Join ASU Health for Grand Rounds, conversations on the future of medicine. The speaker series showcases leading experts in conversation on groundbreaking and cutting-edge research, innovations in health care, the role of technology to care for communities at scale and more.
ASU Health Grand Rounds was designed to offer a platform for interprofessional
academicians, researchers, clinicians, health professions students and all other
members of the health/health care team internal to ASU and external to ASU via our
community partners to learn with, from and about each other and the latest innovations
in health and health care delivery in an interprofessional format, to create a learning
ecosystem that may positively impact the health outcomes of Arizona.
We invite you to engage in dynamic discussions, share perspectives and gain insights into the most pressing issues facing the medical landscape. Grand Rounds fosters collaboration, critical thinking, and the exchange of ideas among those passionate about the medical, engineering and humanities fields. All are welcome.
Upcoming talks
October 17, 2025, 9:00-10:00am
John W. Schwada Building, room 228, Tempe Campus
Tackling mTOR: From Bench to Bedside
Jason Hauptman, MD, PhD, Division Chief, Pediatric Neurological Surgery; Caroline Hoeye Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery
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November 7, 2025, 9:00-10:00am
John W. Schwada Building, room 228, Tempe Campus
Addressing the Well-being of the Health Care Workforce
Steve Swenson, MD, MMM, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a Transformational Fellow at The NARBHA Institute; Former Medical Director Leadership and Organizational Development, Mayo Clinic Rochester
December 10, 2025, 12:00-1:00pm
MU Alumni Lounge, Tempe Campus
Immersive Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Biosensing: Converging to Transform Healthcare
Walter Greenleaf, PhD, Neuroscientist and Researcher, Stanford
January 21, 2026, 12:00-1:00pm
Walton Center, Tempe Campus
Environment and Health: Neurodegenerative Disease and Climate Change
Brad Racette, MD, FAAN, Kemper and Ethel Marley Chair for Neurology; Senior Vice President at Barrow Neurological Institute; Professor and academic chair at Creighton University School of Medicine and University of Arizona College of Medicine; Professor Emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine; and Professor of Translational Neurosciences for Arizona State University
February 20, 2026, 9:00-10:00am
John W. Schwada Building, room 228, Tempe Campus
Precision to Population Health: Impact across the Continuum for Metabolic Health
Gabriel Shaibi, PhD, Professor and Southwest Borderlands Scholar in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation; Director of Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Principal Investigator, Specialized Center of Excellence, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC)
March 18, 2026, 12:00-1:00pm
TBD
Tribal Health, Technology and Opioid Use
Nora Volkow-Adler, MD, Director of NIDA; Awarded the Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service, International Prize from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences; and Inducted into Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Hall of Fame and National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians
April 17, 2026, time TBD
John W. Schwada Building, room 228, Tempe Campus
Integrating Engineering and Medicine: Field Experience
Gilda Barabino, PhD, Former President of the Olin College of Engineering; Professor of biomedical and chemical engineering at Olin; Recipient of the: 2024 Dickson Prize in Science, Carnegie Mellon University; 2023 Robert Fletcher Award, Dartmouth College; 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award, Rice University; 2022 Fellow, International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine; and 2021 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award, Rice University
