Program Conferences, Grand Rounds & Lectures

Sample Weekly Lecture Schedule

Additional Monthly Lectures/Conferences

• Multidisciplinary Interstital Lung Disease Conference – Tuesdays
• Multidisciplinary Case Conference – Wednesday
• Journals from the Past – Fridays

Grand Rounds & Past Archived Grand Rounds

This weekly conference is based on presentations by fellows, faculty and outside speakers. The fellow is assigned to present a pulmonary and critical care topic and provide an in-depth review of the literature.

Pulmonology

• CF Care in 2021 and the Impact of CFTR Modulators – Dr. Holly Keyt
• Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis – Dr. Suhail Istanbouly
• Immunotherapy Application in Non-Small Cell Lung cancer – Dr. Stanley Borowicz
• Acute Exacerbations of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – Dr. Krishnan Warrior
• State of the Art: Navigational Bronchoscopy – Dr. Michal Reid
• Rejected! Acute Rejection in Lung Transplantation" – Dr. Krishnan Warrior

Critical Care

• "Novel" Agents for Acute Management of Refractory Agitated Delirium – Dr. Ejaaz Kalimullah
• Neuroprognostication after Cardiac Arrest – Dr. Karen Sayad
• Precision Medicine in ARDS – Dr. Anila Khan
• The Karius Test: Recent Advances in Cell Free DNA – Dr. Colby Baker
• Intra-abdominal HTN and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in the Medical ICU – Dr. Lily Nezirova
• A "Correction Factor" for Race and Ethnicity" – Dr. Jason Peng

ICU Logistics 

• Lights Out: Power Outages and ICU Evacuations – Dr. Swetha Gogineni
• Nocturnal ICU Coverage in Critical Care Fellowships – Dr. Paul Chung
• Tele-ICU: Boon or Bane – Dr. Sandeep Jewani
• Rapid Response Systems - Worth the Rapid Uptake? – Dr. Jack Amja

COVID-19

• ECMO... The COVID Experience – Dr. Ali Saeed
• COVID-19: Silent Hypoxemia and Pulse Oximetry – Dr. Franco Laghi
• COVID-19 Treatments: The Ever Swinging Pendulum – Dr. Paul Chung
• Vaccines: Evolution and Hesitancy – Dr. Sandeep Jewani
• Pulmonary Vasodilators in the COVID Era – Dr. Ali Saeed

Radiology Rounds

This is a weekly conference held on Tuesday mornings led by Loyola Medicine's pulmonology and critical care medicine division head, Sean Forsythe, MD.

Radiology rounds provides trainees an opportunity to go through systematic intepretation of radiographs from a pulmonologist's perspective as well as to discuss challenging cases.

Fellows and faculty present cases from the ambulatory care clinics and clinical services for review and discussion. Faculty from Hines and Loyola weigh in to provide a diverse array of opinions.

Journal Club

Journal club is held every Wednesday at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital. Faculty and fellows from both hospitals attend and present peer-reviewed articles relating to pulmonary and critical care for discussion of methods, results and importance to the field.

First year fellows are assigned specific articles to enhance their understanding of different pulmonary topics as well as varying methodologies.

Fellow Didactic Lecture Series

Fellows have protected time every Thursday for their weekly lecture series. This series covers core topics in pulmonary and critical care medicine that are vital for patient care as well as boards.