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Grand Rounds

Through this series, UR faculty, staff, students and community partners can hear about community-based initiatives to reduce health inequities, improve access to care and tackle some of our toughest health challenges. Public Health Grand Rounds (PHGR) are a collaborative effort between the Center for Community Health & Prevention and the Department of Public Health Sciences, and are intended to highlight the link between research, clinical medicine and community health improvement.   

We look forward to providing Public Health Grand Rounds both virtually and in person on Fridays, from noon – 1 p.m. Details will be provided for each event in the box below.

Join us for lively discussions with some of Rochester’s community health champions, both URMC faculty and staff, as well as expert community leaders. Recordings for most sessions can be found below.

You can earn continuing education credits at PHGR! This activity is certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM​ and 1.0 nursing contact hours. Some sessions may also be approved for 1.0 Social Work continuing education hour(s). Accreditation certifications can be found on each flyer. 

This seminar series is funded in part by the University of Rochester Clinical & Translational Science Institute via grant UL1 TR002001 from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additional financial support is provided by gifts to the Department of Public Health Sciences and an endowment to the Center for Community Health & Prevention by Brewster C. Doust, M.D. All support is greatly appreciated.

Join us for the our next Public Health Grand Rounds at noon Friday, March 1

A panel of speakers from the University of Rochester and EAST High School will present "EAST High School & University of Rochester Collaborations for Health Workforce." 

Panelists include Marlene Blocker, superintendent of EAST High School, Jodi Cook, teacher and Medical Sciences Pathway Lead at East High School, Elizabeth Cox, MD, primary care provider at University Health Service, Alyssa Deacon, MD candidate, class of 2026, Maria A. Marconi, EdD, RN, NursEAST Pipeline to Pathways Nursing Program, Emily Murphy, lab manager with the NeuroEAST Program, Ashwani Sharma, MD, associate professor in the Imaging Science Program, and Annabelle Kleist, PhD, director of the Teen Health & Success Partnership program at the Center for Community Health & Prevention. 

East High School and the University of Rochester are connected through an Educational Partnership Organization (EPO) agreement, directed by the Warner School of Education. This agreement has facilitated unique opportunities for the URMC to share learning opportunities about careers in health care with the aspiring scholars at EAST High School, who are often from demographic groups that are underrepresented in healthcare. Work-based learning helps EAST students discover real-world context for their curriculum while highlighting future workforce opportunities in areas of significant shortage at URMC. This session will describe ongoing successful collaborations in phlebotomy, medicine, nursing, neuroscience, and imaging while emphasizing the importance of pipeline programming for the diversification of the healthcare workforce.

Register for the virtual event.

Spring 2024 Public Health Grand Rounds 

We look forward to providing some of these events in a hybrid format. The format of each event and how to register will be shared with other event details in the box above.

Date Presenter Topic
2/2/2024
  • Sandhya Seshadri, PhD, MA, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Neuropalliative Care Division, URMC
  • Rev. Kelly Spahr, M.Div., BCC, Chaplain, Neurology Supportive & Palliative Care Service; TAR Chaplain, Strong Memorial Hospital

The Loneliness of the Long-term Caregiver: Exploring Connections for the Disconnected Caregivers of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy-body Dementia Patients

2/16/2024 Mary T. Caserta, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, URMC

A New Era of RSV Prevention

3/1/2024
  • Marlene Blocker, Superintendent, EAST High School
  • Jodi Cook, Teacher and Medical Sciences Pathway Lead, EAST High School
  • Maria A. Marconi, EdD, RN, NursEast Pipeline to Pathways Nursing Program
  • Emily Murphy, Lab Manager, NeuroEAST Program
  • Ashwani Sharma, MD, Associate Professor, Imaging Science Program
  • Elizabeth Cox, MD, Primary Care Provider, University Health Service
  • Annabelle Kleist, PhD, Director, Teen Health & Success Partnership

EAST High School & University of Rochester Collaborations

4/5/2024 Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA, Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice; Senior Vice President, Health Justice and Equity at New York-Presbyterian; Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC

Evaluation of Health Equity

4/19/2024

Michelle A. Williams, ScD, Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Bernard Guyer Lecture Series: Health Systems

5/3/2024 Panel Housing Insecurity and URMC Solutions

*Captions for each linked presentation can be turned on during viewing by clicking ‘Captions’ in the top left corner of the screen.

Fall 2023 Public Health Grand Rounds

Date Presenter Topic
9/15/23

Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH, commissioner Monroe County Public Health Department

Public Health in Monroe County: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future
9/29/23

Martin Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH, professor; Faculty lead, HRSA Health Equity Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine

The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions

Interested in learning more about this topic? The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions by Dr. Shapiro can be purchased here (enter HTWN to receive a 30% discount). 

10/20/23

Irshad Altheimer, PhD, director, Center for Public Safety Initiatives; professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology

Assessing Gaps in Services for Violence Victims and How We Can Fix Them
11/3/23

Naomi Lee, PhD, CPH, assistant professor; director of the Cultural and Academic Research Experience, CARE Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University

The More You Know...About HPV and Cervical Cancer in Native American Communities
11/17/23

Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, MACPsych, founder and director, Institute for Trauma Informed Systems Change (ITISC), McLean/Harvard Medical School. assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, affiliate faculty, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and clinical associate professor, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)

Building Trauma Informed Organizations and People: Why Healing Must Be the Way Forward

12/1/23 Maureen R. Benjamins, PhD, 

Senior Research Fellow, Sinai Urban Health Institute, Chicago

Unequal Cities, Structural Racism, and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities


Interested in learning more about this topic? Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s 30 Largest Cities is available to purchase

*Captions for each linked presentation can be turned on during viewing by clicking ‘Captions’ in the top left corner of the screen.

Past Public Health Grand Rounds Presentations

*ACCREDITATION - The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CERTIFICATIONS
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Rochester Center for Nursing Professional Development is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This offering provides 1.0 nursing contact hours. An evaluation must be completed within 30 days and attendance is required for at least 90% of the activity.

Some sessions may also be approved for 1.0 Social Work continuing education hour(s). Please check each session flyer for more information.