Grand Rounds

On May 29, 2025, UW Department of Ob-Gyn resident John Gravelle, MD, PGY-4, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “We Built This Mistrust: Addressing the Legacy of Medical Harm in Ob-Gyn.” In the lecture, Gravelle identified key historical and contemporary events driving medical mistrust in ob-gyn; described how systemic inequities and biases in reproductive and gender-affirmin... more

On May 22, 2025, UW Department of Ob-Gyn Gynecologic Oncology Fellow Matt Wagar, MD, presented the Ob-Gyn Grand Rounds lecture Advances in Gynecologic Malignancies: Mitigating Care Disparities in Novel Cancer Approaches. In the lecture, Wagar described new advances in treatment, evaluation, and surgical management of gynecologic malignancies; discussed how advances in cancer... more

On May 1, 2025, UW Department of Ob-Gyn resident Jackie Luthardt, MD, PGY-4, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Rural Maternal Health: Reflecting on the Past and Confronting the Present.”In the lecture, Luthardt summarized the history of rural maternal and infant health, discussed rural maternity care deserts and the various obstetrics factors that affect access, and examin... more

On April 3, 2025, Ben Pickus, MD, PGY-4 resident in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Climate Change — How to Think Global and Act Local as an OBGYN.”In the lecture, Pickus examined the current stage of climate change and how it affects the patient population in regards to obstetrics and gynecology, explained current mitigation plans, current a... more

On April 10, 2025, Ankitha Madde, MD, PGY-4 resident in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “The Obstetrician and the Intensivist: A Systems-Based Framework for Maternal Critical Care.”In the lecture, Madde demonstrated the clinical utility in bedside screening and imaging to determine various maternal conditions regarding maternal safety, identif... more

On March 20, 2025, Cara Grimes, MD, MAS, urogynecologist and professor as well as the Vice Chair of Research and Faculty Development in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albany Medical College, presented “Research is a Team Sport” as the keynote lecture for Resident Scholars Day.In the lecture, Grimes touched upon her own research journey as well as who is invol... more

On March 6, 2025, UW Department of Ob-Gyn resident Saule Tamkus, MD, PGY-4, presented the Grand Rounds lecture “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Friend or Foe?”In the lecture, Tamkus reviewed the history of AI and how it is applied to the field of medicine and more specifically ob-gyn, as well as examined the pitfalls and legal considerations behind AI in medicine, and w... more