Program

Thursday, April 22, 2010

2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Registration

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Alpine Ballroom I
CSCR Council Meeting

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Alpine Ballroom II
AFMR Career Development Workshop
Francis J. Miller, presiding
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
President-Elect, American Federation for Medical Research

2:00 Introduction to Workshop Goals and Objectives
Francis J. Miller, MD
2:00 The Physician Scientist of the 21st Century
Pamela B. Davis, MD PhD
Dean, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
2:40 Question & Answer Session
2:50 The Beautiful Life of a Clinician Scientist
Francois M. Abboud, MD
Edith King Pearson Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Associate Vice President for Research
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
3:30 Question & Answer Session
3:40 Break
4:00 Top Ten Attributes of a Successful Physician Scientist
Douglas E. Vaughan, MD
Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
4:40 Question & Answer Session
4:50 Panel Discussion

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Poster Author Set-Up

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Welcome Reception and Poster Session
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7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Past President’s Reception

6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Edelweiss Room
CSCR Sugar Club/Midwest Metabolism Dinner
50th Annual Max Miller Lecture in Diabetes Research

Donald F. Steiner, MD
A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Medicine
Sections of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Insulin: Past, Present and Future

 

Friday, April 23, 2010

7:30 am – 3:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Registration

7:30 am – 9:00 am
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 10:00 am
Grand Ballroom
Poster Author Set-Up

8:00 am – 8:15 am
Alpine Ballroom
Opening remarks by David Crabb, CSCR President, and James Maloney, MWAFMR Chair

Presentation of Awards to Outstanding Young Investigator and Cardiovascular Award Winners

Recognition of CSCR Early Career Development Awardees and K Award Grant Winners

Outstanding Young Investigator
Carmella Evans-Molina, Indiana University
PPAR-Gamma Activation Restores Pancreatic Islet Serca Levels and Prevents Beta Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes

Cardiovascular Award
Xiaoguang Sun, University of Chicago
Functional Variants of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1 Gene Associated with Asthma Susceptibility

8:15 am – 9:15 am
Grand Ballroom
Department Chair Session #1
Stuart Levin, Presiding
Rush University
The Ralph C. Brown, MD Professor of Medicine and
Chair, Department of Medicine

8:20 Elder Mistreatment: How Research Changed Practice and Policy
XinQiDong, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging
8:40 Intestinal Microbiota: Implications in Human Disease
Ece Mutlu, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rush University
9:00 Cell Therapy for Degenerating Intervertebral Discs
Yejia Zhang, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rush University

9:15 am – 10:15 am
Alpine Ballroom
MWAFMR Keynote Speaker
James Maloney, Presiding

Pleiotropic Effects of Statins: From Bedside to Bench and Back
James K. Liao, MD
Director, Vascular Medicine Research, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

10:15 am – 10:30 am
Intermission

10:30 am – 11:30 am
Alpine Ballroom
Oral Abstract Session
Bradley Britigan and Abraham Thomas, presiding

10:30 Frequency of CD4+CD25HIFOX3 Regulatory T Cells has Prognostic Value as a Biomarker for Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Sophie Paczesny, University of Michigan
10:45 PPAR-Gamma Activation Restores Pancreatic Islet Serca Levels and Prevents Beta Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes
Carmella Evans-Molina, Indiana University
11:00 Changes in Glucose Regulation During Caloric Restriction Combined with Partial Sleep Loss
Plamen Penev, University of Chicago

11:30 am – 11:45 am
Alpine Ballroom
CSCR Business Meeting

11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Grand Ballroom
Lunch and Poster Presentations
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Alpine Ballroom
CSCR Hickam Lecture
David Crabb, presiding

Tissue Insulin Resistance and the Origins of the Metabolic Syndrome
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine
Harvard University

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Alpine Ballroom
Department Chair Session #2
Lynell Klassen, Presiding
Henry J. Lehnhoff Professor of Medicine and
Chair, Department of Medicine

2:30 Airways Disease in Farmers: Organic Dust Exposure Impairs Innate Immune Function
Jill A. Poole, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Nebraska
2:50 Adenosine Multidimensional Role in Airway Injury
Diane Allen-Gipson, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Nebraska
3:10 MUC-4 in Lung Cancer
Apar Kishor Ganti, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Nebraska

4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location TBD
MWAFMR Scholar’s Program