Since 1989, Mini Med School at CU Anschutz has educated and thrilled audiences of all ages and interests throughout Colorado and beyond with presentations by renowned doctors on topics ranging from chronic medical conditions to current and emerging medicine.
It is a series of eight lectures on basic science as it relates to medicine and is presented by medical doctors from the CU Anschutz School of Medicine.
The 8-week lecture series is split into two semesters. The Fall semester has four lectures on Wednesday evenings in October, while the remaining four occur in April during the Spring semester. Each semester includes a “Frontier’s in Medicine” presentation.
If you registered in the Fall, there is no need to register again for the Spring session.
JJ Cohen Mini MedSpring 2026 Schedule(Wednesdays from 7-8 PM) | |||
| Date | Location | Session Title | Presenter |
Wednesday April 8, 2026
| Ed2 North 1107 | Hearts, Lungs, and High Stakes | Robert Meguid, MD MPH FACS |
Wednesday April 15, 2026
| Ed2 North 1107 | TBD | Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH |
Wednesday April 22, 2026
| Ed2 North 1107 | Frontiers in Medicine | Roberto Silva, MD |
Wednesday April 29, 2026 | Ed2 North 1107 | Your Immune System in Health and Disease | Kevin Deane, MD/PhD |
Meet our Presenters!
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with additional training in public health and health services research. He has worked nationally and internationally on issues related to professionalism and the social roles of physicians, including the roles of health professionals in the Holocaust and the contemporary implications of this legacy. He has worked with organizations including the American Medical Association, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and he has led national projects on medicine and the Holocaust, professionalism in medicine and public health, ethics in wartime, truth and racial reconciliation in medicine, and more. He is a member of the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust, and he has served on numerous other major commissions. Dr. Wynia has delivered more than 2 dozen named lectures and visiting professorships and is the author of more than 230 published articles. He has served as president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and chair of the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Dr Wynia currently leads the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, where the Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics program spans all health sciences training programs and all 4 campuses.
Kevin D. Deane, MD/PhD
Dr. Deane is a Rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz. His undergraduate training was at the University of California, Davis, which is near his hometown of Auburn, California. He completed medical school at Loma Linda University and his Internal Medicine Residency and Rheumatology Fellowship at the University of Colorado. He practices outpatient and inpatient clinical rheumatology at UCHealth. His research interests are in understanding how rheumatoid arthritis (RA) develops, and especially the biology of RA prior to the onset of the first swollen joint – a period that can be termed ‘pre-RA’. He has also participated in research related to the role of the lung in RA – both as an initiating site for RA, and as a ‘target’ for autoimmune-mediated injury. Dr. Deane is also the Director of the Autoimmune Disease Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/centers/adpc
Robert Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS
Robert Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS, is the Stan & Mary Ellen Cope Family Endowed Chair and Professor of Surgery in the Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Meguid joined the faculty in 2012 after completing his general surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a research fellowship in thoracic oncology, a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a cardiothoracic surgery residency at the University of Washington. He is the Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Surgery. He is a founding member and a past president of the Thoracic Surgery Outcomes Research Network, a member of the AATS, SUS, STS, WTSA, ESTS, AAS, Surgical Outcomes Club, and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His research interests are in the identification and development of processes and systems of care leading to improved surgical patient outcomes. These efforts are currently focused on improving patient understanding and provider assessment of preoperative risk, and on using advanced statistical methodology to identify adverse postoperative outcomes. He practices in all aspects of general thoracic surgery. His clinical expertise in thoracic Surgery is in minimally invasive, robotic approaches to malignant and benign lung, esophageal disease, and management of chest wall disease. He enjoys his free time with his wife and kids, travelling, playing soccer with his kids, and snowboarding.
All in-person sessions will be on the CU Anschutz campus.
Parking:
Parking lots closest to the in-person session building are highlighted in red on the map below.
Handicap Parking
Designated handicap parking is available in the visitor pay parking lots. Visitors must display the State of Colorado Disability Placard on their vehicle while in the visitor handicap parking areas along with parking payment receipt or the vehicle will be ticketed. Handicap parking spaces are subject to the same rate structure as indicated in the Patient and Visitor Parking section below.
Patient/Visitor Parking
On the CU Anschutz, there are daily cash customer parking lots for CU Anschutz Patients and Visitors: Parking for patients or visitors is located at any parking lot signed "Patient and Visitor Parking" and at parking meters. The daily parking rates are as follows:
- $1.00 per hour up to 8 hours
- Daily Maximum Rate - $8.00
- Parking meters are 25 cents / 15 minutes with a maximum stay of 4 hours
- Evenings after 4PM - $1.00 flat rate
- Weekends and Campus Holidays - $1.00 flat rate
The visitor parking lots have automated pay stations. The license plate of the vehicle parked will need to be entered at the pay station upon payment. The receipt does not have to be displayed on the dash of the vehicle. The pay stations accept many forms of payment:
- Cash/coin up to a $5 bill (Change is NOT given at the machine. A refund receipt will be issued and will need to be taken to the parking office in Building 500.)
- Credit card payments accepted (Visa, MasterCard, Discover)
- Day Passes can be purchased from the Parking Office
Parkmobile Pay By Phone
Using Parkmobile allows you to pay for parking, at Parkmobile enabled pay stations, by phone. When using Parkmobile you choose how long you want to park and pay for that amount of time. When the expiration time approaches, you can receive a text alert allowing you to extend your time (within the maximum time limit for the lot.) Advantages include:
- Decreased chance of parking fines with text message expiration reminders sent to your cell phone.
- A new smart phone app which enables all of the capabilities of the service with the touch of a button.
- Parking receipts via email/text message.
- Corporate accounts: Parkmobile offers the option to create corporate accounts with an unlimited number of parkers and the ability to pre-pay in denominations available for departmental use.
- A $.35 transaction fee will apply for each transaction.
To pay by phone, you will first need to create an account with Parkmobile.
Can't make it to CU Anschutz in-person? Check out the following site locations near you!
Southwestern Colorado Area Health Education Center
Commons Building
701 Camino Del Rio,
Suite 320,
Durango, CO 81301
Dyllon Mills
Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Intermountain Health/St. Mary’s
2635 N. 7th St.
Grand Junction, CO 81501
Georgia Hoaglund
JJ Cohen Mini Med SchoolFall 2025 Archive(Select Session Title to View Recorded Session) | ||
| Date | Session Title | Presenter |
October 8, 2025
| Chris Latimer, MD | |
October 15, 2025
| Dr. Rodriguez, MD | |
October 22, 2025
| Dr. Douglas Speedie, MD | |
October 29, 2025 | Liz Gunderson, MD | |