Previous grand rounds, 2025-26 academic year

March 18, 2026
Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation and Exercise in Traumatic Brain Injury
Kan Ding, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX

March 11, 2026
IDH-mutated Gliomas: Biology, Treatments and Emerging Therapeutics
Shushant Puri, M.B.B.S., Assistant Professor & Co-Director, Neuro-oncology Program, Department of Neurosurgery, OHSU, Portland, OR

March 4, 2026
The Evolving Landscape of Autoimmune Encephalopathy in 2026
Michael Lane, M.D., Assistant Professor & Neurohospitalist, General Neurology & Neuroimmunology, OHSU, Portland, OR

Feb. 25, 2026
Black Pioneers in Neurology
Alison Christy, M.D., Ph.D., FAAN, FCNS, Clinical Director of Pediatric Neurology, Providence Health and Services, Portland, OR

Feb. 18, 2026
Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice: Keeping the Human in the Loop
Fabrice Jotterand, Ph.D., M.A., Director, Center for Ethics in Health Care, Cornelia Hayes Stevens Endowed Chair, Professor of Medical Ethics, OHSU, Portland, OR

Feb. 11, 2026
Multi-omic Integration of Spatial Lipidomics and Transcriptomics in Alzheimer's disease
Laura Beth McIntire, Ph.D., Director Lipidomics and Biomarker Discovery Lab, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Brain Health Imaging Institute, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ithica, NY

Feb. 4, 2026
DEA-scheduling of Anti-Seizure Medications Negatively Impacts Patients with Epilepsy
Lia de Leon Ernst, M.D., FAES, Associate Professor of Neurology, OHSU Epilepsy Center & Portland VA Epilepsy Center of Excellence

Jan. 28, 2026
Advancing Equity in Brain Health
Nicole Rosendale, M.D., Associate Professor, Neurology; UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA

Jan. 21, 2026
Walking the Talk for Dementia: Catalyzing Dementia Advocacy and Policy in a Global Context
Walter Dawson, D.Phil.; Co-Director, Oregon Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health & Aging, Portland State University – OHSU; Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, OHSU, Portland, OR

Jan. 14, 2026
Neuropsychological Evaluation for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in Movement Disorders
Nathan Hantke, Ph.D., OHSU & Deborah Cahn-Weiner, Ph.D., ABPP; Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco

Jan. 7, 2026
Somatic Mosaicism & Epilepsy: How Understanding Somatic Mosaicism is Changing the Field of Clinical Epilepsy
Elizabeth E. Gerard, M.D.; Associate Professor; Director, Women with Epilepsy Program; Co-Director, Adult Epilepsy Genetics Program; Vice-Chair, Clinical Research Steering Committee; Dept of Neurology, Northwestern University

Dec. 17, 2025
APOE Genotype, Environmental Factors, and The Brain
Jacob Raber, Ph.D.; Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Neurology, and Radiation Medicine; Affiliate Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, ONPRC, OHSU

Dec. 3, 2025
Updates in Interventional Neuroradiology 2025: What Neurologists Need to Know
Scott Rewinkel, M.D., Vascular Neurologist, OHSU Department of Neurology, Interventional Neuroradiologist, OHSU Dotter Interventional Institute

Nov. 19, 2025
The Synaptic Salon: An Exploration of Neurological Signs In Art Throughout Time
Ian Hakkinen, M.D., Evergreen Health Medical Group, Eastside Neuroscience Institute, Kirkland, WA

Nov. 12, 2025
Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: Current Best Practices and Resources Available at OHSU
Neurology, Division of Movement Disorders, OADRC Biomarker Core Co-director, OHSU, Portland, OR

Nov. 5, 2025
She keeps losing her Bible: Managing Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia, the Tele-STELLA Study: Methods and Results
Allison Lindauer, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., Associate Professor, Division of Aging, Alzheimer’s & Related Disorders, and Associate Director & ORE Core Lead, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, OHSU, Portland, OR

Oct. 29, 2025
Popular Botanical Dietary Supplements Taken for Cognitive Health
Amala Soumyanath, B.Pharm., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, OHSU, Portland, OR

Oct. 22, 2025
The Cognition of Epilepsy
Jeremiah Lum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy, OHSU, Portland, OR

Oct. 15, 2025
The ‘Mind Beam’ Hypothesis: Exploring a Novel Mechanism for Simulating Other Minds
Arvid Guterstam, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden

Oct. 8, 2025
Morning Bright Light Therapy To Improve Sleep, Pain, and Quality of Life in Veterans
Jon Elliott, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neurology, OHSU Research Physiologist, VA Portland Health Care System

Oct. 1, 2025
The Assessment of Speech, Language and Memory in Patients with Epilepsy: The Wada and Beyond
Rohit Das M.D. M.P.H., Professor of Neurology OHSU and Chief of Neurology Portland VAMC

Sep. 24, 2025
Principles & Practices for Effective Presentations
Mary R. Fry, N.D., Department of Medicine Grand Rounds Education Team Lead, and Clinical Teaching Specialist, Teaching & Learning Center, OHSU, Portland, OR

Sep. 17, 2025
Neuroimmune Sequelae of Long COVID From Lived Experience to Mechanistic Insight: The Potential Role of Ketosis, Microbiome, and Mitochondria in Recovery
Dana Dharmakaya Colgan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology
School of Medicine, OHSU, NIH R-90 Research Fellow, Helfgott Research Institute Portland, OR

Sep. 10, 2025
Pediatric Vascular Malformations and Tumors: Kids Are Not Little Adults
Gary Nesbit, M.D., FSNIS, Professor, Pediatric & Adult Neurointervention, Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, OHSU, Portland, OR

Sep. 3, 2025
Building an Artificial Intelligence (AI)- Enabled Learning Health System (LHS) at OHSU
David Dorr, M.D., M.S. and Jeff Gold, M.D., Co-Directors, Center for AI Enabled LHS