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2016 Research Week Schedule

Day 1 – Celebrating our Research Accomplishments
18-April / 12:00-12:30pm / CARE Atrium / Opening Ceremony
12:45-1:45pm / HSL Rooftop / Health Research Rising Star Awardee Luncheon
1:30-2:30pm / CARE Atrium / Poster presentation: Spotlight on Cincinnati Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Research
4:00-5:30pm / MSB E-351 / “More COX than Clocks; Adventures in Translational Science”-Garret FitzGerald MD, FRS (Chair of Pharmacology U Penn, CTSA PI)
Day 2 – Research Works: Improving Health Together
19-April / 8:00-9:00am / MSB 5051 / “The Social Context of Health: A Tale of Two Americas- Separate and Unequal”-Victor Garcia MD, FACS, FAAP (Founding Director of Trauma Services, CCHMC)
9:30-12:00pm / S Auditorium, CCHMC / Infant Mortality Symposium: featuring Dr. Arthur James, Dr. James Greenberg, Dr. Michal Young, and April Griffin
12:00-1:00pm / MSB 5051 / “Clinical Application of Pharmacogenomics in Mental Health”-Bryan Dechairo, PhD (Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Clinical Programs)
1:00-2:00pm / MSB 5051 / “Successes and Challenges of Community-Based Research Partnerships”- CCTST Community Health Grant awardees
2:00-4:00pm / CARE Atrium / Poster presentation: Engaging the Community to Improve Health
2:00-3:30pm / MSB 5051 / “Hilbert’s 23 Unsolved Problems in Mathematics, and a Research Agenda for Emergency Medicine”-Jeremy Brown, MD (Director of the Office of Emergency Care research, NIH)
Day 3 – Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Technology
20-April / 8:00-9:00am / Kresge Auditorium / George Weiner, MD (Director of the University of Iowa Cancer Center)
9:30-12:00pm / CARE Atrium / Expo: Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and Technology
12:00-1:00pm / MSB E-351 / “Wearable Tech 2.0: Using Sweat to Continuously Measure What Is Happening Inside the Body”-Jason Heikenfeld, PhD (University of Cincinnati engineering professor, CSO & co-founder of Eccrine Systems) and “Synthetic Biology: Driving Powerful New Therapeutic Paradigms"-Tom Reed, PhD (graduate of UC, Founder and CSO of Intrexon)
Award Presentation: Dr. Dan Hassett
1:30-3:30pm / MSB E-351 / Shark Tank
4:00-5:30pm / Kresge Auditorium / “Assisted Circulation Perspectives: Origin, Status, and Prospects”-John Watson, PhD (University of California-San Diego, Galletti Scholar)
Day 4 – Impacting Health across Lifespan
21-April / 8:00-12:00pm / MSB 5051 / Symposium on Impacting Health across Lifespan
12:00-1:00pm / MSB 5051 / “Race/Ethnicity and Translational Medicine: the Power of Diversity”-Dr. Keith Norris, MD, PhD (University of California Los Angeles, Co-Director of the Community Engagement and Research Program)
1:30-4:00pm / MSB E-255 / Graduate Student Symposium: Community-Student Partnerships
2:00-4:00pm / CARE Atrium / Undergraduate Poster Session
Day 5 – The Interface between Practice and Research
22-April / 8:00-9:00am / MSB 5051 / “The Ron Receptor: A New Molecular Target in Prostate Cancer”-Susan Waltz, PhD (University of Cincinnati Cancer Biology Department) and Tanya Kalin, MD, PhD (UC Department of Pediatrics, Associate Professor)
9:00-12:00pm / 5/3 Arena / Presentations of Research and Innovative/Scholarly Endeavors (PRaISE)
9:30-11:30pm / CARE Atrium / Expo: Cancer and Integrative Therapies
9:00-1:00pm / UC Campus / High school student tours
12:00-3:00pm / 5/3 Arena / Undergraduate Research, Scholarly Endeavors & Creative Practice (URSC) and PRaISE
12:00- 1:30pm / MSB E-351 / Hutton Ethics Lectureship: “Far from the Bedside: Is Consent Necessary for Research with Biospecimens?”-Jeff Botkin (University of Utah, Chair Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Subjects Protections)