Jun 15, 2021 | COVID-19, Medicine Grand Rounds
Decisions about the optimal allocation of key resources such as hospital beds, medications, and durable equipment raise both logistical and ethical questions and have important ramifications for hospital policy. COVID-19 has placed further strain on an already...
May 18, 2021 | COVID-19, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Medicine Grand Rounds
Please join us as we hear from our UPMC experts in Gastroenterology & Hepatology for Year in Review. How has COVID19 impacted the GI lab and colorectal cancer screening? How can we leverage digital behavioral health in the treatment of IBS and integrate...
Mar 23, 2021 | COVID-19, Medicine Grand Rounds, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
One of the major complications of the H1N1 and Covid-19 pandemic was severe acute lung injury, also called the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This common lung injury and inflammation syndrome remains a major cause of ICU admissions, morbidity and...
Mar 9, 2021 | COVID-19, General Internal Medicine, Medicine Grand Rounds
How has COVID-19 impacted our patients’ day to day lives? The pandemic has brought changes in life expectancy, reproduction & contraception (COVID babies), delivery of care with a rapid shift to telemedicine, and pandemic weight gain (Covi-besity). This has been...
Feb 2, 2021 | COVID-19, Medicine Grand Rounds
Please join us for DOM Grand Rounds, where we are thrilled to welcome Vicky Fraser, MD, the Chair of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Fraser’s career has focused on infectious disease, specifically within HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections,...
Jan 26, 2021 | COVID-19, Medicine Grand Rounds, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
What’s new in the world of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine? Join us to hear exciting practice changing updates from our UPMC experts in COVID19 care, pulmonary hypertension, sleep medicine, and allergy! Department of Medicine Grand RoundsJanuary 26, 2021...
Dec 8, 2020 | COVID-19, Medicine Grand Rounds, Palliative Care
Drawing on his experience from multiple vantage points, Dr. DeVita will discuss the impact of scarce resources on “routine” ethical decisioning, recount challenges to autonomy posed by widespread contagious serious illness, and examine how late consequences of...
Oct 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Infectious Diseases, UIM 2020
Direct link to video Vaccine Development for SARS-CoV-2 Sharon Riddler, MD Professor of Medicine View Slides/Presentation (pdf) Audio Only Direct link to...
Oct 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Infectious Diseases, UIM 2020
Direct link to video COVID-19: Lessons Learned Elise M. Martin, MD, MSAssistant Professor of Medicine View Slides/Presentation (pdf) Audio Only Direct link to...
Oct 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Infectious Diseases, Medicine Grand Rounds
Infectious disease has come to the forefront of medicine on the national stage and, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza season is upon us. How will UPMC managing flu testing and monitor circulating viruses? What are our strategies for health care...
