Research Seminars
Research seminars and conferences are integral to research engagement as they facilitate the exchange of knowledge, encourage collaboration, provide a platform for feedback, stimulate curiosity, contribute to professional development, keep researchers updated and help build a robust research culture within academic and professional communities.
Bohan Visiting Professor Seminar Series
The Bohan Visiting Professor Seminar Series occurs quarterly and brings speakers of national prominence to KU Medical Center to present on topics relevant to our investigators’ research and to allow for collaboration and networking opportunities for faculty, staff and students.
2025 Bohan Visiting Professor Seminar speakers
2/5/2025
Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., Carl Cori Professor and Director of the Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases, and Professor of Cell Biology ad Physiology. After completing his BSc in Physiology and Biochemistry (1982), and PhD in Physiology (1985), at Leeds University, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, before joining the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis in 1991.
3/26/2025
Nico P. Pronk, PhD, MA, FACSM, FAWHP., President and Institutional Official of the HealthPartners Institute and Chief Science Officer at HealthPartners, Inc. Dr. Pronk is a Sr. Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Institute and holds academic appointments as Affiliate Full Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health in Minneapolis, Minnesota and as Visiting Scientist of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.
5/21/2025
Hassan A. Ali, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Medicine at the University of Miami (UM), and Director of High Content Screening Core for Phenotypic Drug Discovery. He is a member of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Katz Drug Discovery Center, and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Hassan's primary research interest is understanding the role of kinases in proper functioning of the central nervous system (CNS) and utilizing this knowledge to develop therapeutics that repair CNS damage (caused by injury or neurodegenerative disease.
FALL 2025
Elise A. Olsen, M.D., Professor of both the Departments of Dermatology and Medicine (Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy) and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. She is Founder and Director of the Duke Dermatopharmacology Study Center and has been involved in over 165 clinical studies for dermatological and oncologic indications. The studies have included Phase 1-IV, pharmaceutical, FDA, and FTC sponsored, and investigator-initiated research protocols for multiple conditions.
View previous Bohan Visiting Professor Seminar speakers
2019
- Michael Knowles, M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Complex Genetics of Two Rare Mendelian Disorders: Cystic Fibrosis and Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia” - Suthat Liangpunsakul, M.D., MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center
“Alcohol Associated Liver Disease – New Insight from Basic to Therapeutics” - Arlene Sharpe, M.D., PhD, Harvard Medical School
“The Biology of PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade”
2022
- Robert Tarran, Ph.D., Lineberger Cancer Center and Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina
“Novel Strategies to Reduce Inflammation and Bacteria in the CF Lung”
2023
- Demetrios Braddock, M.D., PhD., Yale University School of Medicine
“Translating Enzyme Biologics for Mineralization and Autoimmune Disorders Bench to Bedside into the Clinic: An Academic Perspective” - Marc E. Lippman, M.D., MACP, FRCP, Georgetown University Medical Center
“The Role of the Woman in the Occurrence and Progression of Breast Cancer” - Jessica Reynolds, Ph.D., Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY
“Targeting Macrophages using Nanomedicine – Implications for Infectious Disease” - Assem Ziady, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and University of Cincinnati
“Addressing Current Problems in CF”
Internal Medicine Monthly Research Conference
Since 2012, the Department of Internal Medicine has conducted a monthly research conference over the lunch hour to highlight new research or “grant in development” projects from our faculty.
The audience for these talks is department faculty and trainees with a broad research interest, covering clinical, basic and population health topics.
These monthly seminars allow for faculty to share their research, gain feedback, and further build relationships and potential collaborations with other individuals within the department.
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Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds happen each Wednesday and include all division faculty, fellows, residents and medical students.
They take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the School of Nursing Auditorium SON G013 with a virtual option available.