Surgery Grand Rounds
Last updated: December 1, 2023
Unless otherwise noted, lectures begin at 7:30 a.m.
Upcoming Lectures
More lectures will be added as speakers are confirmed.
December 2023
December 28, 2023
NO GRAND ROUNDS: CHRISTMAS WEEK
January 2024
January 4, 2024
Trauma Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Lenworth Jacobs, M.D.
Professor of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine; University of Connecticut
Talk Title: Stop the Bleed: A Strategy for Surgical Engagement
Location: Zayed 2119A
January 11, 2024
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture
Speaker: Minerva Romero Arenas, M.D., M.P.H., FACS
Endocrine & General Surgeon; NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Talk Title: DEI Patient Care Considerations: Establishing a Welcoming and Inclusive Environment for All Patients
Location: Zayed 2119A
January 18, 2024
Resident Debate #3
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
January 25, 2024
Rhonda Fishel, M.D. Trauma/Critical Care Lectureship (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: Susan Mackinnon, M.D.
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon; Washington University
Talk Title: Phoenix Rising: A Paradigm Shift in the Culture of Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119A
January 30, 2024
International Combined Vascular JHH/MGH Grand Rounds
Speaker: Professor Stephan Haulon, M.D.
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Chair the Aortic Centre at Hôspital Marie Lannelongue, Université Paris Sud.
Talk Title: TBA
Time: 6:30 a.m. (in place of M&M Conference)
February 2024
February 1, 2024
Anne T. Brennan Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: Ian McGilvray, M.D.
Professor, General Surgery; University of Toronto
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
February 8, 2024
Combined Grand Rounds:Nursing
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m.
February 15, 2024
Melanoma Program Lecture
Speaker: Suzanne Topalian, M.D.
Professor of Surgery; Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
February 22, 2024
Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Lecture in Aortic Disease
Speaker: Thomas E. MacGillivray, M.D.
Physician Executive Director of Cardiac Surgery, MedStar Health and Chairman of Cardiac Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
February 29, 2024
William F. Rienhoff, Jr. Lectureship
Speaker: Michael Maddaus (Steve Yang)
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
March 2024
March 7, 2024
John L. Cameron, M.D., Surgical History Lectureship
Speaker: Murray Brennan
Oncologic Surgeon Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
March 12, 2024
International Combined Grand Rounds: JHH/MGH Lecture
Speaker: M.G.H. (Marc) Besselink
Professor of Surgery; University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
Talk Title: TBA
Location: TBA
Time: 6:30 a.m. (in place of M&M Conference)
March 14, 2024
Surgery Lecture
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
March 21, 2024
Combined Surgery Grand Rounds:ACCM
Speaker: Matthew Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., FACP
Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities; University of Colorado
Cynda Rushton, Ph.D., M.S.N., B.S.N., R.N., FAAN
Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Talk Title: Real Life Ethical Issues That Impact Your Medical Responsibilities
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m.
March 28, 2024
Transplant Surgery Lecture
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
April 2024
April 4, 2024
Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Rebecca Stone, M.D., M.S.
Director, The Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service; Johns Hopkins Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
April 11, 2024
Breast Surgery Lecture
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
April 18, 2024
Miller Family Lectureship in Vascular and Cardiac Disease
Speaker: Peter Attia, M.D.
Founder; Early Medical
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
April 25, 2024
Surgical Oncology Lecture
Speaker: Kiran Turaga, M.D.
Professor of Surgery (Oncology); Division Chief, Surgical Oncology, Surgery; Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office; Yale School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
May 2024
May 2, 2024
Critical Care and Cardiac Surgery Lecture in Honor of Lynne Van Praag
Speaker: Roberto Lorusso, M.D.
Professor, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department - Heart & Vascular Centre; Maastricht University Medical Centre
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
May 9, 2024
Pamela A. Lipsett, M.D. Endowed Lectureship
Speaker: Kamal Itani, M.D.
Chief of Surgery; VA Boston Health Care System
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
May 16, 2024
Endocrine Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Carmen C. Solórzano, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
May 23, 2024
George D. Zuidema, M.D. Lectureship
Speaker: Riccardo Superina, M.D.
Division Head, Transplant Surgery; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
May 30, 2024
Gregory B. Bulkley Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
Speaker: Keith Lillemoe, M.D.
Chief of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
June 2024
June 6, 2024
Dr. Samuel Abrams Lectureship (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
June 13, 2024
Brandi Rutherford Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
June 20, 2024
Evelyn Grollman Glick Lectureship in Thoracic Surgery
Speaker: Leah Backhus, M.D.
Thoracic Surgeon; Stanford Medicine Health Care
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
June 27, 2024
State of the Department of Surgery
Speaker: Andrew Cameron, M.D.
Director, Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery; Johns Hopkins Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A
Past Lectures
2023 Lectures
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December 21, 2023
Minimally Invasive Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Eric Pauli, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery; Penn State Health
Talk Title: Imaging the Hernia Patient: Going Beyond the Radiology Report
Location: Zayed 2119ADecember 14, 2023
Resident Debate #2
Speakers: Leonardo Garcia Atienza and Daniel Harris
Talk Title: Robotic vs. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Revolutionary or Futile Effort?
Location: Zayed 2119ADecember 7, 2023
Annual Dr. Gershon Efron Lecture (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: Charles N. Bertolami, DDS, DMedSc.
Herman Robert Fox Dean; New York University School of Dentistry
Talk Title: Using Game Theory to Teach Ethics
Location: Zayed 2119A -
November 30, 2023
Alfred Blalock Lecture
Speaker: Marc Moon, M.D.
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Baylor College of Medicine
Talk Title: Professionalism, Diversity, and the Training of a Surgeon
Location: Zayed 2119ANovember 16, 2023
William Stewart Halsted Lecture
Speaker: Michael Rotondo, M.D.
Professor - Department of Surgery, Acute Care; University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ANovember 9, 2023
Surgery Combined Grand Rounds: Perioperative
Talk Title: JHM Pet Therapy Program: Promoting Wellness for Patients and Health Care Providers
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m. -
October 26, 2023
Gardner W. Smith, M.D. Lectureship (Bayview)
Speaker: Adam Dziki, M.D.
Surgeon, Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Medical Academy of Łódź
Talk Title: Polish surgery - from communism till now
Location: Zayed 2119A -
September 21, 2023
Cardiovascular Advisory Board Lecture
Speaker: Alec Patterson, M.D.
Joseph Bancroft Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ASeptember 14, 2023
Surgery Lecture - SAAS Meeting
Speaker: Carla Pugh, M.D.
Professor of Surgery; Stanford University School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ASeptember 7, 2023
Ravitch Colorectal Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Hans de Wilt, M.D.
Professor of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology and Gastrointestinal Surgery; Radboud University Medical Center
Talk Title: Evolution of Rectal Cancer Treatment
Location: Zayed 2119A -
June 29, 2023
State of the Department of Surgery
Speaker: Andrew Cameron, M.D.
Surgeon-in-chief; The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 22, 2023
Dr. Samuel Abrams Lectureship (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: Craig Lillehei, M.D.
Associate Professor; Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: Trouble in Paradise: Echoes from the Fetal Realm
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 15, 2023
Evelyn Grollman Glick Lectureship in Thoracic Surgery
Speaker: Ara Vaporciyan, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 8, 2023
Brandi Rutherford Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: Fred Weaver, M.D.
Talk Title: The Vascular Surgeon’s Value Proposition in Today’s Healthcare Environment
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 1, 2023
Gregory B. Bulkley Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
Speaker: John Alverdy, M.D.
Talk Title: Use of Genetic and Functional Microbial Analysis to Understand and Prevent Surgical Site Infections
Location: Zayed 2119A -
May 25, 2023
George D. Zuidema, M.D. Lectureship
Speaker: Ray Price, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Neurology; Penn Medicine
Talk Title: The Role of Academic Institutions in Strengthening Health Systems Worldwide
Location: Zayed 2119AMay 18, 2023
Critical Care and Cardiac Surgery Lecture in Honor of Lynne Van Praag
Speaker: Daniel Brodie, M.D.
Section Chief for Critical Care at the Milstein and Allen Hospitals, Director of the Medical ICUs, Director of the Adult ECMO Program, Director of the Center for Acute Respiratory Failure; Columbia University
Talk Title: The Evidence for ECMO in Adult Respiratory Failure
Location: Zayed 2119AMay 11, 2023
Pamela A. Lipsett, M.D. Endowed Lectureship
Speaker: Sara Cosgrove, M.D.
Director; Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Talk Title: Optimizing Antibiotic Use and Patient Outcomes in Surgical Infections in the Era of Increasing Antibiotic Resistance
Location: Zayed 2119AMay 4, 2023
Hans R. Wilhelmsen, M.D., D.D.S. Lectureship in the Craniofacial Sciences
Speaker: Eduardo Rodriguez, M.D.
Chair, Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery; NYU Langone Health
Talk Title: Transforming the Face of Reconstructive Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119A -
April 27, 2023
Breast Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Alastair Thompson, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Section of Breast Surgery; Baylor College of Medicine
Talk Title: Technological Unicorns in Breast Cancer
Location: Zayed 2119AApril 13, 2023
Transplant Lecture
Speaker: Mario Vilatobá, M.D.
Transplant Department Head; Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Talk Title: Liver Transplantation as Definitive Treatment of Post-cholecystectomy Bile Duct Injury
Location: Zayed 2119AApril 6, 2023
Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Patricia Turner, M.D.
Executive Director/CEO; American College of Surgeons
Talk Title: The Power of Quality
Location: Zayed 2119A -
March 30, 2023
Endocrine Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Lilah Morris-Wiseman, M.D.
Chief, Johns Hopkins Division of Endocrine Surgery; Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: What Patients Say: Symptoms of Pathology in Endocrine Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119AMarch 23, 2023
Combined Surgery Grand Rounds: Nursing
Speaker: Various
Talk Title: Perioprocedural Initiatives
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m.March 16, 2023
Pediatric Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Shaun Kunisaki, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery; Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AMarch 9, 2023
Cardiac Surgery Lecture (Cardiothoracic Advisory Board Lecture)
Speaker: Alec Patterson, M.D.
Joseph C. Bancroft Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Washington University School of Medicine
Talk Title: Charles Darwin and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119AMarch 2, 2023
William F. Rienhoff, Jr. Lectureship
Speaker: David Ayares, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer; Revivicor, Inc.
Talk Title: Genetically Modified Pigs: Toward Solving the Organ Shortage Crisis
Location: Zayed 2119A -
February 23, 2023
Surgical Oncology Lecture
Speaker: KMarie King, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., FACS
Chair of the Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgery; Albany Med
Talk Title: Life Experiences to Develop Leadership Style
Location: Zayed 2119AFebruary 16, 2023
Melanoma Program Lecture
Speaker: Giorgios Karakousis, M.D.
Professor of Surgery; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Learning to Cut Back: The Story of Melanoma Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119AFebruary 9, 2023
Combined Grand Rounds: ACCM
Speakers: Nicholas Dalesio, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Laurie Antonik, M.D.
Director of Anesthesia Outreach Division, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Green OR Inititatives and PeriOp Updates
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m.February 2, 2023
Anne T. Brennan Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: Yuman Fong, M.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Surgery; City of Hope
Talk Title: From Robotic Surgery to Gene Surgery, Where Are the Next Frontiers for Surgeons
Location: Zayed 2119A -
January 26, 2023
Rhonda Fishel, M.D. Trauma/Critical Care Lectureship (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: Peter Yoo, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery (Transplant), Program Director, Surgical Residency; Yale University
Talk Title: Transforming the clinical learning environment through surgical education research
Location: Zayed 2119AJanuary 19, 2023
Resident Debate #2
Location: Zayed 2119AJanuary 12, 2023
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture
Speaker: Malcolm Brock, M.D.
Director of Clinical and Translational Research in Thoracic Surgery; Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail – Lessons for Global Diversity in Healthcare
Location: Zayed 2119AJanuary 5, 2023
Trauma Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Bellal Joseph, M.D.
Chief, Division of General Surgery and Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery; The University of Arizona
Talk Title: Standing on the Edge of a New Frontier: Advancements in Trauma Resuscitation
Location: Zayed 2119A
2022 Lectures
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December 15, 2022
Minimally Invasive Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Dana Tellem, M.D.
Section Head of General Surgery, Associate Chair for Quality and Patient Safety, and Director of the Michigan Women’s Surgical Collaborative; University of Michigan
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ADecember 8, 2022
Annual Dr. Gershon Efron Lecture (Sinai Hospital)
Speaker: Mark K. Ferguson, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine
Talk Title: Frailty and Surgery: Old News
Location: Zayed 2119ADecember 1, 2022
Resident Debate #1
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119A -
November 17, 2022
Alfred Blalock Lecture
Speaker: Bart Griffith, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ANovember 10, 2022
Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: Alejandro Garcia, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119ANovember 3, 2022
Gardner W. Smith, M.D. Lectureship (Bayview)
Speaker: Sasha Adams, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department Of Surgery, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Talk Title: Surgery in the “Silver” Years: Assessing and mitigating risk in older patients
Location: Zayed 2119A -
October 27, 2022
Surgery Combined Grand Rounds: Perioperative
Speakers:
Matt Stewart, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Najjar, M.D., M.B.A., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Ayse Gurses, Ph.D., M.S., Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Turner Auditorium
Time: 7:15 a.m.October 20, 2022
Dana and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli Lecture in Aortic Disease
Speaker: Ed Chen, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AOctober 13, 2022
The Dr. Richard Jude Lecture
Speaker: Errol Bush, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AOctober 11, 2022
Combined Grand Rounds: JHH/MGH Lecture
Speaker: R.J. Porte, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen
Talk Title: How Machine Perfusion Technology is Changing Transplant Surgery
Location: Zayed 2119A
Time: 6:30 a.m.October 6, 2022
Bayview Lecture
Speaker: Vince Obias, M.D.
Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, The George Washington University School of Medicine
Talk Title: Robotic Colorectal surgery: Training and New Robots that are coming!
Location: Zayed 2119A -
September 29, 2022
Miller Family Lectureship in Vascular and Cardiac Disease
Speaker: Marshall Jacobs, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Research, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Personal Commitment to Innovation and Improvement in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: Lessons I’ve Learned From A Friend
Location: Zayed 2119ASeptember 22, 2022
Pancreatic Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Matthew H.G. Katz, M.D.
Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: Perioperative Therapy for Localized Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Where have we been and where are we going?
Location: Zayed 2119ASeptember 15, 2022
William Stewart Halsted Lecture
Speaker: John Cameron, M.D.
Alfred Blalock Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The 100th Year Anniversary of the Death of William Stewart Halsted: His Legacy and Final Illness
Location: Zayed 2119ASeptember 8, 2022
Ravitch Colorectal Surgery Lecture
Speaker: Lillias Maguire, M.D.
Director of Research, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Penn Medicine
Talk Title: Personalized Medicine for Diverticulitis
Location: Zayed 2119A -
June 30, 2022
State of the Department of Surgery
Speaker: Andrew Cameron, M.D.
Surgeon-in-chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 23, 2022
Dr. Samuel Abrams Lectureship
Speaker: Zara Cooper, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: TBA
Location: VirtualJune 16, 2022
Evelyn Grollman Glick Lectureship in Thoracic Surgery
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 9, 2022
Brandi Rutherford Memorial Lectureship
Speaker: Thomas Forbes, M.D.
Pediatric Cardiologist, Ascension
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AJune 2, 2022
Gregory B. Bulkley Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
Speaker: Julia Ann Sosa, M.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco
Talk Title: Tackling Controversy and Changing Practice…with Evidence and Courage, as a Resident!
Location: Tilghman Auditorium -
May 26, 2022
George D. Zuidema, M.D. Lectureship
Speaker: Mary Hawn, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: TBA
Location: Zayed 2119AMay 19, 2022
Hans R. Wilhelmsen, M.D., D.D.S. Lectureship in the Craniofacial Sciences
Speaker: Frederick Menick, M.D.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Talk Title: Nasal Reconstruction
Location: Zayed 2119AMay 12, 2022
Pamela A. Lipsett, M.D. Endowed Lectureship
Speaker: Eileen Bulger, M.D.
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington
Talk Title: What’s New in the Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections?
Location: VirtualMay 5, 2022
Transplant Lecture
Speaker: Daniel Eisenson and Corbin Goerlich (Residents)
Talk Title: TBA/Xenotransplantation
Location: TBD -
April 28, 2022
Breast Lecture
Speaker: Judy C. Boughey, M.D.
Breast Surgical Oncologist, Mayo Clinic
Talk Title: TBA
Location: VirtualApril 14, 2022
Cardiac: Van Pragg Lecture
Speaker: Awori Hayanga, M.D.
Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University
Talk Title: Challenging the Status Quo
Location: Zayed 2119AApril 7, 2022
Endocrine Lecture
Speaker: Aarti Mathur, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Environmental Pollutants and Thyroid Cancer
Location: TBA -
March 31, 2022
Vascular Lecture
Speaker: David Whittaker, M.D.
Attending Physician, Suburban Hospital
Talk Title: Surgical Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Location: Virtual