The Geisel School of Medicine Events Calendar

Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD
Israel Englander Department of Dermatology
Weill Greenberg Center
New York, NY

Hosts:
Mary Jo Turk
Yina Huang

“Shared novel mechanisms of anti PD1 toxicity in tissue, and efficacy in tumor.”

Monday, March 4, 2024 @ 3PM
Borwell 658W

Or Via ZOOM
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99411458598?pwd=TThlanExb1hkV2h1czNJcUxGVTFSdz09

MEETING ID: 994 1145 8598
PASSCODE: 343665

Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, MPH
Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Presents: Big Data, Big Bias, Bad AI

Andrew P. Loehrer, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy
Presents: The Spatial Drivers of Cancer and the Policy Drivers that Perpetuate Inequity

Daniel Wozniak, Ph.D.
Samuel Saslaw Professor of Infectious Diseases
Vice Chair, Microbial Infection and Immunity
Professor of Microbiology
Infectious Disease Institute
OSU Distinguished Scholar
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Hosts: James Bliska/Arianna Reuven

“Biofilms and immunity in chronic infection”

Monday, February 26, 2024 @ 3PM
Chilcott Auditorium - Vail 120

Or Via ZOOM
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99411458598?pwd=TThlanExb1hkV2h1czNJcUxGVTFSdz09

MEETING ID: 994 1145 8598
PASSCODE: 343665

Discovery Science Seminar Series
Monday, March 18, 2024
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Chilcott Auditorium

“Unraveling alpha-synuclein prion biology in human disease.”

Amanda L. Woerman, PhD
Associate Professor
Prion Research Center
Colorado State University

Hosts: Sam Liu & Karl Biggs

Any questions please email Jenni.Hinsley@dartmouth.edu or Amy.L.Potter@dartmouth.edu.

Graduate Program in Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Ph.D. Thesis Presentation
Kali Smolen
Monday February 26, 2024
9:00 AM ET
In-Person: DH Auditorium H

"Regulation and Function of PP2A-B56delta and its Pathological Variants"

Research Advisor: Arminja Kettenbach, PhD

If you would like to receive the link and password for this Zoom meeting, please email Samantha.S.Schmidt@dartmouth.edu.

Discovery Science Seminar Series
Monday, March 4, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Chilcott Auditorium

“Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX: the de-stressor of stress”

Shantá Hinton, PhD
Boles-Ash Distinguished Professor
Associate Chair of Biology
William & Mary College

Host: Jerry O’Dwyer

Any questions please email Jenni.Hinsley@dartmouth.edu or Amy.L.Potter@dartmouth.edu.

Antino Recio Allen, PhD
Professor University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
"Changes in Cognition and Physiology after Breast Cancer Chemotherapy: Implications for Gut, Microbiome, and Brain"

Jeremy Setton, MD
Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Presents: Genomic Scars of DNA Repair Deficiency: Mechanisms and Clinical Utility in Prostate Cancer

Take Heart, Take Action – Impacting heart failure trajectories in children.

Kimberly Molina, MD
Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Dartmouth Health Children’s

Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
Friday, March 1, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM
Auditorium H

“Fixing broken windows: Transforming the surgical learning environment through scholarship”

Speaker:
Peter S. Yoo, MD
Attending Surgeon, Transplant Surgery
Associate Chief, Academic Affairs
Hartford Healthcare

Eric Déziel, Ph.D.
Professor-Investigator
Sociomicrobiology Lab
Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Laval, Quebec

External Examiner for Alexander Pastora's Thesis
Host: George O’Toole

“The end of the reign of a “master regulator’’? A defect in function of the LasR quorum sensing regulator is a common feature of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates”.

Monday, March 25, 2024 @ 3PM
Chilcott Auditorium - Vail 120
In-person Only

Please join the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science for our March Fundamentals Seminar with Sara Malone, PhD (Washington University in St. Louis). Dr. Malone will be presenting: From Concept to Impact: Exploring Implementation Models and Frameworks.

KC Huang, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Host: George O’Toole/Kaitlyn Barrack

“Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of the gut microbiome”

MONDAY, March 18, 2024 @ 11AM
Chilcott Auditorium - Vail 120

In-person only

PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

“Building Academic Success upon Clinical Excellence: It Takes a Village”

Wendy A. Wells, MD, MSc, FRCPath
Professor and Chair, Emerita
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dartmouth Hitchcock

Wednesday, March 13, 2024
4:30 PM
Auditorium F and Via WebEx
WebEx Info: TBD

Learning Outcome:
At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss new topics in general pathology and laboratory medicine, as well as molecular pathology and other advanced biomedical technologies.

Target Audience: Dept. Faculty, Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students.

Description
More than ever, financial constraints in the US Healthcare system limit the time, monetary support and infrastructure that clinicians need to build a successful academic career. This presentation will discuss how these barriers can be addressed through improved clinical efficiency, building a dedicated academic infrastructure, developing a compensation system that incentivizes academic success, and the value of annual “promotion-readiness” evaluations.
Bio
Wendy A. Wells is an Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She is Board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology, with sub-specialty training in breast pathology and computational image analysis. She has been a PI or co-Investigator on numerous NCI/NIH-funded projects since 1994 and has effectively collaborated with translational scientists across the Dartmouth campus in NIH-funded research programs for population breast screening, molecular epidemiology and biomedical imaging. She served as Department Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at DHMC from 2011-2022 and has significant expertise in building a departmental infrastructure that recognizes and rewards clinical faculty in their pursuit of grant funding, excellence in medical education, academic promotion and a national/international presence.

Accreditation:
In support of improving patient care, Dartmouth Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

American Medical Association (AMA)
Dartmouth Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Discovery Science Seminar Series
Monday, March 25, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Chilcott Auditorium

“Programming Persistence of a Parasitic Infection”

Sebastian Lourido, PhD
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Associate Professor, MIT

Host: Arminja Kettenbach, PhD

Any questions please email Jenni.Hinsley@dartmouth.edu or Amy.L.Potter@dartmouth.edu.

Carey Davis Nadell, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Geisel School of Medicine
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

Host: David Leib

“Predator-prey dynamics within bacterial biofilms at cellular resolution”

Monday, March 11, 2024 @ 3PM
Auditorium E (DH Complex)

In-person only

Co-Sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations.
Monnique Johnson, MD

Please join us for our March Implementation Science Works in Progress Session with Lynn Fiellin, MD, Professor of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute. Dr. Fiellin's work focuses on developing and testing novel videogame interventions to promote health and reduce risk in youth and young adults.

Discovery Science Seminar Series
Monday, April 1, 2024
12:15pm - 1:15pm
DCC Auditorium H

“Malignant transformation and therapeutic targeting of the immune system”

Ari M. Melnick, MD
Gebroe Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Joan and Sanford Weill Department of Medicine
Professor of Immunology and Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Host: Prerna Malaney, PhD

Any questions please email Jenni.Hinsley@dartmouth.edu or Amy.L.Potter@dartmouth.edu.

Co-sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations
Abigail Konopasky, PhD

Co-sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations

Co-sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations
Abigail Konopasky, PhD

Co-sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations.

Co-Sponsored by Department of Medical Education & Dartmouth Health Office of Research Operations
Monnique Johnson, MD

Murali Krishna Cherukuri, PhD
Senior Investigator and Section Chief
Center for Cancer Research, NCI/NIH
Presents: Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment

Reducing Firearm Related Injury in the Pediatric Population
Nigel Abraham, MD
Pediatric Resident
Dartmouth Health Children’s

To view Grand Rounds at another time visit the following link: https://video.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/category/Grand+Rounds%3EPediatric/86113381

Using a Single Cell RNA Sequencing to Combat Environmental Enteropathy and Stunted Growth
Thomas Wallach, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology
SUNY Downstate Medical Center

To view Grand Rounds at another time visit the following link: https://video.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/category/Grand+Rounds%3EPediatric/86113381

Kristin Reese, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Dartmouth Health Children’s

To view Grand Rounds at another time visit the following link: https://video.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/category/Grand+Rounds%3EPediatric/86113381

Pediatric primary care: Current status. Future potentials.
Colin Stewart Memorial Lecture
Steven Kairys, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Medical Director for the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP)


To view Grand Rounds at another time visit the following link: https://video.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/category/Grand+Rounds%3EPediatric/86113381

Stakes have never been higher for communicating healthcare information. As we witnessed during the pandemic, the way information is presented can change the illness trajectory of a person, a family, or a population. We live in a time of unprecedented access to knowledge and an overwhelming amount of information across platforms that are often challenging to navigate. Dr. Steven Woloshin has done public health research in improving the quality of communication for professional media. He trains journalists and press officers who are tasked with the complex work of writing public-facing messages. As a healthcare community, we need methods to help people become better consumers of health information.

Join Manish K. Mishra and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song as they welcome Dr. Woloshin to share how he coaches writers to be more balanced and morally anchored in context to clearly and effectively communicate to a national audience.

ALL WELCOME.
Free registration: Kerry.e.schmitt@dartmouth.edu

ALL WELCOME.

Anil K. Ojha, Ph.D.
Wadsworth Center,
NY State Dept. of Health
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany
New York

Host: George O’Toole

“Visualizing non-replicating persisters of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lung lesions”

Monday, April 1, 2024 @ 3PM
Chilcott Auditorium - Vail 120

In-person Only

Please join TDI for Dr. Lavoie's talk on "What Can We Learn from Mobilizing Inuit Knowledge to Make Us Better Health Equity Researchers? The Qanuinngitsiarutiksait Program of Research."
Dr. Lavoie explains: We all have a lens, a way to see the world that is shaped by our race, gender, culture, class, upbringing, experiences. This lens shapes our sense of priorities and our responses, based on insights and blind spots. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the work accomplished through the Qanuinngitsiarutiksait program of research, and the steps undertaken to address western-informed blind spots in the pursuit of health equity for Inuit.
Please email: TDI.Events@dartmouth.edu for zoom link.

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, March 1, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

"Connected Transitions: Leveraging Technology to Support Post-Discharge Care"

Eric Bressman, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hospital Medicine

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, March 8, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

"The Dogma of Water"

Charles Hopley, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
Staff Physician, Section of Hypertension and Nephrology
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, February 23, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

“Can AI Find Moments of Human Connection in Clinical Conversations?”

Bob Gramling, M.D., D.Sc.
Holly & Bob Miller Chair in Palliative Medicine
Professor of Family Medicine
University of Vermont

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Albert Koong, MD, PhD
Chair and Division Head, Radiation Oncology
MD Anderson
Presents: Regulations of Ferroptosis by IRE1: Implications for Cancer Therapy

Auditorium E and Livestream
Topic: “Venom in Neurology”
Presented by: Kyung Hyun “Max” Lee, MD, Neurology Chief Resident, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, March 22, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Department of Medicine Seam Presentations

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Join us on April 3rd at the Hanover Inn Grand Ballroom for the Inaugural Dartmouth Symposium on Precision Health & AI. A distinguished group of Dartmouth AI experts and clinicians from across the campus will share their research, ideas, and breakthroughs with students, faculty, and staff at the CPHAI Symposium. Among other speakers, President Sian Beilock will give the opening remarks, followed by keynote speakers Dr. Curtis Langlotz, Stanford Professor and current President of the Radiological Society of North America, renowned for his pioneering work in applying AI in medical imaging, and Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who is renowned for his work in digital pathology and using AI in cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and biomarker discovery.

Please join the Geisel Class of 2024 as they present their team quality improvement projects from their senior Capstone course on Thursday, March 21. 16 student groups have been working in teams with faculty mentors on clinical and medical education quality improvement projects since November 2023 and will be presenting the results of their work at the event. The session will occur in Auditorium G with oral presentations from three teams from 4:00-5:00 PM followed by poster viewing from 5:00 - 6:00 PM in the Williamson Building atrium. Beverages and appetizers will be served.

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program

THESIS DEFENSE

Alexander Pastora

“FleQ and Gac/Rsm-Mediated Regulation of Biofilm Formation and Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas fluorescens”

Monday, March 25, 2024
10:00 A.M.
Chilcott Auditorium

Zoom
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/97972424931?pwd=SXJoYklscmhFTDdOYVNFRGlwQkg5dz09

Meeting ID: 979 7242 4931
Passcode: Thesis

Advisor: George O'Toole

March 19, 2024
Aud. E
Melanie Wilcox, PhD, ABPP

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Grand Rounds
Multicultural Orientation in Clinical Supervision: State of the Evidence

9:00 AM -11:00 AM Faculty Development Event
Enhancing Your Multicultural Orientation within Clinical Supervision

WebEx Information (Grand Rounds Only):
• https://dhvideo.webex.com/dhvideo/j.php?MTID=m69944e9bc3bf6bc22f2274cadf6a8442
• Meeting Number / Access Code: 2624 911 9197
• Password: JVd6UvbzC36
• Join By Phone: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in toll number

March 28, 2024 Aud. E Lauren Rosen, LICSW, and Eunice Wharton, LICSW
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Social Work Grand Rounds:
When to Send Your Patient To the ER: A Talk on Clinical Assessments and Disposition for Suicide Risk
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Social Work Month Gathering

WebEx Infomation:
• https://dhvideo.webex.com/dhvideo/j.php?MTID=meddb09da38702921d3ea936460a5b1d3
• Meeting Number / Access Code: 2632 989 6717
• Password: h6iHJJ32r38
• Join By Phone: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in toll number

April 2, 2024
WebEx Only
Samuel Kohrman, MD
Somatic Symptom Disorder: Worried Well or Misunderstood Ill

WebEx Information:
• https://dhvideo.webex.com/dhvideo/j.php?MTID=m69944e9bc3bf6bc22f2274cadf6a8442
• Meeting Number / Access Code: 2624 911 9197
• Password: JVd6UvbzC36
• Join By Phone: 1-408-792-6300 Call-in toll number

Auditorium H and Livestream.
Topic: Mild Cognitive Impairment
Speaker: Alan Lerner, MD, Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University

Auditorium E and Livestream
Topic: Huntington Disease Research
Presented by: Rebecca Thompson, MD, Neurology Staff Physician, Movement Disorders Clinic – Dartmouth Hitchcock

The Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel invites you to attend a Grand Rounds presentation by Zhi Wei, PhD, Professor of Computer science and Statistics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, on Thursday, March 21 from 1:30-2:30pm at DHMC, Auditorium H (or via Zoom).

Talk title: “Model-based deep embedding for the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data”

Host: Jiang Gui, PhD

Location: In-person at DHMC, Auditorium H or via Zoom (no registration required)

Please see link below for more details.

Zoom meeting ID: 503 779 5102

Zoom passcode: 6501974

URL: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/5037795102

Phone (if needed for audio only, or to join by phone only): 669-900-6833


Presentation Summary
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) promises to provide high resolution of cellular differences. However, the analysis of scRNA-seq data remains a statistical and computational challenge, due to the pervasive dropout events obscuring the high dimensional data matrix with prevailing ‘false’ zero count observations. Furthermore, subsequent differential expression analysis after clustering incurs the so-called “double use of data" problem, which will compromise type I error control for standard statistical tests. In this talk, I will introduce model-based deep autoencoders to address these issues. The proposed approaches leverage the most recent developments in feature representation learning in deep learning and feature selection in statistical learning, as well as prior information from domain scientists. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real datasets demonstrate that the proposed methods can boost clustering performance significantly while effectively filtering out most irrelevant genes. Our methods can generate more biologically meaningful clusters with enhanced interpretability as desired by biologists.


Biography
Dr. Wei is currently a professor of computer science and statistics (joint appointment) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wistar Cancer Center. Dr. Wei earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include machine learning, statistical modeling, and advanced data analytics, with a particular focus on applications in cancer genomics and genetics. Dr. Wei’s methodological work has been published in prestigious AI and machine learning journals and conferences, as well as in leading statistics and biostatistics journals. Beyond methodological research, Dr. Wei is actively engaged in collaborative research, leading to publications in top-tier scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Medicine, and Nature Genetics, among others. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal publications, with 18,000 citations and an H-index of 61. Dr. Wei is an IEEE Fellow and has been honored with the Adobe Data Science Research Award.

HUMANIZING GEISEL PODCAST LAUNCH PARTY
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 5-7 PM
ZIMMERMAN LOUNGE (DHMC)

Join us for a night of celebration and connection as we unveil The Humanizing Geisel Podcast dedicated to fostering a sense of community within our institution. Our mission is to digitalize the sense of community, transcending the physical boundaries of our institution and create a bridge that connects us all, sharing the wisdom, stories, and experiences that make our community unique. Enjoy an evening filled with laughter, conversations, and shared stories, setting the stage for the collaborative spirit we aim to cultivate through the Humanizing Geisel Podcast.
RSVP - https://dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1SvvhzluiId9eYe

A multi-disciplinary team at Dartmouth Health developed the Teaching Health Resilience in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) through Virtual Engagement (THRIVE) clinic in response to the lower-than-expected referral volume of young adults with IBD who were establishing new care at our IBD Center. Accounting for the unique needs of this patient population, we developed a self-sustainable and easily accessible teleclinic to improve engagement in routine IBD care among this high-risk demographic. To date this clinic has been successful in both recruiting new patients and managing follow up care.

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, March 29, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

William N. Chambers Memorial Lecture

“Diagnostic Errors: #1 Patient Safety Problem, and Need for System’s Solutions”

Gordon Schiff, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Quality and Safety, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Associate Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Topics Covered
• Describe and discuss a variety of active learning strategies that can be used in medical education.
• Learn how to develop an active learning session plan of instruction.
• Practice developing active learning strategies in a mini-workshop format.
• Share ideas within the group to support collaborative learning.

Child Maltreatment Prevention: New Approaches to an Old Problem
Philip Scribano, DO
Section Chief of Safe Place: The Center for Child Protection and Health, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Shield Our Children from Harm Speaker

To view Grand Rounds at another time visit the following link: https://video.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/category/Grand+Rounds%3EPediatric/86113381

Medicine Grand Rounds
Friday, April 5, 2024
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

“Environmental Exposures and Respiratory Health Outcomes”

Laura Paulin, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Staff Physician, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

You may attend virtually via the livestream link:
http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

Neurology Grand Rounds, Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00-1:00, Auditorium E and Livestream
Topic: “RT Initiative- protocolized Approach to Reduced ICU Bounce Back for Neurovascular Patients”
Presenter: Firas Abdulmajeed, MD, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurology
Neurocritical Care Fellowship Associate Program Director
Director of ICU-Based Education, UPMC Mercy
The University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

"What is this "impact" we seek to measure? Toward a more meaningful impact-tracking strategy for medical education research."

Join Zoom Meeting
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/95705826490?pwd=YkluakZpempsL21pbTBVL2JJSncrUT09

Neurology Grand Rounds, Auditorium H and Livestream
Topic: Epilepsy and Alzheimer Disease
Speaker: Krzysztof Bujarski, MD, Epilepsy Section Chief, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center