Massachusetts General Hospital

Cardiology Grand Rounds

2023-2024 Season

June 12, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Graduating Cardiology Fellows Presentations

by Mostafa Al-Alusi, MD
Sumeet Khetarpal, MD

May 29, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Graduating Cardiology Fellows Presentations

by Olivia Hulme, MD
Avanthi Raghavan, MD
Megan Welch, MD

May 22, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Graduating Cardiology Fellows Presentations

by Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD
Danita Sanborn, MD
Colleen Harrington, MD
Raj Malhotra, MD

May 08, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy &
The Emerging Specialty of Cardio-Obstetrics

by Melinda Davis, MD, FACC
Director, Cardio-Obstetrics Program
Fellowship Program Director
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Michigan

May 01, 2024 – Grand Rounds

13th Annual Peter M Yurchak, MD
Cardiology Grand Rounds Lectureship

by Robert Califf, MD
Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

April 24, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Melecular Imaging of the Heart and Lungs:
Chemistry-based Tools for Assessment of Fibrosis and Autophagy

by Emam Akam-Baxter, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

April 10, 2024 – Grand Rounds

The Epidemiology of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Death:
A Journey Over Two Decades

By Kimberly Harmon, MD
Professor, University of Washington

April 03, 2024 – Grand Rounds

The Voyage to Better Outcomes in
Peripheral Artery Disease

By Mark Bonaca, MD, MPH
Director of Vascular Research
William R. Hiatt Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research
University of Colorado School of Medicine

March 27, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Forefront in Cardiovascular Calcification:
Accelerating Translation of Basic Research through Systems Biology and Computational Prediction

By Elena Aikawa, MD, PhD
Director, Heart Valve Translational Research Program
Head, Cardiovascular Life Sciences
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School

March 20, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Macrophages in Cardiovascular Health

by Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, PhD
MGH Center for Systems Biology

March 06, 2024 – Grand Rounds

The Elephant Trunk Technique for the Treatment
of Complex Aortic Arch Pathologies

by Malakh Shrestha, MBBS, PhD
Directory of Aortic Surgery
Mayo Clinic

February 28, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Latest Evidence for tMCS
in Cardiogenic Shock

by Alain Combes, MD, PhD
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Sorbonne Université
Head, Medical Intensive Care Unit, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

February 14, 2024 – Grand Rounds

The evolution of cardiovascular genetics:
from family to population to personalized

by Dominic Abrams, MBBS, MD, MBA
Co-Director, Center for Cardiovascular Genetics
Boston Children’s Hospital

February 07, 2024 – Grand Rounds

On the (B)right Side of the Heart
Updates on Transcatheter Interventions

by Ada Stefanescu Schmidt, MD, Msc, FACC, FSCAI
Adult Congenital and Structural Interventional Cardiologist
MGH ACHD Program

January 24, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Evaluating Quality and Performance of TVAR
Programs: Measures, Metrics, and Public Reporting

by Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI
Structural Interventional Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

January 17, 2024 – Grand Rounds

PET Imaging of Crosstalk Between the Immune
System, Fibrosis, and Cardiac Repair

by Frank Bengal, MD
Director, Department of Nuclear Medicine
Hannover Medical School

January 10, 2024 – Grand Rounds

Advancing Understanding & Actionability of
Sex-Specific Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women

by Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

December 13, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Precision Medicine

by William Weintraub, MD
Director of Population Health Research
MedStar Health Research Institute
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University

December 06, 2023 – Grand Rounds

The Evidence on the Use of Arterial Grafts for Coronary Bypass Surgery

by Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine

November 29, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in 2023

by Greg Lewis, MD
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay Chair and Section Head, Heart Failure
Massachusetts General Hospital

November 15, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Arrhythmias in Athletes: The Emergence of the New Specialty of Sports Electrophysiology

by J. Sawalla Guseh, MD
Katie Stewart, CNP, MS
Conor Barrett, MD, MBA
Usha Tedrow, MD, MS
Peter Zimetbaum, MD

November 08, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Recurrent Pericarditis: New Paradigm Shift in Imaging and Therapeutics

by Allan L. Klein, MD
Professor of Medicine at Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University

October 25, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Increasing Importance of Microvascular Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Medicine

by Hiroaki Shimokawa, MD, PhD
International Health and Welfare, Tohoku University

October 25, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Interdisciplinary CVD Series
Effective Lifestyle and Novel Medical Approaches to Improved Cardiovascular Disease

by Gaurav Parmar, MD
Associate Director, Vascular Medicine Fellowship
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

October 18, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Current Thoughts and Future Perspectives

by Marysia Tweet, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic

October 04, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Global Cardiovascular Health Equity: Addressing Gaps Through Innovative Strategies

by Oyere Onuma, MD, MSc
MGH

Cardiovascular Disease in Cape Verde

 

by Luis Dias, MD
Hospital Agostinho Neto(HAN), Praia

September 27, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Lipoprotein(a):The Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Cardiovascular Risk Prevention

by Michelle L. O’Donoghue, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

September 20, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy

by John Spertus, MD, MPH
UMKC School of Medicine

September 19, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Women’s Heart Health Grand Rounds
Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy

by Colleen Harrington, MD, FACC FASE
Massachusetts General Hospital

September 19, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Interdisciplinary CVD Series
Effective Lifestyle and Novel Medical Approaches to Improved CVD Outcomes

by Romit Bhattacharya, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

September 13, 2023 – Grand Rounds

The Use of AI to Assist in the Interpretation of CT

by Brian Ghoshhajra, MD, MBA, MSCCT
Massachusetts General Hospital

September 06, 2023 – Grand Rounds

Cardiac Amyloidosis

by Mat Maurer, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center