A Continuing Medical Education Program of Rady Children’s Health and the Department of Pediatrics of UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Welcome to Radygrandrounds.org, which provides you with the Pediatric Grand Rounds Schedule and online UC San Diego CME Evaluation Survey. By completing our survey, you will help us to identify quality speakers for future Grand Rounds and enable us to provide you with CME credit tracking for Grand Round events you have attended during the year.
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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No CME Credit awarded for past sessions
2026-27 Pediatric Grand Rounds Information
Download the 2026–2027 Brochure (PDF)
September 4, 2026
Microvascular Dysfunction in Congenital Heart Disease
Sushma Reddy, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Cardiology
Stanford University
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
September 11, 2026
Blood Clots in Children: Current Practice and Emerging Therapies
Julie Jaffray, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
September 18, 2026
Heart and Kidney: What Is New and What is Old in Cardiorenal Interaction
Shriprasad Deshpande, MBBS, MS
Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies & Heart Transplant Program
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
September 25, 2026
Harnessing CAR/TCR Immunotherapeutic Precision: Hinges, Fuzzy Logic, and Metabolic Constraints
Naomi Taylor, MD, PhD
Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Research
Director, Basic-to-Translational Research and
Head, Immunology-Hematology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch
National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS
No Recording Available
October 2, 2026
Cryoneurolysis for Children with Spasticity and Upper Motor Syndromes: A New Frontier
Paul Winston, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
The University of British Columbia
October 9, 2026
Dosing in the Dark: Closing Evidence Gaps for Drug Dosing Guidelines in Pregnant Women and Children
Kevin Watt, MD, PhD
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
October 16, 2026
Why Now? Understanding the Rising Tide of Peanut Allergy, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, and Alpha-Gal Syndrome
Tom Platts-Mills, MD
Oscar Swineford, Jr. Professor of Medicine
Division of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
October 23, 2026
Lessons Learned in Pediatric Drug Testing
Hillary Petska, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Child Abuse
Department of Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
October 30, 2026
Tuberculosis in Children in 2026: Practical Approaches to Common Issues
Jeffrey Starke, MD
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
November 6, 2026
The Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium: Advancing Outcomes Through Collaboration
Karna Murthy, MD, MSC
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Northwestern University
Lurie Children’s & Northwestern Memorial Hospitals
November 13, 2026
Development of Drugs That Restore a Key Cellular Proteostasis Function for Protein Aggregation Disorders
David Perlmutter, MD
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor
Director, Needleman Center for Autophagy Therapeutics & Research
Departments of Pediatrics, Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University in St Louis
November 20, 2026
Growing the Human Brain in the Lab: How Organoids are Transforming Neuroscience and Medicine
Alysson Muotri, PhD
Professor
Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
November 27, 2026 – Thanksgiving Break
December 4, 2026
When Periods Stop and Bones Suffer: Management of Low Bone Density in Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Madhusmita (Madhu) Misra, MD, MPH
Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
University of Virginia
Physician-in-Chief, UVA Health Children’s
December 11, 2026
The Evolving Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities
John Barnard, MD
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
December 18, 2026 – Winter Break
December 25, 2026 – Winter Break
January 1, 2027 – Winter Break
January 8, 2027
Ethical Implications of the Unhealthy Innovation Ecosystem of AI in Medicine
Alex John London, PhD
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University
January 15, 2027
The Contribution of Nutrition to Host-Pathogen Interactions
Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH
University Distinguished Professor
Vice Chair for Research
Director, Division of Molecular Pathogenesis
Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair in Pathology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
January 22, 2027
The Community Asthma Prevention Program- The Journey and Lessons Learned in Advancing Health Equity for Children with Asthma
Lenoir/Hamburger Lecture
Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD
Director and Founder, Community Asthma Prevention Program
AVP, Chief Health Equity Officer
Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
January 29, 2027
Lessons From Legacy and Mentorship: Building a Joyful Career in Pediatric Surgery and Higher Education
Erdman Lecture
Francisco Cigarroa, MD
Professor of Surgery
Senior Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Health System
University of Texas San Antonio
February 5, 2027
When Vitamin B12 Metabolism Goes Awry: Inborn Errors of Cobalamin Metabolism—Natural History, Pathophysiology, and Treatment
Chuck Venditti, MD
Chief, Metabolic Medicine Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
February 12, 2027
Staphylococcus Aureus Host-Microbe Interaction: Ecology, Disease, and Vaccine Development
Julie Bubeck-Wardenburg, MD, PhD
Donald B. Strominger Professor and Executive Vice Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Critical Care
Washington University School of Medicine
February 19, 2027
Cycles of Failure, Paths of Progress: Developing Vaccines for the World
Richard Malley, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Harvard Medical School
Boston Children’s Hospital
February 26, 2027
Riding Cytokine Storms to Disease Discoveries
Neil Romberg, MD
Jeffrey Modell Endowed Chair of Pediatric Immunology Research
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Attending Physician, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
March 5, 2027
Developmental Cues as a Foundation for Therapies for Rare Diseases
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
Executive Director of Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s
Executive Vice Dean for Children’s Services
David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children’s Health
Professor of Pediatrics
March 12, 2027
Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: Evaluation and Management
Iris Perez, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
March 19, 2027
Staph’s Secret Weapons: Pore-Forming Toxins and the Quest for an Effective Vaccine
Victor Torres, PhD
Chair and Member, Department of Host-Microbe Interactions
Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Research
Albert and Rosemary Joseph Endowed Chair in Host-Microbe Interactions
St. Jude Children’s Hospital
March 26, 2027 – Farmworkers’ Day
April 2, 2027
Beyond Hematuria: Early Recognition and Management of Alport Syndrome in Children
Michelle Rheault, MD
Interim Head and Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Nephrology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Children’s Minnesota
April 9, 2027
Beyond The Genetic Code: Epigenetic Disorders of Chromatin and Charge Syndrome
Donna Martin, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Human Genetics
University of Michigan
April 16, 2027
When a Cold Virus Attacks the Spinal Cord: Enterovirus D68 and Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Terence S. Dermody, MD
Vira I. Heinz Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
April 23, 2027
16th Annual Pediatric Faculty Research Symposium
April 30, 2027
Wolf at the Door: Is it Lupus?
Stacy Ardoin, MD
Professor
Division Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology
Ohio State University
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
May 7, 2027
Beyond Bacteria: The Fungal Microbiome as an Emerging Driver of Liver Disease
Phillipp Hartmann, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
May 14, 2027
Leadership and Communication: Parallel Pathways to Progress
Sutherland Lecture
Suken Shah, MD, FAOA, FAAOS
Chair, Department of Orthopedics | Nemours Children’s Hospital
Shands/MacEwen Endowed Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatrics
President, Scoliosis Research Society
May 21, 2027
The Digital Educator: Teaching for a New Era
Symposium for Innovation in Medical Education
Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation
Co-Director, OPENPediatrics
Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
May 28, 2027
Platform-Driven Discovery of Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutics for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
John B. Welsh Lecture
Jonathan Sebat, MD
Director of the UCSD Verge Center
Professor of Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
UC San Diego
June 4, 2027
Connie Hu, MD
Chief Resident
Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
June 11, 2027
Haley Moss, MD
Chief Resident
Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
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