Grand Rounds
For more information contact Nicole Kohn.
During the month of January, Grand Rounds will focus on ABSITE Prep and will be held on January 8, 15, 22, and 29 in Room 3.001.
These sessions are resident-priority, and faculty attendance is not required. CME credit will not be offered for these sessions.
M&M will continue as regularly scheduled on January 8, 15, 22, and 29, from 8:00–9:00 a.m., held in Room 3.001 or via the standing weekly M&M calendar invite.
Date: December 25, 2025
Christmas Break – No Grand Rounds
Date: December 18, 2025
QI Work Group | Residents ONLY — no CME credit
Date: December 11, 2025
Presentation Title: When Pediatric Pathology Becomes Adult Surgery: What Adult Surgeons Need to Know About Congenital Colorectal Disease
Speakers: Dr. Danielle Hsu, Assistant Professor, Division of General & Thoracic Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Akemi Kawaguchi, Associate Professor, Division of General & Thoracic Pediatric Surgery | Director, Comprehensive Congenital Colorectal Program
Date: December 4, 2025
Presentation Title: The Story of Precision Therapy in Rectal Cancer: A Surgeon’s Tale
Speaker: Dr. J. Joshua Smith, MD
Professor, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, MD Anderson
Chair, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, MD Anderson
Date: November 27, 2025
Thanksgiving Break – No Grand Rounds
Date: November 20, 2025
Presentation Title: EndoQuest Robotics: Innovating at UTHealth Houston
Speaker: Todd Wilson, MD, FACS
Professor, General Surgery and UTMIST
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Date: November 13, 2025
Presentation Title: Fetal Surgery for Structural and Genetic Birth Defects: The Present and The Future
Speaker: William Peranteau, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, The Center for Fetal Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Date: November 6, 2025
Presentation Title: Medical Education in the Digital Age
Speaker: Sandra Beck, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Professor, Department of Surgery
Assistant Dean for Program Development- UK Graduate Medical Education
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Date: October 30, 2025
QI Workgroup (No CME) Residents Only
Speaker: Tamara Saunders, MD, FACS
Date: Thursday, October 23
Format: Residents only — no CME credit
Note: The usual Grand Rounds session this week is resident-only and does not offer CME credit.
Schedule for the day:
- 7:00 AM — Morbidity & Mortality (M&M) Conference, Room 3.001 or via Zoom (this week only)
- 8:00 AM — Simulation session at the Surgical Skills Center: Lillian Kao, MD, MS, FACS, Krislynn Mueck, MD, MPH, MS, and Will Rieger, MD will host a simulation for the CLEAR Project
Date: October 16, 2025
Presentation Title: Liver Surgery: From Prometheus to Histotripsy
Speaker: David R. Hall, MD, FACS, and Joe Herman, MD
Date: October 9, 2025
Presentation Title: Updates and Expectations for the Surgical Clerkship
Speaker: Casey Duncan, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO
Date: October 2, 2025
Presentation Title: Ethical Underpinnings of Surgical Practice: Reflections on 50 years of Surgery
Speaker: Kamal Khalil, MD – Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Date: September 25, 2025
Presentation Title: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia – The Last 75 Years
Speaker: Kevin Lally, MD, MS, Department of Pediatric Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Date: September 18, 2025
Presentation Title: Carrying the Weight: Dealing with Surgical Complications
Speaker: Sean Langenfeld, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Date: September 11, 2025
Presentation Title: From Drainage to Repair: Modern Management of Abscess and Anal Fistula
Speaker: Jeffrey Van Eps, MD, Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Date: September 4, 2025
Presentation Title: Saving Lives: Insights from the Science of Teamwork
Speaker: Gabriela Fernandez Castillo, PhD, and Eric Thomas, MD, MPH, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Date: August 28, 2025
Presentation Title: Using Data to Move from Surgical Competence to Surgical Excellence
Speaker: Jonah J. Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH, FACS
Date: August 21, 2025
Presentation Title: QI Work Group
Speaker: Tamara E. Saunders, MD, FACS
Date: August 14, 2025
Presentation Title: Machine Perfusion: A New Era of Liver Transplantation
Speaker: Mark J. Hobeika, MD, FACS
Date: August 7, 2025
Presentation Title: Lymphedema Prevention and Treatment: Where we’ve been and where we’re going
Speaker: Annie Wang, MD
Date: July 31, 2025
Presentation Title: Leadership from the Start: Parallels from Medicine and Military
Speaker: Kulvinder Bajwa, MD