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MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2007 - 2008

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm.

September 18
251 BRB


Panel discussion on choosing lab rotations and thesis mentor (required for 1st and 2nd years - encouraged for 3rd years and everyone else welcome to attend and chime in!)
October 17
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Grand Rounds: Natalie Miller and Mary Robinson
"Treatment of All Creatures Great and Small with Neonatal Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension."

Novermber 19
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Grand Rounds:  Tamar Gur and Simone Stalling
"To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate: Is Autism a Question"

December 4
BRB Auditorium

Student invited Penn faculty talk
Joan C. Hendricks, V.M.D. Ph.D.
The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine
"An evolving career in sleep research and academic leadership"
http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/hendricks.htm

January 17
BRB Auditorium

Grand Rounds: Priya Dedhia and Kunal Patel
"Linkage Analysis 2.0: Whole Genome Approaches to Understanding Type II Diabetes"

February 20
BRB Auditorium

Grand Rounds:  Michael Buckstein and John Northrop
"Insights into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia"


March 4
BRB Auditorium

Negotiating in Academic Medicine:  Creating Value and Using Leverage to Help Your Planning and Patience Pay Off
Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA
Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives

April 17
BRB Auditorium

Grand Rounds: Erica Dwyer and Marta Rowh
"What's in a Name?  A closer look at the new TB epidemic"

May 7
CRB Auditorium

Celebration of the MD-PhD Class of 2008 and Alumni Guest Speaker,
Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins
http://humangenetics.jhmi.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=87
https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/bpark2/Park_Lab/index.htm

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2006 - 2007

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm.

August 7-8
Split Rock Resort, Pocono Mountains
Annual Combined Degree Retreat

September 27
251 BRB


Panel discussion on choosing lab rotations and thesis mentor (required for 1st and 2nd years - encouraged for 3rd years and everyone else welcome to attend and chime in!)
October 19
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Grand Rounds: Renuka Nayak and David Wise
"Description to causality: mechanisms of gene expression signatures in cancer"

Novermber 20

Grand Rounds:  Matt Bevers and Ali Harrist
"Brains Too Good to Die: Neuroprotection after Cardiac Arrest"

December 12

“How to Succeed in Science Without Really Trying”
special guest talk by Dr. Jon Yewdell, Penn MD-PhD alum
Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID/NIH

January 18
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Student invited Penn faculty talk
Ben Stanger, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
“Pancreas Development and the Limits of Regulation”
http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/cgc/stanger.html

February 21

Grand Rounds:  Mike Silverman and Farhad Abtahian
"Dissecting a Deadly Virus: Lessons from the Avian Influenza and the Pandemic of 1918"

March 19
Reunion Hall

panel discussion on residency

April 18
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Grand Rounds:  Uma and Mira Sachdeva
"Unraveling the French Paradox: Recent insights into Resveratrol and the
process of human aging"

May 7
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Student Invited Guest Speaker
Juanita L. Merchant, MD/PhD
Professor at the University of Michigan in Internal Medicine and Integrative and Molecular and Integrative Physiology
"The role of Sonic Hedgehog in the Stomach:  Friend or Foe"
http://www.physiology.med.umich.edu/research/profiles/merchanj.htm
http://www.med.umich.edu/gi/staff/merchant.htm

May 10
14th fl. BRB

Graduating MD/PhD student reception

June 11
BRB Auditorium

Grand Rounds:  Peter Ghoroghchian and Marcin Imielinski
" The future of molecular imaging in cancers: Biomarkers, targeted therapies, and individualized patient care."

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2005 - 2006

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm.

October 8 (all day)
Gregg Conference Center
Annual Combined Degree Retreat
October 18
BRB Audit
Grand Rounds
Lara Wine Lee and MacLean Pancoast
"Ectodermal Dysplasias: Of Mice, Men and Dogs - Genetic Advances and Therapeutic Implications"
November 21
CRB
Student Panel Discussion
Choosing a Lab Rotation and Thesis Mentor
December 15
CRB

Grand Rounds
Dave Moore and Marisa Juntilla
“Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency: Insights from a Rare Pediatric Disorder”

January 18
CRB

Student Invited Guest Speaker
Jordan Orange MD/PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
www.orangelab.org

February 16
CRB

Grand Rounds
Defne Amado and Ashley Coats
Early to bed, Early to Rise:  Familial Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
or: the disorder all surgery residents probably wish they had

March 23
252 BRB
Faculty Panel Discussion on Choosing a Residency Program
April 11
CRB

Grand Rounds
Alexei Polishchuk and Andrew Trister
Dilemmas in Drug Development: What to do with a multiple sclerosis wonder drug

May 3
CRB

Dr. Jeannie Lee, Penn MD-PhD alum
HHMI Investigator
Professor, Genetics and Pathology, Harvard Medical School
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/lee_bio.html
http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/LeeWeb/summary.html

May
POSTPONED

Dr. Jon Yewdell, Penn MD-PhD alum
Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID/NIH
"How to Succeed in Science Without Really Trying"

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2004 - 2005

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm.

October 25
 Austrian Auditorium
Grand Rounds
 Dan Bauer and Josh Gruber
"Werner Syndrome and the Biology of Aging"
November 10
 
 Guest Speaker
 Peter Agre, MD, PhD
 "Aquaporin Water Channels -
 From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine"
November 23
253 BRB II/III
Student Panel Discussions
Choosing a Lab Rotation and Thesis Mentor
"Organizing Thesis Committee Meetings"
December 13
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Grand Rounds
Summer Lind and Mary Robinson
"The Role of Nitric Oxide in Sepsis: Use of Animal Models"
January 10
TBA
Student Invited Guest Speaker
Rex Ahima, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine
"Neuroendocrine Regulation of Body Weight"
February 15
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Grand Rounds
Ben Olenchock and Chris Vakoc
"EGF Receptor-Targeted Therapies for Non Small-Cell Lung Cancer"
March 31
252 BRB
Graduating Student Panel Discussion on Choosing a Residency
April 6
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Grand Rounds
Alison H. Skalet, Sally Newbrough and Elise Carpenter
"Addressing the pandemic: What's being done for African patients with HIV?"
May 9
5:30 PM, Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Student Invited Guest Speaker
David Ginsburg, MD

Dr. Ginsburg is an HHMI investigator and a Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School. He received his B.A. degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and his M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine. His postdoctoral clinical and research training was done at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ginsburg is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize from the American Society of Hematology, the Basic Research Prize from the American Heart Association, and the 2004 ASCI Award from the American Society of Clinical Investigation.

His research focuses on genetic studies of blood coagulation and thrombosis.

More information appears at:
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/ginsburg_bio.html
http://www.med.umich.edu/cmb/faculty/ginsburg.htm


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