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 27, 2024

NO GRAND ROUNDS – HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!


Friday, December 20, 2024

Elena Okeanis Vaou, MD, FAAN
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Barriers and Bottlenecks in DBS Referral

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


Friday, December 13, 2024

Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Associate 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, December 6, 2024

Sarah E. Savoia, PA-C
Assistant Professor, Biggs Institute
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Julia Castro, ScM
Genetic Counselor, Biggs Institute
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Autosomal Dominant Dementia: A Case Presentation

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


Friday, November 22, 2024

Matthew Wicklund, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies

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


Friday, November 15, 2024

William Kelly, MD
Assistant Professor
Mays Cancer Center
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Neuro-Onchology and the Tumor Microenvironment

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


Friday, November 8, 2024

Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Associate Professor, Dept of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – CPC – Non-neoplastic Disease

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


Friday, November 1, 2024

Tania Reyna, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – PRACTICE GUIDELINES UPDATE: Revised McDonald Criteria

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


Friday, October 25, 2024

Laurence D. Rhines, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery and Spine Tumor Program Director
MD Anderson, Houston, TX

Topic – Primary Bone Tumors of the Spine: Evaluation and Management

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


Friday, October 18, 2024

Gabrel de Erasquin, MD,PhD, MSc
Professor, Dept of Neurology and Biggs Institute
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Genetic architecture of the risk of cognitive decline following SARS-CoV-2 infection

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


Friday, October 11, 2024

Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Associate 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 4, 2024

Sujani Bandela, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Post Stroke Complications and How to Address Them?

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


Friday, Sept 27, 2024

Lt Col Grant W. Mallory, MD
Neurosurgeon, Dept of Neurosurgery
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX

Topic – Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Utility for Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Austere Environments

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


Friday, Sept 20, 2024

Alexander Papanastassiou, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – MR Guided Focused Ultrasound for Movement Disorders

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


Friday, Sept 13, 2024

Carsten Suer, MD, PhD
Private Practice and Spine Center for Spinal Surgery and Neurosurgery
Hamburg, Germany

Topic – Practice Patterns in Spine Surgery in Germany

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


Friday, Sept 6, 2024

Eva M. Galvan, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Radiation Oncology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Neuro Radiation Therapy

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


Friday, Aug 23, 2024

Fabio Nascimento, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Topic – EEG in the Diagnosis of Epilepsy

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


Friday, Aug 16, 2024

Eleni Okeanis Vaou, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Movement Disorders Division Update

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


Friday, Aug 9, 2024

Aditya Raghunandan, MD, RMSK, CAQSM
Assistant Professor
Rehab Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Physiatric Management of the Lumbar Spine

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


Friday, Aug 2, 2024

No Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds Conferences are scheduled for this Friday, Aug 2, 2024.


Friday, July 26, 2024

Diep Bui, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Driving A Motor Vehicle and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: ILAE Report by the Task Force on Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

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


Friday, July 19, 2024

Kathryn M. Jacquez, MD
VP of Clincial Development, Axis Neuro, and Faculty, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

Topic – Surgical Neurophysiology: Modalities and Applications

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


Friday, July 12, 2024

No Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds Conferences are scheduled for this Friday, July 12, 2024.

Conferences will resume on Friday, July 19, 2024 in 309L.


Friday, July 4, 2024

No Neurological Sciences Grand Rounds Conferences are scheduled for this Friday, July 4, 2024.


Friday, June 28, 2024

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND): From Conceptualization to Treatment

Johanna Messerly, PsD, ABPP and Amy Werry-McFarlin, PsD, ABPP
Assistant Professors
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, June 21, 2024

MS Imaging Guidelines and Updates

Lyndsey A. Hale, MD
Neuroimmunology Fellow, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, June 14, 2024

Endovascular Mechanical Thrombectomy: Present Day & A Roadmap for the Future

Ramesh Grand, MD, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery
Univ of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT

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


Friday, June 7, 2024

Teratogenesis,Perinatal, and Neurodevelopment Outcomes After in Utero Exposure to Anti-Seizure Medication

Kameel Karkar, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, May 31, 2024

Pharmacogenomics in Parkinson’s Disease

Leila Saadatpour, MD
Movement Disorders Fellow
Center for Neurological Restoration
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

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


Friday, May 24, 2024

Minimally Invasive Treatment of Thoracolumbar Trauma: State of the Art and Future Directions

Cristian Gragnaniello, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, May 17, 2024

Career Advice or What They Never Taught You in Medical School

Richard J. Barohn, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology and
Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

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


Friday, May 10, 2024

Is There A Role For Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology In Stroke Rehabilitation:

David J. Lin, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and
Neurocritical Care and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

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


Friday, May 3, 2024

The Grand Challenges of Healthcare+

Stephen D. Schwab, PhD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Dept of Healthcare Management
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, April 26, 2024

The Cost to Latino Patients: High Cost Specialty Drugs in NMOSD

Rebecca Romero, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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


Friday, April 19, 2024

Incorporating Cardiac Rehabilitation into a Comprehensive Stroke Neurorehabilitaiton Program: Are Outcomes Improved?

Sara. Cuccurullo, MD
Clinical Professor and Chair, Residency Program Director
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ; Medical Director
JFK University Medical Center, and Vice President,
Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, NJ

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


Friday, April 12, 2024

14TH ANNUAL DAVID G. SHERMAN ENDOWED LECTURE IN NEUROSCIENCES presents
Tailored Preventive Therapy after Cryptogenic Stroke

Human Kamel, MD, MS
Professor, Dept of Neurology
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

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


Friday, April 5, 2024

NO FACULTY PRESENTER

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


Friday, March 29, 2024

Octavian Lie, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Adult Epilepsy

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


Friday, March 22, 2024

Shraddha M. Dalwadi, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Less is More: A Contemporary Review of Spinal Radiosurgery

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


Friday, March 15, 2024

Joanna E. Gernsback, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Casper the Spine Surgeon: Growth-Friendly Scoliosis Management

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


Friday, March 8, 2024

Zoe Arvanitakis MD, MS, EMBA, FAAN, FANA
Professor, Dept of Neurological Sciences
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Topic – Vascular, Metabolic, and Degenerative Mechanisms of Dementia

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


Friday, March 1, 2024

Sarah Horn, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Updates to the classification and staging of Parkinson’s disease

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


Friday, February 23, 2024

Resident Case Presentations


Friday, February 16, 2024

Arash Salardini, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – A Practical Primer to Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease

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


Friday, February 9, 2024

Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
Associate Professor
Dept of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – CPC

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


Friday, February 2, 2024

Ratna Bhavarahu-Sanka, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology,  UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Pins and Needles: Small Fiber Neuropathy – Diagnosis and Management

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


Friday, January 26, 2024

Kevin Chen, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio

Topic – Aviation’s Influence on Safety in Medicine & How We Can Continue to Learn From Them

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


Friday, January 19, 2024

Eric Ensrud, MD
Professor
Dept of Neurology, Univ of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MD

Topic – Exercise in Neurology: Myths and Proven Efficacy

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


Friday, January 12, 2024

Margaret E. Flanagan, MB, BCh, BAO
Associate Professor, Dept of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio
Brain Bank Co-Director, Glenn Biggs Institute of Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Antonio, TX

Topic – Nun Study: Modernizing the Nun Study through Digitization & Database Development

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


Friday, January 5, 2024

Mayor Patel, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Topic – The Approach to Concussion in the Outpatient Setting

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

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