St. Jude Grand Rounds 2026

Presented by Todd Wolynn, MD, MMM, FAAP Executive Director, Trusted Messenger Program; hosted by Diego Hijano, MD, Associate Member, Medical Director Occupational Health, Director Division of ID BMT and CT with the Department of Infectious Diseases. 

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

Presented by Robert R. Clark VP - Chief Government Affairs Officer with the Office of Legal Services. Introduction by Ellis Neufeld MD, PhD, Member, St. Jude Faculty / Executive Vice President / Clinical Director / Physician-in-Chief / John and Lorine Thrasher Endowed Chair in Pediatric Medicine.

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

St. Jude Grand Rounds meets every Thursday at 8:00 AM and features nationally renowned speakers to St. Jude for the benefit of our clinical faculty, fellows, and other clinical staff.

This endowed lectureship reflects and honors Dr. Larry Kun and his role as a leader in driving advances in the treatment of childhood cancer during his 32 years of service at St. Jude as a faculty member, Chair of Radiologic Sciences, and Clinical Director and Executive Vice President.

Hosted by Ellis Neufeld, MD, PhD; Executive Vice President, Clinical Director, Physician-in-Chief,  Member, St. Jude Faculty, John and Lorine Thrasher Endowed Chair in Pediatric Medicine with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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

Presented by Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health and Director, CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. Introduction by Liza Johnson MD Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty / Director, Bioethics Program with the Bioethics Program. 

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

Presented by Aimee Talleur, MD, Associate Member with the Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Department. 

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

Presented by David Shulman, MD Attending Physician, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. Hosted by Sara Federico MD Member, St. Jude Faculty/Director, Division of Solid Tumor 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 Thomas Coates, MD Section Head, Hematology; Attending Physician; Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation; Investigator, Hematology-Oncology; and Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC. Hosted by Yogindra Persaud MD Assistant Member with the Department of Hematology. 

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

Presented by Martin Heine, PhD, Group Leader - Global Health & Implementation Science with Princess Maxima Center. Introduction by Caitlyn Duffy MD Instructor with the Department Global Pediatric Medicine

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

Presented by Michele Lambert, MD, MSTR Associate Clinical Director, Frontier Program in Immune Dysregulation with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Host by Beau Mitchell MD Member with the Department of Hematology. 

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

Spiritual Care Week

Presented by Rev. Jessica Bratt Carle, Ph.D. a Clinical Ethicist with Corewell Health. Introduction by Mark Brown, MDiv, BCC with the Department of Spiritual Care. This session will be held in person in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium; a Webex link will also be available.

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 with Georgetown University.

This session will be held in person only  in the Marlo Thomas Center Auditorium. 

Presented by Douglas Luke, MA, PhD Distinguished Professor in Public Health Systems Science at WashU. Hosted by Asya Agulnik, MD Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty / Director, Global Critical Care Program, St. Jude Global / Director, Euro Regional Program, St. Jude Global with the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine.  

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. 

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 Steven W. Pipe, MD Laurence A Boxer M.D. Research Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Professor of Pathology University of Michigan Medical School. Hosted by Rohith Jesudas MD Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty with the department of 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.