City-Wide Medical Grand Rounds
Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Addressing Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease: Challenges and Possible Solutions
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Bourne Auguste, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Staff Nephrologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
2023 Lecture in Black Health honouring Dr. Miriam Rossi
Addressing Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease: Challenges and Possible Solutions
Bourne Auguste, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Staff Nephrologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Describe the burden of kidney disease in the Black population,
- Differentiate the impact of systemic racism and race-based medicine using clinical algorithms has on kidney disease care, and
- Reflect on individual clinical practices to reduce implicit biases that lead to disparities in care.
Recording:
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Sugar and Spice: Issues and Challenges for Diabetes in Women
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Lorraine Lipscombe, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Medicine
Temerty Faculty of Medicine and IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Staff Physician, Women’s College Hospital
Director, Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations
University of Toronto
2022 F.M. Hill Lecture
Sugar and Spice: Issues and Challenges for Diabetes in Women
Lorraine Lipscombe, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Medicine
Temerty Faculty of Medicine and IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Staff Physician, Women’s College Hospital
Director, Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations
University of Toronto
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Describe the epidemiology of diabetes in women,
- Demonstrate unique aspects of how diabetes affects women, and
- Illustrate windows of opportunity to reduce diabetes-related risks.
Recording:
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Molecular Genetics of Essential Tremor
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Guy Rouleau, OC, OQ, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC
Director, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital
Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Director, Department of Neuroscience, McGill University Health Center
Canada Gairdner Wightman Award 2020 laureate
Molecular Genetics of Essential Tremor
Guy Rouleau, OC, OQ, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC
Director, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital
Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Director, Department of Neuroscience, McGill University Health Center
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Cite the genetic architecture of Essential Tremor
- Summarize the pathogenesis of Essential Tremor
- Identify molecular approaches to better understand the Essential Tremor+
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: The Expanding Multiverse of Sodium-Glucose Linked Transporter Inhibition (SGLTi) In and Beyond Diabetes
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Bruce A. Perkins MD, MPH
Professor, Division of Endocrinology
Director, Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes, Sinai Health
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Susanna Mak MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Division Director, Cardiology
Director, Anna Prosserman Heart Function Clinic, Sinai Health
The Expanding Multiverse of Sodium-Glucose Linked Transporter Inhibition (SGLTi) In and Beyond Diabetes
Bruce A. Perkins MD, MPH
Professor, Division of Endocrinology
Director, Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes, Sinai Health
Susanna Mak MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Division Director, Cardiology
Director, Anna Prosserman Heart Function Clinic, Sinai Health
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Explain the mechanisms of glucose-lowering, and kidney and heart protection from SGLTi,
- Describe the rapidly-evolving impact of SGLTi clinical trials on diabetes, renal, and cardiovascular practice, and
- Identify key findings from SGLTi trials meant to overcome limitations in type 1 diabetes care.
Accreditation:
City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: The Quest for Closing Disparity Gaps in Diabetes Care: Implications of Biology vs Racism
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James Raphael Gavin III, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Healing Our Village, Inc.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emory University
2022 Barnet Berris Lecture
The Quest for Closing Disparity Gaps in Diabetes Care: Implications of Biology vs Racism
James Raphael Gavin III, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Healing Our Village, Inc.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emory University
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Recognize the differences in the diabetes burden and trends between indigenous Canadians and non-indigenous persons
- Describe the spectrum of factors that account for these differences including biological, socioeconomic, and historically based biases
- Summarize how wealth gaps have driven health gaps in marginalized populations
- Indicate the key changes that are required to close the disparity gaps in diabetes care, including more intentional appreciation of the contributions of racism
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Evaluation & Attendance:
Attendance for Maintenance of Certification credit will only be tracked if evaluation and attendance surveys are completed.
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Dermatology and Black Skin: Diversity, Differences and Disparities in Care
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Marissa Joseph, MD, MScCH, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, RKS Dermatology Centre, Women’s College Hospital
2022 Lecture in Black Health
Dermatology and Black Skin: Diversity, Differences and Disparities in Care
Marissa Joseph, MD, MScCH, FRCPC, FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, RKS Dermatology Centre, Women’s College Hospital
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Recognize how lack of representation impacts and creates inequities in the management of skin disease in patients with Black skin,
- Describe differences in the clinical presentation and outcomes of selected dermatologic diseases in Black skin, and
- Reflect on strategies to address the current unmet needs in Dermatologic treatment of Black Skin.
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Accreditation:
City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Sickle Cell Disease: Combating both Disease and Disparity
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Isaac Odame, MB ChB, MRCP (UK), FRCPath, FRCPC
2022 Levinson Lecture
Sickle Cell Disease: Combating both Disease and Disparity
Isaac Odame, MB ChB, MRCP (UK), FRCPath, FRCPC
Professor and Alexandra Yeo Chair in Haematology
Director, Division of Haematology, Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Haematology Section Head, Division of Haematology/Oncology
Medical Director, The Global Sickle Cell Disease Network, Centre for Global Child Health
The Hospital for Sick Children
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of sickle cell disease,
- Summarize the progress made in the management of sickle cell disease,
- Reflect on the disparities in disease outcomes around the world, and
- Describe efforts being made bridge the implementation gaps in combating sickle cell disease.
Accreditation:
City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Evaluation & Attendance:
Attendance for Maintenance of Certification credit will only be tracked if evaluation and attendance surveys are completed.
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University of Toronto, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology City Wide Rounds.
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Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 7:00-8:30 PM EST.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Camilleri, MD, Rochester , Minnesota
Location: TBD

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University of Toronto, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Virtual City Wide Rounds.
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Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
Topic: A Journey to Improve Whole-Person Cirrhosis Care – From Knowledge to Practice
Speaker: Dr. Puneeta Tandon, Associate Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Cirrhosis Care Clinic and Transplant Hepatologist at the University of Alberta
Location: Video conference (Zoom)

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Virtual City Wide Medical Grand Rounds: Race, Ancestry and Kidney Disease – genetic epidemiology to clinical translation
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2021 F.M. Hill Lecture
Race, Ancestry and Kidney Disease – genetic epidemiology to clinical translation
Rulan S. Parekh, MD, MS, FRCP(C), FASN
Vice President, Academics, Women’s College Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Learning objectives:
At the end of the presentation, participants should be able to:
- Summarize the risk of kidney disease in the U.S. among African Americans,
- Predict the genetic risk of kidney disease, and
- Consider the implications in the clinical management of kidney disease.
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Q&A:
Questions will be accepted via the Zoom chat.
Accreditation:
City Wide Medical Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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