Lunch and Poster Session

Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

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

Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D.

Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania for the Health System;
Dean, Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine

Junior Faculty Talk

David M. Merrick, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism)

DRC Member Short Talks

• Theodore G. Drivas, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
  (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)
• Ravinder Reddy, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology
• Eleonora Scorletti, Ph.D., Instructor of Genetics

BREAK

Senior Faculty Talk

Michael R. Rickels, M.D., M.S.
Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases

IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation:

Panel of Guest Judges

• E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
• Krista Bledsoe, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell
• Samantha Cyrill, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Genes & Development
• Jose Florez, M.D., Ph.D., Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Amber Mueller, Ph.D. Scientific Editor, Genes & Development
• Beste Mutlu, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism
• Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D., Michigan Diabetes Research Center & Caswell Diabetes Institute
• Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
  
• Karen Teff, Ph.D., Former NIDDK Program Director
• Yevgeniya Nusinovich, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Editor, Science