2011 Speakers

Leonard Zon, M.D.Leonard Zon, M.D.

  • Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Karp Family Research Laboratories

Pathways Regulating Self-Renewal in Blood Stem Cells

January 13, 2011

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Meir Stampfer, M.D., Dr.P.H.Meir Stampfer, M.D., Dr.P.H.

  • Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Eating, Drinking, and Staying Healthy: Primary Prevention of Chronic Diseases through Diet and Lifestyle

February 10, 2011

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E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.O.G.E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.O.G.

  • Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland
  • The John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Unraveling the Syndrome of Diabetic Embryopathy

February 24, 2011

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Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.Roger D. Cone, Ph.D.

  • Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
  • Chair, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Energy in, energy out: What syndromic obesity has taught us about how the brain regulates body weight

Energy in, energy out: What syndromic obesity has taught us about how the brain regulates body weight

March 10, 2011

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Huda Zoghbi, M.D.Huda Zoghbi, M.D.

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Baylor College of Medicine

Rett Syndrome and MECP2 Disorders: Linking Epigenetics to Neurobiology

March 24, 2011

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Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D.Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D.

  • First woman dean of Duke University School of Medicine
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Vanderbilt Prize Winner

Forging an Understanding of Iron Homeostasis

March 31, 2011

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Randy Schekman, Ph.D.Randy Schekman, Ph.D.

  • Professor in the Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Howard Hughes Investigator

Protein Sorting in the Secretory Pathway: Basic Principles and Consequences for Human Disease

April 7, 2011

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Alfred Sommer, M.D. M.H.S.Alfred Sommer, M.D. M.H.S.

  • University Distinguished Service Professor, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Institute of Medicine
  • Recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (1997)

What I Discovered While Discovering: A Peripatetic Adventure

April 21, 2011

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Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D.Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D.

  • President of Princeton University
  • Former Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Former Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, Princeton University
  • Member, Institute of Medicine
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era

May 5, 2011

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Russ Doolittle, Ph.D.Russ Doolittle, Ph.D.

  • Research Professor, Section of Molecular Biology, UCSD
  • A Guggenheim Fellow
  • Elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Co-recipient of the Paul Ehrlich Prize

Searching for the Roots of Blood Clotting: A Bioinformatics Approach

May 19, 2011

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Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., MPHMichael R. DeBaun, M.D., MPH

  • J.C. Peterson Chair in Pediatrics
  • Director of the Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Discovery at the Bedside: The Intersection Between Asthma and Sickle Cell Disease

September 15, 2011

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Eric Topol, M.D.Eric Topol, M.D.

  • Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine
  • Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
  • Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
  • Professor of Translational Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

How Digitizing Human Beings Changed the Future of Medicine

September 19, 2011

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Lora Hooper, Ph.D.Lora Hooper, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor Immunology and Microbiology
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientist

Immune Adaptations to the Intestinal Microbiota

October 27, 2011

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Gina Kolata, M.S.Gina Kolata, M.S.

  • Science Journalist for the New York Times

Discovering Science Stories: What makes them news?

November 3, 2011

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Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.

  • Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine
  • Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Transcriptional Control of Adipogenesis: Toward a New Generation of Therapeutics

December 1, 2011

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Kevin Johnson, M.D.Kevin Johnson, M.D.

  • Professor of Biomedical Informatics
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Evaluating Electronic Health Information Exchange: An Exemplar of the Science in Clinical Informatics

December 8, 2011

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Andy Feinberg, M.D., MPHAndy Feinberg, M.D., MPH

  • Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Oncology
  • John Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

The Epigenetic Basis of Common Human Disease

December 15, 2011

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