Speaker / Lecture Topic                                                

09/09/25

Topic: "The Reproductive Health of the Immunodeficient Patient: From Fertility to the Fourth Trimester"
Speaker: Joud Hajjar, MD, PhD, MS, FAAAAI, FCIS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Adult Allergy and Immunology, Baylor College of Mediicne and Texas Children's Hospital                                                                                         

09/16/25

No Grand Rounds scheduled due to Resident Retreat

09/23/25

Topic: "In Vitro Fertilization: Can We Make It Less Expensive?
Speaker: Awoniyi O. Awonuga, MD, Professor and Kamran S. Moghisi, MD Endowed Chair, Division of Reproductive Endocrinilogy and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State Univesity School of Medicine

09/30/25

SEMCME Wellness OB Pilot Training

10/07/25

MIdwiferyWeek - October 6th - 12th
Topic: "I'm Just Going to..." Promoting Informed Consent for Improved Birth Experiences"
Speaker:Jessica Rock, MSN, CNM, Certified Nurse Midwife, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne Health Physician Group

10/14/25

Topic: "PrEP"
Speaker: Lauren Touleyrou, MD, Assistant Director, WSU Adult HIV Program, Associate Program Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease, Wayne State University 

10/21/25

Topic: "Vaccinatons in Pregnancy"
Speaker: Carolyn Chatterton, DO, MPH, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dept. of OB/GYN, Aurora Sinai Medical Center

10/28/25

Topic: "Immune Protection against HIV Infection in the Female Reproductive Tract"
Speaker: Marta Rodriguez Garcia, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine

11/04/25

Topic: "Management of Uterine Fibroids: Evidence - Based Approach and Fertility Preservation"
Speaker: Ghadear Shukr, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Residency Program, Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University

11/11/25

Dr. Bernard Gonik Lectureship
Topic: "Molecular Mechanisms of Preeclampsia"
Speaker: S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD, Professor and Director of Renovascular Research Center, Cedar Sinai Medicine

11/18/25

Topic: "The Impact of Positive Genetic Testing After a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer on Morbidity and Mortality"
Speaker: Monique Swain, MD, Residency Program Director, OB/GYN Henry Ford Health, Clinical Assistant Professor Wayne State Univesity Schoolf Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

11/25/25

Topic: "Medical and Surgical Management of Hidradenitis Suppurative"
Speaker: Kathryn Welch, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN; Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, University of Michigan Medicine

12/02/25

Topic: "Not Just 'Getting Older': Recognizing and Treating OAB in Women"
Speaker: James Ross, MD, Trinity Health, IHA Medical Group, Urogynecology

12/09/25

Topic: "Targeted Therapeutics for Preeclampsia: Past, Present , and Future"
Speaker: Maged Constatine, MD, Professor and Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Frederick P. Zuspan MD Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, College of Medicine

12/16/25

Topic: "Oral Health and Pregnancy"
Speaker: Bernard Gonk, MD, Professor and Tenure, Research Educator, Dept. of OB/GYN, Div. of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic: "Adenomyosis: Untangling the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Impact on Infertility, and Treatment"
Speaker: Awoniyi O. Awonuga, MD, Professor and Kamran S. Moghisi, MD Endowed Chair, Division of Reproductive Endocrinilogy and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State Univesity School of Medicine

Topic: "Vaccine Hesitancy in Immigrant Communities, with a Focus on the Somali Community"
Speaker: Rabia Osman, MD, PGY-4 Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic: "When Seconds Count: Anesthesia Insights on Obstetric Emergencies"
Speaker: Lakisha Holifield, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology; Medical Director of Obstetrics Anesthesia, Detorit Medical Center, Hutzel Women's Hospital

Topic: "Not All Pain is Endometriosis -- What We Understand about Interstitial Cystitis"
Speaker: Sana H. Ansari, MD, Urogynecologist, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive pelvic Surgery, Northeast Georgia Physician's Group

Topic: "Is there a Novel Syndrome Associated with Prenatal Fentanyl Use? Modeling the Consequences of Fentanyl Use During Pregnancy"
Speaker: Shane Perrine, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Alfred L. Deutsch Memorial Lecture (no recording available)
Topic: "Advances in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery: Congenital Disorders"
Speaker: Bernard J. Costello, MD, DMD, Senior Vice President of Health Affairs, Wayne State University 

Topic: "Measles in Pregnancy"
Speaker: Haben Debessai, MD, Gilstrap OB/GYN Fellow, CDC Foundation, CDC/DDNID/NCBDDD/DBDID, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topic: "Opioids and Opioid Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) during Pregnancy: The Impact of Various Opioids on Maternal and Outcomes in a Translational Rodent Model
Speaker: Susie Brummelte, PhD, Professor and Chair, Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences Area, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University 

Topic: "Updates in Epilepsy and Pregnancy"
Speaker: Deepti Zutshi, MD, Associaate Professor, Department of Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dr. Ronald Cheek Lectureship
Topic: "Reducing Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality:MI AIM - What Works, What's Changed and What We Should be Doing Now"
Speaker: Robert J. Sokol, MD, Emeritus Dean and Emeritus Distinguished Profesor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State Universit y College of Human Medicine

Speaker: Madonna K. Ladouceur, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, EFM-C, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Huron Valley Sinai Hospital, Detroit Medical Ceter

Topic: "Common Presenting Vulvar Lesions and How to Manage from a GYN Oncologic Perspective"
Speaker: Kaitlin Burchett, MD, GYN-ONC Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karmanos Cancer Institute / Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic: "Why Immunotherapy Falls Short in Ovarian Cancer: Insights from the Tumor Microenvironment"
Speaker: Ayesha Alvera, MD, MSc, Professor of Research, Dept. of OB/GYN, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic: Antepartum Testing2026 - The Emperor Has No Clothes"
Speaker: Steven Leigh Clark, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Topic: "Fetal Therapy 2.0: From Incision to Precision"
Speaker: Adolfo Etchegaray, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Director, Chief of Fetal Care Center Nationwide Children's Hospital

Charles C. Vincent MD Memorial Lecture
Topic: "Achieving Birth Equity When Equity is a Forbidden Word"
Speaker: Theodore B. Jones, Section Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Corewell Health - Dearborn Hospital

Research Day
Topic: "Medical Decision Making"
Speaker: Radek Bukowski, MD, PhD, Director of Computational Health and Medicine Initiatives, Texas Advanced Computing Center; Faculty Member of the Cambridge Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CCAIM) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Alfred Sherman, MD Memorial Lecture
Topic: "Perspectives on Second Stage Cesarean Birth"
Speaker: Karoline S. Puder, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Attending, Corewell Health - William Beaumont University Hospital; Professor, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Associate Program Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship

Topic: TBA
Speaker: Elizabeth Johns, MD, Gyn-Onc Fellows, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karmanos Cancer Institute / Wayne State University School of Medicine

Speaker: Angeline Beltsos, MD
"Changing The Paradigm: Update on Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome"

Speaker: Jeffrey A. Kline, MD
"Diagnosis and Exclusion of Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy (AKA Reducing Radiation Exposure in Pregnancy”

Speaker: Gwendolyn S. Norman, PhD
"Addressing Infant Mortality: A Historical Perspective and Public Health Imperative"

Midwifery Week In Person Lecture (no recording available)
Speaker: Tara Rucker (Sister Friends); Gwendolyn Daniels (Institute Population Health); and Kimberly Burke (Nurse-Family Partnership)
"Community Resources: It Takes a Village"

Speaker: Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FACP
"The State of Public Health in 2024: Charging a Path Forward"

Speaker: Lori M. Burke, MD and Jennifer Hoffman, MD
"We treat, We cure, We eliminate Hepatitis C"

Speaker: Elizabeth S. Liveright, MD
"Perinatal Care of Uninsured Patients"

Speaker: Obianuju Sandra Madueke-Laveaux, MD
"Uterine Fibroid Management: An Overview and Invtiation to Challenge the Status Quo"

Bernard Gonik, MD Lectureship (no recording available)
Speaker: Gregory Denomme, PhD, FCSMLS(D)
"Recent Advances in Perinatal Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn"

Speaker: Mary E. Norton, MD
"How to Choose the Best Diagnostic Test"

Speaker: Theordore B. Jones, MD
HIV Infection in Pregnancy: An Update"

Speaker: Roohi Jeelani, MD
"REI Practice Updates: Recent Trends in Fertility"

Speaker: Ricardo Bertolla, PhD
"Varicocele and It's Association to Male Infertility"

Speaker: Tippi C. MacKenzie, MD (no recording available)
"Prenatal Molecular Therapies for Early-Onset Genetic Diseases"

Speaker: Hana Totary-Jain, PhD (no recording available)
"Imprinted miRNA Clusters: Their Roles in Placental Development and Pathogen Defense"

Speaker: Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, MD
"Syphilis and STI Updates to our OB/GYNs"

Speaker: Natalie Gladstein, MD, MSc
"Induced Abortion in the First Trimester: A Clinical Primer"

Speaker: Marianna Alperin, MD, MS (no recording available)
"Female Pelvic Skeletal Muscles Across the Lifespan"

Alfred L. Deutsch Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Ray O. Bahado-Singh, MD
"Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Promise and Potential Problems"

Speaker: Fatima Ali, DO
"Incarcerated Gravid Uterus: A New Treatment Using the Transvaginal Ultrasound Probe and Narrative Literature Review"

Speaker: Alexandra Zetye, MD
"Early Glucose Screening in Pregnancy: Are We Doing it Right?"

Speaker: Ja Hyun Shin, MD
"A Multidisciplinary Approach to Fibroid Managment"

Speaker: Bogdan Panaitescu, MD, PhD
"Double Trouble: When Twin Pregnancies Go Wrong"

Dr. Ronald Cheek Lectureship (no recording available)
Speaker: Teena Chopra, MD, MPH 
"Two Hearts, One Vaccine: The Power of Vaccination during Pregnancy"

 Speaker: Barbara Neshek, MD
"Cerclage for the Prevention of Preterm Birth"

Speaker: Manvinder Singh, MD
"Septate Uterus"

Dr. Charles Vincent Memorial Lecture (no recording available)
Speaker: Gilford Stephen Vincent, MD
"Peripheral Vascular Disease in Women"

Speaker: Katrina Rosculet, MD, MA
"Professionalism in Medicine"

Speaker: Suzanne Jacques, MD
"Current Terminology and Understanding the Pathology Report"

Speaker: Erin Bradley, MD, MPH and Stephanie Cecil (no recording available)
"Alcohol Use During Pregnancyand Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)"

Research Day - Dr. David & Barbara Feld Memorial Lecture (no recording available)
Speaker: Nigel Paneth, MD, MPH
"How Obstetric Practice Can Prevent Developmental Disabilities"

Dr. Alfred Sherman Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Johnson, MD
"In Utero Management of Fetal Hydrothorax"

Speaker: Manvinder Singh, MD
"Hyperprolactinemia and Infertility"

Speaker: Jill Kent Davies, MD
"Travel during Pregnancy"

No Grand Rounds Scheduled - Annual Residency Program Review

Speaker: Nadia Tremonti, MD
"Finding Meaning and Control: Pre-, Peri-, and Post- Natal Palliative Care"