Upcoming Events

GRAND ROUNDS: Slow Looking: An Essential Skill in the Toolkit of Clinical Diagnosis and Caring
Presenter: Vincent P. de Luise, MD, FACS

Thursday, October 22, 2026
4:30pm- 6:00pm
Location: Zoom (RSVP for link)
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The rapid pace of medicine has led to challenges for physicians and physicians-in-training to find the time and space to have impactful encounters with their patients, from history-taking and diagnosis to discussions of treatment and care.

Through the technique of Slow Looking, time and space with patients can be optimized, and the patient can be truly noticed, not just seen and examined.

Slow Looking and mindful observation, using representational and non-representational Art as the paradigm, is a skill set which can be learned, internalized, and transferred to the patient encounter. This can better inform the physician and physician-in-training in their analysis, reflection, diagnosis and treatment. Slow Looking builds upon empathy and compassion, and can improve the quality of the patient-physician care journey.

Objective: To learn a set of observational techniques in viewing representational and non-representational Art which can be utilized in the clinical examination of the patient, diagnostic decision-making and treatment. 

GRAND ROUNDS: What Time Do We Eat?
Presenter: Salvatore Mangione, MD

Thursday, November 5, 2026
4:30pm- 6:00pm
Location: Zoom (RSVP for link)
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This 1-hour presentation will review how the 1700s introduction of whale oil not only extended work hours, but also changed our eating habits, so that the largest meal of the day (what the English called 'dinner' and the French 'dîneur') gradually moved towards the evening hours, thus replacing supper (the French souper) and ultimately requiring the 1786 creation of an entirely new word ('lunch') in order to describe the recent (and light) midday meal.

Countless testimonies confirm that eating patterns did change during the 17- and 1800s, and so did the way we named our meals. All of this upended our metabolic balance, since it's now quite clear that the best way to maintain a normal weight is by eating a good lunch and then consuming either a light or no supper at all (i.e. ‘Time-restricted Eating’).

Hence, this presentation is on linguistics, literary evidence, socio-anthropology, plus the history of artificial illumination. It's also a talk on how the American whaling industry captured 80% of the oil market, thus making mid-1850s New Bedford the wealthiest city on the planet. But most importantly, it's a talk on the medical implications of it all.