Grand Rounds

February 5, 2025: Improving Symptom Control in Pediatric Cancer Patients, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Dr. Lillian Sung

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Lillian Sung of the Hospital for Sick Children will present “Improving Symptom Control in Pediatric Cancer Patients With SSPedi and SPARK.”

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

The Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) is a validated approach to measuring bothersome symptoms in pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments. SPARK is a web-based application that builds on SSPedi and consists of a symptom screening component and clinical practice guidelines.

Sung is the Canada Research Chair in Paediatric Oncology Supportive Care and the chief clinical data scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto.

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January 29, 2025: Early Lessons From ARBOR-Telehealth, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Headshots of Richard Skolasky and Kevin McLaughlinIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Richard Skolasky and Kevin McLaughlin of Johns Hopkins University will present “Advancing Rural Back Pain Outcomes Using Rehabilitation Telehealth (ARBOR-Telehealth): Early Progress and Lessons Learned.”

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

ARBOR-Telehealth, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, is evaluating the use of a telehealth physical therapy strategy for patients who present to primary care clinics with low back pain in rural communities. A secondary aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness of the study’s risk-stratification approach. Learn more about ARBOR-Telehealth.

Skolasky is a professor of orthopaedic surgery and the director of the Spine Outcomes Research Center, and McLaughlin is an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation—both at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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January 22, 2025: The HEALing Communities Study to Reduce Opioid Deaths, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Headshot of Dr. Jeffrey SametIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Jeffrey Samet of Boston University will present “The HEALing Communities Study—10 Million People, 67 Communities: A Community-Based Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths.”

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

Samet is the John Noble Professor in General Internal Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and and a professor of public health at the Boston University School of Public Health.

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January 15, 2025: Designing for Diversity, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Dr. Christopher Lindsell

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Chris Lindsell of Duke University will present “Design for Diversity.”

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

Lindsell is professor and cochief of biostatistics and bioinformatics, director of data science and biostatistics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and director of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute—all at Duke University.

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January 8, 2025: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Community Engagement Methods in the FM-TIPS Trial

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Headshots of Dr. Heather Schacht Reisinger and Dr. Dana DaileyIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Heather Schacht Reisinger and Dana Dailey of the University of Iowa will present “FM-TIPS Community Engagement Methods for Recruitment.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, January 10, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

FM-TIPS, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, is examining whether the addition of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation to routine physical therapy improves movement-evoked pain compared with physical therapy alone among patients with fibromyalgia. The trial is supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases through the NIH HEAL Initiative. Learn more about FM-TIPS.

Reisinger is an associate professor of internal medicine and the associate director of engagement, integration, and implementation in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science; and Dailey is an assistant research scientist in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science—both in the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine.

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December 11, 2024: Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring in Black and Hispanic Patients With Stroke, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Headshot of Dr. Olugbenga (Gbenga) Ogedegbe
Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Gbenga Ogedegbe of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine will present “Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Nurse Case Management in Black and Hispanic Patients With Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, December 13, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Ogedegbe is the Dr. Adolph and Margaret Berger Professor of Medicine and Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the founding director of the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity at NYU Langone Health.

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December 4, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Large Language Models for Postmarketing Surveillance of Medical Products

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Dr. Michael Matheny

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Michael Matheny of Vanderbilt University will present “Opportunities and Challenges in the Use of Large Language Models for Postmarketing Surveillance of Medical Products.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Matheny is a professor of biomedical informatics, biostatistics, and medicine and the director of the Center for Improving the Public’s Health Through Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also works as a staff scientist in the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Service and as associate director of VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA.

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November 20, 2022: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, the HeLiX Pragmatic Trial in Patients Undergoing Liver Resection

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Dr. Paul Karanicolas

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Paul Karanicolas of the University of Toronto will present “Tranexamic Acid in Patients Undergoing Liver Resection: The HeLiX Randomized Clinical Trial.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Karanicolas is a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto and the Sherif and Mary-Lou Hanna Chair in Surgical Oncology Research, a joint appointment at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto. The HeLiX trial was a multicenter, placebo-controlled, pragmatic clinical trial to evaluate the effect of tranexamic acid on outcomes in patients undergoing liver resection.

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November 13, 2024: Pragmatic Trial of Smartphone Nudges to Prevent Distracted Driving, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Headshot of Dr. Kit DelgadoIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Kit Delgado of the University of Pennsylvania will present “Pragmatic Randomized Trial of Smartphone-Based Nudges to Reduce Distracted Driving Among US Auto Insurance Customers.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Delgado is an associate professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, which “designs and implements scalable nudges to improve medical decision-making and patient outcomes.”

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November 6, 2024: Effects of Income Support on Health and Healthcare Use, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

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Headshot of Dr. Sumit AgarwalIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Sumit Agarwal of the University of Michigan will present “The Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Utilization and Health: A Randomized Study of an Income Support.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, November 8, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Agarwal is an assistant professor of internal medicine and health management and policy at the University of Michigan.

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