Continuing Medical Education

Surgery Grand Rounds Guest Speaker 

About the presenter:

Karin Muraszko, M.D., grew up in New Jersey and received her undergraduate degree from Yale University. She then continued to Columbia University in New York where she received her medical degree and completed her residency training in Neurological Surgery and completed fellowships in pediatric neurosurgery.

Following her training at Columbia, Dr. Muraszko was a researcher at the National Institutes for Health for 2 years before joining the team at the University of Michigan. In 2005, Dr. Muraszko was chosen to head the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, becoming the first woman to chair an academic neurosurgery department in the United States.

Dr. Muraszko specializes in pediatric neurosurgery. She is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) along with several pediatric professional associations. Her research interests include Immunotoxin therapy for brain tumors, the biology of brain tumors, Chiari malformations, craniofacial anomalies, congenital anomalies of the brain and spine and hydrocephalus.

Dr. Muraszko lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and 2 children.

Additional links:

Dr. Karen Muraszko's Video Profile

Karin Muraszko Dr. Muraskos PubMed Publications

Karin Muraszko Michigan Research Experts Website

Guest Speaker: Dannah Raz, MD, Developmental Pediatrics 

Grand Rounds " Down Syndrome"

Presenter: Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, Surgeon in Chief and Chair of Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• List the indications for use of metabolic bariatric surgery in pediatric patients
• Discuss benefits, risks, and outcomes of surgery
• Review technical aspects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy

Meet the presenter:

Dr. Thomas (Tom) Inge is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics with tenure at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (November 15, 2021-current). He also holds the Lydia J. Fredrickson Board Designated Professorship in Pediatric Surgery and is the Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. His clinical practice has focused on advanced minimally invasive surgery and in particular, his clinical and academic interest over the last 20 years has been in the surgical care of adolescents with severe obesity. Dr. Inge has been continuously funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2005 and has been the principal investigator of the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study since 2006. He and his team have produced over 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He has also provided over 150 invited lectures for national and international professional groups. His leadership experience includes prior roles as Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Tom has also served as a member of the FDA’s Gastrointestinal and Urological Devices Committee, as a consultant to the NIH and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also served in leadership positions on numerous committees and task forces for surgical and pediatric professional organizations including American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The Obesity Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association.

Presentation title: Parental Authority

Panel of Presenters:

• Megan Land MD - Moderator, Critical Care physician and Ethics Committee Member
• Michelle Munkwitz, MD, Critical Care
• James Ahlers, Assistant General Counsel at Phoenix Children's Hospital and Ethics Committee member
• Adrian Ruiz - Parent representative on Ethics Committee
• Emma Ross, MD, PHD - Psychologist and Ethics Committee member
• Lisa Dowrick, RN, MS - Nurse and Ethics Committee member

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Define standards of surrogate decision making
• Discuss role of family in society including obligations and rights of parents
• Consider the developing child’s autonomy in decision making
• Discuss thresholds for overriding parental decisions

Guest Speaker: Robert Listernick, MD

Grand Rounds "Neurofibromatosis Type 1 in Children"

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency in distinguishing between the various forms of neurofibromatosis syndromes in children
• Demonstrate proficiency in recognizing the early manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 in children