2012 Combined Annual Meeting of CSCR and MWAFMR

Program Schedule

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

10:00am - 4:30pm Poster Author Set-Up
11:00am - 9:00pm Registration Open
12:00pm - 1:00pm CSCR Associate Editors Meeting
2:00pm - 4:00pm CSCR Council Meeting
2:00pm - 5:00pm MWAFMR Career Development Workshop

Negotiating a Job Offer (Presented with an interactive component)
Laurie R. Weingart, PhD
Carnegie Bosch Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University

Faculty Development: Presentation Skills for Physicians and Scientists: Making Your Next Presentation Go Better than Your Last
Scott C. Litin, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic

5:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome Reception and Poster Session
7:00pm - 8:30pm Max Miller Lecture

David J. Mangelsdorf

Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Nutrient Metabolism
David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

7:00pm - 8:30pm NEW! The Role of Inflammation in Health and Disease

Inflammation: A Common Pathophysiologic Path for Chronic Disease

Keynote Presenter: Peter Libby, MD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Melissa A. Brown, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology/Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

G.R. Scott Budinger, MD
Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Cell and Molecular Biology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research
The University of Chicago

Friday, April 27, 2012

7:00am - 5:00pm Registration Open
7:00am - 8:00am Poster Author Set-Up
8:00am - 8:15 am CSCR Business Meeting & Welcome
Opening remarks by the CSCR President and the MWAFMR President
8:30am - 9:30am AFMR Keynote Session

Nancy Brown

From ACE Inhibitor-Associated Angioedema to Diabetes: Following a Scientific Lead
Nancy J. Brown, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt University

9:30am - 10:30am Poster Session & Morning Break
10:30am - 11:30am Department Chair Session I

Roy Silverstein

Roy Silverstein, MD, presiding
Medical College of Wisconsin

Phase I Study of the Adenosine 2A Agonist Regadenoson in Sickle Cell Anemia
Joshua Field, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine in Hematology/Oncology

Adverse effects of low glucose on human endothelial function
Michael E. Widlansky, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Using induced pluripotent stem cells to study dystrophic cardiomyopathy
Jennifer L. Strande, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

10:30am - 11:30am Department Chair Session II

Everett Vokes

Everett Vokes, MD, presiding
University of Chicago

Chicken or Egg? Sleep and Health in Hospitalized Older Patients
Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP
Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency

The Paradox of Progress: Environmental Disruption of Metabolism and the Diabetes Epidemic
Robert Sargis, MD, PhD
Instructor, Section of Adult and Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

Drugging the Kinome . . . Personally
Michael Maitland, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology/Oncology

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch & Poster Session
12:30pm - 1:30pm CSCR Hickam Lecture

Arthur H. Rubenstein

Academic Leadership: The Legacy of John B. Hickam
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
University of Pennsylvania

1:30pm - 2:00pm NEW! Awards & Featured New Investigator Lecture

Microrna Processing Genes and Implications for Human Complex Traits
R. Stephanie Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Hematology-Oncology
The University of Chicago

2:00pm - 3:00pm Poster Session & Afternoon Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm Oral Abstract Session I
(Presentation of award to the Outstanding Young Investigator recipient)

F-box protein FBXL19 protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced lung inflammation and injury
Yutong Zhao, MD, PhD (Outstanding Young Investigator Award Recipient)
University of Pittsburgh

Variants in the 3’ untranslated region of the KCN01-encoded KV&.1 potassium channel modify disease severity in patients with Type 1 long QT syndrome in an allele-specific manner
John Giudicessi, MD, PhD Candidate
Mayo Clinic

Oxalobacter formigenes conditioned medium stimulates oxalate transport by human intestinal cells
Hatim Hassan, MD, PhD
The University of Chicago

3:00pm - 4:00pm Oral Abstract Session II
(Presentation of award to the Cardiovascular Award recipient)

Association of biomarker sphingosine-1- phosphate receptor 3 genetic variants with human susceptibility to sepis-induced acute lung injury
Xiaoguang Sun, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Award recipient)
The University of Illinois at Chicago

Tarcrolimus and sirolimus induce reproductive abnormalities in normal rats
Vijay Shivaswamy, MBBS
Omaha VA Medical Center

Sleep duration and the etiology of depressive symptoms Evidence for a gene-environment interaction
Nathaniel Watson, MD
University of Washington

4:00pm - 5:00pm MWAFMR Scholars Program Reception