Surgery Grand Rounds

How to Attend

Surgery Grand Rounds are held in Duke North Room 2002 Lecture Hall and remotely via Zoom. Weekly email announcements are typically sent on Mondays at 9:30am with Zoom link information, calendar invitation, and speaker details. If you have an active Duke email address and would like to receive these weekly emails as well as upcoming event announcements, please email surgerygrandrounds@dm.duke.edu

On-Demand Viewing

Access previously recorded Surgery Grand Rounds and Chief Talks by emailing surgerygrandrounds@dm.duke.edu. Please include the name of the speaker, the presentation title, and the presentation date. These recordings are only available to current Duke faculty, staff, and trainees with a valid Duke NetID. No credit will be offered for on-demand viewing past 3:00 pm ET on the day of recording.

Highlights

Endowed Lectureships

William J. Barwick Lecture	Carter Chinnis Lecture
Merel H. Harmel Lecture	The Akwari Society
Robert H. Wilkins Lecture	H. Newland Oldham Professor Lecture
Frank Hawkins Kenan Lecture	Sanford Family Lecture

Association of Women Surgeons

AWS Grand Rounds serves as an opportunity to bring together medical students, residents, and faculty to catalyze an important shift in the culture of medicine and address implicit bias and microaggressions. The keynote speech and workshops aim to help attendees gain a common understanding of the challenges posed to women surgeons and of avenues to propose, implement, and revise strategies to address these challenges together as a Duke community.

Chief Talks

Chief Talks consists of exit presentations given by Chief Residents from the General Surgery and Cardiothoracic residency programs. Each Resident will give a 15-20 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute Q&A session.

2024-2025 Chief Residents:

Marcello Cerullo, MD	Anna Louie, MD	Andrew Vekstein, MD
Doreen Chang, MD	Joseph Nellis, MD	Soraya Voigt, MD
Austin Eckhoff, MD	Vignesh Raman, MD
Harold Leraas, MD	Bailey Su, MD

Upcoming Speakers

Date	Speaker
November 6, 2024	Paris Butler, MD, MPH, FACS Associate Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, inaugural Yale Department of Surgery Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
November 13, 2024	Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS, FSSO Chair, Department of Surgery, Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Professor, Department of Medicine, Affiliated faculty, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco Sanziana A. Roman, MD Endocrine Surgeon, Professor of Surgery and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
November 20, 2024	Jay Pal, MD, PhD Professor, Surgery, Adjunct Professor in Global Health Lester and Connie LeRoss Endowed Professorship In Cardiovascular Surgery, UW Medicine, Surgical Director of the Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Service
December 4, 2024	Priyamvada Acharya, PhD Associate Professor, Director, Division of Structural Biology, Director, Duke Center for HIV Structural Biology, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Department of Surgery, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine
December 11, 2024	Laura H. Rosenberger, MD, MS Associate Professor of Surgery, Section of Breast Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Duke School of Medicine
December 18, 2024	Kelly K. Hunt, MD, FACS, FSSO Professor & Chair, Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
January 8, 2025	Peter F. Ehrlich, MD, MSc Professor of Surgery, C.S Mott Children's Hospital, Section of Pediatric Surgery
January 15, 2025	Merel H. Harmel Lecture Joint Grand Rounds with the Department of Anesthesiology
January 22, 2025	Daniel I. Chu, MD, MSPH, FACS, FASCRS Professor, Selwyn M. Vickers Endowed Chair, Director, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama (UAB)
February 5, 2025	John R. Mascola, MD Chief Scientific Officer, ModeX Therapeutics
February 12, 2025	Charles D. Fraser, MD Raymond Family Chair in Cardiovascular Health, Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Executive Director, Texas Center for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Disease, Executive Director, Institute for Cardiovascular Health, Professor, Department of Pediatrics
February 19, 2025	Robert H. Wilkins Lecture Joint Grand Rounds with the Department of Neurosurgery
February 26, 2025	Stephen Yang, MD Associate Vice Chair for Faculty Development, The Arthur B. and Patricia B. Modell Professor in Thoracic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine
March 5, 2025	Andrea Hayes Dixon, MD, FACS, FAAP Professor and Chair of Surgery, Associate Director of the Cancer Center, Howard University Hospital
March 12, 2025	Jacob Greenberg, MD, EdM Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Duke University
March 19, 2025	Elsie Ross, MD, MS, RPVI, FAHA Associate Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Diego
March 26, 2025	Sunil K. Geevarghese, MD, MSCI, FACS Professor of Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Division of Hepatobiliary & Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Vice Chair for Education, Section of Surgical Sciences, Medical Director, Transplant Perioperative Services, Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital Elizabeth Pomfret, MD, PhD Executive Director, Colorado Center for Transplantation Care, Research and Education (CCTCARE), Chief of Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Simon G. Talbot, MD Director, Upper Extremity Transplant Program, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
April 2, 2025	Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD, FRCSC Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Health Network; FG Pearson - RJ Ginsberg Chair in Thoracic Surgery; William Coco Chair in Surgical Innovation for Lung Cancer; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute; Director of Endoscopy, University Health Network; Director, Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program, University Health Network; Professor and Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto
April 9, 2025	Nancy L. Gantt, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery, Northeast Ohio Medical University; Chair, Association of Women Surgeons Foundation; Breast Program Director, Joanie Abdu Comprehensive Breast Care Center, Mercy St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital
April 16, 2025	Duke Surgery Annual Photo Shoot
April 30, 2025	Duke Surgery 9th Annual Research Day
May 7, 2025	Better Together Grand Rounds
May 14, 2025	Marcelo Cerullo, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University Doreen Chang, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University
May 21, 2025	Austin Eckhoff, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University Harold Leraas, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University
May 28, 2025	Joseph Nellis, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University Anna Louie, MD General Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University
June 4, 2025	Vignesh Raman, MD Traditional Cardiothoracic Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University Bailey Su, MD Traditional Cardiothoracic Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University
June 11, 2025	Andrew Vekstein, MD Traditional Cardiothoracic Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University Soraya Voigt, MD Traditional Cardiothoracic Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University
June 18, 2025	Hope Weissler, MD Vascular Surgery Chief Resident, Duke University

RSS Global Learning Objectives

Review and discuss new advances in general surgery
Present and discuss case studies, protocols, treatment guidelines and surgical/pathology reports appropriate to General Surgery practice
Review and discuss clinical findings and other evidence from pertinent literature

RSS Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the Duke University Health System Department of Clinical Education and Professional Development is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.

Maintenance of Certification for the American Board of Surgery

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component enable the participant to earn up to 1 ABS MOC points in the American Board of Surgery Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Surgery Grand Rounds resumes September 3, 2025