Neurological Science Grand Rounds 2026
Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds is held each Friday from 8:00-9: 30 am. The general format begins with a 30-minute case presentation of an interesting/difficult patient by the Residents, followed by an hour didactic lecture on a neurological topic. We invite all interested persons to attend and to participate. Location for Grand Rounds is in the Medical School, Rm 309L.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Jeremy Tanner, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Glenn Biggs Institute, Dept of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Lewy Body Dementia: New Advances and Opportunities
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 22, 2026
Jonathan Fisher, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Overlapping Surgery: Balancing Efficiency, Education, and Patient Safety
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 15, 2026
Peter T. Fox, MD
Research Imaging Director, Research Imaging Institute
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Meta-connectomic Modeling of Brain Disorders
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 8, 2026
Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Associate Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 1, 2026
Alejandro Tobon, MD, FAAN
Adjoint Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
Topic – New Horizons in CIDP
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 24, 2026
Laura Snyder, MD, FAANS
Professor, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Teaching Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in the Era of Enabling Technologies
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Reza Behrouz, MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Director, Neurotrauma
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Topic – Intravenous Thrombolysis For Acute Ischemic Stroke: Where We Were and Where We Are Now
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Megan Waldrop, MD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Neurology
Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Topic – First in Human Clinical Trials to Learning Health Systems Science
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 3, 2026
Leila Saadatpour, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – When It’s Not Parkinson’s Disease: Navigating Atypical Parkinsonism
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 27, 2026
J Mocco, MD, MS, FAANS, FAHA
Kalmom D. Post Professor and Senior System Vice Chair
Dept of Neurological Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Be Curious …. a calling to research
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 20, 2026
Jeffrey L. Saver, MD, FAAN, FAHA
Professor, Dept of Neurology and
Director, UCLA Comprehensive Stroke and Vascular Neurology Program
SHERMAN LECTURE
The Shape of Things to Come:
Acute Ischemic Stroke Care After the Referfusion Revolution
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 13, 2026
Thomas Pelkmann, MD
PGY4 Resident, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
RESIDENT CASE PRESENTATION: A Case in Autonomic Medicine
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Iryna Lobanova, MD, PhD
Neuroimmunology Fellow, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Radiological Features of Amyloid-Beta Related Angiitis
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 6, 2026
Matthew R. Webb, DO
Specialist
Department of Neurosurgery
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Measuring Change: One size does not fit all
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Alexander M. Papanastassiou, MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – The Development of a Novel High-Resolution MRI Method for Visualizing Blood Vessels in Stereotactic Surgery
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Lipika Nayak, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX and Site Director, Headache Center of Excellence
ALM VA, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Headache center of excellence (HCoE) San Antonio;
Improving access to headache care and Primary headache disorders overview
Benjamin Osborne, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Topic – Optic Neuritis Updates in 2026
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 13, 2026
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 6, 2026
Lindsay N. Alfano, DPT, PCS
Associate Professsor
Department of Pediatrics
Ohio State University
Topic – Measuring Change: One size does not fit all
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Sarah Horn, MD
Assistant Professsor
Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Improving diversity and retention in clinical trials for Lewy body diseases using a pragmatic trial design
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 23, 2026
Pegah Ghamasaee, MD
Assistant Professsor
Department of Neurosurgery
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – ACDF vs Arthroplasty
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 16, 2026
Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka, MD, FAAN
Associate Professsor/Clinical
Department of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – MG Uncovered: Updates That Are Changing Practice
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Prabhakar Kesava, MD
Associate Professsor/Clinical
Department of Radiology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Imaging of Ischemic Stroke
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 2, 2026
No Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds Conferences