not Therapeutic	Sean P. Hardy, MD
03/21/2014	MATCH DAY
03/14/2014	Childhood Obesity: *Current Status, Consequences and Solutions*	Melinda Sothern, PhD
03/07/2014	Building a Model for Osteoarthritis Care	Angela McLean, MD
02/28/2014	The Problem of Multidrug Resistant TB in Turkey, and its Management	Seref Ozkara, MD
02/25/2014	Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC): Tthe Great Pretender	Frank Smart, MD
02/14/2014	The Physical Examination; Time for a Change?	John R. Amoss, MD
02/07/2014	Stem Cell Transplant: Current and Future Aspects	Robert Emmons, MD
01/31/2014	Serum Phosphate: Vascular Toxin, Biomarker or Both?	Eleanor Lederer, MD
01/24/2013	Medical Errors–-Consequences of Misdiagnosis	Prem Kumar, MD
01/17/2014	In Search of the Holy Grail: Insulin Pump Therapy and the Search for the Artificial Pancreas	Taniya de Silva, MD
01/10/2014	Androgen Receptor Signaling and Prostate Cancer	Maofu Fu, MD
12/20/2013	State of the Art – Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation	Rubin Zhang, MD
12/13/2013	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	Kiersta Kurtz-Burke, MD
12/06/2013	The Ocular Exam	Jayne S. Weiss, MD
11/22/2013	Colon Cancer: A Community Conspires in Disease	Cynthia Sears, MD
11/15/2013	“It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”: The Media and Exploitation of Disease	Lee Engel, MD, PhD
11/08/2013	Practicing Excellence: How to Give Great Care and Feel Better at the End of Your Day	Jay Kaplan, MD
11/01/2013	Coronary Revascularization in Ischemic Heart Disease: Lessons from Observational Studies and Randomized Clinical Trials	Nestor Mercado, MD
10/25/2013	The Burning Leaf, e-Cigarettes and the Next Revolution	Stephen Kantrow, MD
10/18/2013	Delirium in the Elderly	William P. Hudson, MD
10/11/2013	Targeted Therapy of Systemic Sclerosis	Virginia Steen, MD
10/04/2013	Preventing Anal Cancer in Louisiana	Michael Hagensee, MD, PhD
09/27/2013	Infectobesity – Obesity of Infectious Origin	Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD
09/20/2013	Violent Injury Prevention and the Emergency Department	Jennifer Avegno, MD
09/13/2013	The Sunshine Vitamin: Benefits of Vitamin D Beyond Bone Health	Le Nguyen, MD
09/06/2013	High Value, Cost-Conscious Care: Wasting the Buck Stops Here	Steven E. Weinberger, MD
08/30/2013	Novel Therapeutics and the Changing Role of Admission in Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis	Ross McCarron, MD
08/23/2013	Healthcare Financing in Louisiana	Fred Cerise, MD, MPH
08/16/2013	Contrast-Induced Nephropathy – Old Concept, New Perspectives	Mihran Naljayan, MD
08/09/2013	Novel Oral Anticoagulants for Atrial Fibrillation	Paul Lelorier, MD
08/02/2013	Meeting the Challenge of CDC HIV Testing Guidelines: Fourth Generation Testing in the Emergency Department	Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD
07/26/2013	Treatment of Hepatitis C: A New Era	Anne Hull, MD
07/19/2013	Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors and Pulmonary Medicine	Carol Mason, MD
07/12/2013	Clinical Pearls in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Arun Swaminath, MD
07/05/2013	CANCELLED
06/28/2013	CANCELLED
06/21/2013	Reducing 30-Day Readmission Rates: A Search for Effective Strategies -and- Health Care Maintenance for the Hospitalist	Shane Guillory, MD, Shane Sanne, DO
06/14/2013	HIV and Pain: Changing the Tide	Paula S. Seal, MD
06/07/2013	Hives in Medical Lives – A Clinician’s Approach to Urticaria	Sanjay Kamboj, MD
05/31/2013	Update on Obesity Treatment in the Primary Care Setting	Diana McDermott, MD, MPH
05/242013	Innovations in Echocardiography	Prashanthi Atluri, MD
05/17/2013	Current Topics in Global Health	David Beran, DO, MPH
05/10/2013	Geriatric Oncology	Thomas M. Reske, MD., PhD.
05/03/2013	Diabetic Neuropathy	Stephen Morse, DO
04/26/2013	A Case of Chronic Cough, Sore Throat and Contact Lens Intolerance	Prem Kumar, MD
04/19/2013	Students of Disease from 1943 to 2013: From Wiley Forbus to Choosing Wisely	C. Bruce Alexander, MD
04/12/3013	Probiotics and Infectious Disease	David A. Welsh, MD
04/05/2013	STROKE AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - TIME FOR A NEW APPROACH?	Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc
03/29/2013	HOLIDAY
03/22/2013	Performance Impacts Sustainability	Cassandra D. Youmans, MD,
03/15/2013	Statin Therapy 2013: A Promise Fulfilled	Carl “Chip” J. Lavie, MD,
03/08/2013	Are Steroids Effective for Low Back Pain?	David J. Kennedy, MD
03/01/2013	The Genetics of Cardiomyopathic Disease	John L. Jefferies, MD
02/22/2013	Transitioning the Pediatric Patient to Adult Care	Daniel S. Hsia, MD
02/15/2013	HIV and Cancer: Patient-focused Research and New Directions in New Orleans	Christopher Parsons, MD
02/08/2013	A Touch of Big Charity Went a Long Way for Success Of Bogalusa Heart Study and Proudly a Boyd Professor	Gerald S. Berenson, MD
02/01/2013	Emergencies and Urgencies in Patients with Lung Cancer	Robert A. Ramirez, DO
0125/2013	An Update on Human Prion Diseases	Catherine Hebert, MD
01/18/2013	Update on Screening for Colorectal Cancer	Daniel L. Raines, MD
01/11/2013	Primary Immunodeficiencies in Adults	Ricardo Sorensen, MD
12/14/2012	The Re-emergence of Peritoneal Dialysis: A Paradigm Shift in Renal Replacement Therapy	Johathan G. Owen, MD
12/07/2012	Augenblick: Diagnostic Dilemmas in History	Salvatore Mangione, MD
11/30/2012	Stewardship, Diagnostic Microbiology, and the 7th Competency	L. Barth Reller, MD
11/16/2012	Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock	Jeffrey Elder, MD.
11/09/2012	Moving Beyond AFFIRM: Rhythm versus Rate Control for Atrial Fibrillation in the Era of Ablative Therapy	Jameel Ahmed, MD
11/02/2012	The Forthcoming Election and the Candidates Plans for Health Reform and Medicare – Implications for the Future Practice of Medicine	Richard A. Culbertson, PhD and Rebekah Gee, MD, MPH
10/26/2012	The Patient Centered Medical Home	Mary Coleman, MD, PhD
10/19/2012	Failed Back Surgery Syndrome	Stephen Kishner, MD
10/12/2012	Pulmonary Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	James H. Shelhamer, MD
10/05/2012	The Changing Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Disease and the Impact of Conjugate Vaccines	Monica Farley, MD
09/28/2012	Obesity, Its Treatment and New Treatments in Development	Frank Greenway, MD
09/21/2012	LSUHSC and Southeast Lo isiana Veterans Health Care System (SLVHCS): Partnerships Past, Present and Future	Cathy Lazarus, MD and Stephanie. Repasky, PsyD
09/14/2012	Cancer Treatment Updates 2012: Not the Same Old Chemotherapy	Brian Boulmay, MD
09/07/2012	Applying Multi-patient Simulation Training to Your Practice: Are You Ready for Disaster?	Pierre Detiege, MD
09/31/2012	CANCELLED
08/24/2012	Fever: Friend or Foe?	Judd Shellito, MD
08/17/2012	Essence Festival: Your Microbial Identity And How Antibiotics Can Change It	Julio Figueroa II, MD
08/10/2010	Best Practice in Advanced Liver Disease: An Evidence-Based Consensus Approach	Kevin Mullin, MD
08/03/2012	Pleotropic Effects of Inflammasome Modulation in Rheumatologic Conditions and Associated Comorbidities	Raquel Cuchacovich, MD
07/27/2012	Adult Vaccines: An Update	Eirinn Erny, MD
07/20/12	Heart Failure with Preserved EF: Sorting Through the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Guessing Game	Frank Smart, MD
07/13/12	Pelican Electronic Health Record	Vishal Jain, Carl Walker, MD, Wayne Wilbright, MD
0706/12	No MGR Today
6/29/12	No MGR Today
6/22/12	No MGR Today
06/15/12	1. Diseases Down the Bayou 2. Handheld Ultrasound – A 21st Century Stethoscope for Internists 3. Overview of LSU Internal Medicine Program	1. Jess Duet, MD 2. Seema Walvekar, MD 3. Jess Duet, MD and Seema Walvekar, MD
06/08/12	HPV Vaccine Update	Rebecca Lillis, MD
06/01/12	Outpatient Alcohol Use and the Inpatient Complications	D. Steven Euler, Jr., MD
05/25/12	Diagnosis & Management of Lipid Disorders: Venturing Beyond Statins	Karen Friday, MD
05/18/12	Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen to Restore Hearing	Heather Murphy-Lavoie, MD
05/11/12	LSU Healthcare Network Primary Care Influenza Vaccination Study	J. Brent Wallis, MD
05/04/12	Sudden Cardiac Death	Paul LeLorier MD
04/27/12	The Changing Face of HIV Care	Ronald D. Wilcox, MD
04/20/12	Patient-Physician Interactions: The Verbal Part of the Physical Examination	Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD
04/13/12	The Role of Prevention in the Patient Centered Medical Home	Michael O. Fleming, MD
04/06/12	HOLIDAY
03/30/12	Cardiac Biomarkers in the Evaluaion of ACS	Christopher Willoughby, MD
03/23/12	Boning Up on Osteoporosis	Jan Bruder, MD
03/16/12	Quality Improvement in Healthcare – an International Imperative	Stephen Hunter, MD
03/09/2012	Pre-operative Evaluation and Management of the Hospitalized Patient	Kristi Boudreaux, MD
03/02/12	Infectious Diseses: Clinical Pearls for the Internist	Fred A. Lopez, MD
02/24/12	Pancreatic Cancer	Jyotsna Fuloria, MD
02/17/12	One Hundred Years of Allergen Immunotherapy	Prem Kumar, MD
02/10/12	Health Quality: Idle Chatter or Real Paradigm Shift?	Dwayne A. Thomas, MD
02/03/12	Psychological Stress and Asthma Risk: Clinical and Molecular Approaches to Identifying Individual Susceptibility	Gailen D. Marshall, Jr, MD
01/27/12	The Patient Safety Movement: Origins to Current State	Thomas Knight, MD
01/20/12	Health Care Reform: Changing Times or Time for Change	Najy Masri, MD
01/13/12	Chronic Diarrhea: A Common Diagnostic Dilemma	Daniel Raines, MD
010512	Of Hypnos and Morpheus: Hormones and Sleep	Gabriel Uwaifo, MD
12/30/11	Holiday
2/23/11	Holiday
12/16/11	Pneumocystis – Down But Not Out	Judd Shellito, MD
12/9/11	The Evolution and Ecology of the Cholera Bacillus in Aquatic Habitats	Gary Schoolnik, MD
12/2/11	Comprehensive Geriatrics Assessment	Charles Cefalu, MD
11/25/11	Holiday
11/18/11	Cancer Treatment in the Era of Personalized Cancer Medicine	Jill Gilbert, MD
11/11/11	Crisis in Standard of Care	James Aiken, MD
11/04/11	Percutaneous Revascularization: Well Beyond the Coronaries	Elias Hanna, MD
10/28/11	The Future of Medical Education	Robert Eubanks, MD
10/21/11	Simulation Nation: Mannequins Are People Too!	Paul Thien, MD
10/14/11	Challenges of Clinical Assessment and Clinical Trial Design in Connective Tissue Disease Interstitial Lung Diseases (CTD-ILD): Lessons Learned from Scleroderma Pulmonary Fibrosis	Lesley Saketkoo, MD, MPH
10/7/11	Clinical Reasoning: a Persistent Necessity	Gustavo R. Heudebert, MD
09/30/11	Hypertension in the Elderly: Deconstructing the 2011 ACCF/AHA Expert Consensus	Efrain Reisin, MD
09/23/11	Is the Physical Exam Obsolete?	Charles Sanders, MD
09/16/01	Endosonography	Stephen W. Landreneau, MD
09/09/11	Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Early Stage Breast Cancer; What the Internist Needs to Know	Chris Theodossiu, MD
09/02/11	The Role of the Genitourinary Tract Microbiota in Health and Disease	David Martin, MD
08/26/11	Preventive Medicine	Nicole Giambrone, MD
08/19/11	Untangling the “Heavy” Cardio-vascular Burden of Obesityand the “Obesity Pradox”	Carl J. Lavie, MD
08/12/11	When to Squeeze and How Much? Evidence Based Vasopressor Use	Peter M.C. DeBlieux, MD
08/05/11	Lumbar Spinal Stenosis	Stephen Kishner, MD
07/29/11	Prevention and Management of Bacterial Infections in Hemodialysis	Kenneth Abreo, MD
07/22/11	Improving Patient Safety: Major Emphasis on Patient Handoffs	Jorge Martinez, MD, JD
07/15/11	Cultural Competence and Diversity in Health Care	Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr., Ph.D.
07/08/11	Recognizing High-Risk Syncope	Paul LeLorier, MD
07/04/11	HOLIDAY

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LSUHSC MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS

September 22, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:00 p.m. Medical Education Building, Lecture Room A 1901 Perdido Street, 1st Floor

At the conclusion of this activity, the learner should be better able to:

Past Topics & Speakers

Date

Title

Author

07/24/2015

Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

David B. Badesch, MD

07/17/2015

IVIg: Old Dog New Tricks

Sanjay Kamboj, MD

07/10/2015

Interprofessional Hotspotting in New Orleans: Student-Driven, Patient-Centered Care Coordination

Jessica L. Johnson, PharmD, Jake Quinton, MPH-L3, Madeline B. DuBas, RN, BSN

07/03/2015

HOLIDAY

06/19/2015

Diabetic Kidney Disease 2015: A Clinician’s Guide

Mark D. Williams, MD

06/12/2015

1. Doing the Right Things Right: Exploring Barriers to Planning, Iplementing, and Assessing Quality Initiative (QI) Projects and Strategies for Improvement 2. The Computer Who Wore a Lab Coat: The Past & Future of Diagnostic Systems 3. Resident Update and Resident Choice Awards

1. Daniel Englert, MD 2. Matthew Jordan, DO 3. Drs. Englert & Jordan

06/05/2015

Update on Medical Billing and Coding

Daniel Raines, MD

05/29/2015

Improving Outcomes in End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Jonathan Owen, MD

05/22/2015

Update in the Treatment of MRSA Bacteremia and Skin and Skin Structure Infections

Rebecca Lillis, MD

05/15/2015

Direct Primary Care: A Better Way to Pactice Medicine

Steven M. Manning, MD

05/08/2015

Use of Innovative Technologies to Manage Obesity in Prenatal and Postnatal Women

Leanne M. Redman, PhD

05/01/2014

Access to Care in New Orleans Today: Beginnings of the Post-Safety Net Era

Joseph M. Kanter, MD, MPH

04/24/2015

Health Care in the Era of the Affordable Care Act: A Focus on Medicaid

Rebekah Gee, MD, MS, MPH

04/17/2015

Genetic Screening and Testing in the Post-Genome Era

Deborah A. Driscoll, MD

04/10/2015

Geriatric Medicine Update

Thomas M. Reske, MD, PhD

04/03/2015

HOLIDAY

03/27/2015

The Practice of Medicine: The Game That Will Tie You Up in Knots

Catherine M. Hebert, MD

03/20/2014

MATCH DAY

03/13/2014

Obesity, Diet and Physical Activity: A Gastroenterologist’s Journey into the World of Nutrition

Uri Ladabaum, MD,

03/06/2014

Screening of Young Athletes

Allen J. Solomon, MD

02/27/2015

New and Experimental Therapies for RA

Ernest Brahn MD

02/20/2015

ECMO Advances in Adult Cardio-RespiratorySupport

Frank Smart, MD

02/13/2015

Headaches in the ER

Caroline Barton, MD

01/06/2015

Personalized Molecular Therapy for Breast Cancer

Debasish Tripathy, MD

01/30/2015

Is More Always Better in Medicine: The Challenge to do Less?

Angela Johnson, MD

01/23/2015

September 22, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:00 p.m.
Medical Education Building, Lecture Room A
1901 Perdido Street, 1st Floor

1. Doing the Right Things Right: Exploring Barriers to Planning,
Iplementing, and Assessing Quality Initiative (QI) Projects and Strategies for Improvement
2. The Computer Who Wore a Lab Coat: The Past & Future of Diagnostic Systems
3. Resident Update and Resident Choice Awards

1. Daniel Englert, MD
2. Matthew Jordan, DO
3. Drs. Englert & Jordan

Update in the Treatment of MRSA
Bacteremia and Skin and Skin
Structure Infections

Access to Care in New Orleans Today:
Beginnings of the Post-Safety Net Era

ECMO Advances in Adult
Cardio-RespiratorySupport

Infectious Diseases:
Clinical Pearls for the Internist

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Clinical Manifestations, Prospects for Treatment,
and Perspectives from the Front Line

THE OBAMACARE REPORT CARD:
Grading the Major Elements of Health Care Reform

A 21^st Century Approach to Managing and Monitoring IBD