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Department of Neurosciences Department of Neurosciences

Neurosciences Grand Rounds

Time: Fridays, 8:30–9:30 a.m. PST

Location: UCSD School of Medicine, Center for Neuro Circuits and Behaviors (CNCB), Large Conference Room/Marilyn Farquhar Seminar Room

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Meeting ID: 820 5932 0789

Schedules

Schedule is subject to change.

2025

Date Topic Speaker
01/10/2025

Effects of Blood Pressure on Cognition and Cerebral Oxygenation in Parkinson’s Disease

Katherine Longardner, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor 

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

01/17/2025

Professor Rounds

Daanish Unwalla, MD

Resident

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

01/24/2025

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. PST

https://uchealth.zoom.us/j/84052610408?from=addon

Special Guest Lecture

Rusty Gage, PhD

Professor

Laboratory of Genetics

Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease

Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

01/31/2025

Motor aging and parkinsonism: implications for clinical practice and public health?

Ludy C. Shih, MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANA

Associate Professor of Neurology

Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 

Harvard Medical School

02/07/2025

No Grand Rounds

N/A

02/14/2025

Neurocognitive Deficits of Multiple Sclerosis

James F. Sumowski, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology

Mount Sinai New York

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Corrine Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis

02/21/2025

Professor Rounds

Daniel Micheli, MD

Resident

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

02/28/2025

Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Tuhin Virmani, Md, PhD, FAAN

Associate Professor

Chief Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders and Vice Chair for Education

Department of Neurology 

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

03/07/2025

From Surviving to Thriving: Best Practices in Wellbeing

Ami Doshi, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics & Vice Chair of Faculty Development & Director of Pediatric Wellness

Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Galinson Family Endowed Chair in Palliative Care

Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego

03/14/2025

Personalized Precision Therapeutics: Individualized Antisense Oligonucleotide for Rare Pediatric Genetic Disease/Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathy

Olivia Kim McManus, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosciences

Department of Neurosciences, UC San Diego

Investigator, Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine & Pediatric Neurology Epilepsy & Clinical Neurophysiology

03/21/2025

Professor Rounds

Dominic Tran, MD

Resident at UC San Diego

03/28/2025

No Grand Rounds

Ceasar Chavez Day

Past Schedules

2023 

Date Topic Speaker
04/21/2023 n-Lorem: A novel non-profit solution for treatment of nano-rare patients

Stanley Crooke, M.D., Ph.D.

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

n-Lorem

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

2021 

Date Topic Speaker
07/23/2021

Paula Desplats

University of California, San Diego

07/30/2021 Professor Rounds

Adam Kalawi

University of California, San Diego


08/13/2021

Benzi Kluger

Rochester University School of Medicine

09/17/2021

Robert Rissman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

10/01/2021 Emerging Targeted Gene Therapies in ALS and New Paradigms

John Ravits, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Neuroscience

Head of ALS and Translational Research

University of California, San Diego

10/08/2021 UC San Diego Neurology Education Track

Victoria Wu, M.D.

Resident Physician

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

10/15/2021

Ann Poduri, M.D.

Professor

Department of Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Director of the Epilepsy Genetics Program

Boston Children’s Hospital

10/22/2021 Professor Rounds

Christopher Goyne, M.D.

Resident

Department of Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego

10/29/2021

Juan Pascual, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Physiology

Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development

Director of the Rare Brain Disorders Program

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center