Surgery Grand Rounds

Surgery Grand Rounds occurs on Wednesday mornings from 8:00 - 9:00 am EST

There are no Grand Rounds in July and August. We will resume September 4, 2024!

Join us in Duke North 2002 Lecture Hall or virtually via Zoom

Purpose

The mission for Surgery Grand Rounds is to provide an educational format that has a broad appeal to current Duke faculty, residents, staff, and students. Grand Rounds consists of a broad range of topics that are presented by local, regional, and international speakers on clinical education, research science, developments in technology, and also addresses other related issues that may affect our current and future surgeons. Physicians who attend Surgery Grand Rounds are eligible to receive CME credit.

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 virtual Chief Talks by logging in to our media library linked below. 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 3:00pm ET on the day of recording.

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To view older archives prior to September 2024, please contact us at surgerygrandrounds@duke.dm.edu. Please include the speaker, date, or title that you wish to view.

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
September 4, 2024	T. Peter Kingham, MD, FACS Professor, Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Director of the International Surgical Oncology Fellowship and the Global Oncology Fellowship, Director, Global Cancer Disparities Initiatives
September 11, 2024	Joseph Fernandez-Moure, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
September 18, 2024	Malachi Sheahan III, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery, Program Director, Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship Programs, LSU School of Medicine
September 25, 2024	Hassan Tetteh, MD Thoracic Surgeon, Inova Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Retired US Navy Captain and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Adjunct Faculty at Howard University College of Medicine
October 9, 2024	Holly L. Hedrick, MD, FACS Attending Surgeon, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Surgical Director, ECMO Center, Co-director, Neonatal Surgical Team, Director, Pulmonary Hypoplasia Program, Louise Schnaufer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Surgery Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
October 16, 2024	Joseph Woo, MD, FACS, FACC, FAHA Norman E. Shumway Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chair, Stanford Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
October 23, 2024	Kevin W. Southerland, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Duke School of Medicine
October 30, 2024	Vincent L. Rowe, MD Professor of Surgery, Division Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, UCLA
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

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.