LSUHSC MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS

July 20, 2018 - 12:00pm - 1:00 p.m.
1901 Perdido Street, 1st Floor

 

Admit or Not Admit? New Guidelines on Old Diseases

 

Shane Guillory, MD.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Section of Hospital Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine

LSU HSC

 

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

 

 

  • Understand the negative impact of non-standardized approach to "decision to admit" for common diagnoses
  • Review the available data regarding admission criteria for common presenting symptoms or diseases, such as pulmonary embolus, syncope, and atrial fibrillation
  • Be able to apply risk-prediction tool to aid in identifying those patients who are at an increased risk of a poor outcome or increased mortality

 

 

 

Past Topics & Speakers

 

Date

Title

Author
7/20/2018 Admit or Not Admit? New Guidelines on Old Diseases Shane Guillory, M.D.
7/13/2018 The Science of Fluid Therapy in Critical Illness: From Cholera to Iatrogenic Salt Water Drowning and Back Again Ben deBoisblanc, M.D.
6/22/2018 Quality Improvement: Why is it important and what the Internal Medicine Program is doing Shane Sanne, MD
6/15/2018 Chief Residents Benji Morehead, MD and Michael Modica, MD
6/8/19 Ultrasound for Central Lines Christine Butts, M.D.
6/1/2018 Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Intestinal Medicine Christie Blanton, MD
5/25/2018 Professionalism in Residency Training Dayton Daberkow III, MD
5/18/2018 Introduction to HIV Treatment Guidelines John Michael Nanfro, MD
5/11/2018 Pillars of Hospitalist Medicine Sanjay Kamboj, MD
5/4/2018 TAVR Evolution, Impact and Future Pedro Cox-Alomar, MD
4/27/2018 Daniels Lecture - "Nurses are from Saturn, Physicians are from Jupiter, Administrators are from Mars - How Can We Speak the Same Language" Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP
4/20/2018

Artificial Intelligence: The Revolution Has Begun

Climate Change and Respiratory Infections

 

Bennet P. de boisblanc, MD

Judd Shellito, MD

 
4/13/2018   Nancy Rasgon, MD
4/6/2018 Keeping up with Seasonal Flu - A Hospitalists Perspective Seema Walvekar, M.D.
3/23/2018 Integrative Medicine in Primary Care Kate Brown, M.D.
3/16/2018 Nutrition Myth Busters Carol Mason, M.D. and Bennett P. deBoisblanc, M.D.
3/9/2018 Who Decides? The Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment in a Young Man with Tetraplegia Rick Martinez, M.D.
3/2/2018 All Politics are Local: Louisiana's Journey to a STEMI System of Care Murtuza J. Ali, M.D.
2/23/2018 Diagnosis and Management of EoE: What we know and where we are Karthik Ravi, MD
2/16/2018 Infectious Disease Complications of the Opiod Epidemic Yussef Bennani, MD, MPH
2/9/2018 Understanding Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy after 354 Years: Oxygen, Pressure, and Gene Therapy Paul Harch, M.D.
2/2/2018 Intro to Radiation Oncology Ellen Zakris, M.D.
1/26/2018 Aldosterone and Hypertension - Lesions from Bench and Bedide Charles S. Wingo, M.D.
1/19/2018 Biomedial Aging in People Living with HIV David Welsh, M.D.
1/12/2018 Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks in the Millenial Age Catherine Hebert, MD
12/15/2017

Improved Quality Through Regulation? The Role of the LSBME in Improving Care

Cecilia Mouton, M.D.
12/8/2017

Bridging the Gap with Wearable Cardiac Defibrillators: A Silver Bullet or Fool’s Gold?

Jameel Ahmed, M.D.
12/1/2017

Excellent benefit from intra-articular steroid injections, but could there be more?

Grant Stone, D.O. and Charles Schlosser III, M.D.
11/172017

Central nervous System Practice Guidelines: Meningitis and Encephalitis

Allan Tunkel, M.D.
11/10/2017 Delirium Lobna Ali, M.D.
11/3/2017 SPRINT Becomes a Marathon: Impact of SPRINT on Hypertension Research and Blood Suzanne Oparil, MD
10/27/2017 PTSD: Not Just a Soldier's Battle Lauren Davis, MD
10/20/2017 Sports Medicine for the Performing Arts Athelete Nancy Kadel, MD
10/13/2017 Bad Luck or Bad Genes? Common Hereditary Cancer Syndromes Alix D'Angelo, MGC, CGC
10/6/2017 Medical Therapy alone or with revascularization for stable coronary artery disease? William Fearon, M.D.
9/29/2017 PrEP: A Pill a day can keep the doctor away.  What you should know about HIV pre-prophylaxis Paula Seal, M.D.
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 21st 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