MED223: Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences Seminar

Teaching the future leaders in medicine!

Fall 2022

Tuesdays & Thursdays | 2 Credits

The focus of MED223 is to fine-tune critical thinking skills by analyzing original publications and understanding the current complexities of the cardiovascular system.

MED223 is part of the Scholarly Concentration:
Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Sciences

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Tuesday Schedule

Students will attend the Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminars series, which is a lecture series presented by prominent external speakers. Required attendance weekly from September 26 – December 9. Video of talks will be made available as needed. All other Frontiers seminars are optional.

Frontiers in CV Science Seminars schedule
Tuesdays @ time and location listed

Thursday Schedule

Students will learn new approaches and technology from Stanford faculty (schedule below).

Thursdays @ 12:30 - 1:20p
Room: TBD
(unless otherwise noted)

Assigned Reading

One to two papers per class will be discussed and interpreted in class.
Required readings are available on Canvas.

MED223 Directors

Ngan Huang, PhD

Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD

Ioannis Karakikes, PhD

Past Speakers

Winter 2022

January 13, 2022

Mirwais Wardak, PhD

Affiliate, Cardiovascular Institute Operations

January 27, 2022

Alison Schroer Vander Roest, PhD

Instructor, Pediatrics - Cardiology

February 10, 2022

Kevin M. Alexander, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

February 24, 2022

Jesse Engreitz, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics

March 10, 2022

Ron Witteles, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

January 20, 2022

Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

February 3, 2022

Nicholas Leeper, MD

Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery)

February 17, 2022

Ronglih Liao, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

March 3, 2022

Xinguo Jiang, PhD

Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Fall 2021

September 23, 2021

Phillip C. Yang, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

October 7, 2021

Sharon Chinthrajah, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

October 21, 2021

Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD

Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Obstetrics and Gynecology and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

November 4, 2021

Casey Gifford, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and, by courtesy, of Genetics

December 2, 2021

David Cornfield, MD

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Surgery

September 30, 2021

Mark A. Skylar-Scott, PhD

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

October 14, 2021

Natalie Lui, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery)

October 28, 2021

Patricia Nguyen, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

November 18, 2021

Roham Zamanian, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

January 6, 2022

Daniel Bernstein, MD

Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Endowed Professor of Pediatrics

Winter 2021

January 14, 2020

Anson Lee, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)

January 28, 2020

Phillip C. Yang, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

February 11, 2020

Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research) of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute

February 25, 2020

Mark Mercola, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)

March 11, 2020

Michael S. Kapiloff, MD, PhD

Reinhard Family Professor, Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

January 21, 2020

Roham Zamanian, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

February 4, 2020

Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics

February 18, 2020

Jon N. Myers, MD

Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

March 4, 2020

Shravani Pasupneti, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Fall 2020

September 17, 2020

Elsie Ross, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and of Medicine (BMIR)

October 1, 2020

Amelia Claire Watkins, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

October 15, 2020

Steve Hershman, PhD

Director, mHealth, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

October 22, 2020

Ross Metzger, PhD

Instructor, Pediatrics - Cardiology

November 5, 2020

Joe Hsu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

November 19, 2020

Utkan Demirci, PhD

Professor of Radiology (Canary Cancer Center) and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

September 24, 2020

Myriam Amsallem, MD, PhD

Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

October 8, 2020

Elan Burton, MD, MhA

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

October 22, 2020

Astrid Gillich, PhD

Affiliate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

October 29, 2020

Alok Jha, PhD

Affiliate, Pediatrics - Endocrinology

November 12, 2020

William Goodyer, MD

Instructor, Pediatrics - Cardiology

Winter 2020

January 9, 2020

Francois Haddad, MD

Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

January 23, 2020

Andrew Sweatt, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

February 6, 2020

Jay Rajadas, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research) of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Medicine)

February 20, 2020

Natalie Lui, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery)

March 5, 2020

Amy Tian, PhD

Senior Research Scientist in Pulmonary and Critical Care

January 16, 2020

Kevin M. Alexander, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

January 30, 2020

Oscar Abilez, MD, PhD

Senior Research Scientist - Basic Life, Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

February 13, 2020

June Rhee, MD

Instructor, Medicine

February 27, 2020

Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

March 12, 2020

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology

Fall 2019

September 26, 2019

Anson Lee, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery) at the Stanford University Medical Center

October 10, 2019

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

October 24, 2019

Maya Kumar, PhD

Instructor, Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

November 7, 2019

Tushar Desai, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

November 21, 2019

Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

October 3, 2019

Manuel Rivas, MD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

October 17, 2019

Marcia Stefanick, PhD

Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Obstetrics and Gynecology and, by Courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)

October 31, 2019

Daniel Bernstein, MD

Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics

November 14, 2019

Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)

December 5, 2019

Myriam Amsallem, MD, PhD

Instructor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Winter 2019

January 10, 2019

Natalie Lui, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery) at the Stanford University Medical Center

January 24, 2019

Daniel Ennis, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology (Veterans Affairs)

February 7, 2019

Robert Wirka, MD

Instructor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

February 21, 2019

Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD, FACC

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics

March 7, 2019

Dung Nguyen, MD, Pharm.D

Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

January 17, 2019

Phillip C. Yang, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

January 31, 2019

Koen Nieman, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Radiology (Cv Imaging) at the Stanford University Medical Center

February 14, 2019

Michael S. Kapiloff, PhD

Associate Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology and, by Courtesy, of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

February 28, 2019

Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD

Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute

March 14, 2019

Elan Burton, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Fall 2018

September 27, 2018

Elsie Gyang Ross, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery and of Medicine

October 11, 2018

Roham Zamanian, MD, FCCP

Associate Professor of Medicine

October 25, 2018

Oliver O. Aalami, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

November 8, 2018

Ke Yuan, PhD

Instructor of Medicine

November 29, 2018

Stanford-Duke Cardiovascular Research Symposium

October 4, 2018

Ioannis Karakikes, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

October 18, 2018

Chia Yu Alex Chang, PhD

Instructor, Microbiology & Immunology and of Medicine

November 1, 2018

Tim L. Assimes, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

November 15, 2018

Juyong Brian Kim, MD

Instructor of Medicine

Winter 2018

January 11, 2018

Kiran K. Khush, MD, MAS

Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

January 25, 2018

Oliver O. Aalami, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery

February 8, 2018

Alexander Dunn, PHD

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

February 22, 2018

James R. Priest, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cardiology

March 8, 2018

Ronglih Liao, PHD

Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

January 18, 2018

Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

February 1, 2018

Joshua W. Knowles, MD, PHD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

February 15, 2018

Michael Snyder, PHD

Stanford W. Ascherman, MD, FACS, Professor in Genetics
Chair, Department of Genetics

March 1, 2018

Sanjiv Narayan, MD

Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

March 15, 2018

Nicholas J. Leeper, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Fall 2017

September 28, 2017

Paul Wang, MD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Bioengineering

October 12, 2017

Mark Mercola, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)

October 26, 2017

Mark Nicolls, MD

Stanford University Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

November 9, 2017

Isabella Graef, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology

November 30, 2017

George Lui, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine)
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Cardiology)

October 5, 2017

Bruce D. Gelb, MD

Gogel Family Chair and Director of The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology, and Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

October 19, 2017

Rajesh Dash, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

November 2, 2017

Alison Marsden, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering

November 16, 2017

Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine (General Medical Disciplines) at the Stanford University Medical Center

Winter 2017

January 12, 2017

"Development of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adult Patients Exposed to Methylphenidate"

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

January 26, 2017

"Abdominal aortic aneurysm disease - challenges and opportunities"

Ronald Dalman, MD

Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery

February 9, 2017

"Immunity and Inflammation in pulmonary hypertension and other vascular pathologies"

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor in Pediatric Cardiology

February 23, 2017

"Fitness, Physical Activity, and Health: The case for fitness as a clinical vital sign"

Jonathan Myers, PhD

Director of Cardiopulmonary Research, Palo Alto VA Medical Center

March 9, 2017

"iPSC for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine"

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD

Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor and Professor of Radiology

January 19, 2017

"Stem Cell Approaches to Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering"

Ngan Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)

February 2, 2017

"Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular disease: Why, how and what now?"

Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

February 16, 2017

"Myocardial perfusion imaging by computed tomography"

Koen Nieman, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Medicine (Cardiology) and of Radiology

March 2, 2017

"Targeting Glycoimmune Checkpoints for Cancer Immunotherapy"

Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Professor of Chemistry

Fall 2016

Daniel Bernstein, MD	Mitochondria in Normal Cardiovascular Physiology and Disease	Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel Smith Salter Endowed Professor in Pediatrics
Gregory Kovacs MD, PhD	Can Consumer Devices Deliver Useful Health Information?	Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
Victor Froelicher, MD	Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes	Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) At The Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Emeritus
Dominik Fleischmann, MD	Aortic Dissection Viewed by CT and MR	Professor of Radiology (General Radiology)
Anson Lee, MD	Surgical Innovations	Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)
Venita Chandra, MD	Surgical Innovations	Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery (Vascular Surgery)
Angela Rogers, MD	Angiogenic Cytokine Therapy and Translatable Engineered Drug Design: From Bench to Bedside…Almost	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)
Will Hiesinger, MD	Angiogenic Cytokine Therapy and Translatable Engineered Drug Design: From Bench to Bedside…Almost	Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)
Scott Ceresnak, MD	Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital
David Maron, MD	What is the Optimal Management of Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease?	Clinical Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Spring 2016

Christopher Almond, MD	A brief introduction to FDA trial design for high risk medical devices: a case study	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Marcia Stefanick, PhD	Cardiovascular Outcomes in the Women's Health Initiative	Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center) and of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Joshua W. Knowles, MD	FINDFH: Identification of Familial Hypercholesterolemia patients in the EMR using machine learning	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanley Rockson, MD	Lymphatic Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Health and Disease	Professor of Lymphatic Research and Medicine
Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD	Helping the Right Ventricle to adapt to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
Kathy Ruppel, MD	Myosin: Molecular Motors
Ada Poon, PhD	Wireless Bioelectronics	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Tom Quertermous, MD	Genome-wide association studies point to vascular wall causal disease pathways	Professor \| Chief, Divison of Cardiovascular Medicine