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For years, leaders of the University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program in the Department of Medicine have been brainstorming ways to improve how they train the next generation of doctors.
Watch the Department of Medicine's October 18, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds – "Exercise, Diabetes and Longevity: A translational research journey tackling a clinically important question," presented by Jane EB Reusch, MD, professor of medicine, integrative physiology and bioengineering, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes; Associate Director, Center for Women's Health Research; University of Colorado School of Medicine; Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center.
Watch the Department of Medicine's October 11, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds, "Extracellular Vesicles as Trauma Signals," presented by Tracy L. Bale, PhD, The Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Women's Integrated Mental and Physical Health Research; Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, InterGenerational Stress and Health; Director, Department of Psychiatry Sex Differences Research; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus.
Watch the Department of Medicine's October 4, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: “So Whatcha Sayin’?: Pandemic Lessons on Communication,” presented by Taison D. Bell, MD, associate professor of medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia.
Watch the Department of Medicine's September 27, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds, "Moving the Needle on Public Health: Doing Research that Informs Public Health Policies," with Josh Barocas, MD, associate professor of medicine, Director, Social Determinants of Health Disparities Modeling Unit, Principal Investigator and Director, The Missing US Project, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's September 20, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "CU Cardio-Obstetrics: Our First Year," presented by Josephine C. Chou, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology, Director, CU Cardio-Obstetrics Program, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Our future is brighter and better than it has ever been. The Department of Medicine’s journey towards Reaching New Heights has just begun.
Our focus on advancing human health tells a compelling story. Here are some highlights from our annual report:
Watch the Department of Medicine's September 6, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "The Right-Sizing Care: A Peer Mentored Care Model," presented by Duane Pearson, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Head for Clinical Affairs, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Peer Mentored Care Collaborative.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 30, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "Environmental Justice, North Denver, and You," presented by Katie Dickinson, PhD, MS, associate professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 23, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "Virchow's Social Medicine Today—Toward Health Equity through Community Engagement," presented by Donald Nease, MD, professor of family medicine, Director of Community Engagement and Health Equity, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Green-Edelman Chair for Practice-Based Research, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 16, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds, "Updates in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Policy, Diagnosis and Treatment," presented by Joe Frank, MD, Director, VA Eastern Colorado Chronic Pain & Wellness Center, and Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH/MSPH, MS, Director, Addiction Medicine Consultation Liaison Service, Associate Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 9, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "DEI – The Path to Meeting a Mission and Building a Workforce," presented by David Mafe, Chief Diversity Officer, UCHealth and Vice President of Human Resources, UCHealth System Metro Denver Region.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 2, 2023 Medical Grand Rounds: "Random Acts of Medicine," presented by Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Joseph P. Newhouse Professor, Harvard Medical School, and author of Random Acts of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's June 14, 2023 Grand Rounds – Blount Lecture: "Attaining Health Equity; A Road We Must Travel," presented by Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, Vice Dean of Diversity & Inclusion; Magerstadt Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's June 7, 2023: "The Importance of Penicillin Allergy Delabeling," presented by Anjeli Kalra, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Drug Allergy Program, Director, Allergy/Immunology Resident Elective Rotation, Quality Lead, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 31, 2023 Grand Rounds: 7th Annual Department of Medicine Shark Tank Competition promoting high value care projects to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs of healthcare.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 24, 2023 Grand Rounds – "‘Bumpdate’: Optimization of Parental Leave and Family Support in Medical Trainees," presented by Chief Medical Residents Braidie Campbell, MD, Cara Saxon, MD and Emily Scott, MD/MPH.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 17, 2023 Grand Rounds, Collins Lectureship – "Clinical and Administrative Borderland: Qualitative Analysis of the VA Wide Electronic Health Records of Veterans with Kidney Disease in the Era of the VA MISSION Act," presented by Ann M. O'Hare, MD, professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology, investigator, VA HSR&D Center of Excellence, affiliate investigator, Group Health Research Institute, University of Washington.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 10, 2023 Grand Rounds, "Personality as Prognosis: Does Being Nice Increase Your Risk of Cancer?," presented by Chief Medical Residents Meryl Colton, MD, MSc and Yunan Nie, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 3, 2023 Grand Rounds – Meiklejohn Visiting Lecture: "Thoughts on Healthcare Disparities in 2023," presented by Alicia Fernandez, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director, UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence; Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 26, 2023 Grand Rounds: "Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Ethical Challenges in Heart Transplantation," presented by Prateeti Khazanie, MD, MPH, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 19, 2023 Grand Rounds – Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program: "On Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: from East West Street to the Rohingya and Ukraine," presented by Philippe Sands, international human rights lawyer, professor of law, University College London and author of "East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity".
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 12, 2023 Grand Rounds: "Rheumatoid Arthritis: Update on Treatment Strategies," presented by Larry W. Moreland, MD, professor of medicine and orthopedics, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 5, 2023 Grand Rounds: Brettell Lecture – "Competency-based Medical Education and Coproduction: Partners on the Road to Transformation," presented by Eric S. Holmboe, MD, Chief Research Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Watch the Department of Medicine's March 29, 2023 Grand Rounds, "Multiple Myeloma in 2023: An Oncological Success Story," presented by Peter Forsberg, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Blood Cancer and BMT Program, Division of Hematology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The Department of Medicine’s Staff Mentorship Program recently concluded its pilot year with a recognition event celebration luncheon. Begun to address issues that came to light from WellDOM staff surveys and focus groups, the program – which kicked off in March 2022 – set goals to facilitate staff career development and to build an inclusive mentoring culture centered on learning, creativity, sharing new ideas and working towards a shared vision. The intended outcomes were to increase staff work satisfaction, sense of self-efficacy, networking, connection and collaboration, and to decrease staff attrition, isolation and burnout.
Watch the Department of Medicine's March 22, 2023 Grand Rounds, the Neff Invited Lecture: "Contributions of Environmental and Social Determinants to Health Disparities in COPD," presented by Nadia N. Hansel, MD, MPH, Interim Director, Department of Medicine; Interim Physician-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins H.ospital; Professor, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's March 1, 2023 Grand Rounds: "Accelerating evidence-based innovation: can we do it and what is needed?," presented by Douglas Corley, MD, PhD, Director, Delivery Science and Applied Research, The Permanent Medical Group; Associate Member, University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Feb. 22 Grand Rounds: "The Impact of Health Policy on Outcomes and Equity," presented by Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, associate professor, Co-Director, Center for Health Economics and Policy, Institute for Public Health; Director, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Washington University School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Feb. 15, 2023 Grand Rounds: "Life After Critical Care," presented by Margaret Herridge, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine, Director of Critical Care Research, University of Toronto.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Feb. 8, 2023 Grand Rounds: "APP-Physician Best Practices: Leveraging Multidisciplinary Teams to Create Thriving Systems," presented by Gaby Frank, MD, FACP, SFHM, Associate Director, Department of Medicine Denver Health & Hospital Authority; Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Kasey Bowden, MSN, FNP, AG-ACNP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Feb. 1, 2023 Grand Rounds – "Physical Activity, Physical Function, and Frailty in CKD," presented by Kirsten L. Johansen, MD, Chief of Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare; professor of medicine, University of Minnesota.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Jan. 25, 2023 Grand Rounds—"Updates in Nephrology," presented by Anna Jovanovich, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine; Renal Section, Rocky Mountain Regional VA; Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Jan. 18, 2023 Grand Rounds: "Case Study in Medical Care for Immigrant and Refugee Adults" presented by Janine Young, MD, FAAP, professor, Department of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Jan. 11 Grand Rounds: "Ethics, Bias & Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare," with Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, associate professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Dec. 21, 2022 Grand Rounds – "The Pendulum of Patient Autonomy: Looking Back and Looking Forward," with Tiffany Gardner, MD, Chief Resident of Quality and Patient Safety and Dante Mesa, MD, Chief Medical Resident, Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Watch the Department of Medicine's State of the Department 2022, presented by Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, Robert W. Schrier Chair of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Nov. 30, 2022 Grand Rounds – "Evolving Crisis Standards of Care to Meet New Challenges" presented by Anuj Mehta, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Nov. 16, 2022 Grand Rounds: "Sexual Dimorphisms in Cardiopulmonary Disease: Insights Gained from the Study of Sex and Gender Differences in Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure" with Tim Lahm, MD, professor of medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health; visiting professor of medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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The Department of Medicine enjoyed an evening of celebration and togetherness as they gathered in the Donald M. Elliman Conference Center to recognize some of the department's best and brightest contributors at the 2022 Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Event. After some long-overdue in-person mingling, Dr. Chopra, Robert W. Schrier Chair in Medicine, began the event by congratulating deserving individuals who have earned various awards in 2022.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Nov. 2, 2022 Grand Rounds – Robert Eckel Invited Lecture: "Evaluating and Treating 'Residual Risk' in ASCVD," with Michael J. Blaha, MD, MPH, professor of cardiology and epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of Clinical Research and the Cardiometabolic Clinic, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Oct. 26, 2022 Grand Rounds—"Leading in Complexity: Effecting Change in an Increasingly Complex Academic Medical Center Environment," with Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH, Chief Medical Officer, University of Colorado Hospital; professor of medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Oct. 19 Grand Rounds – "Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships: Reform & Reward" with Jennifer Adams, MD, FACP, professor of medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Oct. 5 Grand Rounds: Are PICCs the Central Venous Catheter of the Future? with Vineet Chopra, MBBS, MD, MSc, Robert W. Schrier Chair of Medicine, professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Sept. 28, 2022 Grand Rounds: (Mucosal) Barriers for Understanding Axial Spondyloarthritis – Kristine A. Kuhn, MD, PhD, Division Head and Scoville Endowed Chair, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, associate professor of medicine and immunology and microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
An editorial written by Angela Sauaia, MD, PhD, Sarah Van Duzer-Moore, MD, and Ernest E. Moore, MD; Introduction by Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP.
Watch the Department of Medicine's Sept. 7, 2022 Grand Rounds – "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning," with Sean Davis, MD, PhD, Professor and Rifkin Chair of Cancer Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Deputy Director, Center for Health Artificial Intelligence, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 31, 2022 Grand Rounds – "Monkeypox from Local to Global: What Every Clinician Should Know" with Andrés Henao-Martínez, MD, associate professor of medicine and Karen Wendel, MD, Director, HIV/STI/Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Control, Denver Public Health; assistant professor of medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 24, 2022 Grand Rounds – "Mythbusters: Cardiac Amyloidosis" with Amrut V. Ambardekar, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 17, 2022 Grand Rounds: "Immunotherapy in Lymphomas – the Present and the Future," with Manali Kamdar, MD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine and Clinical Director of Lymphoma Services, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's August 10, 2022 Grand Rounds: "The Rising Tide of Early Age Onset Colorectal Cancer," with Swati G. Patel, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Prevention Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Watch the Department of Medicine's July 27, 2022 Grand Rounds – "The Art of Observation and the Observation of Art," presented by Salvatore Mangione, MD, associate professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.
Watcht the Department of Medicine's June 8, 2022 Grand Rounds Blount Lecture | Precision Medicine in the Real World with Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD, Director, One Brave Idea; Principal Investigator, Apple Heart & Movement Study; Professor and Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Watch the Department of Medicine's June 1, 2022 Grand Rounds—"The (Lung) Microbiome and Clinical Implications" with Alison Morris Gimbel, MD, MS, professor of medicine and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 25, 2022 Grand Rounds, "Advances in HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)" with Katherine Frasca, MD, assistant professor of medicine and Program Director, ID Fellowship Program in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 18, 2022 Grand Rounds—Meiklejohn Lecture | Overdose and Addiction—A Despairing Yet Treatable Medical Disorder with Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, Vice Chairman for Public Health; Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine; John Noble Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science, Boston University School of Medicine; Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 11, 2022 Grand Rounds—6th Annual Shark Tank Competition, sponsored by the Quality & Patient Safety Program. Promoting high value care projects to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs of health care.
Watch the Department of Medicine's May 4, 2022 Grand Rounds—Collins Lectureship: "Addressing Disparities in the Burden, Care and Outcomes of People with Chronic Kidney Disease" with Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM, FASN, MACP, professor of medicine, Division of Nephrology; Deputy Director, Center for Health Equity, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 27, 2022 Grand Rounds—2022 Holocaust Genocide Contemporary Bioethics Program "Legacies of the Holocaust and Health Equity Today" with Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President at the American Medical Association.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 20, 2022 Grand Rounds—"Hear Them: A Recounting of Residency Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic" with 2021–22 Chief Medical Residents Manuel Urra, MD, Samantha King, MD, MS and Christopher Caruso, MD, MPH.
Department of Medicine April 13, 2022 Grand Rounds: Wahlstrom Lectureship—"Diagnosis and Management of Acute Kidney Injury: Circa 2022" with Talat Alp Ikizler, MD, FASN, Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Chair in Vascular Biology, professor of medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Watch the Department of Medicine's April 6, 2022 Grand Rounds, the Thomas A. Neff Lecture with Mark W. Geraci, MD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Health Sciences; visiting professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh on "Pulmonary Vascular Disease: Updates and New Directions."
Watch Medicine Grand Rounds from March 30, 2022—Pathological Cardiovascular Fibrosis: Role of Resident Stem Cells featuring Mary C.M. Weiser-Evans, PhD, Charles Boettcher II Professor of Medicine, from the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension.
Watch Medicine Grand Rounds from March 23, 2022—Post-Pandemic Silver Linings: Opportunities for Improving U.S. Healthcare Delivery featuring Vin Gupta, MD, MSt, MPA, affiliate assistant professor, Evans School, University of Washington; Chief Medical Officer, Amazon Devices; NBC and MSNBC Medical Analyst; Major, U.S. Air Force Reserves Medical Corps.
Match Day results for the Department of Medicine’s residency program were announced today. The time-honored tradition of Match Day is filled with great anticipation for medical students, who find out which residency program they will are matched to and will begin after graduation.
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“I’m thrilled to announce the results of this year’s Internal Medicine Resident Match,” said Geoffrey R. Connors, MD, FACP, Internal Medicine Residency Program director. “Once again, the University of Colorado Internal Medicine program is going to be infused with the energy, excitement, and talent from another fantastic group of incoming doctors. The interns who will arrive here in June are incredible.”
Watch the Department of Medicine's March 16 Grand Rounds, the H.R. Bob Brettell Lecture, featuring guest presenter Eva Marie Aagaard, MD, FACP, professor of medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Education from Washington University School of Medicine on "Medical Education: There's No Looking Back Now".
Watch the Department of Medicine's February 9, 2022 Grand Rounds—"Connection, Meaning & the Future of Chronic Pain Care" with Joseph Frank, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine.
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