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Spring Symposium & Kroc Lecture Agenda

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Agenda

12:00 - 1:30 PM Luncheon and Poster Session
Lobby Biomedical Research Building II/III

1:30 - 1:45 PM

 


Welcome
Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.,
Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
Auditorium BRB II/III

Opening Remarks - Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh
Dean of the School of Medicine
Executive Vice President University of Pennsylvania Health System

1:45 - 2:15 PM Diva D. De Leon-Crutchlow, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
GLP-1 receptor antagonism in Congenital Hyperinsulinism, pathogenetic insights and therapeutic potential

 

2:15 - 2:25 PM

2:25 - 2:35 PM

2:35 - 2:45 PM

IDOM Resource Presentations

Roy Kim, M.D., M.P.H., Human Adipose Resource

Michael Rickels, M.D., M.S., Human Metabolism Resource

John Millar, Ph.D., GC/MS Resource

2:45 - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 3:30 PM

Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
Resistin: Looking Forward and Back”

3:30 - 3:45 PM

James F. Hyde, Ph.D.,
Senior Advisor, Career Development (“K” awards) & Diabetes
Centers Programs Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health

3:45 - 4:00 PM

IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation
*Basic Science
*Patient-Oriented Research

Panel of guest judges:
Domenico Accili, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
James F. Hyde, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Career Development (“K” awards) & Diabetes Centers Programs, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health
Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine
Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Executive Editor, The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Kenneth S. Polonsky, M.D., Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine; Chairman, Department of Medicine; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University
4:00 - 5:00 PM Kroc Lecturer: Domenico Accili, M.D.
Columbia University, New York
“Forkhead Proteins, Diabetes, and Atherosclerosis”

Supported by: Penn Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (NIH DK 19525), The Kroc Foundation and Merck.

For updates and Information please contact Vesselina Panteva at (215) 898-4365 or panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu.