Rheumatology Grand Rounds

​The conferences are currently held in a virtual format (zoom) on Fridays between 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. 

The Basic Science Course & Med 256: Immunological Basis of Rheumatic and Allergic Diseases Journal Club is presented as a part of the Grand Rounds. 

Our program is ACCME accredited program that focuses around education on prevention, diagnoses, and management of rheumatic diseases, and dissemination of clinical evidence-based and scientific advances in the field. 

The target audiences range from physicians rheumatologists to rheumatology trainees, medical residents, medical and PhD students and allied health professionals, as well as industry and patient representatives. 

The syllabus includes lectures on specific topics, sessions on ACR and EULAR reviews, case-based conferences, trainee and faculty scholarly activity presentations, monthly journal club style conferences, twice yearly "Citywide Grand Rounds" (rotated between UCSD, and community colleagues). These sessions are held weekly throughout the academic year. Each session is moderated by expert faculty.  

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this educational activity for one credit per hour in Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

2022-2023 Schedule

​Date​Grand Rounds 8-9am
07/01/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference
07/08/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference 
07/15/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference 
07/22/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference 
07/29/22 

Fellows boot camp clinical conference 

08/05/22 

Fellows boot camp clinical conference 

08/12/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference 
08/19/22 Fellows boot camp clinical conference 
08/26/22 

Case conference / Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics

09/02/22 

No conference: Labor Day Weekend  

09/09/22 

Journal Club 
Dr. Maripat Corr
"Spondyloarthropathies"

09/16/22 

Guest Speaker 
Dr. Nancy E. Lane
UC Davis Health
Osteoporosis and bone health updates 

09/23/22 

Journal Club 
Dr. Tony Yaksh
"Pain"

09/30/22
Fellowship interviews 

Dr. Artie Kavanaugh
Division of RAI, UCSD
Review of the 2021 EULAR conference
(confirmed for 2023)

10/07/22
Fellowship interviews 

Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at UCSD (venue and format TBD)
(UCSD speaker Dr. R. Dhital)

10/14/22
Fellowship interviews 

Guest Speaker
Dr. Marcela Ferrada
NIH
Relapsing polychondritis
(confirmed) 

10/21/22 

Journal Club 
Dr. Arthur Kavanaugh
"Targeted Therapies in Inflammatory Arthritis"

10/28/22 

Guest speaker
Dr. Laura Donlin
Hospital for Special Surgery, NY
“Molecular stratification of RA joints"

11/04//22 

Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics 

11/11/22 

No conference: ACR Convergence, Philadelphia
 Nov 10-14 

11/18/22 No conference: ACR Convergence Nov 10-14, Philadelphia 
11/25/22 No conference: Thanksgiving weekend
12/02/22 Cancelled
12/09/22 
Journal Club
Dr. Monica Guma
"The microbiome"
12/16/22 
ACR Review by Fellows, Part 1
Dr. M. Kaur
Dr. N. Singh

12/23/22 

No conference: Holiday
12//30/22 

No conference: Happy New Year 

01/06/23 Conference canceled
01/13/23 Guest Speaker
Dr. Rohit Aggarwal
Medical Director, Arthritis and Autoimmunity Center
University of Pittsburg Medical Center
"Management of inflammatory myopathies"
01/20/23 

Guest speaker
Dr. J. Cush
Director of Clinical Rheumatology at the Baylor Research Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas
"The safety of Biologic & Newer Therapies"

01/27/23 
 ACR Review by Fellows, Part 2
Dr. R. Dhital
Dr. T. Lwin

02/03/23 
Conference canceled
​02/10/23
Guest speaker 
Dr. Iain McInnes 
Vice-Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary and Life ScieAdhesion Molecules & Inflammationnces    
Muirhead Chair of Medicine/Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology   
University of Glasgow   
"Deconstructing Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases" 
02/17/23 Guest speaker
Dr. David T. Felson
Boston University Medical Center
"Advances in OA"
02/24/23 Guest speaker
Dr. Sheetal Desai
Interim Chief, Division of Rheumatology,
Director, Lupus Clinic, UCI
"Women in Academia and Female leadership"
03/03//23 

Journal Club 
Dr. Abha Singh
"MSK UltraSound"

03/10/23 
Guest speaker
Dr. Jonathan Kay
Timothy S. and Elaine L. Peterson Chair in Rheumatology
Director of Clinical Research, Division of Rheumatology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Biosimilars"

03/17/23

Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics

03/24/23 

 

Dr Richard Keating
Scripps Rheumatology
Canceled

Thursday, ​03/30/23
Joint Dermatology-Rheumatology Case Conference 
UC San Diego Department of Dermatology & UC San Diego Division of Rheumatology 
7:30-8:30AM 

03/31/23 

No conference: Cezar Chavez day 

04/07/23 
Dr. Elizabeth R. Volkmann
Director of the UCLA Scleroderma Program
Co-Director of the UCLA CTD-Related ILD Program
Division of Rheumatology
UCLA
"CTD related Lung disease"

04/14/23 

Case conference /Fellows present teaching cases and review related topics 

​Wednesday, 4/19/23
12:00-1:00pm
​Thirteenth Annual Nathan J. Zvaifler Rheumatology Lecture
Christopher Buckley, MBBS 
Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology
Director of Clinical Research
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
University of Oxford 
Medicine Grand Rounds (Virtually) 
Title of talk: "Is precision pathology more important than precision medicine?"
04/21/23 
Quarterly Rheumatology section meeting
ACTRI 3W232 (in person)
04/28/23 

Dr. Tara Paravar
Department of Dermatology, UCSD
Dermatologic presentations of systemic disease
"Alopecia" 

05/05/23 
Guest Speaker
Peter Grayson, MD
Head of the Vasculitis Translational Research Program, NIH
"Vasculitis updates"
05/12/23 

Citywide Rheumatology Grand Rounds at SCRIPPS
(UCSD case presented by 1st year Fellow)
(confirmed)

​05/19/23
​Journal Club 
Dr. Mark Ginsberg
"Adhesion Molecules & Inflammation"

05/26/23 Journal Club 
Dr. Gregg Middleton
"Sports Medicine"
06/02/23 

No conference
EULAR 

06/09/23 
Guest speaker
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D.
President, CEO, and Professor
La Jolla Institute​ for Immunology

"Antibodies against Emerging Infections: A Global Collaboration"
06/16/23 
Journal Club 
Dr. Ken Kalunian
"Lupus"
06/23/23 Review of Fellow's Scholarly activity.  2ndyear Fellows present 
06/30/23 Review of Fellow's Scholarly activity.  1st year Fellows present 

 

 

Quick Glance

Date: Every Friday
Time: 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
Location: virtually via zoom.

Course Director
: Susan Lee, M​D

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Contact Info:

Amanda Williamson
aswilliamson@ucsd.edu
Phone:(858) 246-0938