The Department of Neurological Surgery will host grand rounds on Thursday, January 6 from 7 to 8 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Mohammed Faraz Khan, neurosurgery resident, will present “Brain Metastases.” For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or e-mail [email protected].

The Department of Anesthesiology will host grand rounds on Thursday, January 6 from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor auditorium. Edward Gologorsky, assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “TEE for High-Risk Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Procedures: Concepts Revisited.”

The Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will host grand rounds on Thursday, January 6 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. Charles Lynne, professor of urology, will present “Introduction to Urodynamics.” For more information or to add your name to the educational announcement distribution list, contact Ingrid Menendez at 305-243-6751 or e-mail [email protected].

Didier De Canniere, cardiothoracic surgeon and director of minimally invasive and robotic cardiothoracic surgery at University of Miami Hospital, will present “Drivers and Obstacles to Change in Academic Medicine: The Case of Mitral Repair” on Thursday, January 6 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to review the current challenges of mitral repair, evolving indications, techniques, and special problems. The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, contact Elisa Arguelles at 305-585-1280 or e-mail [email protected].

Michele I. Morris, associate professor of clinical medicine, clinical chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and director of the Immunocompromised Host Section at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Infection in the Immunocompromised Host” on Thursday, January 6 at 12 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. For more information, contact Janette Jurado at [email protected].