Neuroscience Grand Rounds 2025
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 25, 2025
Alejandro Tobon, MD, FAAN
Adjoint Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Neuropathic Pain Treatment: What Works, What Doesn’t and What’s Next
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 18, 2025
Fadi Al-Saiegh, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Non-Acute Subdural Hematoma: Current State of the Art
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Brandon Holmes, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center (MAC), Weill Institute for Neurosciences,
University of California San Fransisco, San Francisco, CA
Topic – Microglial Glypican 4 Links Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Arash Salardini, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
Biggs Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Rebecca Hoyumpa, DNP, FNP-BC
Specialist, Dept of Neurology
Biggs Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Anti-Amyloid Therapies
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Justin R. Mascitelli, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Perfusion-Bypass Recipient Mismatch Predisposes to Perioperative Stroke in Single Barrel STA-MCA Bypass for Symptomatic Atherosclerotic Occlusive Disease
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Babak B. Navi, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience;
Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Neurosciences Unit
Chief, Division of Stroke and Hospital Neurology; Vice Chair, Neurology Hospital Services
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York NY
15th Annual David. G. Sherman Endowed Lecture In Neurosciences
Cancer and Ischemic Stroke: What we know and What remains unanswered
LOCATION: MED LEC 3.102B (Next to Starbucks)
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Oluwaseun B. Ogunbona, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor/Neuropahtologist, Glenn Biggs institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Sara Horn, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
Biggs Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – When It’s not Huntington’s Disease: A Tale of 3 Phenocopies
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 28, 2025
CANCELLED
Friday, February 21, 2025
Resident presentations only
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, February 14, 2025
Andrea R. Gilbert, DO
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 7, 2025
Robin Hilsabeck, PhD, ABPP
Professor, Dept of Neurology
Biggs Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – A Digital Health Solution for Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Stravropoula I. Tjoumakaris, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, FAHA
Professor, Dept of Neurological Surgery and Radiology,
Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Topic – Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery In the Dual-Training Era
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Vaishnav Krishnan, MD, PhD, FAES
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry,
Baylor Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Topic – Digital Survellance of Neuropsychatric Wellbeing in Epilepsy: From Bench to Bedside
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Isabel Tarasiewicz, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Hydrocephalus: Current Trends and Best Practices Pedi Shunt Cases
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, January 3, 2025
NO GRAND ROUNDS