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APSA Annual Meeting 2008: Chicago, IL (April 25-27, 2008)

Last Updated: June 16, 2008

American Physician Scientists Association

4th Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL (April 25-27, 2008)

Registration is Now Open and Available Here!
This is a tentative agenda that is subject to change. Check back often for up to date information

Saturday, April 26, 2008 (The Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, IL)

ASCI/AAP

07:00 am - 08:15 am

Mentorship Breakfast

ASCI/AAP

07:00 am - 11:15 am

Poster Viewing

ASCI/AAP

08:30 am - 11:35 am

Plenary Session: Genome-Wide Association Studies/Genetics of Complex Diseases

ASCI/AAP 08:30 am - 09:10 am

David Altshuler, MD, PhD (Bio)

Associate Professor

Department of Genetics & Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Human Genetic Research

Attending Physician, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Founding Member, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute

ASCI/AAP 09:10 am - 09:50 am

Judy H. Cho, MD (Bio)

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine & Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Chair, Steering Committee NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium

ASCI/AAP 09:50 am - 10:15 am

Break

ASCI/AAP 10:15 am - 10:55 am

Kari Stefansson, MD (Bio)

President & Chief Executive Officer, deCODE

Chairman, Board of Directors, deCODE

Former Professor of Neruology, Neuropathology, and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

Former Director of Neuropathology, Beth Israel Hospital

 ASCI/AAP

10:55 am - 11:35 am

Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD (Bio)

Chairman, Department of Genetics

Sterling Professor of Genetics, Medicine, and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Member, National Academy of Sciences
The Basic Science Prize, American Heart Association
Homer Smith Award, American Society of Nephrology
MSD International Award, International Society of Hypertension

ASCI/AAP

11:35 am - 01:30 pm

Poster Session with Lunch

ASCI/AAP

01:30 am - 03:00 pm

Poster Dismantle

ASCI/AAP

01:30 pm - 03:30 pm

Plenary Session : Breaking Science from Recent JCI Issues

APSA 03:30 pm - 03:40 pm

Break

ASCI/AAP 03:45 pm - 05:05 pm

ASCI / AAP New Member Presentations

APSA 03:40 pm - 04:25 pm

Keynote: "Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer"

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP (Bio)

Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics

Director, Cancer Risk Clinic

Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program

University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine

MacArthur Fellow (Genius Award - 2005)

APSA 04:25 pm - 05:05 pm

Residents & Fellows Panel Discussion

Topic: Current Residents & Fellows in Physician-Scientist Residency Tracks

Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania

Andrea Havens, MD

PGY1, Department of Internal Medicine
Vanderbilt University

Marion Hofmann-Borman, MD, PhD

Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
University of Chicago

Christopher Weber, MD, PhD

Pathology Resident
University of Chicago

ASCI/AAP

05:05 pm - 05:35 pm

ASCI Presidential Address

Charles L. Sawyers, MD (Bio)

Chairman, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award

Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, American Association for Cancer Research

David A. Karnofsky Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology

ASCI/AAP

05:35 pm - 06:05 pm

AAP Presidential Address

Judith Swain, MD (Bio)

Founding Executive Director

Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR

Former Chair, Department of Medicine

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Past President, American Society for Clinical Investigation

APSA

06:05 pm - 06:15 pm

Break

APSA

06:15 pm - 06:30 pm

"The APM Physician-Scientist Initiative: Revitalization of the Nation’s Physician-Scientist Workforce"

Andrew I. Schafer, MD (Bio)

Chairman, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Physician-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

APSA

06:30 pm - 07:15 pm

Keynote: "Can/should you plan a career?"
Joseph P. Miletich, MD, PhD (Bio)

Senior Vice President of Research and Development

Amgen, Inc.

Former Senior Vice President of Worldwide Preclinical Development, Merck Research Laboratories

Former Professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology, Washington University at St. Louis

ASCI/AAP

07:00 pm - 10:00 pm

AAP Annual Reception and Dinner (space limited for APSA Members)

Speaker: Jeffrey R. Boehm, DVM

Shedd Aquarium

APSA

07:30 pm - 10:00 pm

APSA Social Events: Dinner On Your Own Outing

APSA

08:00 pm - 10:00 pm

APSA Leadership Dinner (open to APSA Board of Directors, Executive Council, Institutional Representatives, and Standing Committee Members)

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