St. Jude Grand Rounds 2026

Spiritual Care Week

Presented by Rev. Jessica Bratt Carle, Ph.D., M.Div., Clinical Ethicist with Corewell Health. Introduction by Mark Brown, M.Div., BCC, with the Department of Spiritual Care.

This session will be held in person in the James R. Downing, MD Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available.

Join link: https://stjude.webex.com/stjude/j.php?MTID=ma01a6905690e6722c803283987312bd6

Webinar number: 2869 822 7353

Webinar password:  Grand1 (472631 when dialing from a phone or video system)

Join by phone: 1-877-668-4490 Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada)

The Kaden Bachor Patient Safety Lecture series highlights the critical significance of safety and quality in the patient care we provide each day. This series spotlights contemporary topics in patient safety and improvement science for the St. Jude patient care community.

Presented by Rollin J. (Terry) Fairbanks, MD, MS, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, MedStar Health, and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University.

This session will be held in person only  in the James R. Downing, MD Auditorium. 

Held in conjunction with Pediatric Palliative Oncology Academic Leadership Collaborative & Symposium.

Presented by Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, MS, MA Pediatric Palliative Medicine with Dana- Farber Cancer Institute. Introduction by Deena Levine MD Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty from the Department of Oncology. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available. 

Presented by Amy DeZern, MD, MHS Vice Chair for Hematologic Malignancies with John Hopkins Medicine. Hosted by Akshay Sharma MD Associate Member Department of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Boardroom; a Webex link will also be available.

Presented by Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM Elisa and Marc Stad Professor in Pediatric Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine with the University of California at San Francisco. Hosted by Griffin Collins, MD Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty Department of Oncology and Deena Levine MD Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty with the Department of Oncology. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available. 

Presented by Dana A. Schinasi, MD, MSHI Chief Medical Informatics Officer; Medical Director, Digital Health; Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Hosted by Shannon Dean MD Member, St. Jude Faculty / VP and Chief Medical Information Officer with the department of Information Services. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available.

Presented by Seishi Ogawa, MD, PhD Professor and Head of the Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. Hosted by Marcin Wlodarski MD,PhD Associate Member with the Department Hematology. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available.

Presented by Kathy Steuer, JD, Deputy General Counsel with the Office of Legal Services and Delia Allen, PharmD, Manager-Pharmacy Medication Use Policy with the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. 

This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available.