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, 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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