Neurology &
Neurological Sciences
  • 2012-2013
  • 2011-2012
Neurology Grand Rounds & Clinical Case Presentations
2012-2013 Academic Year
(All times 8am-8:50am)
2012
** - Indicates CME credit available for live activity.
CME credit is not available for viewing GR videos.
Date Location Title  
Aug 3 LKSC-130 Stem cells therapeutics for muscular dystrophies
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging at Stanford
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Aug 10 LKSC-130 "The emergence of neurohospitalists and the future of inpatient neurologic care"
S. Andrew Josephson MD, Director Neurovascular and Behavioral Neurology - Neurohospitalist Program, UCSF
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Aug 17 LKSC-130 Toward targeted therapy in glioblastoma:A better translation
Tim Cloughesy, MD, Director, Neuro-Oncology Program, UCLA
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Aug 24 LKSC-130 QA: “Sleep Apnea and Epilepsy”
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)

Ryan Boeck, MD, PGY-4, Child Neurology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aug 31 LKSC-130 Clinical Pathological Case Presentation: "Spots on the Brain"
Lucas McCarthy, MD, PGY-4, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
Sept 7 LKSC-130 ** "New Therapies for Epilepsy"
Robert Fisher, MD, PhD, Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology, Director of Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Sept 14 LKSC-120 "Genetic & molecular characterization of the paroxysmal dyskinesias"
Louis Ptacek, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF
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Sept 21 LKSC-120 Imaging of CSF pressure & flow using NPH as a model
Murray Solomon, MD, Los Gatos MRI
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Sept 28 LKSC-130 QA: "To Image or Not to Image: A Case of Diplopia"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Michelle Jonelis, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
Oct 5 LKSC-130 "Looking for inspiration: breathing and the brain"
Jack Feldman, MD, Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology, UCLA
 
Oct 12 LKSC-130 "Insights into PSP"
Irene Litvan, MD, Director of the Movement Disorder Center, Professor of Neurosciences UCSD
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Oct 19 LKSC-130 QA: "Hashimoto's Folly"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Kyle Hobbs, MD, Chief Resident, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Oct 26 LKSC-130 ** Clinical Pathology Case Conference: "Beyond Entrapment"
Nirali Vora, MD, Chief Resident, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
Nov 2 LKSC-130 "Non-cell autonomous factors in neurodegeneration"
Gwenn Garden, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Research Affiliate, Center on Human Development and Disability University of Washington
 
Nov 9-10

JW Marriott Union Square,
San Francisco, CA

3rd Annual Breakthroughs in Neurologic Therapies: Restoring Function to the Nervous System  
Nov 16 LKSC-130 "Policy and Politics: Federal Health Care and the Elections"
Mike Amery, Esq. Legislative Council, American Academy of Neurology
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Nov 23 - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY  
Nov 30 LKSC-130 ** "Treatment Swift and Sure: Emerging paradigms in therapy of acute brain ischemia"
Jeffrey Saver, MD, Director, Stroke Center, UCLA
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Dec 7 Alway M106 "Congenital Muscular Dystophies: From Rags to Riches"
Carston Bonnemann, MD, Senior Investigator, NIH Neurogenetics Lab-Congenital Muscular Dystropies and Myopathies
 
Dec 14 LKSC-130 ** "EGFRvIII vaccine trials in neuro-oncology"
Gordon Li, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Dec 21 - NO GRAND ROUNDS - HOLIDAY  
Dec 28 - NO GRAND ROUNDS - HOLIDAY  
** - Indicates CME credit available for live activity.
CME credit is not available for viewing GR videos.
 
2013
Date Location Title  
Jan 4 - NO GRAND ROUNDS - WINTER CLOSURE  
Jan 11 LKSC-130 QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Gwyneth McCawley, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jan 18 LKSC-130 “Multiple Sclerosis: a gateway neurologic disease”
Fred Lublin, MD, Saunders Family Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center
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Jan 25 LKSC-130 ** "Optical Deconstruction of Fully-Assembled Biological Systems"
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Feb 1 LKSC-130 "The Global Neurology of Headache"
Marcelo E. Bigal, MD, PhD, Head of Merck Investigator Studies Program, Scientific Engagements and Education
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Feb 8 LKSC-130 QA: "Dancing with Encephalitis: Chorea Signifying Progression versus Relapse of Disease"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Crystal Proud, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Feb 15 LKSC-130 “High-Throughput Genetic Screens Reveal New Insights into Human Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Aaron Gitler, PhD, Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Feb 22 LKSC-130 “GABA-A Receptor Regulation: following novel pathways to new therapies in epilepsy”
Amy Brooks-Kayal, MD, Chief and Ponzio Family Chair in Pediatric Neurology, Children’s Hospital Colorado Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy
Mar 1 LKSC-130 ** "Medication Overuse Headache and Opiate Use in the United States"
Meredith Barad, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of
Anesthesia and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
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Mar 8 LKSC-130 QA: “A Phone Call from the Dentist”
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)

Esther Melamed, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Mar 15 LKSC-130 "What’s the Prognosis: Why Do You Want to Know?"
J.Claude Hemphill III, M.D., M.A.S., Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, UCSF. Chief, Neurology Service Director, Neurovascular and Neurocritical Care Program, San Francisco General Hospital
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Mar 22 San Diego, CA 65th Annual AAN Meeting, March 16-23, 2013
Mar 29 LKSC-130 ** Clinical Pathological Case Presentation
Reena Thomas, MD, PGY-4, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
Apr 5 LKSC-130 ** "Post-Stroke Dementia"
Marion Buckwalter, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Neurology & Neurological Sciences and of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Apr 12 LKSC-130 “What My Errors Have Taught Me”
Martin Samuels, MD, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 
Apr 19 LKSC-130 Quality Assurance Rounds: “To Give or Not to Give: That is the (QA) Question”
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Nellie Boykoff, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Apr 26 LKSC-120 ** "A Challenge to Integrity: Years of Living Dangerously with Bone Growth Factors"
Eugene Carragee, MD, Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
May 3 LKSC-130 "Stroke Rehabilitation – 2013"
Gary M. Abrams, MD, Rehabilitation Section Chief at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Director of Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Neurology, UCSF
May 10 LKSC-130 ** “Innovation in Neurology from Stanford Biodesign”, Kate Rosenbluth, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Team, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine  
May 17 LKSC-130 Quality Assurance: "Holding On and Letting Go: Life and Death in the ICU"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)

Michael Ke, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
May 24 LKSC-130 "Coccidioidomycosis: Aspects of the Disease ", Laurence Mirels, MD, Associate Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center  
May 31 LKSC-120 ** Clinical Pathological Case Presentation
Kyle Hobbs, Chief Resident, Child Neurology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
June 7 Li Ka Shing Center Stanford University School of Medicine Neuroscience Forum
Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Associate professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
June 14 LKSC-120 QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Jane MacLean, MD, PGY-3, Child Neurology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
June 21 LKSC-120 ** Topic: Non-Parkinson's DBS Applications
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD, MSE, Professor Neurology & Neurological Sciences and of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
June 28 TBD Topic: Research Presentation: Neuro-Oncology
Reena Thomas, MD, PGY-4, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
July 5 - BREAK - NEW RESIDENTS ARRIVE
July 12 TBD **Topic: Molecular/Cellular Mechanisms of Epilepsy
Brenda Porter, MD, Acting Associate Professor, Professor Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
July 19 TBD "Take a Hike: Implications of Physical Activity for Cognitive and Brain Health"
Arthur Kramer, PhD, Director, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
July 26 TBD QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Nellie Boykoff, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aug 2 TBD TBD
Aug 9 TBD QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Michelle Jonelis, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aug 16 TBD ** Topic: Updates in ICH
Chitra Venkatsubramanian, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Stroke Center, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aug 23 TBD ** Clinical Pathological Case Presentation
Esther Melamed, MD, PGY-3, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aug 30 TBD ** Topic: Peripheral Nerve Repair
Cathenrine Curtin, MD, Assistant Professor, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
** - Indicates CME credit available for live activity.
CME credit is not available for viewing GR videos.
Neurology Grand Rounds & Clinical Case Presentations
2011-2012 Academic Year
(All times 8am-8:50am)
2011
Date Location Title  
July 8 Clark Center “Misperceptions in Brain Ischemia: Technology, Terminology, Tissue and Time”
Greg Albers, MD, Stanford Stroke Center, Stanford
 
July 15 Clark Center QA: “Cut to the Point! The Atraumatic Lumbar Puncture Needle.”
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Christie Tung, MD, Stanford
 
July 22 Clark Center Clinical Pathological Case Presentation: “A Case of Intractable Epilepsy”
George Nune & Hannes Vogel, MD, Stanford
 
July 29 Clark Center “Updates in Common Movement Disorders Genetics”
Rosalind Chuang, MD, Stanford
 
Aug 5 Clark Center “Pursuing Organizational Excellence at Stanford”
Amir Dan Rubin, President and CEO, Stanford Hospital & Clinics
 
Aug 12 LKSC-120 “Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy in the Era of Monoclonal Antibody Therapies
Rosalind Chuang, MD, Stanford
 
Aug 19 Clark Center “Where Clinical Ethics Meets Neuroethics”
David Magnus, MD, Stanford
 
Aug 26 LKSC-120 QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Ryan Boeck, MD
 
Sep 2 LKSC-130 “The Changing Face of Tropical and Infectious Neurology”
David Renner, MD, Univ of Utah Hospital & Clinics
 
Sep 9 LKSC-130 “A Biology of Neural Repair after Stroke”
S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
 
Sep 16 LKSC-130 QA: “Brain biopsy - When Tissue is the Issue”
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Paul George, MD, Stanford
 
Sep 23 LKSC-130 "Presynaptic G Proteins and Neural Modulation: The Molecular Biology of a Receptor that Mitigates OCD"
Simon Alford, PhD, MD, Univ of Illinois
 
Sep 30 LKSC-130 Clinical Pathological Case Presentation: "The Man Who Could Not Get Up”
Sarada Sakamuri, MD and Hans Vogel, MD, Stanford
 
Oct 7 LKSC-130 NEUROLOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCE/SEMINAR  
Oct 14 LKSC-130 "Mood Disorders in CNS Diseases"
John Barry, MD, Stanford
 
Oct 21 LKSC-130 “Current Concepts and Practice of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery”
Gary Mathern, MD, Reed Neurological Research Center, UCLA
 
Oct 28 LKSC-130 QA: "23 Year Old Woman with Headache, Back Pain, & Numbness"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Ian Bledsoe, MD, Lucas McCarthy, MD & Lawrence Recht, MD, Stanford
 
Nov 4 LKSC-130 This is Your Kid’s Brain on Computers
Jim Steyer, MD, Commonsense Org
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Nov 11 LKSC-130 QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Lucas McCarthy, MD, Stanford
 
Nov 18 LKSC-130 "New Treatment for ALS"
Robert Miller, MD, California Pacific Medical Center
 
Nov 25 - Thanksgiving Holiday  
Dec 2 LKSC-130 “Top Down and Bottom Up Approaches to Understanding & Treating Medulloblastoma”
Yoon-Jae Cho, MD, Stanford
 
Dec 9 LKSC-130 "Is Soy Good for the Brain?"
Victor Henderson, MD, Stanford
 
Dec 16 Clark Center QA: "Is Stanford Missing a Stroke Unit?
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Nirali Vora, MD, Stanford
 
Dec 23 - Winter Break  
Dec 30 - New Year Holiday  
2012
Date Location Title  
Jan 6 LKSC-130 "Radiosurgery: Now & in the Future"
John Adler, MD, Stanford
 
Jan 13 LKSC-130 “Narcolepsy, Infections and Autoimmunity"
Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Stanford
 
Jan 20 LKSC-130 QA (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Kyle Hobbs, MD, Stanford
 
Jan 27 LKSC-130 “Therapeutic Developments for Myotonic Dystrophy"
Charles Thornton, MD, Univ of Rochester
 
Feb 3 LKSC-130 “Developing Treatment for Hereditary Neuromuscular Disease"
Kenneth Fischbeck, MD, NIH - NINDS
 
Feb 10 LKSC-130 “Localization of Functions in the Human Brain:
Lessons Learned from Intracranial Recordings and Electrical Brain Stimulation in Patients with Epilepsy"

Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD, Stanford
 
Feb 17 LKSC-130 QA: "Lethargy and ataxia in a 3 year old"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
William Zinnanti, MD, Stanford
Sonia Partap, MD, Stanford
 
Feb 24 LKSC-130 "Multiple Sclerosis: The View from Mt. Sutro"
Stephen Hauser, MD, UCSF
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Mar 2 LKSC-130 "Brain Microglia and Blood Monocytes: Kith or Kin?"
Richard Ransohoff, MD, Cleveland Clinic
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Mar 9 LKSC-130 "Plasticity in the Developing Brain: Cognitive and Motor Development after Perinatal Stroke"
Doris Trauner, MD, UCSD
 
Mar 16 LKSC-130 QA: Death by Diprivan (Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Le Hua, MD, Stanford
 
Mar 23 Munzer Auditorium
Beckman Building
"Four Questions About Multiple Sclerosis, An Evolving View"
Lawrence Steinman, MD, Stanford
 
Mar 30 LKSC-130 "QA-CPC: A 38-Year-Old Woman with Breast Cancer and Bilateral Carotid Occlusions"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Christie Tung, MD, Stanford
 
April 6 LKSC-130 "A Physician Entrepreneur"
Rodney Perkins, MD, Stanford
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April 13 LKSC-130 QA: "Long LOS: It's Our Loss."
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Sarada Sakamuri, MD, Stanford
 
April 20 LKSC-130 "Delayed Cerebral Ischemia Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Insights from PET"
Michael Diringer, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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April 27 -28 - AAN Meeting/New Orleans  
May 4 LKSC-130 "Brown-Sequard: The Man, His Syndrome, and Spinal Sensory Physiology"
Michael Aminoff, MD, UCSF
 
May 11 Arrillaga Alumni Center "Why are Children with Epileptic Encephalopathies Encaphalopathic?"
Greg Holmes, MD, Dartmouth Medical School
Northwest Child Neurology Colloquium
 
May 18 LKSC-130 QA: "Imaging of the agitated patient"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)

Reena Thomas, Stanford
 
May 25 LKSC-130 "Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome"
Safwan Jaradeh, MD, Stanford
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June 1 CLARK CENTER "The Intracranial Vertebral Artery- a Neglected Species"
Louis R. Caplan, MD, Harvard Medical School
 
June 8 LKSC Neuroscience Research Forum in Lieu of Grand Rounds
Contact: Odette Harris, MD, Stanford
 
June 15 M-106
Alway Building
QA: "What kind of DEM is it again?"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Jonathan Lopez, MD, Stanford
 
June 22 LKSC-130 “Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome”
Jeremy Schmahmann, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
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June 29 LKSC-130 "CPC: The Case of the Patient who Fell Too Much"
Paul George, MD, Stanford
 
July 6 - CANCELLED  
July 13 LKSC-130 QA: "Are two charts better than one?"
(Open only to Neuroscience SHC faculty & professional staff)
Ian Bledsoe, MD, Stanford
 
July 20 LKSC-130 "Clinical and research applications of PET/CT in Neurology"
Andrew Quon MD, Stanford
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July 27 LKSC-130 "Parasomnias, State Dissociation, and...Can Sleepwalkers Murder?"
Mark Mahowald, MD, Stanford
 
Aug 3 LKSC-130 Stem cells therapeutics for muscular dystrophies
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, Stanford
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Aug 10 LKSC-130 "The emergence of neurohospitalists and the future of inpatient neurologic care"
S. Andrew Josephson MD, UCSF-Neurovascular and Behavioral Neurology, Director - Neurohospitalist Program
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Aug 17 LKSC-130 Toward targeted therapy in glioblastoma:A better translation
Tim Cloughesy, MD, Director, UCLA Neuro-Oncology Program
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Aug 24 LKSC-130 QA
Ryan Boeck, MD
 
Aug 31 LKSC-130 CPC
Lucas McCarthy, MD
 
** - Indicates CME credit

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