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Clinical Research Work in Progress

A weekly in depth discussion of two pre-selected relevant recent publications from the biomedical literature

Democracy, Governance and Curbing Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Location: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

An international conference organized by the Master of Public Administration Program, in collaboration with The African & Caribbean Business Council.

While other regions of the world are making strides in improving the living standards of their citizens, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still trapped in poverty with more than 40% of its 600 million people living below the internationally recognised absolute poverty level of US$ 1 per day. Several reports highlight corruption as one of the institutional and systemic problems responsible for keeping million of Africans under absolute poverty. In fact, the 2008 Transparency International report demonstrates a direct link between corruption and failure of societal institutions to effectively achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in SSA. It is a serious concern that the goals of halving poverty in SSA by the year 2015 from the level of 1990 will not be met.

For additional information including call for papers, registration and lodging, please visit the conference website at: http://www.cheyney.edu/international-anticorruption/index.cfm

Presentations by:

Sara Karjoo, MD (Wells Lab)

Joshua Friedman, MD, PhD (Friedman Lab)

Presentations by:

Maria Vega, PhD Student (Rustgi Lab)

"New technologies in FACS/sorting"

Jie Zheng, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair for Research

Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology

University of California, Davis

"Temperature-dependent activation
of TRPV channels"

Physiology Conference Room B404 Richards Building

4:00PM-5:00PM

For more information call: (215) 898-8725

Attendees: Clinical faculty practicing at PCAM, Practice Administrator, CDA

Attendees: Practice Managers, Mary Ipri, and Drs. Rustgi, Metz, Hoops, and Jaffe

Attendees: Clinical faculty practicing at PPMC; Practice Manager

Attendees: Drs. Metz, Lieb, Yang, RN's, Robin Obelmejias, Heather Currier

Attendees: CDA, Practice Manager/Coordinator of each location, Clinical RN Manager

Call in #: 800-314-2582

Passcode: 435603

Steven Artandi Stanford University  Lorena Beese Duke University  Robert Weinberg Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Cynthia Wolberger Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Johns Hopkins University

Presentations by:

Jung Oh, MD, PhD (Roos Lab)

Gregory Sonnenberg, PhD

Presentations by:

Sue Keilbaugh, PhD; Lillian Chau, Sarah Smith, PhD; Michael Sheng (Wu Lab)

Yi-Ju Chen, PhD (Stanger Lab)

Institute of Innate Immunity
University of Bonn, Germany
&
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology

"Role of inflammasones in sterile inflammation and novel therapeutic strategies"

Friday, January 25th at 1pm
Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research

**Co-Sponsored by the Institute for Immunology

Monday, January 7th 2013 (2:00-3:30pm)
Location: LDI Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 1st Floor, 3641 Locust Walk

Guest Speaker: Dr. Curtis McMillen
Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

Where Intervention Development and Implementation Intersect: Services for Youth and Foster Care

Research Areas: Improving mental health services for children and youth in foster care

Professor

Pathobiology

Austrian Auditorium

Specific and Non-specific CD8-Mediated Immunopathology in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Professor

Microbiology

"Organ specific immune response to murine coronavirus determines pathogenesis"

Austrian Auditorium

Professor

Pediatrics

Wulan Deng: "Controlling higher order chromatin organization at a native gene locus"

Stephan Kadauke: "Remembering" transcription programs through mitosis"

Class of '62

"Interdisciplinary Conference"

TBA

"Using Drosophila to discover mechanisms by which the intestinal epithelium restricts viral infection"

Zaret Lab

Dr. Eicke Latz
University of Bonn and University of Massachusetts
Role of crystalline cholesterol in athergenesis

Tues, Jan 15	Innate immune responses in HIV infection
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building	Marcus Altfeld, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Co-Sponsored with the Immunology Graduate Group and HIV Grand Rounds

Speaker: Jeffrey Thomson Affiliation: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Speaker: Nuala Meyer, MD, MS Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division

Speaker: Edmund Moon Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division

Speaker: Elena Goncharova Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division

Global Mental Health and Ethics Module

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PHD
Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor
Medical Ethics and Health Policy Department
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Health Care Reform and The Future of American Medicine”

Location: Perelman West Building, 1^st Floor - Rubenstein Auditorium (TRC)

Global Mental Health and Ethics Module

Dominic A. Sisti, Ph.D.
Program Director
The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare
Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Behavioral Healthcare & Health Reform: Clinical Challenges, Ethical Opportunities”

Location: 3535 Market Street, 16^th Floor, Conference Room D

Paul Axelsen Lab - "Membranes: Oxidative stress and membranes - the slow burn"

Dutton Lab - "Imagine all the switches"

BPS Speakers (Axelsen)

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

George P. Chrousos -Visiting Professor at NIH: University of Athens, Athens Greece

Topic: "Clinical Implications of Glucocorticoid Resistance and Hypersensitivity "

Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine diseases
• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders
• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

Alexander Brucker, MD - Professor of Opthamology

Topic: "Update on the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy"

Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine diseases
• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders
• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Tea Lanisnik Rizner, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Biochemistry
Faculty of Medicine
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Estrogen Metabolism and Endometrial Cancer
CRRWH co-sponsored seminar with CEET

This comprehensive institute is designed to develop skills that are useful in qualitative and mixed methods research, including:

Structuring and conducting an interview
Selecting an appropriate sample
Organizing and facilitating a focus group
Managing, coding and analyzing data
Publishing your work
Use and application of NVivo software. Advanced NVivo training will also be available.

Rates:

General Registration (3 days): $850
Student rate (3 days): $450
Group rate (3 days, 3 people or more - contact lahall@exchange.upenn.edu to register): $450
Lectures-only (2 days): $550

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH DAY encourages collaboration between researchers and community based organizations (CBOs) and community groups who have questions that they are interested in answering about health literacy, healthy weight, and healthy behaviors. Through an interactive poster session, CBOs and community groups will highlight their questions to program participants who will include area non-profits, community groups, public sector partners, and researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and other local academic institutions. CBOs, community groups, academic researchers, and students will be able to meet and discuss potential, mutually-beneficial collaborations.

For more information: http://www.phillyviolenceprevention.org/research-day/

Speaker: David M. Eckmann, Ph.D., M.D. Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care

Genetics Research Talks

Rob Plasschaert-Bartolomei Lab
"Binding site sequence affects the developmental control of CTCF occupancy and function"

Dan Swarr-Morrisey Lab
"Exploring the Role of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Lung Development"

Professor of Medicine, HMS

Director, Innate Immunity Program

Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard

"Innate immune responses in HIV infection"

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Department of Immunology

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

“mTOR and metabolic pathways in T cell fate decisions”

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

The Prince Turki al Saud Professor of Pediatrics

Boston Children’s Hospital

"Innate lymphoid cells and viral infection shape immunity in the lungs"

Austrian Auditorium

Ann Hochschild, Ph.D., (Harvard), "Bacteria-based tools for studying prions and amyloid formation"

Barbara A. Baird, Ph.D. (Cornell), "Zooming in on spatial control of receptor mediated cellular responses"

Hashim Al-Hashimi, Ph.D. (MIchigan), "Breathing life into nucleic acid structure: dynamics at atomic resolution"

Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University

http://randolab.stanford.edu/

“Molecular Regulation of stem cell quiescence”

H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
University of Utah

http://www.neuro.utah.edu/people/faculty/yost.html

“Combinatorial Heparan Sulfate codes regulate cell signaling pathways during cardiovascular development”

Genetics Research Talks

Isabel Wang-Cheung Lab
"RNA-DNA sequence differences occur in nascent RNA in human cells"

Amanda Zacharias-Murray Lab
"Identifying targets of Wnt signaling in C. elegans embryogenesis"

***PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL***

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Madhukar Trivedi, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health

Chief, Division of Mood DisordersDirector, Depression Center

Presents:

To be announced

Monday, January 7^th, 2013 at 2:00pm

Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Brad Dickerson, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Presents:

“Large-scale brain networks and cortical signatures of neuro degenerative diseases"

Friday, January 11^th, 2013 at 12:00pm

Flyers/76ers Surgery Theatre – Ground White

January 11, 2013

Caryn Lerman, Ph.D.
Psychiatry
"Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Nicotine Dependence Treatment"

January 25, 2013

Stewart Anderson, M.D.
CHOP/Psychiatry
"Cortical Interneurons in Development & Disease"

January 11, 2013

Caryn Lerman, Ph.D.
Psychiatry
"Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Nicotine Dependence Treatment"

James L. Manley, Ph.D.
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/manley/

"mRNA processing and links to human disease"

1:00pm - 3:00pm in 252 BRB II/III

"Recent advances in the molecular epidemiology of pancreatic cancer"

Determinants of cellular sensitivity to EGFR inhibition

Planar cell polarity in the mammaliam epidermis

CRB Austrian Auditorium, 2pm

Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Speaker

Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D

University of California- Davis

“The Behavior of Mitochondria”

CRB Austrian Auditorium, 2pm

Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Speaker

Christopher McCulloch, Ph.D., D.D.S.

University of Toronto

“Control of collagen remodeling through non-muscle myosin adhesions”

CRB Austrian Auditorium, 2pm

Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Speaker

Harold Fisk, Ph.D.

The Ohio State University

“Multiple roles for the Mps1 protein kinase in centrosome homeostasis."

Genetics Research Talks

Tiziana Sanavia-Stoeckert Lab
"Function-based discovery of temporal patterns in beta cell development"

BRB AUDITORIUM **PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUALY**

Lama Chahine, MD
“Predicting the Future in RBD”

Nalaka S. Gooneratne, MD, MSc
“Understanding the Relationship between Comorbid Sleep Apnea and Insomnia"

"Exercise Counseling in Low-Income Ethnic Minority Individuals with Hear Failure: A Pilot Study" Margaret M. McCarthy

Community Engagement Seminar Series

Please RSVP by Monday, January 14^th!

Using Community-Engaged Research to Build Higher Value Healthcare for Vulnerable Patients

Shreya Kangovi, MD

Veterans Affairs Special Fellow

Thursday, January 17^th

12:00-1:30_PM

11-146AB Smilow Center for Translational Research

3400 Civic Center Blvd, Bldg 421

Located on Civic Center Blvd, the Smilow Center for Translational Research (SCTR) is a quick 5-7 minute walk from Blockley Hall and the Biomedical Research Building. SCTR shares the same entrance with the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine and Roberts Proton Therapy Center. The seminar will be held in the 11^th floor conference room.

Join us as Dr. Shreya Kangovi talks about her work to develop and evaluate a novel intervention, in which community health workers (CHWs) provide structured support to help patients set and achieve patient-driven health goals.

Dr. Shreya Kangovi is an internist, pediatrician and Veterans Affairs Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar who studies the comparative effectiveness of community health worker-based interventions (CHWs) on patient-centered health outcomes, healthcare disparities and healthcare utilization. Dr. Kangovi is the founding director of the Penn Center for CHWs, a community-academic hospital partnership designed to support CHW implementation and research.

To RSVP, click here! Please RSVP by Monday, January 14th.

A light lunch will be provided.

For more information about the Center for Health Behavior Research, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/chbr/

Sponsored by Center for Health Behavior Research & Community Engagement & Research (CEAR) Core of the UPENN CTSA

University of Texas

Chikungunya fever: Mechanisms of emergence and prospects for control through vaccination

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Columbia University

Microbe hunting

Austrian Auditorium

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Determinants of intrinsic antiviral host defenses

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

University of Colorado at Boulder

Mechanisms and regulation of translation and mRNA turnover in eukaryotic cells

Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Liquan Huang, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Monell Chemical Senses Center
The Bitter Component of Mammalian Reproductive System

Abstract: In many circumstances, medical studies evaluating the efficacy of an intervention need either long follow-up periods or expensive or invasive procedures to obtain the primary outcome. This motivates the considerable attention to surrogate evaluation in recent years, which aims to use alternative measures ("surrogate marker(s)") in lieu of the primary outcome to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention. However, conventional surrogate evaluation methods fail to provide a causal interpretation, as surrogate markers that are conditional on in regression, are post-randomization variables. Principal surrogacy, defined based on the concept of principal stratification, overcomes such shortcomings. The current literature of principal surrogacy focuses on normally distributed continuous primary outcomes or binary outcomes. We propose a shared gamma frailty proportional hazard causal model to study principal surrogacy for time-to-event primary outcomes. The proposed model is constructed under the potential outcome framework with principal stratification approach, and a gamma frailty model is used to correlates the potential outcomes of an individual under different treatment arms. With the proposed model, we define the principal hazard ratio, expected associative effect and expected dissociative effect to evaluate principal surrogacy. Because of the complicated missing data structure, we adopt a Bayesian estimation method using Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. We use simulations to study the repeated sampling property of the proposed model. We illustrate the proposed model and estimation method with a randomized clinical trial of colorectal cancer.

Topic: "The Search for Susceptibility Genes in Bipolar Disorder"

Peter Zandi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Abstract: Outcome-dependent sampling can be found in many follow-up studies where data are collected according to a cross-sectional sampling scheme under certain eligibility criteria. A motivating example is the Biomarkers for Older Controls at Risk for Dementia (BIOCARD) Study, which enrolled cognitively normal individuals from a wide age range at baseline and followed the participants until failure or censoring. Such a sampling scheme tends to oversample individuals with longer survival time, because individuals who have already failed at the time of recruitment will not be included. The covariates correlated with survival time are also subject to sampling bias, which, if ignored, could lead to biased inferences. This talk considers estimation of the prediction/classification accuracy of baseline biomarkers when data are collected under outcome-dependent sampling. We derive a bias correction function for the distribution function of the baseline biomarkers and propose semiparametric bias-corrected estimators for Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) curves under proportional hazards assumption. The proposed estimators are consistent and converge to Gaussian processes, while substantial biases may arise if standard estimators ignoring left truncation are used. The proposed approach is further illustrated using data from the BIOCARD study.

“Patient Adherence to Pharmaceutical Treatments for COPD: Should We Care?”

David H. Au, MD, MS
Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Washington

Title: "A Weighting Analogue to Pair Matching in Propensity Score Analysis"

Abstract: Propensity score matching is widely used for studying treatment effects in observational studies. In this talk, I propose the method of matching weights as an analogue to one-to-one pair matching on the propensity score with a caliper and without replacement. Compared with pair matching, the proposed method offers more efficient estimation, more accurate variance calculation, better balance, and simpler asymptotic analysis. A statistical test for the misspecification of the propensity score model is proposed for balance checking purposes. An augmented version of the matching weight estimator is developed that has the double robust property, i.e., the estimator is consistent if either the outcome model or the propensity score model is correct. The proposed method is studied in simulations and illustrated through a real data example.

Topic: "ICU Capacity Strain: Implications for Regionalization, Rationing, and (future) Regression"

Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care 
Senior Scholar, Epidemiology
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Topic: "Accounting for Bias in Medication Safety Studies that use Real-World Healthcare Data"

Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD
Assistant Scientific Investigator
Group Health Research Institute
Seattle, WA

In this short, two part hands on workshop, learn the basics of LinkedIn. The first half hour will focus on setting up your profile, including picture, headline, summary and how to list your experience, as well as profile applications. The second half hour learn how and why to use groups, identify companies and understand the latest tools available on LinkedIn. Whether you have an account already or have only heard of LinkedIn, you will walk away with a profile that is ready to use and help you make the most of the professional networking platform. To register for this workshop and to learn additional workshops offered on LinkedIn: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/wsmanager/detail-external.html?fq=sponsor_facet%3A%22Weigle%20Information%20Commons%22%20AND%20full_title%3A%22LinkedIn%20Basics%22&id=WSMANAGER_205_3038

In this Career Services workshop, we'll look at networking, why social media has become so popular for building a network and how graduate students can utilize the online platforms in a professional way. We'll review how to utilize these tools in a way the suits your needs, with an emphasis on LinkedIn, and look at best practices. You just might leave a believer in social media as a resource for your search and professional development. No sign-ups are required to attend.

Faculty Conversations on the Academic Job Search and Academic Life:
Preparing for Campus Interviews and Negotiating Academic Job Offers
Tuesday, January 22, 5-6:15 pm
Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall

Speakers:
Justin DiAngelo, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Hofstra University
Second speaker to be announced
CLICK HERE to register

Making a good impression during a campus interview will be the best way to convince search committees that you are the ideal candidate. This requires that you can talk effectively about yourself and your research, ask good questions to the faculty, administrators, and students that you will meet, and highlight how your particular knowledge and experiences set you apart from other candidates. Even while the job market remains quite challenging, it is still important to be prepared to negotiate effectively once offers have been made. Whether you are applying for a visiting assistant professor position or a tenure track faculty position at a college or university, there are many things that you may be able to negotiate once you have received a written offer.

This program is a session of the Faculty Conversations on the Academic Job Search and Academic Life, a series for doctoral students and postdocs which is co-sponsored by Career Services and the Vice Provost for Education. This year, 2013, is the 18th year of this series in which faculty and administrators share valuable information to help you best understand the academic job search process. While some are targeted to people in certain broad discipline areas, all PhD students and postdocs are welcome to attend. Remember, if you plan on attending, please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HH53HY3

Julie Miller Vick
Senior Associate Director
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Career Advisor
Career Services
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk, Suite 20 McNeil Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6209

Penn Medicine

Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative

Invites:

Paul J. Gruenewald, PhD

Senior Research Scientist/Scientific Director

Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA

Presents:

“Social Ecological Models of Substance Use”

Tuesday, January 22^nd, 2013 at 2:00pm

Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building

Speaker: Christopher Bradfield, PhD Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Oncology

Penn Biomedical Policy Group Meeting - Tue, Jan 15th at 6pm in BRB 251.

Interested in discussing the issue of scientific funding? The Penn Biomedical Policy Group will host a discussion on this topic, including how looming budget cuts will affect funding, at their next meeting, on Tuesday Jan 15th. Shaun O'Brien, Ellen Elliot, and Mike Allegrezza will intro the topic with a brief background and then moderate the discussion. If you can't make it, but are interested in learning about science policy and exploring career options, please email Mike Allegrezza ( mallegrezza23@gmail.com ) to be added to the group's listserv. -- From the computer of Shaun O'Brien

Mentor: Dr. Youhai Chen

Location: Class of '62, JMB

Immune Disease Institute

Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA

"Immature B cells prefer class switch recombination to IgE" and "Early B lineage development in the intestinal lamina propria"

Class of '62, John Morgan Building

A fulfilling career in pharmaceutical industry is attractive to many students and young research fellows. Making a successful transition from academia to the industry, however, seems to be a daunting first step. Please join us to meet experienced industrial scientists and executives from local pharmaceutical /small biotech companies. This is an opportunity for you to make your industrial connection and learn about industrial career tracks that may fit your aspiration. Job seeking tips & advice will help you make the move.

Note earlier time- Takeshi Tanigawa, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Public Health, Ehime University, Japan

“Screening for Sleep Disordered Breathing in Communities and Workplaces in Japan”

Melissa Xanthopoulous, PhD
“CPAP Adherence Program”

Mathias Basner MD, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Sleep and Chronobiology in Psychiatry

"Time Use, Sleep Loss and Performance"

Naresh M. Punjabi, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
"Sleep Apnea and Glucose Metabolism: Progress over the Last Decade"

Clinical Case Conference

Leszek Kubin, PhD
“Basic Mechanisms of REM Sleep: Part I”

Austrian Auditorium: Viviana Simon, MD (Columbia University) "Determinants of intrinsic antiviral host defenses"

Ian Lipkin, MD (Columbia University) "Microbe Hunting"

Kosuke Izumi will present a recent Cell paper: Lin et al (2013). "The RNA Pol II Elongation Factor EII3 Marks Enhancers in ES Cells and Primes Future Gene Activation." Cell 152, 144-152.

Various Cases, Charles Cantor, MD

Genetics Research Talks:

Afi Rawlings-Tishkoff Lab
"Global Patterns of MicroRNA Variation and Population-Specific Differentiation Based on Whole Genome Sequencing Data"

Reina Aoki-Kaestner Lab
"Foxl1 defines the mesenchymal niche for intestinal stem cells"

Brijesh Malkani, MD “The Case of KD: An Alternative to CPAP”

Leszek Kubin, PhD
“Basic Mechanisms of REM Sleep: Part II”

The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes Research Center Combined Spring 2013 Seminar Series presents:

Timothy McGraw, Ph.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College

“Insulin-regulation of Membrane Trafficking and

Glucose Transport in Adipocytes”

January 29, 2013

4:00 PM

Smilow Center for Translational Research, 12th Floor

Conference Room 12-146

The Endocrinology Grand Rounds Series presents:

Robert J. Pignolo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Director, Ralston-Penn Clinic for Osteoporosis & Related Bone Disorders

Topic: "Osteoporosis: Trends in Clinical Care, Current Research, and Emerging Therapies"

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

Location: 12th Floor - SCTR - Smilow Center for Translational Research 12-146

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Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply the latest clinical guidelines in the management of endocrine disease
• Evaluate and efficacy of therapeutic options in endocrine disorders
• Describe the results of translational research as it pertains to endocrine diseases

Accreditation

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians

Designation of Credit

The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Rodebaugh Diabetes Center Conference Series Presents:

Topic: Nutritional Supplement

Presenter: Linda Sartor

Please join us as we discuss with a panel of experts how the Preventative Task Force came to their decision to update mammography guidelines, the evidence they used, the roll-out plan they used to let the public know, the clinical implications of this new policy and the ensuing controversy that has followed it. Featuring Featuring Sandy Schwartz, MD, Leon Hess Professor in Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and member of US Preventive Health Taskforce; Emily Fox Conant, MD, Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Susan Domchek, MD, Basser Associate Professor in Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, Executive Director, Basser Research Center

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE43Z0RjVDJOd29SZXN2WHByMkxQSUE6MQ