Grand Rounds 2026-2027

SUSHMA REDDY, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Cardiology
Stanford University
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Friday, September 11, 2026

JULIE JAFFRAY, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

SHRIPRASAD DESHPANDE, MBBS, MS

Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies & Heart Transplant Program
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatric
UC San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

NAOMI TAYLOR, MD, PHD

Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Research
Director, Basic-to-Transitional Research, and
Head, Immunology-Hematology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch
National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS

PAUL WINSTON, MD

Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
The University of British Columbia

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

TOM PLATTS-MILLS, MD

Oscar Swineford, Jr. Professor of Medicine
Division of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology
University of Virginia School of Medicine

HILLARY PETSKA, MD

Associate Professor
Division of Child Abuse
Department of Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin

JEFFREY STARKE, MD

Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital

KARNA MURTHY, MD, MSC

Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Northwestern University
Lurie Children's & Northwestern Memorial Hospitals

DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD

Spender T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor
Director, Needleman Center for Autophagy Therapeutics & Research
Deparments of Pediatrics, Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University in St. Louis

ALYSSON MUOTRI, PHD

Professor
Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

MADHUSMITA (MADHU) MISRA, MD, MPH

Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair of Pediatrics
University of Virginia
Physician-in-Chief, UVA Health Children's

JOHN BARNARD, MD

Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine

ALEX JOHN LONDON, PHD

K&L Gates Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University

ERIK SKAAR, MD

University Distinguished Professor
Vice Chair for Research
Director, Division of Molecular Pathogenesis
Ernest W. Goodpasture Chair in Pathology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

LENOIR/HAMBURGER LECTURE
TYRA BRYANT-STEPHENS, MD

ERDMAN LECTURE
FRANCISCO CIGARROA, MD

Professor of Surgery
Senior Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Health System
University of Texas San Antonio

CHUCK VENDITTI, MD

Chief, Metabolic Medicine Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health

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

RICHARD MALLEY, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital

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

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

IRIS PEREZ, MD

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

VICTOR TORRES, MD

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

MICHELLE RHEAULT, MD

Interim Head and Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Nephrology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Children's Minnesota

DONNA MARTIN, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Human Genetics
University of Michigan

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

STACY ARDOIN, MD

Professor
Division Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology
Ohio State University
Nationwide Children's Hospital

PHILLIPP HARTMANN, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

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

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 or Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School

JOHN B. WELSH LECTURE
JONATHAN SEBAT, MD

Director of the UCSD Verge Center
Professor of Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
UC San Diego

CONNIE HU, MD

Chief Resident
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Health

HALEY MOSS, MD

Chief Resident
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Health