MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2009 - 2010

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

September 22 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Nabel, MD Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health "Genomic Medicine: Cardiovascular Insights from a Premature Aging Syndrome" …and a Physician-Scientist’s View of the NIH
October 19 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Marcus Goncalves and Nik Singh "Taking the snooze button off your clock: Circadian rhythms and sleep"
November 12 Class of '62 Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Eric Allenspach and Tao Zou "Drug Development: How to Predict a Storm"
December 15 BRB Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty speaker
January 21 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Daniel Abravanel and Scott Gordon
February 17 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Aaron Stonestrom and Natalie Wolkow
March 18 BRB Auditorium	Planning for the Future event
April 13 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Mike Gandal and Armen Moughamian
May 13 BRB Auditorium	Guest speaker

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2008 - 2009

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

September 18 252 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 13 CRB Austrian Auditorium	"Art of Speaking Science" delivered by Lisa B. Marshall A Public Speaking Seminar for Biomedical Professionals
November 10 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Bobby Basu and Alec Schmaier "Forbidden Fruit: The Danger and Mechanism of Drug-Diet Interaction"
December 10 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Doug Lin and Tao Zou "Therapeutic Potential of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells iPS: In Sickle Cell Disease and Beyond"
January 12 BRB Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty talk Wei Tong, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics "Hematopietic Stem Cells and their Niches"
February 4 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Preparing for the Future: A Conversation About Life After MD-PhD School
February 17 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Amar Majmundar and Trey Schroeder "Bypassing nonsense mutations: A Potential Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"
April 7 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Ana Cristancho and Abby Olsen "Searching for Kryptonite: Novel Therapeutic Approaches Against Superbugs"
May 5 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Guest Speaker Robert Gallo, MD and Graduating MD-PhD student reception
June 22 Class of '62 Auditorium	Residency Panel Discussion

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