Preliminary Program

Thursday, April 22, 2010

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
CSCR Associate Editors Meeting

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
CSCR Council Meeting

2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Registration Open

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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
J. Larry Jameson, MD
Vice President for Medical Affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
4:40 Question & Answer Session
4:50 Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Poster Author Set-Up

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception and Poster Session
(even-numbered posters)

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Past President’s Reception

6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
CSCR Sugar Club/Midwest Metabolism Dinner
Donald F. Steiner, MD
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Department of Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Insulin: Past, Present and Future
(*Separate registration required)

 

Friday, April 23, 2010

7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Registration open

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Poster Author Set-Up

8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Opening remarks by the CSCR President, David Crabb, MD
and the MWAFMR President, James Maloney, MD

8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Department Chair Session 1
Stuart Levin, MD
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 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
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 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Oral Abstract Session

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
John Booth, University of Chicago

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
CSCR Business Meeting

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Poster Session
(odd-numbered posters)

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
CSCR Hickam Lecture
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Harvard University
Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Department Chair Session 2
Lynell Klassen, MD
Henry J. Lehnhoff Professor of Medicine and
Chair, Department of Medicine

4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
MWAFMR Scholar’s Program