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The Herbert Kimmons Summer Grand Rounds

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Rady Children's Hospital — UC San Diego School of Medicine

A Continuing Medical Education Program of Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and the Department of Pediatrics of UC San Diego School of Medicine.

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Attend In-Person:

Education & Office Building (EOB) 1900

7960 Birmingham Way San Diego, CA 92123

Time:

8:30-9:30 a.m.

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Attend via Zoom:

Email us at cme@rchsd.org for the Zoom login information.

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The UC San Diego CME department is transitioning to a new CME activity management system – CloudCME.

In preparation for this transition, we request that you create a profile in CloudCME: https://ucsd.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx

For instructions on how to create your account, click below:

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For instructions on how to claim credits in CloudCME, click below:

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No CME Credit awarded for past sessions.

2026 Summer Grand Rounds Schedule

Download the schedule below:

Coming Soon

 

June 26, 2026

The Courage to Advocate: A Clinician’s Call to Action

EOB/ZOOM
Katherine C McKenzie, M.D., FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Director, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine
Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Society of Asylum Medicine

 

July 10, 2026

What’s All the Buzz? Vector Borne Diseases in San Diego County

EOB/ZOOM
Seema Shah, M.D., MPH
Medical Director, Epidemiology and Immunization Services Branch, Public Health Services
County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency
Voluntary Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego

 

July 17, 2026

Pediatric Long‑COVID: What the Data Show — and What Families Tell Us

EOB/ZOOM
Kyung (Kay) Rhee, M.D., MSc, MA
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Chief of Child and Community Health
Acting Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Medical Director, Medical Behavioral Unit, Rady Children’s Health and Center for Healthy Eating and Activity Research
University of California, San Diego

Kelan Tantisira, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Health

 

July 24, 2026

TBD

EOB/ZOOM

 

July 31, 2026

Trust, Transparency, and the Vaccine Schedule: Then and Now

EOB/ZOOM
Pia S. Pannaraj, M.D., MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Director, Pediatric Immunization Advancement Laboratory
University of California, San Diego

 

August 7, 2026

Wired to Adapt: Leveraging the Neurobiology of Youth Resilience

EOB/ZOOM
Paven Lidstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
San Pasqual Outpatient Treatment, San Diego Center for Children
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Health

 

August 14, 2026

National Breastfeeding Month: Strengthen What Works

EOB/ZOOM
Michelle Leff, M.D., IBCLC, NABBLM-C, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego

 

August 21, 2026

Holding the Line: Defending Children’s Health Amid Policy, Workforce and Community Pressures

EOB/ZOOM
Health Equity Grand Rounds

 

August 28, 2026

Tools for Frontline: Simple Ways Primary Care Pediatricians and Nursery Providers Can Catch Biliary Atresia (and Other Liver Diseases) Earlier

EOB/ZOOM
Sonny Harpavat, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine

 

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