2022 Spring Symposium and Kroc Lecture

Agenda

11:45 AM - 1:45 PM	Poster Session
1:45 - 2:00 PM	Welcome Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Opening Remarks J. Larry Jameson, M.D., Ph.D. Dean of Perelman School of Medicine Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
2:00 - 2:45 PM	Ali Naji, M.D., Ph.D. J. William White Professor of Surgical Research “Evolving Role of Islet Transplantation for Treatment of Diabetes”
2:45 - 3:30 PM	Amber Alhadeff, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania *"Gut-brain Signaling Pathways Underlying Feeding Behavior"*
3:30 - 3:45 PM	BREAK
3:45 - 4:00 PM	IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation
*Panel of Guest Judges:*	Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D.,Pfizer Mathew Beymer, Ph.D., Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism Ashley Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Nature Metabolism Amber L. Mueller, Ph.D.,Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Editor at Large, JCI Yevgeniya Nusinovich, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Editor, Senior Editor, Science Translational Medicine-2 Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschults Medical Campus
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Morris J. Birnbum, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for the Internal Medicine Research Unit at Pfizer “Discovery and Development of Anti-Obesity Medicines: Journey of a GLP-1 Receptor Agonist”

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