Grand Rounds

September 21, 2026: Research During Active War in Ukraine, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

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Headshot of Dr. Corey BillsIn this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Corey Bills of the University of Colorado will present “Research During Active War in Ukraine: Experiences From the PACT-ARROW Study.”

PACT-ARROW (Prevention and Treatment Clinical Trials for Antimicrobial Resistance Research to Improve Outcomes of Traumatic Wounds in Ukraine) is using a master protocol as a platform for evaluating device and therapeutic interventions to prevent and treat infected traumatic wounds in hospitalized patients in Ukraine.

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 25, 2026, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Bills is an associate professor of emergency medicine and the director of the Global Emergency Care Initiative at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a senior investigator at the Colorado School of Public Health.

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January 21, 2026: DASH Groceries to Stop Hypertension, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Sophia Ramirez

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Stephen P. Juraschek of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will present “DASH Groceries to Stop Hypertension: Results From the GoFresh Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Stephen Juraschek is a physician investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

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January 14, 2026: Financial Incentives in a Memory Concerns Registry, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Sophia Ramirez

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Mireille Jacobson of the University of Southern California Davis will present “Can Financial Incentives Increase Participation in a Memory Concerns Registry?”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, January 16, 2026, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Jacobson is a professor at the University of Southern California Davis in the School of Gerontology and Schaeffer Institute.

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January 7, 2026: Insights From the KP-VACCINATE Megatrial, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Sophia Ramirez

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Ankeet S. Bhatt of the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center will present “Pragmatic Care Embedded Randomization: Insights From the KP-VACCINATE Megatrial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, January 9, 2026, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Bhatt is a cardiologist, research scientist, and assistant professor with Kaiser Permanente as well as an adjunct professor with the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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November 19, 2025: Insights Informing Strategies for Clinical Trial Data Collection, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Laura Galuchie and Zak Smith will present “Insights Informing Strategies for Optimizing the Collection of Clinical Trial Data.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Galuchie is a senior director of global clinical development at Merck & Co, Inc. Smith is an assistant director of data sciences and analytics at Tufts University’s Center for the Study of Drug Development.

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November 12, 2025: A Community-Based Intervention for Sustainable Blood Pressure Control, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Sophia Ramirez

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Mark Siedner of Harvard Medical School will present “IMPACT-BP: A Community-Based Intervention for Sustainable Blood Pressure Control in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Siedner is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member with the Africa Health Research Institute.

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November 5, 2025: The Effectiveness of a Migraine App, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Daniel Pach and Stefanie Lysk will present “EMMA – A Remote, Decentralized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Migraine App.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Pach is a senior researcher at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin with expertise in complementary therapies, mobile health, and integrative medicine and healthcare. Lysk is a digital health and innovation specialist as well as a research associate at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

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October 29, 2025: All Treats, No Tricks in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Sophia Ramirez

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Peter Margolis, Sean C. Dowdy, and Sarah Greene will present “The LHS Shared Commitments — All Treats, No Tricks.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Margolis is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the former co-director of the James M. Anderson for Health Systems Excellence. Dowdy is the Chief Value Officer and the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Associate Dean for Practice Transformation at Mayo Clinic. Greene is a consultant and senior advisor for the National Academy of Medicine.

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October 22, 2025: Studying Neglected Diseases: Insights From the PARACHUTE-HF Trial, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Renato Lopes of the Duke University Medical Center will present “Studying Neglected Diseases: Insights From the PARACHUTE-HF Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Lopes is a professor of medicine in the cardiology division at Duke University Medical Center and a member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

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October 15, 2025: Making Effective Use of Data Infrastructure, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

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In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Charles Bailey of the University of Pennsylvania and Keith Marsolo of the Duke University School of Medicine will present “Making Effective Use of Data Infrastructure in PCORnet®.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, October 17, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Bailey is an associate professor of pediatrics and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Marsolo is an associate professor of population health sciences and a cochair of the NIH Collaboratory’s Electronic Health Records Core.

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