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MSTP Grand Rounds Schedule

"Crisis" and Stem Cell Therapy

Friday, February 1,  2007 ; 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Bryan Allen and Nick Ettinger
Advisor: Thomas W. Loew, MD, Pediatrics
Location: 2117 MERF


"Neutrophil Killing: It's not all about the bleach"

Friday, January 11,  2007 ; 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Dom Cirillo and Tony Fischer
Advisor: Bill Nauseef, MD, Internal Medicine and Fred Goldman, MD, Pediatrics
Location: 2117 MERF


"The Bitter Side of the Sweet Siphon-Complications of Diabetes Mellitus."

Monday, December 3,  2007 ; 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Dan Ferraro and Eric Brown
Advisor: Andrew Norris, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
Location: 2117 MERF


"The Schwann Man Cometh"

Friday, October 12,  2007 ; 12:30 p.m.
Presenters: Tim Moss and Amy Jongeling
Advisor: Lee-Ann Allen, PhD, Infectious Diseases and David G. Motto, MD, PhD, Hematology/Oncology
Location: 283 EMRB


"HELLP, The Pressure is On: Soluble Mediators of Hypertension"

Friday, January 12,  2007 ;
Presenters: Becky Benson and Amy Halt
Advisor: Stephen K. Hunter, MD, PhD, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Christie P. Thomas, MD, Internal Medicine
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"Take a Deep Breath, it May get a Little Sticky: The Role of Adhesion Molecules in ARDS"

Friday, December 15,  2006 ;
Presenters: Jon Femling and Carmen Halabi
Advisor: Jessica Moreland, MD, Pediatrics
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"Curing the Cochlea: Can You Hear Me Now?"

Monday, November 13,  2006 ;
Presenters: Rick Nelson and Michael Chang
Advisor: Richard Smith, MD, Otolaryngology and Bruce Gantz, MD, Otolaryngology
Location: 2117 MERF


"Getting Under Your Skin: Streptococcus pyogenes and Necrotizing Fasciitis"

Friday, January 27,  2006 ;
Presenters: Egon Ozer and Dan Ferraro
Advisor: Jerry Weiss, PhD, Internal Medicine and G. Patrick Kealey, MD, Surgery
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"Migraine: Staying A-Head of Pain"

Friday, January 13,  2006 ;
Presenters: Carter Jones and Mitch Engle
Advisor: Andy Russo, PhD, Physiology & Biophysics and Lynn Geweke, MD, Neurology
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"Can LARGE Sweeten the Links in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy?"

Friday, December 9,  2005 ;
Presenters: Brandon Porter and Rick Nelson
Advisor: Kevin Campbell, PhD, Physiology & Biophysics and Steven Moore, MD, PhD, Pathology
Location: 2117 MERF


"Malaria—from Mozambique to Iowa: Hard Lessons Learned"

Friday, October 21,  2005 ;
Presenters: Kristy Wolniak and Dom Cirillo
Advisor: Louis Kirchhoff, MD, Internal Medicine and John Harty, PhD, Microbiology
Location: 2117 MERF


"Heavy Breathing: How Gettin’ Dirty Can Stop Asthma"

Friday, January 28,  2005 ;
Presenters: Janet Hume and Egon Ozer
Advisor: Joel Kline, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease: SAP-ing the Strength of the Immune System"

Friday, January 7,  2005 ;
Presenters: Tim Lindley and Ali Jabbari
Advisor: Nicholas Zavazava, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Curb Your Enthusiasm: Counteracting Cortical Hyperexcitability in Epilepsy"

Friday, December 10,  2004 ;
Presenters: Ajai Dandekar and Carter Jones
Advisor: Tom Grabowski, MD, Neurology
Location: 2117 MERF


"Mending a Broken Heart: Adult Stem Cells to the Rescue"

Friday, October 15,  2004 ;
Presenters: Ken Richardson and Bryan Allen
Advisor: Heather Bartlett, MD, Pediatrics
Location: 2117 MERF


"Matrix Metalloproteinases: Carving the Way to Atherosclerosis"

Monday, May 3,  2004 ;
Presenters: Evi Ontiveros and Ben Darbro
Advisor: Don Heistad, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Turning it up a Notch: Research on hereditary stroke and dementia caused by mutations in Notch 3"

Monday, February 2,  2004 ;
Presenters: Ahmir Khan and Becky Benson
Advisor: Patricia Davis, MD, Neurology
Location: 2117 MERF


"A United Front: the role of biofilms in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis"

Friday, January 16,  2004 ;
Presenters: Tracy Brown and Kristy Wolniak
Advisor: Pete Greenberg, PhD, Microbiology
Location: 283 EMRB


"Losing Sight of Metabolism"

Monday, November 17,  2003 ;
Presenters: Sarah Holstein and Julieann Grant
Advisor: Peter Kaboli, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Stemming Heart Failure"

Monday, September 29,  2003 ;
Presenters: Brandon Porter and Sara Farmen
Advisor: Robert Weiss, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Generous Genes: Obesity, Genetics, and Energy Homeostasis"

Monday, April 14,  2003 ;
Presenters: Becky Schultz and Brandon Porter
Advisor: Allyn Mark, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: East Room, UIHC


"Obsessions, Compulsions and Decisions: Neural Systems Involved in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder"

Monday, February 3,  2003 ;
Presenters: Eric Epping and Nasir Naqvi
Advisor: Don Black, MD, Psychiatry and Peg Nopoulos, MD, Psychiatry
Location: 2117 MERF


"Schizophrenia: The genes behind the voices…"

Monday, January 13,  2003 ;
Presenters: Kristy Wolniak and Tim Lindley
Advisor: Tom Wassink, MD, Psychiatry
Location: East Room


"From Melanoma to Microarrays"

Monday, November 18,  2002 ;
Presenters: Robert Walters and Ajai Dandekar
Advisor: Mary Hendrix, PhD, Anatomy & Cell Biology and Scott Wilson, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Crossing a Busy Intersection: Perspectives on ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) Pathogenesis and Treatment"

Monday, September 30,  2002 ;
Presenters: Carter Jones and Janet Hume
Advisor: A. Brent Carter, MD, Internal Medicine
Location: 2117 MERF


"Diving for Oxygen: Hyperbaric Medicine and Alternatives to Transfusion Therapy"

Thursday, May 16,  2002 ;
Presenters: Richard Santos and Ken Richardson
Advisor: J. Eric Greensmith, MD, PhD, Anesthesia
Location: East Room


"Arsenic: New Life for an Ancient Medicine"

Monday, January 28,  2002 ;
Presenters: Olav Jaren and Sarah Holstein
Advisor: Steve Lentz, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine and Ray Hohl, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine
Location: 283 EMRB


"Descent into Silence-Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease"

Monday, January 14,  2002 ;
Presenters: Kevin Brown and Jon Femling
Advisor: Jay Rubinstein, MD, PhD, Otolaryngology
Location: East Room, UIHC


"Alcohol Dependence: Memories of a cheapdate"

Monday, November 12,  2001 ;
Presenters: Jessica Wood and Ahmir Khan
Advisor: Donald Black, MD, Psychiatry
Location: East Room, UIHC


"Neuroblastoma: The Neural Crest Gone Awry"

Monday, September 17,  2001 ;
Presenters: Jeff Sall and Evi Ontiveros
Advisor: Sue O'Dorisio, MD, PhD, Pediatrics and Tony Sandler, MD, Surgery
Location: 283 EMRB


"Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: The Case of the Stretchy Mutations"

Thursday, May 10,  2001 ;
Presenters: Shawnna Patterson and Becky Schultz
Advisor: Marcia Willing, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
Location: East Room, UIHC


"Hearts Burst for You, Coxsackievirus B"

Monday, March 26,  2001 ;
Presenters: Cam Arrington and Renee Schnetzer
Advisor: Erik Edens, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
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"The Problems with Being Both Stimulating and Attractive: Insights into the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerotic Heart Disease - Role of CD40 - CD40 Ligand"

Monday, January 22,  2001 ;
Presenters: Zulfiqar Malik and Kevin Brown
Advisor: Donald Heistad, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Keeping Glioma in Check: Metalloprotease-Based Cancer Therapy"

Monday, November 20,  2000 ;
Presenters: Greg Wu and Olav Jaren
Advisor: Mary Hendrix, PhD, Anatomy & Cell Biology
Location:


"Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - New Therapeutic Approaches"

Monday, September 18,  2000 ;
Presenters: Yuri Trembath and Jessica Wood
Advisor: Brian Link, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Crohn’s Disease"

Monday, June 10,  2000 ;
Presenters: Aaron Bossler and Rich Santos
Advisor: David Elliott, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Glaucoma 2000"

Thursday, May 11,  2000 ;
Presenters: John Fingert and Tracy Yarbrough
Advisor: Edwin Stone, MD, PhD, Ophthalmology
Location:


"Protein Misfolding and Prion Diseases"

Monday, February 21,  2000 ;
Presenters: Daryl Scott and Cammon Arrington
Advisor: Thomas Grabowski, MD, Neurology
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"The Good, the Bad, and the NADPH Oxidase: Chronic Granulomatous Disease and the Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Health and Disease"

Monday, January 10,  2000 ;
Presenters: Aimee Kao and Zulfiqar Malik
Advisor: William Nauseef, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Biofilms Infections: Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms"

Monday, November 22,  1999 ;
Presenters: Doug White and Eric Epping
Advisor: Jeff Meier, MD, Internal Medicine and Pete Greenberg, PhD, Microbiology
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"A Painful Reality: Metastatic Cancer"

Monday, September 27,  1999 ;
Presenters: Colin West and Shawnna Patterson
Advisor: Raymond Hohl, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"A Molecular Basis of Hypertension"

Thursday, May 13,  1999 ;
Presenters: Christopher Adams and Grant Bullock
Advisor: Peter Snyder, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Cystic Fibrosis"

Monday, March 29,  1999 ;
Presenters: Joe Cotton and Robert Walters
Advisor: Joe Zabner, MD, Internal Medicine and Jeff Smith, MD, Pediatrics
Location:


"Diabetes Mellitus and Autoimmunity in Men and Mice"

Monday, February 1,  1999 ;
Presenters: Dan Short and Doug White
Advisor: Robert Hoffman, MD, Pediatrics
Location:


"Death by Starvation: Angiogenesis Inhibitors and other Novel Approaches to Anti-Cancer Therapy"

Monday, November 16,  1998 ;
Presenters: Kevin Latinis and Aimee Kao
Advisor: Brian Link, MD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"Cerebral Ischemia - A Changing Treatment Paradigm"

Thursday, May 14,  1998 ;
Presenters: Rene Recinos and Leland Lim
Advisor: Patricia Davis, MD, Neurology
Location:


"Multiple Myeloma and El Nino: Paracine Effects of KSHV"

Thursday, April 2,  1998 ;
Presenters: Michael Musci and Jim Dean
Advisor: Raymond Hohl, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine
Location:


"The Voices Inside Schizophrenia: Auditory Hallucinations and their Genetic Message:

Monday, January 12,  1998 ;
Presenters: Aneil Shirke and Daryl Scott
Advisor: Mike Flaum, MD, Psychiatry
Location:


"From Pigs to Parkinson's: The Future of Neural Cell Transplantation for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

Monday, November 24,  1997 ;
Presenters: Christina Gurnett and Greg Wu
Advisor: Hank Paulson, MD, PhD, Neurology
Location: