Neuroscience Grand Rounds 2022
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.
No Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds Conferences are scheduled for
Friday, December 23, 2022 and Friday, December 30, 2022.
Conferences will resume on Friday, January 6, 2023.
Friday, December 16, 2022
Divya Signal, MD, FAAN
Service Chief, Spinal Cord Injury Center
South Texas VA, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Recent Advances and Trends in Stroke Rehab?
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, December 9, 2022
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Associate Professor,, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, December 2, 2022
Aditya Raghunandan, MD, RMSK
Assistant Professor, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine
UT Health San Antonio
Topic – Rehabilitation of the Spine
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, November 25, 2022
NO GRAND ROUNDS – HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Friday, November 18, 2022
Paul M. Elsbernd, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD and SAMMC, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Brain MRI Enhancement Patterns in MOG Antibody-associated Disease and Comparison to AQP4+ NMOSD and Multiple Sclerosis
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 11, 2022
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 4, 2022
Justin R. Mascitelli, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio
Topic – Multimodality Treatment of Dural AV Fistulas
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, October 28, 2022
Anna Campbell Sullivan, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Diagnostic Delays Amongst Hispanics/Latinos with ALS-FTD: Initial Cognitive and Behavioral Findings
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 21, 2022
Same Elbabaa, MD, FAANS, FAAP, FACS
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery,
University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine
Topic – Fetal In-Utero Microneurosurgical Repair of Open Neural Tube Defects: Outcomes After The MOMS Trial
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 7, 2022
Amro Stino, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neruology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Topic – Atypical Peripheral Neuropathy
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, September 30, 2022
Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD
Professor, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Treatment of Spastic Muscle Overactivity: Thinking Outside the BoNTs
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, September 23, 2022
Ryan Morton, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Epistaxsis and Pulsating Tinnitus
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, September 16, 2022
Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD
Professor, Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Neuromuscular and Autonomic Manifestations of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC): Perspectives from Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, September 9, 2022
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, September 2, 2022
Steven Schachter, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief Academic Officer and Director of NeuroTechnology for the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, Boston
Senior Neurologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Topic – The Epileptic Heart
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, August 26, 2022
Kouosh Rezania, MD, FAAN
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Topic – Neurological and Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Wild Type Transthyretin Amyloidosis
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, August 19, 2022
Arash Salardini, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio
Topic – The Battered Head That Wears The Crown: Henry VIII and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, August 12, 2022
Fassil B. Mesfin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio
Topic – AOA Fellowship in Leadership: A Crusade to Develop Servant Leaders in Medical Education via Mentorship
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, August 5, 2022
Juan Ramirez-Castaneda, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio
Topic – Understanding Local Field Potentials. A Not So Novel Approach For Programming Deep Brain Stimulation.
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, July 29, 2022
Christopher P. Kellner, MD
Director, Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program and Co-Director, Precision Recovery Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY
Topic – Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, July 22, 2022
Bjorn Oskarsson, MD, FAAN (virtual speaker)
Director of ALS Center of Excellence and
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Topic – Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, July 15, 2022
Mark Lee, MD, PhD, MBA
Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Topic – Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, July 8, 2022
Susan Bandela, MD
Assistant Professor
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – In Hospital Strokes
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, July 1, 2022
NO GRAND ROUNDS
Friday, May 27, 2022
Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Melida A. Juarez, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Palliative Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Am I Dying? Managing Patients With Chronic Neuromuscular Disorders. Perspective of Neurology and Palliative Care.
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, May 20, 2022
Steven J. Warach, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor, Dept of Neurology
University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
Topic – Transitioning to Tenecteplase as Standard of Care Stroke Thrombolytic
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, May 13, 2022
Lola Morgan, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Hypothalamic Hamartomas and Gelastic Epilepsy: Case Series and Review”
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to
Friday, May 6, 2022
Bradley Dengler, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio
Topic – Who Needs A Higher Level of Care? How Can Civilian Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury Help the Military?
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, April 29, 2022
Matthew S. Brock, MD, FAASM
Chief Medical Director, Dept of Sleep Medicine
San Antonio Military Health System, San Antonio, TX (SAMMC)
Topic – Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Military Personnel
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, April 22, 2022
Naomi Sayre, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – The Neural Stem Cell Niche In Post-Stroke Recovery: Friend or Foe?
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, April 15, 2022
Alejandro Berenstein, MD
Professor, Dept of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY
Topic – Past Present and Future of Endovascular Therapy: A Personal Journal
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, April 8, 2022
NO GRAND ROUNDS SCHEDULED
BATTLE OF THE FLOWERS
Friday, April 1, 2022
Justin R. Mascitelli, MD, FAANS
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio
Jason Morrow, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio
Daily Mignon Martin Mullican, JD
Manager, Healthcare Legal Counsel, UT Health San Antonio
Ross Fischer, JD
Ethics Attorney, Ross Fischer Law, PLLC, Austin, TX
Topic – Tweeting Others With Respect: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Social Media in Medicine
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, March 25, 2022
Antonio L. Teixeira, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Neuropsychiatric Program
McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Topic – Searching for the ‘black bile’: from depression to neurodegeneration
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, March 18, 2022
Michael McGinity, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Success (and failure) of surgical treatments of myelopathy
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, March 11, 2022
Joel Salinas, MD, MBA, MSc
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Topic – Understanding Psychosocial Determinants of Brain Health in Cohorts and Clinics
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, March 4, 2022
George R. Jackson, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Topic – Neurodegenerative Movement Disorders and Dementias: How We Got Here and Where We’re Headed Next
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, February 25, 2022
Hugo Aparicio, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Topic – The Effects of Marijuana on Brain. Health
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, February 18, 2022
Charles Szabo, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Anti-Seizure Therapies: Principles, Mechanisms and Application
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, February 11, 2022
Albert R. Gilbert, DO
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, February 4, 2022
Firas Kaddouh, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery and Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Building MRI-CNS Texas: Multidisciplinary Research Initiative to Combat Neurotrauma in South Texas
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose
Friday, January 28, 2022
Sarah Horn, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio
Topic – Parkinson’s Disease Progression and Disease Modifying Therapies
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 21, 2022
Emer McGrath, MB, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
Boston, MA
Topic – Updates in Blood Biomarkers for Dementia
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 7, 2022
Adam M. Willis, MD, PhD, LtCol, USAF (SAMMC)
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
San Antonio Medical Military Center, San Antonio
Topic – Understanding The Response of Brain Tissue To Impulsive Loading
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose