Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Grand Rounds

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Normal scheduled day: Every other Friday beginning in September
New scheduled time: 12:15 - 1 p.m.
Location: Via Zoom till otherwise notified
Moderator/Organizer: Dr. Mark Herman

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2025-2026 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 5, 2025	Reina Villareal, M.D.	VA / Baylor College of Medicine	Testosterone Therapy and Bone Quality in Men with Diabetes and Hypogonadism
Sept. 19, 2025	Canceled
Oct. 3, 2025	Madhuri Vasudevan, M.D.	VA / Baylor College of Medicine	"How Much More Information Do We Need? It’s Time for Provider-Directed Prescriptive Nutrition Counseling"
Oct. 17, 2025	Qiancheng Zhao, Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Interoception and Extreme Physiology
Oct. 31, 2025	Natalie E. Cusano, M.D.	Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Nov. 7, 2025	Endocrine second year Fellows: Niketa Kalara, M.D. Deborah A. Osafehinti, M.D. Asahulla Jat, M.D. Duaa Abdallah, MBBS; Pedro Rojas, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Underlying Causes of Male Hypogonadism; Liver Elastography Study; Bone Attack!!; Adrenal Neoplasms of Uncertain Malignant Potential; Exploring Barriers to Insulin Pump Use Among Minority Veterans with Diabetes: A Feasibility Pilot
Nov. 21, 2025	Mimi Hu, M.D.	MD Anderson	Update on the Management Strategies for Advanced Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
Dec. 5, 2025	Kroc Lecturer- Jane Reusch, M.D.	University of Colorado	"Exercise intolerance in diabetes: A systemic microvascular complication?"
Dec. 19, 2025	Cancelled: Winter Holiday
Jan. 2, 2026	Cancelled: Winter Holiday
Jan. 16, 2026	Mustafa Tosur, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine

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2024-2025 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 6, 2024	Endocrine 2nd Yr Fellows: Drs. Andrew Gulde, Jennifer Kaplan, Meshal Qaiser, Lu Xu	Baylor College of Medicine	Underlying Causes of Male Hypogonadism; Characterization of Somatotroph Pituitary Adenomas in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1; Bone Health in Patients with CDH1 Mutations; The Metabolic Response to Fructose Ingestion
Sept. 20, 2024	Rescheduled
Oct. 4, 2024	Michael T. Yen, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Thyroid Eye Disease
Oct. 18, 2024	Mark Herman, MD	Baylor College of Medicine	Molecular Aspects of Fructose Metabolism and Metabolic Disease
Nov. 1, 2024	Daniel Desalvo, M.D. and Sarah Lyons, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	ROCKET T1D: Remote Outreach and Care for Kids’ Empowerment and Technology use in T1D
Nov. 15, 2024	Raymond Soccio, M.D.	FDA at Department of Health and Humans Services	Tentative title: “Regulatory Thinking: My Experience Reviewing Drugs for Obesity and Lipids at FDA.”
Nov. 29, 2024	Cancelled due to Holiday
Dec. 6, 2024	Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Endowed Lecturer - Dave D'Alessio, M.D.	Duke University	The Evolving Story of Incretins – Magic Bullet or Hot Air?
Dec. 20, 2024	Cancelled due to Winter Holidays
Jan. 3, 2025	Cancelled due to Winter Holidays
Jan. 17, 2025	Eric Deal, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Managing Life in The Fast Lane: Strategies to Enhance Efficiency and Thrive as a Clinical Endocrinologist
Jan. 31, 2025	Steven Petak, M.D.	Weill-Cornell Medical College	Rare Bone Diseases and Mineralization Disorders: Hypophosphatasia and X-Linked Hypophosphatemia
Feb. 7, 2025	Cancelled
Feb. 21, 2025	Layla Abushamat, M.D.	BCM	Cardiometabolic Disease: Risk Stratification and Therapy
March 7, 2025	Dr. Paul Monga	UPMC	Role and Regulation of Hepatic Metabolicc Zonation: Implications in Pathophysiology
March 21, 2025	Dr. Miriam Udler	Harvard Medical School	Genetic Insights into the Heterogeneity of Type 2 Diabetes: Translating Discovery to Clinical Care
April 4, 2025	Sean Hartig, Ph.D.	BCM	Endocrine Impacts of N-Acetylaspartate Outside the Brain
April 18, 2025	Francesco Versace, Ph.D.	MD Anderson	From Brain Waves to Behavior Change: Neuromarkers to Personalize Obesity Interventions
May 2, 2025	Senior Fellows -Jennifer Kaplan,M.D.; Andrew Gulde, M.D.	BCM	Screening for Acromegaly in Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 ; Cardiovascular Risk Factors Overlooked in Endocrine Practice
May 16, 2025	Cancelled: AACE Meeting
May 30, 2025	Senior Fellows-Meshal Qaiser, MBBS; Oluwatomi Asemota, M.D.; Lu Xu, M.D.	BCM	Bone Health in Patients with CDH1 Mutations; Addressing Diabetes Distress: Understanding the Burden and Assessing the Impact of a Behavioral Intervention in Hispanic/Latino Patients with Type 2 Diabetes; The Metabolic Response to Fructose Ingestion
June 6, 2025	Sara Bedrose, M.D.	BCM	Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion
June 20, 2025	Cancelled: ADA Meeting

2023-2024 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 1, 2023	Elina Trofimovsky, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Medical Management of Obesity for the Clinician
Sept. 15, 2023	Ramona Dadu, M.D.	MD Anderson	Advances in the Clinical Management of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Sept. 29, 2023	Sekhar Rajagopal, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Improving Brain Health and Cognitive Decline with GlyNAC Supplementation: Evidence from Rodent Studies and Human Clinical Trials
Oct. 6, 2023	Laura Detti , M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Fertility preservation options for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments
Oct. 20, 2023	Juliet Holder-Haynes, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Obesity: Trends and Management
Nov. 3, 2023	Sanjay Mediwala, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine; VA	Clinical Scoring Systems in Endocrinology
Nov. 17, 2023	Kathryn Kanzler, PsyD	Baylor College of Medicine	Development of Acceptance-Based Coping for Diabetes: A Community Health Worker-Delivered Program
Dec. 1, 2023	Zheng Sun, Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Circadian Clock, Dawn Phenomenon, and Exercise Time
Dec. 15, 2023	Nishath (Nina) Ali, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Management of Premature Menopause and Perimenopause
Dec. 29, 2023	Winter Break
Jan. 5, 2024	Winter Break
Jan. 19, 2024	Mandeep Bajaj, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease –What is New?
Feb. 2, 2024	Zaven Sargsyan , M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Providing and Receiving Effective Feedback
Feb. 16, 2024	Carmella Evans-Molina, Ph.D., M.D. (Kroc Lecture)	Indiana University School of Medicine	New Paradigms for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
March 1, 2024	Pradip Saha, Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	The Mouse Metabolism and Phenotyping Core at Baylor College of Medicine
March 15, 2024	Theresa Guise, M.D.	MD Anderson	Bad to the bone: systemic consequences of pathologic bone destruction
March 29, 2024	Dongyin Guan, Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Genetic and Epigenomic Mechanisms for Circadian Biology and Medicine
April 5, 2024	Dr. Suniel Koliwad	UCSF Health	The Importance of Body Fat Distribution: An Emerging Role for Fat Fibrosis
April 19, 2024	Maya Balakrishnan, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Making Sense of a New Name, New Guidelines, and New Medication
May 3, 2024	Ruchi Gaba, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Role of Multidisciplinary Clinics in the Management of Thyroid Cancer
May 17, 2024	2nd Year Fellows: Jeanette Girard, D.O., Marco Ruiz Santillan, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Evaluating Current Practices of Insulin Orders in Diabetes Patients Admitted to the Vascular Surgery Team at MEDVAMC; Clinical Outcomes of Thyroid Cancer Patients Enrolled in a Comprehensive Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Program
May 31, 2024	2nd Year Fellow: Hamza Quadri, MD;	Baylor College of Medicine	Implementing New Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Screening Guidelines in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at the Baylor Endocrinology Clinic; Phenotypic Analysis in Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas: Insight from Cluster 2 and Apparently Sporadic cases; The Effects of Aromatase Inhibitors on COVID-19 outcomes in US Veterans: Blinded Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial
June 7, 2024	Bahar Force, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Updates in Cushing Disease
June 21, 2024	Cancelled due to American Diabetes Association meeting, held June 21-24

2022-2023 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 2, 2022	James Suliburk, M.D.; Raymon Grogan, M.D.	Baylor college of Medicine	State of the Art: Scarless Thyroid Surgery and Ablation
Sept. 16, 2022	Joya Chandra, Ph.D.	University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	Striving to Improve Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Survivors Through Modifiable Behaviors
Sept. 30, 2022	Stephanie Sisley, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Pediatric Obesity: Where Are We Going?
Oct. 7, 2022	Rajagopal Sekhar, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Reversing Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Aging Hallmarks: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial of GlyNAC Supplementation in Aging
Oct. 21, 2022	Cancelled
Nov. 4, 2022	Scott Isaacs, M.D., FACP, FACE	Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia	The Global Pandemic of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nov. 18, 2022	Jordon E. Lake, M.D., MSc	National Institutes of Health Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) Metabolic Working Group	Fatty Liver Disease in Persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Dec. 2, 2022	Robert Gabby, M.D., Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	Improving The Lives of Those Affected by Diabetes
Dec. 16, 2022	Ali J Marian, M.D.	UTHealth	LMNA is a Guardian of the Genome
Dec. 30, 2022	Winter Break
Jan. 6, 2023	Christie Ballantyne, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Update on the Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Genetics and Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia
Jan. 20, 2023	Steven Russel, M.D., Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School	Automating Insulin Delivery for Type 1 Diabetes: Results of the Insulin-only Bionic Pancreas Pivotal Trial
Feb. 3, 2023	Rui Chen, M.D.	VA/ Baylor College of Medicine	Endocrine Effects from Sleep Deprivation: Why Sleep is the Most Important Pillar of Lifestyle Intervention
Feb. 17, 2023	Angelina S. Bortoletto (GS)	Baylor College of Medicine	Targeting hIAPP Protofibrils with Monoclonal Antibodies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
March 3, 2023	Ryan Dhindsa, M.D., Ph.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Rare Variant Studies in 500,000 UK Biobank Participants
March 17, 2023	Matthew J. Crowley, M.D.	Duke University School of Medicine	Real-World Use of Intensive Telehealth for Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes
March 31, 2023	Vin Tangpricha, M.D., Ph.D.	EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	Transgender Medicine: Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy in 2023

2021-2022 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 3, 2021	Fellows Research Proposal	Baylor College of Medicine	Rescheduled for Jan. 7, 2022
Sept. 17, 2021	Antonio Bianco, M.D., Ph.D.	University of Chicago	Is there a role for LT3 in the treatment of hypothyroidism?
Oct. 1, 2021	Suneil K. Koliwad, M.D., Ph.D.	University of California San Francisco	Role of the Myeloid Compartment in Hypothalamic Nutrient Sensing and Responsiveness
Oct. 15, 2021	Dr. Shehzad Basaria	Harvard Medical School	Controversies in Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Older Men
Oct. 29, 2021	Luigi Fontana, M.D., Ph.D., FRACP (special time 4 p.m. CST)	University of Sydney Clinical Academic, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	When a calorie is not a calorie: lessons from dietary restriction trials
Nov. 5, 2021	Roberto Pacifici, M.D.	Emory University School of Medicine	The Gut-Bone Axis: How the Gut Communicates with Bone
Nov. 19, 2021	John Funder, M.D., Ph.D. (special time 4 p.m. CST)	Hudson Institute of Medical Research	Primary Aldosteronism: At the Tipping Point
Dec. 3, 2021	Fellows Research Proposal (Ruaa Al-Ward, M.D., Claudia Ramirez Bustamante, M.D., Deepika Fnu, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	Multicentric Retrospective Evaluation and Follow Up of Indeterminate Adrenal Nodules Molecular Mechanism of Adipose Tissue Fibrosis in Chronic HIV Infection Bone Quality in Obese Women Who Are Metabolically Healthy versus Metabolically Unhealthy
Dec. 17, 2021	Dolores Shoback, M.D.	University of California San Fransisco	Using Anabolic and Combination Therapies for Osteoporosis: When They Might Be Indicated, and How to Use Them
Dec. 31, 2021	No session - Holiday break
Jan. 7, 2022	Fellows Research Proposal (Eric Deal, M.D. and Deepika Fnu, D.O.)	Baylor College of Medicine	TBA
Jan. 21, 2022	Baha M. Arafah, M.D.	University Hospitals/ Case Medical Center	Glucocorticoid Stress Dosing: Current Practices versus Pharmacokinetics Data
Feb. 4, 2022	Peter Butler, M.D.	University of California, Los Angeles	TBA
Feb. 25, 2022	Olivier Lichtarge, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	TBA
March 4, 2022	Utpal Pajvani, M.D., Ph.D.	Herbert Irving Associate	The Metabolic Consequences of Reactivated Developmental Signals in Obesity
March 18, 2022	Layla Abushamant, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children's Hospital	Spotlight on Cardiometabolic Disease and Its Implications for Diabetes Management
April 1, 2022	Michael Libschner, M.D.	Baylor College of Medicine	The Role of Biomechanics in Evaluating the Benefit of Lifestyle Intervention Therapy
April 15, 2022	Suman Srinivasa, M.D.	Harvard Medical University	The Metabolic Consequences of Reactivated Developmental Signals in Obesity
April 29, 2022	AACE- Cancelled**
May 6, 2022	Rescheduled for June 3rd	Baylor College of Medicine
May 20, 2022	Senior Fellows Research Presentation	Baylor College of Medicine	TBA
June 3, 2022	Senior Fellows Research Presentation	Baylor College of Medicine	TBA

2020-2021 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 4, 2020	Dr. Ashok Balasubramanyam	Baylor College of Medicine	Driving Atypical Diabetes
Sept. 18, 2020	Fellows Research Proposal	Baylor College of Medicine	Bone Quality in Obese Women with Type 2 Diabetes RADIANT: A Look at Atypical Diabetes
Oct. 9, 2020	Fellows Research Proposal	Baylor College of Medicine	Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Autoimmune Diabetes Predictors of Glycemic Success in Sensor-Augmented Insulin Pump therapy: A Retrospective Review of Patients at the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center
Oct. 30, 2020	Dr. Dave D'Alessio	Duke University	Alpha-Cell to Beta-Cell Communication: A New Twist on the Incretin Effect
Nov. 13, 2020	Dr. Pankaj Shah	Mayo Clinic Hospital	Approach to a patient with non-diabetic hypoglycemia
Dec. 11, 2020	Dr. Sara Cromer	Guest of Dr. Marcelli	Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Incidence, Treatment, and Treatment Response in Type 2 Diabetes
Jan. 15, 2021	Dr. Silvio Inzucchi	Yale University	Glucose-Lowering Medications and CVD: Searching for the Holy Grail
Jan. 29, 2021	Dr. Helen Lowler	University of Colorado Hospital	Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia
Feb. 12, 2021	Dr. Daniel J. Drucker	Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital	Incretin-based therapies-how do they work?
Feb. 26, 2021	Dr. Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi	Washington University	Macrophages under pressure: novel roles in hypertension
March 12, 2021	Dr. Sundeep Khosla	University of May Clinic College of Medicine	Targeting Cellular Senescence to Treat Age-Related Osteoporosis and Frailty
March 26, 2021	Dr. Kirk Habegger	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Glucagon Revisited: Glycemic and Energetic Effects of Glucagon Receptor Agonism
April 9, 2021	Dr. Susan Mandel	University of Pennsylvania	Thyroid Nodules 2021: What to Do in an Era of Multiple Diagnostic Options
April 16, 2021	Dr. Anand Vaidya	University of Harvard Medical School	Primary Aldosteronism: Once a Zebra, Now a Horse
April 23, 2021	2nd-Year Fellow Research Presentation (Dr. Rebecca Jeun & Dr. Sabaa Joab)	Baylor College of Medicine	Clinical Outcomes in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Diabetes Mellitus (RJ) Hemoglobin A1c of 7% is the Threshold For Bone Impairment in Men With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus". (SJ)
May 14, 2021	2nd-Year Fellow Research Presentation (Dr. Sara Ahmad & Dr. Nupur Kikani)	Baylor College of Medicine	Predictors of Glycemic Success in Insulin Pump Therapy: A Retrospective Review of Patients at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center/ i2b2: A Novel Approach to Patient Recruitment

2020-2019 Grand Rounds
Date	Speaker	Home Institution	Title of Presentation
Sept. 5, 2019	Dr. Mimi Hu	University of Texas, MD Anderson	Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Update on Systemic Therapies
Sept. 12, 2019	Dr. Constantine Stratakis	National Institute of Health	A Clinical and Molecular Update on Cushing Syndrome
Sept. 19, 2019	Rescheduled presenter due to weather
Sept. 26, 2019	Dr. Salim Virani	Baylor College of Medicine	2018 AHA/ACC Cholesterol Guidelines: From Risk Assessment to Personalization of Risk
Oct. 3, 2019	2nd-Year Fellows Proposal (Force and La)	Baylor College of Medicine	A Year in Research at the Baylor Pituitary Center/ A Comparison Between Weight Loss-Associated Bone Loss From Lifestyle Measures Versus Bariatric Surgery
Oct. 10, 2019	Dr. Raymon Grogan	Baylor College of Medicine	Scarless Endocrine Surgery
Oct. 24, 2019	Dr. Susan Samson	Baylor College of Medicine	Pipeline Therapies for Functional Pituitary Adenomas
Oct. 31, 2019	Dr. Samuel Klein	Washington University School of Medicine	Metabolically Normal and Abnormal Obesity
Nov. 7, 2019	1st-Year Fellows Case Conference (Abdulhandi and Jeun)	Baylor College of Medicine	Opioid-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency: An Observational Prospective Study / A Xanthomatous Problem
Nov. 14, 2019	Dr. Ramona Dadu	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Immunotherapy approaches for thyroid cancers
Dec. 5, 2019	Dr. Marie-Claude Hofmann	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Mechanisms of Resistance to Kinase Inhibitors in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Dec. 12, 2019	Dr. James Suliburk	Baylor College of Medicine	Endocrine Surgical Disease and Precision-Guided Medicine - State of the Art
Jan. 16, 2020	Dr. Rajagopal V. Sekhar	Baylor College of Medicine	The impact of correcting Glutathione deficiency in Aging: mitochondria, oxidative stress and beyond
Jan. 30, 2020	Dr. Margaret Weirman	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical	Understanding Pituitary Tumor genesis Biomarkers of Disease and New Therapeutic Targets
Feb. 13, 2020	Dr. Dennis Villareal	Baylor College of Medicine / Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center	Treatment of Geriatric Obesity
Feb. 27, 2020	Dr. Jennifer Raymond	Keck School of Medicine of USC	Young Adults Do Care About their Diabetes – We Just Need to Care for them differently.
March 26, 2020	Dr. Linus Tsai	Harvard University	Cancelled due to COVID-19
April 30, 2020	Dr. Shehz Basaria	MD Anderson Cancer Center	Cancelled due to COVID-19
May 15, 2020	Senior Fellow Presentation (Drs. Betty La and Akhil Shenoy)	Baylor College of Medicine	A Comparison Between Weight Loss-Associated Bone Loss from Lifestyle Measures Versus Bariatric Surgery A Feasibility Pilot Study of a Smartphone-Based Hypoglycemia-Predicting Notification System
May 28, 2020	Senior Fellow Presentation (Drs. Bahar Force and Ismaily Mehwish)	Baylor College of Medicine	Indications and Outcomes of Trans-sphenoidal Surgery in Patients with Prolactinoma Opioid-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency

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