Grand Rounds

Faculty presentations by LMC affiliates from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and other universities.

Speaker: Tom Bush, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Assistant Dean for Practice and Associate Professor Schools of Nursing and Medicine Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Education, Regulation and Scope of Practice Join us in HHIVE lab as Tom Bush discusses the scope … Read more

Title: Engineering Patient Safety in Healthcare Settings Brief Overview: The recent adoption of health information technology (health-IT) has been a mixed blessing for patient safety. Indeed, human errors during interactions with health-IT have become one of the top patient safety concerns. Therefore, in … Read more

Speaker - Adeline Dorough, MPH Title - Listening to Understand: Using Qualitative Research to Enhance Patient-Centered Care Overview - Describe the role of qualitative research in determining how to effectively and meaningfully provide patient-centered care within the existing health care system; provide examples from the Dialysis Research Program at the UNC Kidney Center. … Read more

Speaker – Raul Necochea, Ph.D. Title – Cancer Care Global Histories and the Education of Health Workers Overview – I am currently working on a project on the history of cervical cancer in Latin America. In a nutshell, throughout the 20th century, cervical cancer was … Read more

Speaker – Travis Alexander, Ph.D. candidate English and Comparative Literature Title – “All the new information in my blood": Immunity, Melancholy, Virality Overview – This talk expands on the psychoanalytic work of Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok to posit that the arrival of … Read more