6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ballroom B

Welcome Reception and Poster Session

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Friday, April 25, 2008

8:00 am – 8:15 am

Opening remarks by James Martins, CSCR President, and Francis Miller, MWAFMR President

Presentation of Awards to Outstanding Young Investigator and Cardiovascular Award Winners

8:15 am – 9:00 am
Ballroom A

Department Chair Session #1
Peter B. Bitterman, Presiding
University of Minnesota Medical School
Vice Chair for Research and Professor, Department of Medicine

8:15
Natural Killer Cell Receptors Influence Survival after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Implications for Donor Selection
Sarah Cooley, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

8:30
The KSHV Chemokine Receptor
Mark Cannon, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

8:45
Women’s Health in Cystic Fibrosis
Joanne Billings, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

9:00 am – 10:00 am

CSCR Hickam Lecture
James B. Martins, Presiding

From the Forest Canopy to the Edge of the Water: What Can Medical Informatics Do for Clinical Medicine?
William Tierney
Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Intermission

10:30 am – 11:30 am
Ballroom A

MWAFMR Keynote Speaker
Francis Miller, Presiding

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Autoimmune Disease
Richard Burt
Chief, Division of Immunotherapy for Autoimmune Diseases and Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ballroom B

Lunch and Poster Presentations

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1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Ballroom A

Department Chair Session #2
Thomas J. Layden, Presiding
University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
Edmund F. Foley Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine

1:30
The Role of Chronic Kidney Disease in an Elderly High-Risk Population
Michael Fischer, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

1:45
Geographic Variation of Spirometry Use for a New Diagnosis of COPD
Min Joo, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

2:00
Health - Related Quality of Life in Hispanics with Chronic Kidney Disease
Julio Vijil, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Ballroom A

Oral Abstract Session
Brian Hoit and Nalini Rajamannan, Presiding

2:15
SERUM F2-ISOPROSTANES AND OXIDIZED LDL ARE LONGITUDINALLY ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER LUNG FUNCTION: THE CARDIA STUDY.
Betty Tran, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

2:30
INTRODUCTION OF IGG FROM PREECLAMPTIC PATIENTS INTO PREGNANT MICE LEADS TO MULTIPLE FEATURES OF PREECLAMPSIA VIA AT1 RECEPTOR ACTIVATION.
Roxanna Irani, University of Texas at Houston

2:45
EXPANDED AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN CORD BLOOD-DERIVED CD133+ STEM CELLS IMPROVES CARDIAC FUNCTION IN A RAT MODEL OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.
Jon George, University Hospitals Case Medical Center

3:00 pm – 3:55 pm
Ballroom A

AFMR Speaker
Francis Miller and James Oates, Presiding

Disease Pathways in Large Vessel Vasculitis
Cornelia Weyand
David C. Lowance, MD Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AFMR Scholar’s Program
On behalf of the Organizing Committee we would like to thank Centocor for sponsoring the Scholar’s Program. The purpose of this program is to promote the careers of junior investigators by providing an opportunity for them to present their research in a critical but intimate and friendly environment and network with both established and early investigators in their area of interest. Industry representatives have kindly agreed to fund this program. The Scholar’s Program is not a CME activity.