Pediatric Grand Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds are held on Fridays from 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. in the first floor conference room (BT-1810) of the Children's Hospital unless otherwise noted. Most grand rounds presentations are available for distance viewing.
The Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essentials.
2025 - 2026 Schedule
| Date | Lead By | Watch |
|---|---|---|
| 8/1/2025 | Pankaj Vohra, MD Chief, Faculty, Pediatric Gastroenterology |
Nuts and Bolts of Pediatric Obesity |
| 8/8/2025 | Marc S. Williams, MD Dept. of Genomic Health, Geisinger Health |
David B. Flannery, MD Clinical Genomics Lectureship You've Been Sequenced, Now What? |
| 8/15/2025 | Valera Hudson, MD Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics |
Department of Pediatrics: Annual State of the Department Address |
| 8/22/2025 | Brent Griffin, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatric Allergy/Immunology |
The Sign of the Four: Unravelling the Mysteries of Mast Cell Disorders |
| 8/29/2025 | Brandon Bentley, MD, CAQSM Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery |
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| 9/5/2025 | Lee Donohue, MD, FACP East Central Georgia Health District |
Pediatric Care and Public Health |
| 9/12/2025 | Kevin Allen, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Department |
Role of Pediatrician in the Medical Evaluation of Abuse Victims |
| 9/19/2025 | Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Ellington Charles and Grace Steell Hawes Lectureship The Community Asthma Prevention Program - The Journey and Lessons Learned in Advancing Health Equity for Children with Asthma |
| 9/26/2025 | Teal W. Benevides, PhD, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA Professor, Community & Behavioral Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Addressing Needs of Transition-Age Youth on the Autism Spectrum: Lived Experience and Research Considerations |
| 10/3/2025 | Celese Beaudreau, MD Associate Professor, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine |
Lessons Learned in Caring for Complex Children During Hurricane Helene |
| 10/10/2025 | Robert K. Lark, MD Duke Health |
38th Annual Frank H. Stelling Pediatric Orthopedic Conference Common Pediatric Orthopaedic Consults |
| 10/17/2025 | Hana Nazir, MD Alex Kollhoff, MD Residents, Dermatology |
Pediatric Dermatology: Diagnosis and Management of Common Cases |
| 10/24/2025 | Kevin Frazier, DMD, EdS Vice Dean, Restorative Sciences Robert Kaltenbach, PhD Associate Professor, Restorative Sciences |
Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference |
| 10/31/2025 | Ralph Peeler, MD Trainer, EPIC Program Georgia Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics |
Epic Immunization 2025 Update for Healthcare Providers in Training Children, Adolescents, & Adults |
| 11/7/2025 | Hannah Glass, MD, MAS University of California San Francisco |
Theo George Thevaos, MD Memorial Pediatric Neurology Lectureship Advances in Neonatal Seizure Management |
| 11/14/2025 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | |
| 11/21/2025 | Michael C. McCrory, MD, MS Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Social Drivers of Health and Pediatric Critical Illness; Leveraging Data and Research Networks |
| 11/28/2025 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| 12/5/2025 | Abeer Hamdy, MBBCH Associate Professor, Fellowship Program Director, Pediatric Cardiology |
When Should We Worry? A Practical Approach to Pediatric sudden cardiac death |
| 12/12/2025 | Renee Hilton, MD Chief, Minimally Invasive and Digestive Diseases Surgery |
Surgical management of obesity in the pediatric patient…beyond the knife. |
| 12/19/2025 | Maaz Ghouri, MD Wellstar Interventional and Diagnostic Radiologist |
Pediatric Interventional Radiology Demystified: Practical Insights for Every Pediatrician |
| 12/26/2025 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY |
| 1/2/2026 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY |
| 1/9/2026 | Tonya Bonitatibus Riverkeeper, Savannah RiverKeeper Cassandra Loftlin Healthy Communities Coordinator, Savannah Riverkeeper Douglas Nesbit, MD Pediatrician |
Follow my Lead |
| 1/16/2026 | Luke Niday Homeless Task Force for Augusta |
The Effects of Homelessness on Adolescents |
| 1/23/2026 | Soumya Padala, BDS, MDS, MS Assistant Professor, Orthodontics |
Orthodontics and Whole-Body Health: A Collaborative Approach to Pediatric Care |
| 1/30/2026 | Sarah Straka, DO Assistant Professor, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics |
Autism in Everyday Practice: Early Identification and Comprehensive Care in the Pediatric Medical Home |
| 2/6/2026 | April Hartman, MD Chief, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine |
Mission in the Midst of Mayhem: One Year Later |
| 2/13/2026 | Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS Harvard Medical School Boston Children’s Hospital |
Frank P. Anderson, MD and Margaret F. Guill, MD Lectureship Novel Community-Based Strategies to Treat and Prevent Asthma: Where are we Now and into the Future? |
| 2/20/2026 | Dr. Dennis Dorf Dept of Child Psychiatry |
Psychiatric Emergencies in Children |
| 2/27/2026 | Erica Sapp, MD Associate Professor, General Pediatrics |
Reach Out and Read: A Strengths-Based Approach to Early Relational Health and School Readiness |
| 3/6/2026 | Drew Prosser, MD Associate Professor, Pediatric Otolaryngology |
Multidisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Airway Reconstruction |
| 3/13/2026 | Jay A. Perman, MD Chancellor, University System of Maryland |
The Physician and Academic Leader as an Accomplished Listener |
| 3/20/2026 | Cindy Neunert, MD, MSCS Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
Angela R. Mahesh Memorial Lectureship Emerging Evidence for the Management of Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP): Guidelines and Best Practices |
| 3/27/2026 | Dionne Adair, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatric Pulmonology |
Pulmonary Topic |
| 4/3/2026 | Adam Prevot, MD Chief Fellow, Allergy/Immunology Fellowship |
An Update to Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Inborn Errors of Immunity (Formerly Primary Immunodeficiency) |
| 4/10/2026 | NO GRAND ROUNDS | MASTERS WEEK |
| 4/17/2026 | Lauren Newhall, DO DIrector, Pediatric Residency Program |
Competency Based Medical Education |
| 4/24/2026 | Judge Tianna Bias Chief Judge, Richmond County Juvenile Court |
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| 5/1/2026 | Larissa Romanow, MD Neonatology Fellow |
Neonatology Research |
| 5/8/2026 | Andrew Racine, MD, PhD President, American Academy of Pediatrics |
Bennett-Green-Linder Lectureship |
| 5/15/2026 | Anthony Chang, MD Children's Hospital of Orange County |
William B. Strong, Lecture |
| 5/22/2026 | Colin Stone, MD Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow |
Pediatric Critical Care Research |
| 5/29/2026 | Rhyan Bingham, MD Neonatology Fellow |
Neonatology Research |
| 6/5/2026 | Pediatric Resident Research Day | |
| 6/12/2026 | Hye Yoon, MD Allergy-Immunology Fellow |
Allergy-Immunology Research |
| 6/19/2026 | Jose Colon Cortes, MD Peds Cardiology Fellow |
Pediatric Cardiology Research |
| 6/26/2026 | Kendall Abbas, MD Assistant Professor, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics |
Developmental Behavioral Health Topic |