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Neurology Grand Rounds - 8:00 - 9:00 am - West Pavilion Auditorium

*(unless otherwise indicated)

DateSectionSection HeadSpeakerTitle
9-7-12 Movement Disorders Perlmutter Allison Willis, MD
WUSTL Neurology
"Parkinson Disease Health Care Outcomes and Disparities"
9-14-12 NNICU Diringer Rajat Dhar, MD, FRCP(C)
WUSTL Neurology
"Vasospasm and Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: An Evolution"
9-21-12 Peds Neuro
*East Pavilion Auditorium
Noetzel Christopher Smyser, MD
WUSTL Peds Neurology
"Neonatal Neurology: Small Brains, Great Opportunities"
9-28-12 BERG LECTURE NO GRAND ROUNDS
10-5-12 MS Cross Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD, FAAN
Professor of Neurology
University of California,
San Francisco
"Pediatric MS: What can we learn from extreme phenotypes"
10-12-12 Dementia Morris Dr. Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD -
Asst Prof of Radiology
Dr. Jon McConnathy, MD, PhD -
Asst Prof of Radiology
& Neurological Surgery
WUSTL
"Update on Imaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease"
10-19-12 Resident Invited Speaker
*Connor Auditorium
Geisler/Roberts John A Kessler, MD
Benjamin Boshes Professor of Neurology
Chairman, Department of Neurology
Director, Neuroscience Institute
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
“Regenerative Neurology: Gene Therapy, Stem Cells, and Nanotechnology”
10-26-12 Stroke Lee Brian F. Gage, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
WUSTL Internal Medicine
"Prediction and Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation"
11-2-12 Neuromuscle Pestronk Conrad C. Weihl, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
WUSTL
“A Healthy Appetite: Modulating Autophagy in Muscle Disease”
11-9-12 Dodge Lecture
9:15 - 10:15 am
*Clopton Auditorium
Noetzel Jonathan W. Mink, MD PhD
Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Child Neurology
Vice Chair, Department of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
“Adventures in Rare Disease Research: Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofusinosis (Batten Disease)"
11-16-12 Resident CPC Geisler/Roberts Debra Roberts, MD, PhD
Erin Longbrake, MD, PhD
Davis Ryman, MD, PhD
WUSTL Neruology Residents
Discussant: Salah Keyrouz, MD, FAHA
Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Surgery
"54yo man with Crohn's disease who presented with confusion and generalized weakness"
11-23-12 FALL BREAK NO GRAND ROUNDS
11-30-12 Rehab Corbetta Maurizio Corbetta, MD
Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology
"Mild traumatic brain injury: searching for a diagnostic test"
12-7-12 Resident Invited Speaker Geisler/Roberts Anthony Lang
University of Toronto, Canada
"Parkinson's disease: Braak to the future"
12-14-12 Neurosurgery Dacey Wilson "Zack" Ray, MD
Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery
WUSTL
"Metastatic Spine Disease - Management Consideration and Systematic Evaluation"
12-21-12 WINTER BREAK NO GRAND ROUNDS
12-28-12 WINTER BREAK NO GRAND ROUNDS
1-4-13 Epilepsy Hogan Lawrence Eisenman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
"Update on Pregnancy and Epilepsy"
1-11-13 Neuro-AIDS Clifford David M. Clifford, MD
Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy 2013 Update
1-18-13 Peds Resident CPC McGill Bryan McGill, MD, Chief Resident
Kelvin Yamada, MD
Professor, Neurology & Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine
"A 4 year old girl with abnormal gait"
1-25-13 Resident CPC Geisler/Roberts Stefanie Geisler, MD, PhD, Chief Resident
Baijayanta Maiti, MD, PhD
Virginia Simon, MD
Joel Perlmutter, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
"A 60 year old man with cognitive decline presents with change in mental status"
2-1-13 Neuropsychology Peterson Dave Balota, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Washington University School of Medicine
Early Stage Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type: It's Not Just About Memory"
2-8-13 Resident Invited Speaker Geisler/Roberts Dr. Kevin Flanigan
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
The Ohio State University Center for Gene Therapy Nationwide Children's Hospital
Genetic Modifiers of Disease Severity in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
2-15-13 GITT Lecture Perlmutter Un Jung Kang, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
The Committees on Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine
The University of Chicago Medicine
"Neuroplasticity in dopaminergic therapy of Parkinson’s disease"

2-22-13

Dementia

Morris

Dr. Jason Hassenstab, PhD -
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Erik Musiek, MD, PhD -
Instructor in Neurology
WUSTL

"Using biomarkers and neuroimaging to improve detection of cognitive impairment in preclinical Alzehimer's disease"
"Circadian clocks in brain aging and neurodegeneration"

3-1-13 RITE EXAM NO GRAND ROUNDS
3-8-13 General Neurology Awadalla David G. Standaert, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Neurology
John N. Whitaker Endowed Chair
Director, Center for Neurodegeneration
and Experimental Therapeutics
UAB Department of Neurology
“Neuro-inflammation and the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease”
3-15-13 Peds Resident Invited Speaker McGill Elliott H. Sherr, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of California San Francisco
Benioff Children's Hospital
"A Gene First Approach to Autism"
3-22-13 AAN NO GRAND ROUNDS
3-29-13 General Ances David M. Clifford, MD
Professor of Neurology
Debra Roberts, MD, PhD - Chief Resident
Joy Snider, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
"Neurology Global Health Rotations: Ethiopia"
4-4-13

Bishop Symposium
*Connor Auditorium (3:30-5 pm)

Holtzman Robert B. Darnell, MD, PhD
Heilbrunn Professor and Senior Physician
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
President and Scientific Director, NY Genome Center
"Mapping the RNA World and Next-Gen Genetics"
4-5-13 Goldring Lecture
*Connor Auditorium
Hogan Michael D. Privitera, MD
Professor of Neurology
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
"Generic Antiepileptic Drugs: Facts, Fiction, and Lessons for Epilepsy Treatment"
4-12-13 Neuromuscle Pestronk Matthew Harms, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
"An “Expansion” of understanding in C9ORF72-associated neurodegeneration"
4-19-12 Stroke Lee Andria L. Ford, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Imaging Salvageable Tissue in Ischemic Stroke using Oxygen Metabolic Index”
4-26-13

4th Annual Brendon's Smile Pediatric Stroke Lecture
*Clopton Auditorium
(9:15-10:15)

Schlaggar Adam Kirton, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Neuroscience
Faculty of Medicine
University of Calgary Pediatric Neurologist
Alberta Children's Hospital
"Perinatal stroke: Black boxes and brighter directions"
5-3-13 29th IRWIN LEVY LECTURE Ances Merit Ester Cudkowicz, MD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Neurology Service
Director, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic; Director, Neurological Clinical Research Institute
Co-Director, Neuromuscular Division
Massachusetts General Hospital
"ALS: Changing definition and approach to therapy development"
5-10-13 RESIDENT SYMPOSIUM NO GRAND ROUNDS
5-17-13 MEDICAL STUDENT GRADUATION NO GRAND ROUNDS
5-24-13 Neuromuscle Pestronk Alan Pestronk, MD
Professor of Neurology, Pathology & Immunology
Brian Sommerville, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
"The Origins of Neurology: Tales from
Texts (1530 to 1890)"
5-31-13 Epilepsy Hogan L. James Willmore, MD
Associate Dean and
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology & Psychiatry
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
"Posttraumatic Epilepsy: Molecular mechanisms and the challenge of epileptogenesis"
6-7-13 Resident CPC Geisler/Roberts Michael Morgan, MD, PhD
Amanda Raya, MD
Simeon Zou, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
TBA
6-14-13 Sleep Duntley   TBA
6-21-13 MS Cross Anne Cross, MD
Professor of Neurology
Gregory Wu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
“The Role of B cells in MS: Basic Science and Treatments”