5/12/2026 - Medical Grand Rounds: Resident Research Presentations
Please join us for our next bi-weekly Medicine Grand Rounds with four of our Internal Medicine residents, as they present their research in progress:
Natalie Bock, MD: Adverse pregnancy outcomes burden and subsequent cardiovascular admissions by early midlife
Varun Jain, MD: Performance, Validity, and Clinical Impact of Diagnostic Codes for Iron Deficiency Anemia in a Nationwide Cohort from the United States
Mahmut Kaymakci, MD: Rare Gain-of-Function Variants in IDH1 and IDH2 Confer Increased Risk of Immune-Mediated Rheumatic Diseases
Emily Long, MD: Impact of a 5 Ms-Based EHR Template on Resident Learning in Geriatrics
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Develop EHR note templates that effectively teach subspecialty content to resident learners.
- Assess the impact of subspecialty note templates on resident performance and knowledge retention.
- Design and implement a management script to support and enhance resident learning.
- Explain the role of somatic mutations in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated rheumatic diseases.
- Identify the association between concomitant myeloid cancers and immune-mediated rheumatic diseases in clinical contexts.
- Describe the role of large population-based biobanks in advancing rare disease research.
- Analyze the relationship between adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiovascular disease.
- Recognize non-traditional cardiometabolic risk factors for heart disease in women.
- Integrate screening for adverse pregnancy outcomes into patient care to improve clinical outcomes.
- Evaluate challenges in the diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia.
- Apply established criteria to diagnose iron deficiency anemia and order appropriate laboratory tests.
- Describe key data science techniques relevant to clinical and research applications.
Natalie Bock, MD — Internal Medicine Resident PGY2 - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Varun Jain, MD — Internal Medicine Resident PGY2 - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Mahmut Kaymakci, MD — Internal Medicine Resident PGY2 - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Emily Long, MD — Internal Medicine Resident PGY2 - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Disclosures:
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Disclosures:
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The University of Pittsburgh designates enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 0.75 Attendance

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