2012 Combined Annual Meeting of CSCR and MWAFMR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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