Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Title of the talk: The cardiac pathophysiology of CKM syndrome: models, targets, and potential strategies

Presenter: Alejandro R. Chade, MD, FAHA. Professor.

Affiliations: The Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology and Department of Medicine.  NextGen Precision Health Investigator.  University of Missouri-Columbia

Learning objectives:

  • Discuss Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome: overview, pathophysiology, and unmet needs.
  • Discuss the translational traits of the swine model and show unbiased high throughput approaches to identify new mechanistic pathways and potential therapeutic targets of cardiac and renal injury in CKM syndrome.
  • Discuss the bench-to-bedside potential of new therapeutic strategies for renal and cardiac therapy in CKM syndrome.
Session date: 
02/12/2026 - 12:00pm EST
Location: 
GW Hospital Auditorium
Washington, DC
United States
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  • 1.00 ABIM MOC 2
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Completion
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