Neurological Science 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, December 26, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES GRAND ROUNDS ~ CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Shashika Rodrigo, MD
Movement Disorders Fellow
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago,IL
Topic – Parkinson’s Disease and the Environment
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, December 12, 2025
Vaidehi Mahadev, MD
Visiting Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow
Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Topic – Supratentorial Approaches for Pineal Region Tumors
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, December 5, 2025
Andrew Brenner, MD
Professor
Dept of Hematology and Oncology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Changing Outcomes through Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology at MCC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 28, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES GRAND ROUNDS ~ THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Anjali Sivaramakrishnan, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Physical Therapy
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Exercise Training Combined with Virtual Reality-Based Games Can Improve Balance in Parkinson’s Disease
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 14, 2025
Oluwaseun B. Ogunbona, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Pathology/Neuropathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, November 7, 2025
Brandon Liebelt, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Orbital Approaches in Neurosurgery
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 31, 2025
Fortino Velasco, MD
Epilepsy Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Topic – The Evolution of Deep Brain Stimultion in Epilepsy
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Zachary N. Litvack, MD, MCR, FAANS, FACS
Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and
Director, Minimally Invasive and Skull Base and Neurosurgery
Providence-Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA
Topic – Currently Management of Craniopharyngioma: Surgery, Radiation and Targeted Therapies
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 17, 2025
Carlayne Jackson, MD, FAAN
Professor and Chair
Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – The Neurologist’s Role in Promoting Brain Health
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 10, 2025
Lee A. Birnbaum, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Venous Sinus Stenting for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, October 3, 2025
Martina Vendrame, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurology
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Topic – VIRTUAL PRESENTATION:
Narcolepsy and Beyond: A Practical Approach to Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, September 19, 2025
Olga Taraschenko, MD, PhD, FACNS, FAES
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurological Sciences and Division Chief, Epilepsy
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Topic – Unraveling the Pathogenesis of Seizures and Cognitive Loss in Autoimmune Encephalitis
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, September 12, 2025
Sujani Bandela, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Strokes In Low Resource Settings and How to Encounter Delayed Transfers
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, September 5, 2025
Terry C. Burns, MD, PhD, FAANS
Professor, Dept of Neurologic Surgery and
Chair, CNS/Neuro-Oncology Disease Group,
Mayo Clinic Comprensive Cancer Center, Rochester, MN
Topic – Glioma Moonshot? Mission Control Center Needed!
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Divya Singhal, MD, FAAN
Professor, Dept of Neurology and PM&R
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Transforming SCI Outcomes: The Role of Neurorehabilitation and Techologicial Advancements
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Eleni Okeanis Vaou, MD, FAAN
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Movement Disorders Update
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Sarah C. Hopp, PhD
Assistant Professor, Glenn Biggs Institute
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Identifying Microglia Molecular Pathways To Understand Alzheimer’s Disease
Friday, August 8, 2025
Eva Galvan, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Neurologic Applications of Radiation Therapy
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Kameel Karkar
Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Seizure Survey of Chromosome 18 Genetic Conditions
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, July 25, 2025
Kathryn Jaquez, CNIM,MS
VP Clinical Development, Axis Neuromonitoring, Richardson, TX
Madison Krantz, CNIM,S
Territory Manager, Axis Neuromonitoring, Richardson, TX
Topic – Surgical Neurophysiology: Modalities and Applications
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, July 18, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL GRAND ROUNDS CONFERENCES
Friday, July 11, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL GRAND ROUNDS CONFERENCES
Friday, July 4, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL GRAND ROUNDS CONFERENCES
Friday, June 27, 2025
Lyndsey Hale, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Autoimmune Encephalitis Evaluation
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, June 20, 2025
Arash Salardini, MD
Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology
Biggs Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – The Neurology of Language from Broca to Connectomics
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Michael McGinity, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Cervical Artificial Disc replacement: Pearls & Pitfalls
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, June 6, 2025
NO NEUROLOGICAL GRAND ROUNDS CONFERENCES
Conferences will resume on Friday, June 13, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Mark Goldberg, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Is Corticospinal Tract Plasticity the Key for Stroke Recovery?
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Leila Saadatpour, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – Functional Neurological Disorders: Let’s See the Unseen
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Lidia Maura, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Neurology,
Harvard Medical School Co-director,
Center for Value-based Health Care and Sciences,
Massachusetts General Hospital Chief Informatics Officer for Epilepsy Foundation of America
Research Day: Emerging Issues and Opportunities in Neuro-epidemiology
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Andrea R. Gilbert, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Topic – CPC
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Amyn A. Habib, MD
Professor, Dept of Neurology and Neurological Surgery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Topic – Amplified RTKs activate a STAT1-IFNy pathway-mediated anti-tumor immune response
The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
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