Amyloidosis Update
Recording Date: April 30, 2025
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD; Boston Medical Center, Hematologist, Director of Amyloidosis Center, Director of Stem Cell Transplantation Program; Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Her work in the treatment of AL amyloidosis has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, which has resulted in the evolution of the standard of care for these patients.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Angioedema: Update on Diagnosis and Management
Recording Date: June 18, 2025
David Gruenberg, MD; Immunologist, Lowell General Hospital,
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Breast Cancer Update: Screening Guidelines, Case Discussion, Surgical Approaches
Recording Date: May 7, 2025
Salvatore Nardello, DO; Surgical Breast Oncologist, Melrose Wakefield Hospital; TUSM Medical Education Lead- MWH; Melrose Wakefield Breast Health Center/Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine; Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Christopher Homsy, MD; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist at Tufts Medical Center Plastic Surgery; Associate Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Biomarker in Multiple Sclerosis
Recording Date: February 12, 2025
Mustafa Al Gburi, MD; Neurologist and Neuroimmunologist. Tufts Medicine Lowell Neuroimmunology Clinic. He completed his Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Fellowship at UMass Chan. Dr. Al Gburi has research interests in neuroimmunology lab and imaging biomarkers, as well as clinical interests in viral infections of the central nervous system.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Cancer Vaccines on the Horizon
Recording Date: June 11, 2025
Catherine Wu, MD; Dana Farber Cancer Center, recently awarded the Sjöberg Prize for her pioneering research in the field of personalized vaccines to treat cancer. Chief, Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies; Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies Physician; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Chemotherapy Reactions: Is There a Role for Allergy Testing or Desensitization?
Recording Date: September 18, 2024
David Gruenburg, MD; Lowell General Hospital. He is board certified in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and in Internal Medicine. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Climate Change and Effect on Infectious Disease
Recording Date: March 26, 2025
Michael Mahon, PhD; United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development. His studies have shown that infectious disease risk is modified by changes to climate change.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance
Recording Date: October 23, 2024
Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, MD; Associate Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Community Management of Thyroid Biopsies
Recording Date: September 17, 2025
Uzma Siddiqui, MD – Lowell General Hospital
Dr. Uzma Siddiqui is a diagnostic radiologist at Lowell General Hospital with expertise in thyroid imaging and biopsy. She leads community-based imaging initiatives and contributes to streamlined approaches for thyroid nodule management.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Connection Between PFAS and Human Disease
Recording Date: October 30, 2024
Phil Brown, PhD; The PFAS Project LAB; Co-Director; Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute; University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. He is on the National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council, which advises the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Recording Date: October 2, 2024
Brad Kuo, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital Gastroenterologist; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Neuroenteric Research Laboratory: the research into gut motility physiology in health and disease, understanding the brain circuitry of gut sensations and clinical trials; including Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Diagnosis and Management of Short Bowel Syndrome
Recording Date: June 4, 2025
Joel Mason, MD; Senior Scientist, Professor of Medicine; Professor of Nutrition, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University School of Medicine. He studies the cellular pathways by which 1-carbon nutrients, obesity, and the colonic microbiome alter the risk of cancer formation, and his team develops strategies based on this knowledge for the purposes of cancer prevention.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Dietary Approaches to Chronic Disease Management
Recording Date: January 22, 2025
Kumara Sidhartha, MD; Cape Cod Hospital; He is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition by e-Cornell University and T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. His pursuit of nutritional knowledge led him to complete a Master of Public Health in Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
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Effectiveness of Skin Biopsy to detect Parkinson’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Recording Date: November 13, 2024
Christopher Gibbons, MD; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Joslin Diabetes Center Neuropathy Clinic. Director of Neurocutaneous Skin Biopsy Lab and currently Chair for the Autonomic Section of the American Academy of Neurology and President of the American Autonomic Society. Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Fatty Liver
Recording Date: March 12, 2025
Heidi Ahmed, MD; Gastroenterologist, Lowell General Hospital, Gastroenterology. She completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship at Boston University/Boston Medical Center. While at BMC, she received an NIH training grant to study non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She leads the Integrated Gastroenterology Consults Liver Program.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Fear Based Disorders: (PTSD, Phobias, Panic Disorder)
Recording Date: April 24, 2024
Kerry Ressler, MD; McLean Hospital; Chief, Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders; James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry; Director, Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory
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Fecal Incontinence
Recording Date: September 11, 2024
Nitin Aggarwal, MD; Lowell General Hospital; Gastroenterologist
Dr. Aggarwal leads his office and Lowell General Hospital with Fecal / Bowel Incontinence Program and performs Peripheral Nerve Evaluation (PNE). Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Food is Medicine
Recording Date: December 10, 2025
Dariush Mozaffarian, MD – Tufts University
Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist and Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and Medicine at Tufts University. He is a leading researcher in food policy, nutrition science and chronic disease prevention, and has authored influential work shaping global health policy.
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Functional GI Disorders
Recording Date: May 21, 2025
Jacqueline Chu, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Gastroenterologist; Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She joined Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants from Massachusetts General Hospital, where she completed her gastroenterology training. Dr. Chu was a research fellow at MIT in the Traverso Lab where she studied drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
GLP-1 Update and Indication Review
Recording Date: November 5, 2025
Chika Anekwe, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Chika Anekwe is an obesity medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical practice and research center on sustainable weight management strategies, lifestyle medicine and reducing health disparities related to obesity.
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HPV-related Anal Dysplasia and Anal Cancer Screening
Recording Date: November 20, 2024
Jose Caro, MD; Tufts Medical Center; Tufts University School of Medicine’s Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs, Dr. Jane Murphy Gaughan Professorship and Assistant Professor of Medicine. He will break down the stigma associated with anal cancer and present who’s at risk and how to prevent this rarely discussed disease.
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Inhalable Sensors Could Enable Early Lung Cancer Detection
Recording Date: September 25, 2024
Sahil Patel, MD; Harvard Combined Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship (MGH and BIDMC); Clinical Fellow at MIT Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies. My research focuses on developing methods to improve early diagnosis of lung cancer utilizing nano-based techniques and next-generation sequencing.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Ischemic Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack
Recording Date: May 15, 2024
Emiliya Melkumura, MD; Tufts Medical Center; Director, Stroke Consult Services; Associate Director of Neurology Residency; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Menopause and Midlife Care
Recording Date: September 24, 2025
Jan Shifren, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Jan Shifren is Director of the Midlife Women’s Health Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical and research focus includes menopause management, hormone therapy and midlife women’s health.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Neuroimmunological Disease Overview
Recording Date: October 16, 2024
Michael Levy, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Neuroimmunologist Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Research Director, Division of Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Disease; Director, Neuroimmunology Clinic and Research Laboratory; He specializes in patients with rare neuroimmunological diseases
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Overview of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Medications
Recording Date: January 15, 2025
Ekta Tirthani, MD; Endocrinologist, Emory Health Care and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine; completed Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center.
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Pancreatic Cysts
Recording Date: March 27, 2024
Anne Marie Joyce, MD; Lowell General Hospital
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Parkinson’s: What’s New
Recording Date: February 14, 2024
Bryan Ho, MD; Tufts Medical Center, Neurologist; Director of Movement Disorders Program. Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor in Neurology
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Pulmonary Effects of Vaping Cannabidiol
Recording Date: December 11, 2024
Yasmin Thanavala, MD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1985, as a Cancer Research Scientist in the Department of Immunology and she is currently Professor and Member in the same department. Recently found that vaping CBD can lead to more severe lung damage than vaping nicotine.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Recognizing Autoimmune Toxicity with Immunotherapy
Recording Date: April 2, 2025
Ross Merkin, MD; Medical Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He studies complications of immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune-related adverse events (irAEs).
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Small Interfering RNA to Reduce Lipoprotein(a) in Cardiovascular Disease
Recording Date: May 8, 2024
Michelle O’Donoghue, MD; Mass General Brigham; McGillycuddy-Logue Distinguished Chair in Cardiology; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Cardiovascular Medicine; Dr. O’Donoghue’s primary research focus is the design and conduct of multicenter clinical trials for patients with stable and unstable heart disease. Additional clinical research interests include the evaluation of novel antiplatelet and lipid therapies, established and novel biomarkers, the study of women and heart disease and the development of novel therapeutics in the management of acute coronary syndromes.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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STD Community Update
Recording Date: October 1, 2025
Katherine Hsu, MD – Boston University School of Medicine
Dr. Katherine Hsu is an infectious disease physician and Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University. She serves as Medical Director of the Division of STD Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and is a national leader in STI surveillance, education and policy.
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Total Hip Replacement Update
Recording Date: November 19, 2025
Steve DiSegna, MD – Lowell General Hospital
Dr. Steve DiSegna is a diagnostic radiologist at Lowell General Hospital with a focus on advanced imaging techniques and clinical integration. He contributes to initiatives that streamline radiologic interpretation for improved community-based patient care.
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Treating Tobacco Users: Best Practices, New Ideas and Current Controversies
Recording Date: April 17, 2024
Nancy Rigotti, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Tobacco Research and Treatment; Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Tuberculosis Update - Infection Prevention Program
Recording Date: October 15, 2025
John Bernardo, MD – Massachusetts DPH
Dr. John Bernardo is a pulmonary and infectious disease specialist and Medical Advisor for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Tuberculosis Program. He has decades of leadership in public health initiatives and tuberculosis control and has served in key advisory roles for the CDC and NIH.
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Understanding Bird Flu
Recording Date: November 26, 2025
Catherine Brown, DVM – Massachusetts State Epidemiologist
Dr. Catherine Brown, DVM, is the Massachusetts State Epidemiologist. She provides leadership in tracking and managing communicable diseases statewide, with expertise in vector-borne and zoonotic diseases and public health surveillance.
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Update on Urticaria
Recording Date: April 16, 2025
David Gruenberg, MD; Immunologist, Lowell General Hospital
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Vascular Disease
Recording Date: October 9, 2024
Allan Hoffman, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Interventional Radiologist; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. His interests include Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dialysis Access Management, Varicose Veins, Venous Disease, Vascular Ultrasound, Angiography, Arterial and Venous Angiography and Stentin
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Venous Disease and Genicular Artery Embolization
Recording Date: May 14, 2025
Allan Hoffman, MD; Lowell General Hospital, Vascular and Interventional Radiologist. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. His interests include Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dialysis Access Management, Varicose Veins, Venous Disease, Vascular Ultrasound, Angiography, Arterial and Venous Angiography and Stenting
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What's New in Sleep Medicine
Recording Date: January 29, 2025
Rajesh Zacharias, MD; Pulmonologist; Associate Director, Critical Care, Melrose Wakefield Hospital; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine. Previously, he was attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Eastern Maine Medical Center, where he served as the Medical Director for Respiratory therapy
(1) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™