Pediatric Grand Rounds are held on Fridays from 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. in the first floor conference room (BT-1810) of the Children's Hospital unless otherwise noted.
Most grand rounds presentations are available for distance viewing.
The Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essentials.
2024-2025 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8/2/2024 | William Strong, MD L.H. Charbonnier Endowed Chair of Pediatric Cardiology |
Pediatric Cardiology: The Development of a Division and a Personalized History |
| 8/9/2024 |
Alice Little Caldwell, MD
|
Nicotine, Alcohol & Cannibis Use in Adolescents |
| 8/16/2024 |
Valera Hudson, MD |
State of the Department of Pediatrics Annual Address |
| 8/23/2024 | Teresa Waters, MD Dean, School of Public Health |
Augusta University: School of Public Health |
| 8/30/2024 |
John Phillips, MD |
David B. Flannery, MD, Clinical Genomics Lectureship |
| 9/6/2024 | Adiaha I.A. Spinks-Franklin MD, MPH, FAAP Baylor College of Medicine |
Ellington Charles Hawes, MD Memorial Lectureship Standing Up and Stepping Out: Building an Inclusive Healthcare Community |
| 9/13/2024 |
Jon Klein, MD |
How Early is too Early? Advances in the Limits of Viability from Fetus to Neonate and Beyond at 22 to 23 Weeks Gestation and Beyond; A Positive, Proactive, Philosophical, Standardized and Balanced Approach |
| 9/20/2024 |
Ingrid, Camelo, MD |
Monoclonal Antibodies for prevention of severe RSV disease in Pediatrics: Nirsevimab and the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) |
| 9/27/2024 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | Campus Closures |
| 10/4/2024 |
NO GRAND ROUNDS |
Campus Closures |
| 10/11/2024 | Christian R. Lemmon, PhD Professor, Psychiatry and Health Behavior |
Assessment & Management of the Eating Disorders: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
| 10/18/2024 | John Lu, MD, MPH, MBA, FACOG Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Managing Endometriosis in Adolescence |
| 10/25/2024 |
Peter J. Stasikelis, MD |
Frank H. Stelling Pediatric Orthopaedic Conference |
| 11/1/2024 |
James St. Louis, MD |
Establishment of a Global Platform for the Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease by “Creation and Unification of National Congenital Heart Surgery Databases & Registries” |
| 11/8/2024 |
Erick Viorritto, MD, MPH |
Theo George Thevaos, MD Memorial Pediatric Neurology Lectureship When They Just Won't Sleep: Insights and Strategies in Childhood Insomnia |
| 11/15/2024 |
David Krupp, MD |
Lifestyle Medicine or Interpersonal Neurobiology and the Impact of Functional and Dysfunctional Social Connections |
| 11/22/2024 |
Marlo Vernon, PhD |
Decreasing NAS Rates in Rural Counties by Addressing Substance Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorders for Pregnant and Postpartum Mothers |
| 11/29/2024 |
NO GRAND ROUNDS |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
| 12/6/2024 | Kate Crockett, LPC Director, Child Advocacy Center |
Recognizing & Responding to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Our Community |
| 12/13/2024 |
Melissa Lefebvre, DO, FAAP, FACC
|
The Enigma of Clearing Athletes with Cardiac Disease for Sports Participation |
| 12/20/2024 |
Freyli Bustamante Gonzalez, MD
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| 12/27/2024 |
NO GRAND ROUNDS |
Winter Break |
| 1/3/2025 |
NO GRAND ROUNDS |
New Year's Holiday |
| 1/10/2025 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | Campus Closures |
| 1/17/2025 |
Nidhy P. Varghese, MD, FAAP |
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: a Review and a Call to Action |
| 1/24/2025 | Robert Nesbit, MD Emeritus Professor |
Lecture on MCG History: Virgil P. Sydenstricker, MD: MCG Physician Scientist |
| 1/31/25 | Deborah Huang, MD Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine |
A Clinic Day with POCUS |
| 2/7/25 | Stephen Conner, MD Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine |
Better Together-Maternal-Newborn Couplet Care (And Future Roles for Family Physicians) |
| 2/14/25 | James H. McCrory, MD Eisenhower Army Medical Center |
The Zebra in the Chief Complaint: Poetic Listening |
| 2/21/25 |
April Hartman, MD
|
Mission in the Midst of Mayhem |
| 2/28/25 |
Howard Panitch, MD |
Frank P. Anderson, MD and Margaret F. Guill, MD Lectureship - Post Discharge Pulmonary Management of BPD: Science or Style? |
| 3/7/25 |
Zubair Karim, PhD |
Gene-Diet Interaction and Precision Nutrition in Obesity |
| 3/14/25 |
Patrick Gallagher, MD |
Angela R. Mahesh Memorial Lectureship - Inherited Hemolytic Anemias: The Old and the New |
| 3/21/25 | Michael Milano, DMD Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry |
Pediatric Dentistry for Pediatric Health Care Providers |
| 3/28/25 |
Megan Musisca, MD |
Changing Landscape of Reproductive Healthcare |
| 4/4/25 |
Aaron Grubbs, MD |
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infections and Other Recent Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Threats |
| 4/11/25 |
NO GRAND ROUNDS |
Masters Week |
| 4/18/25 |
Tyesha Coleman, MD |
Pediatric Hypereosinophilia |
| 4/25/25 |
Terri McFadden, MD
|
Advocacy Day
|
| 5/2/25 |
Michel Garcia Crespo, MD |
BPD in Focus: A 12-Year Institutional Review of Practice and Outcomes |
| 5/9/25 |
Natasha M. Savage, MD |
Hemoglobinopathies/Thalassemias and Laboratory Evaluation: A Practical Case Based Presentation
|
| 5/16/25 |
Julia Sthloe, DO |
Vitamin K: Is it K-nough for Preemies? |
| 5/23/25 |
Gary Prusky, DO and Natasha Bennett, DO |
Investigating the Impact of Body Mass Index on the Diagnosis of Tubo-Ovarian Abscess |
| 5/30/25 |
Susan Kressly, MD |
Bennett-Green-Linder Lectureship |
| 6/6/25 |
Resident Research Day |
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| 6/13/25 |
Nathan Beasley, MD |
Cardiology Fellowship Research |
| 6/20/25 |
John-David Bruce, MD |
PICU Fellowship Research |
| 6/27/25 |
Sharon Beall, MD, HMDC & Beth Fisher, NP |
Provision of PPC in the Outpatient Setting |
