Department of Neurological Sciences

NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS

2024

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)

06/21/24 Kathryn Morelli, PhD |  RNA Binding Proteins: The Next Generation of Macromolecule-based Therapeutics & 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 & Classification Systems | 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

2023

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 & 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

06/30/2023 George A. Schumacher Lecture: Kathleen B. Digre, MD | Come into the Light – a Practical Approach to Photophobia | Video

06/23/2023 Patrick Hartnett, MD | Seizing Control: New Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus from Mechanisms to Management | Video

06/02/2023 Sadia Waheed, MD | Neuroimaging in Multiple Sclerosis | Video

05/19/2023 Allan D. Wu, MD | Parkinson’s Disease Population-wide Registries: Current State and Opportunities | (no video)

05/12/2023 Stanley Emery Lecture: Elizabeth A. Thiele, MD, PhD | Sunflower Syndrome: A poorly understood epilepsy | Video

04/21/2023 Ashok Gupta Memorial Lecture: Michael A Schwarzchild, MD, PhD | Preventing Parkinson's | Video

04/14/2023 Parisa Heidari, MD | Evolution of Thrombolysis in Treating Stroke Patients | Video

03/31/2023 Hillel Panitch Lecture: Axel Petzold, MD, PhD | Diagnosis and Classification of Optic Neuritis | Video

03/17/2023 Abby Hielscher, PhD | CT-Based Imaging in the Anatomy Lab | Video

03/03/23 Fatemeh Sobhani, MD | Moving Forward Faster with Tenecteplase for Adult Acute Ischemic Stroke: Review of Scientific Evidence and Transition Process at UVMMC | Video

01/20/23 Eric Newman, MD | What Happened to Me? The History and Mystery of TGA | Video

01/13/23 Andrew J. Solomon, MD | Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, and Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis – Past, Present and Future | Video

2022

12/16/22 Michael K. Hehir, MD | Measuring Side Effect Burden in Neurology: Pilot Validation of the Adverse Event Unit  | Video

12/09/2022 Anna Ricci, PhD | Developmental Trajectories of the Sleep EEG and its Association with Psychopathology in Youth | Video

12/02/2022 Nathalie Feldman, MD and Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD| Narrative Feedback: How our Words Influence Inclusivity in the Learning Environment | Video

11/11/2022 Katie Grouse MD, FAAN | Improving Clinical Practice through Informatics: A neurologist informaticist’s experiences | Video

10/14/2022 Jacqueline Hunter, DC, MHA, SVP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, UVMHN | The Transformation of DEI & Healthcare | Video

09/30/2022 Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS | Path from traditional statistics to machine learning and informatics in epilepsy surgery | Video

09/16/2022  Deepak K. Gupta, MD, MS | Informatics and Medical Education Research in Neurology | Video

09/09/2022 Eliza C. Miller, MD, MS | Neuro-Obstetrics: Partnering to Prevent Maternal Neurological Morbidity and Mortality | Video

06/17/2022 George A. Schumacher Lecture: Andrew Charles, MD | Paradigm Shifts in the Understanding and Management of Migraine | Video

05/20/2022 Ryan Wilson, MD | Hyperreflexia Mechanisms or Why reflex hammers are still useful | Video

05/13/2022 Stanley Emery Lecture: Michael Shevell, MD CM FRCP, FCAHS | Cerebral Palsy in the 21st Century: Translating Science into Prevention & Management | Video

04/29/2022 Abbie Chapman Johnson, PhD | The Hippocampal Vascular Supply and its Role in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia | Video

04/15/2022 Ashok Gupta Memorial Lecture: Stanley Fahn, MD | The Revolutionary Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease that Almost Got Away: The Levodopa Story | Video

04/01/2022 Oluwatosin Akintola, MD | The Glioma-Neuron Microenvironment | Video

3/11/2022  Karen Halldorsdottir, MD | Ideopathic inflammatory myopathies | Video

03/04/2022 Daniela Zambrano, MD | Eliminating Disparities for Trans and Gender Diverse People:  An Opportunity for Stroke Prevention | Video 

02/18/2022 Lisa Deuel, MD | Parkinson Disease and the Gut: the Role Microbiome, Inflammation, and Alpha-synuclein Proliferation | Video

01/14/2022 Carolyne Riehle, DO | Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension | Video

2021

12/17/2021 Elizabeth Isaacoff, MD, MBE | Neuroethics: Exploring Medical Futility | Video

12/10/2021 Hillel Panitch Lecture: Lilyana Amezcua MD, MS, FAAN | Understanding Race & Ethnicity in Multiple Sclerosis | Video

12/03/2021 Katie M. Wells, MD, MPH and Ramsey Herrington, MD | A Journey Towards Equity in Academic Medicine | Video

11/18/2021 Mark Garret, MD | Advances in SOD1-associated ALS & Implications for ALS Clinical Trials | Video

11/12/2021 Hannah H. Noah, MD, MPH | Neuro-Meteorology: How the Weather Affects Neurologic Disease | Video

10/29/2021 Melanie A. McNally, MD | Seizure Activity Precedes Delayed Death of Injured Neurons after Developmental Hypoxia-Ischemia | Video

10/08/2021 Paul Jarvis Memorial Lecture: Janet S. Soul, MD | Bumetanide for Neonatal Seizures: Using Pathophysiology to Develop Novel Treatment Strategies | Video

09/17/2021 Alissa A. Thomas, MD | Neurological Complications of CAR-T Cell Therapy | Video

09/10/2021 Gregory L. Holmes, MD | Epileptic Encephalopathy: A Symphony Gone Awry | Video