Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum

2014 Agenda

Light Breakfast

7:30 AM
Sarratt Cinema Lobby

Welcome

8:00 AM
Sarratt Cinema

Lawrence J. Marnett, PhD
Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research
Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences
Mary Geddes Stahlman Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmacology

Plenary Sessions

8:20 AM
Sarratt Cinema

Oxidative Injury during Cardiac Surgery Frederic Billings, MD, MSCI Asst. Professor, Anesthesiology	Somatic Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorders Carissa Cascio, PhD Asst. Professor, Psychiatry	Comparative Effectiveness of Metformin and Other Oral Antidiabetic Medications on Kidney Function Adriana Hung, MD, MPH Asst. Professor, Nephrology*
Estrogen and Progesterone Increase IL-17A Airway Inflammation in Severe Asthma Dawn Newcomb, PhD Asst. Professor, Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine*		Leveraging Technologies to Promote Medication Adherence in Diabetes Chandra Osborn, PhD, MPH Asst. Professor, Biomedical Informatics and General Internal Medicine & Public Health*

Breakout Sessions

10:00 AM

Sarratt 189	Sarratt 325/327	Sarratt 331
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Chronic Kidney Disease Jorge Gamboa, MD, PhD Instructor, Clinical Pharmacology*	mTOR Signaling in Myelination Robert Carson, MD, PhD Asst. Professor, Pediatric Neurology**	Etiology of Childhood Pneumonia in the United States Derek Williams, MD, MPH Asst. Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine**
Bromine: A New Essential Element Jay Bhave, MD, PhD Asst. Professor, Nephrology*	Hypertension and Maladaptive Immune Response Meena Madhur, MD, PhD Asst. Professor, Clinical Pharmacology*	Metabolic and CD4 + T cell Dysregulation in Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus Brian Engelhardt, MD, MSCI Asst. Professor, Hematology/Oncology*
Genetic Variants Associated with Lung Cancer Risk in African Americans Melinda Aldrich, PhD, MPH Asst. Professor, Thoracic Surgery	Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Risk of Drug Withdrawal in Opioid-Exposed Infants Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH Asst. Professor, Neonatology** & Health Policy	Circadian Rhythms and Metabolism: Fat Matters Julie Pendergast, PhD Research Asst. Professor, Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism*
Antiretroviral Therapy and Incident Tuberculosis: Causal Inference with Time-Varying Treatments April Pettit, MD, MPH Asst. Professor, Infectious Disease	Predictors of Medication Errors After Hospital Discharge Amanda Mixon, MD, MS, MSPH Asst. Professor, General Internal Medicine & Public Health*	Development of a Parahydrogen-based Polarizer Instrument for Observing Metabolism in Living Tissue Kevin Waddell, PhD Asst. Professor, Radiology & Radiological Sciences

* Department of Medicine
** Department of Pediatrics

Guest Plenary Lecture

Challenges and Opportunities in Translational Research: Lessons from Studying Biomarkers for Cancer Screening

11:15 AM
Sarratt Cinema

David Ransohoff, MD
Professor Medicine and Epidemiology
University of North Carolina

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