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, December 25, 2020

NO NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS – MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!


Friday, December 18, 2020

Sarah Horn, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Updates On The Diagnosis and Management of Tremor

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, December 11, 2020

Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Neuropathologist, Autopsy Pathology Director
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Topic – CPC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, December 4, 2020

Deborah Carver-Hodges, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Chronic Migraine Headaches When Nothing Works

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, November 27, 2020

Happy Thanksgiving!!
No Neurological Science Grand Rounds on this date

 


Friday, November 20, 2020

Jennifer M. Martinez-Thompson, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN

Topic – ALS:  An Evolving Clinical Landscape

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, November 6, 2020

Marcel M. Daadi, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute;
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cell Systems & Anatomy; Department of Radiology; UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Neural Stem Cell Therapy For Parkinson’s Disease

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, October 30, 2020

E. Steve Roach, MD
Associate Chair for Clinical Integrations & Operations;
Professor, Department of Neurology
Program Director, Child Neurology Residency, UT Health Austin

Topic – Stroke In Children

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, October 23, 2020

Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, UT Health SA

Topic – HyperCKemia – Clinical Approach To Diagnosis and Management

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, October 16, 2020

Lola Morgan, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology, UT Health SA

Topic – Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial: Methodology and Results

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, October 9, 2020

James M. Henry, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, UT Health SA

Topic – CPC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, October 2, 2020

Roberto J. Aranibar, MD
Neurosurgeon, Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital, San Antonio, TX

Topic – On Achieving ‘Mastery’

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, September 25, 2020

Kameel Karkar, MD
Associate Professor/ Department of Neurology, UT Health SA

Topic – The Postical State Under The Microscope:  An Ultra-High Gain Examination of The Postical State After Focal To Bilateral Tonic-Clonic Seizures

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, September 18, 2020

Naomi Sayre, PhD
Assistant Professor/ Research Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health SA

Topic – Neuroinflammatory Modulation In Astrocytes:  LRP1 As A Potential Activation Switch

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, September 11, 2020

Jenny Hsieh, PhD
Professor of Biology an Semmes Foundation Chair in Cell Biology
Director, Brain Health Consortium, UTSA

Topic – Stem Cell Approaches to Understand Acquired and Genetic Epilepsies

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, September 4, 2020

Donald P. Atkins, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health SA

Topic – Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Fusion

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, August 28, 2020

Eric M. Bershad, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Center for Space

Topic – Brain and Ocular Physiological Considerations During Long-Duration Spaceflight

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, August 21, 2020

Viktor Bartanusz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health

Topic – Complicated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury:  Introduction of Brain Injury Guidelines (BIG)

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, August 14, 2020

Lee A. Birnbaum, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health SA

Topic – Emergent Large Vessel Occuclusion Triage for Bexar County: How We Did It

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, August 7, 2020

Ryan Morton, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health SA

Topic – Cranioplasty, How Hard is Filling a Hole?

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, July 31, 2020

Chethan P. Venkatasubba Rao, MD, FNCS
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery and Neurocritical Care and Center for Space Medicine
Section Head of Neurology, Vascular Neurology, and Neurocritical Care
Program Director of Neurology and Neurocritical Care Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Topic – Intracranial Fluid Shifts, Effects and Novel Measurement Techniques

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, July 24, 2020

John R. Floyd, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health

Topic – Convection Therapy For Malignant Glioma, Lessons Learned Over A 12 Year Experience

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, July 17, 2020

Justin R. Mascitelli, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health

Topic – Two Years of Treating Aneurysms:  Outcomes and Lessons Learned

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, July 10, 2020

Joseph S. Kass, MD, JD, FAAN
Professor, Dept of Neurology, Psychiatry & Medical Ethics
Director, Alzheimer’s disease & Memory Disorders Center
Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine

Topic – Neurological Complications of HIV:  A Focus on Cognition

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, July 3, 2020

NO GRAND ROUNDS


Friday, June 26, 2020

Charles A. Szabo, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – The Search for SUDEP Biomarkers (and their Validation)

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, June 19, 2020

Joseph C. Masdeu, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept of Neurology
Director, Nantz National Alzheimer Center of Neuroimaging
Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX

Topic – Molecular Imaging in Dementia

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, June 12, 2020

James Henry, MD
Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – CBC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, June 5, 2020

Sandeep Burma, PhD
Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Repair of Complex DNA Damage

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, May 29, 2020

David Newman-Toker, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Misdiagnosing the Acutely Dizzy Patient:  Common Pitfalls in Frontline Clinical Practice … and Bedside Diagnostic  Pears to Avoid Them

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, May 22, 2020

Juan Ramirez-Castaneda, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Advances in Technologies for Parkinson’s Disease

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, May 15, 2020

No faculty presentation


Friday, May 8, 2020

No faculty presentation


Friday, May 1, 2020

Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Sleep Disturbances

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, April 24, 2020

NO CONFERENCE (HOLIDAY)


Friday, April 17, 2020

Richard L. Crownover, MD
Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology, UT Health San Antonio

Radiation Oncology: 101

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, April 10, 2020

Mitzi Gonzalez, PhD, ABPP-CN
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology,  UT Health

Topic – Sleep Disturbances

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, April 3, 2020

NO CONFERENCE


Friday, March 27, 2020

NO CONFERENCE


Friday, March 20, 2020

NO CONFERENCE


Friday, March 13, 2020

NO CONFERENCE


Friday, March 6, 2020

James Henry, MD
Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health

Topic – CPC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, February 28, 2020

Alicia Parker, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health

Topic – Localizing Cognitive Functions

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, February 21, 2020

Michael Williams, MD
Professor, Director of Adult and Transitional Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders, UW Medicine

Topic – The Clinical Spectrum of Adult Hydrocephalus

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, February 14, 2020

James Henry, MD
Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health

Topic – CPC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, February 7, 2020

Michael T. Lawton, MD
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barrow Neurological Institute
Professor & Chairman, Dept of Neurological Surgery
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Topic – Seven Bypasses:  Evolving the Craft

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, January 31, 2020

Gabriel de Erausquin, MD
Zachary Foundation Distinguished Chair for Alzheimer Research, UT Health

Topic – Genetics of Parkinsonism in Families at Risk of Psychosis

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, January 24, 2020

Erik Ensrud, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of orthopedics & Rehabilitation/Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Topic – “Bell’s palsy of the Brachial Plexus”,  Parsonage Turner syndrome:  Advances in Understanding and Treatment

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, January 17, 2020

Kelly Averill, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, UT Health

Topic – ABCD1 Gene Mutations: The Adult Spectrum of Disease

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, January 10, 2020

James Henry, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, UT Health

Topic – CPC

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


Friday, January 3, 2020

Michael McGinity, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, UT Health

Topic – Controversies in Acute Spinal Cord Injury Management

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.


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