Neuroscience Grand Rounds
2025-2026 (Academic Year)
2/13/26 Michael Hehir, MD | Myasthenia Gravis: New Phenotypes, New Classifications, and Future Directions for Treatment | Video
1/16/26 Callie Brown, DO | Social Determinants of Health in Stroke Incidence, Treatment, and Outcomes: What we know and have yet to learn | Video
1/09/26 Peter A. Calabresi, MD | Utility of Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography in Neurological Diseases | Video
11/14/25 Karen Lounsbury, PhD | VIC Foundations Outcomes and the Impacts of Active Learning - no video
10/22/25 E. Stanley Emery Lecture: Leslie Benson, MD | Advances and Precision Diagnosis in Neuro-Immunology – no video
9/19/25 Hillel Panitch Lecture: Amy Kunchok, MD | Updates on Diagnosis and Management of Autoimmune Encephalitis – no video
9/12/25 Rebecca Gottesman, MD, PhD | Preventing Dementia by Preventing Stroke: Evidence from Epidemiology | Video
9/05/25 John Steele Taylor, MD and Isabella Sutherland, MS-4 | Teaching Neuroscience through Juggling: Principles of Motor Learning, Cognition, Rehabilitation and Beyond | Video
2024-2025 (Academic Year)
6/16/25 Jeffrey Cohen, MD, FACP, FAAN | Stories from a Career in Neurology: Clinical Pearls Learned Throughout the Years| Video
6/06/25 Ryan Beal, DO | Periodic EEG Patterns: Voltage Maps and Functional Connectivity Analysis | Video
5/30/25 Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc, HEC-C, FACP; Marlene Maron, PhD, ABPP; Wendy Shores, PsyD; Amanda Young, DNP, RN, CEN, CPEN | Effective Team Responses to Aggressive Patient Behavior: A Panel Discussion | Video
5/16/25 Leila Amiri, PhD | Recruitment and Retention Efforts from an Inclusive Excellence Lens in the LCOM Admissions Office | Video
4/11/25 Ashok Gupta Memorial Lecture: Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD | The Systems Cell Biology of Parkinson’s Disease: Translational Avenues to Precision Medicine | Video
3/21/25 Alissa Thomas, MD: Quality Care and Access for Patients with Brain Metastases in the UVM Health Network | Video
3/14/25 Muhannad Seyam, MD: Deciphering Disease Progression in ALS: Clinical and Biochemical Markers as Predictive Tools | Video
2/21/25 Gregory L. Holmes, MD: Both Sides Now: Do Vaccines Cause Neurological Disease? - no video
2/14/25 Karl Heward, MD: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: The Neurology of a Broken Heart | Video
1/17/25 John Logan Black, MD and Ann M. Moyer, MD, PhD: A Brief Review of Testing at Mayo Clinic with an Emphasis on Neurology and Psychiatry | Video
1/10/25 Katrina Ducis, MD: Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Creative Solution | Video
12/13/24 Ellen Sidransky, MD | Gaucher disease: How a rare disease provides a window into common neurodegenerative disorders | Video
11/15/24 Osama Harraz, PhD | Mechano-feedback Control of Brain Blood Flow| Video
11/08/24 Waqar Waheed, MD and Gregory Holmes, MD | Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Part 1| Video
09/13/24 Hillel Panitch Lecture: Jeremy Chataway, MA, PhD, FRCP | Recent trials in Progressive MS: what do they tell us and where do we go next? | Video
09/11/24 E. Stanley Emery Lecture: Bennett A Shaywitz, MD | Dyslexia in the 21st Century: Science Bringing Hope to Children Who are Dyslexic -no video
2023- 2024 (Academic Year)
06/21/24 Kathryn Morelli, PhD | RNA Binding Proteins: The Next Generation of Macromolecule-based Therapeutics and Diagnostic Markers for Neurodegenerative Disorders| Video
06/14/24 Kaley Kinnamon, MD | Consensus Guidelines on Sports-related Concussion and New Directions| Video
06/07/24 Nimish Mohile, MD, FAAN | Dismantling Inequity in Academic Neurology| Video
05/31/24 Kristin Bartman, MD | ICANS for the Consulting Neurologist | Video
05/17/24 Alissa Thomas, MD | The Whole Story of Holistic Application Review: Best practices for inclusive recruitment and diversity-promoting retention in Graduate Medical Education | Video
05/10/24 Adam Sprouse Blum, MD, PhD | Left- vs. Right-sided Headache in Migraine | Video
04/26/24 Mary Cushman, MD, MSc | Stroke and Cognitive Impairment in a National Biracial Cohort: The REGARDS Study | Video
04/12/24 Ashok Gupta Memorial Lecture: Amie (Peterson) Hiller, MD, MCR | Redefining Parkinson’s Disease: A Review of New Staging and Classification Systems - no video
03/15/24 Messoud Ashina, MD, PhD, DMSc, FEAN | George A. Schumacher Lecture: Migraine-Emerging Drug Targets | Video
03/08/24 Lauren Skogsholm, MD | Autonomic Phenomena in Epilepsy | Video
02/09/24 John Steele Taylor, MD | Update on Anti-Amyloid Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease | Video
01/26/24 James F. Howard, Jr., MD, FAAN | Reducing Burdens of Myasthenia Gravis: A Role for Targeted Therapy | Video
01/19/24 Agnes Bacopulos, MD | Red Flags in Multiple Sclerosis| Video
01/12/24 Rebecca Burch, MD | Management of Migraine during Pregnancy and Lactation: A case-based approach | Video
12/08/23 Anthony R. Williams, MD and Geera Demers | Cultural Humility in Healthcare | Video
11/17/23 Jeffrey Kaye, MD | Using Technology to Advance Brain Aging Research | Video
10/13/2023 Kell Arbor, Director of Health and Wellness Pride Center of VT | Working with 2STQIALGB+ People | Video
09/29/2023 Samden Dorjee Lhatoo, MBBS, MD, FRCP (Lon) | Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) – from Observations to Action | (No Video)
09/08/2023 Chantal Roy-Hewitson, MD | An Interesting Case of Pachymeningitis | Video