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Friday evening, September 23: Welcome Reception, MIT Faculty Club
Saturday, September 24: New Research Building, Harvard Medical School
7:00-8:00   Light Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:30  

Welcome - David Goodman, MD ’93, Natacha DePaola, PhD ‘91 Anniversary Co-chairs
Joseph Bonventre,MD ’76, PhD Martha Gray, PhD ’86, HST Directors
8:30-10:45   HST Impact–Translational Research: From Bench to Bedside
(Joseph Madsen, MD ’81, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital, Assoc. Prof. of Neurosurgery, HMS -moderator)
  • Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine – George Daley, MD ’91, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Tissue Engineering – Mark Saltzman, PhD ’87, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Yale U
  • Genetic Basis of Human Disease – Vikas Sukhatme, MD’79, PhD, Dept. of Medicine, BIDMC, Professor of Medicine, HMS
Q&A

(Leann Lesperance, MD ’95, PhD ’93, Research Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, NY- moderator)
  • Neuroscience – Jeffrey D. Macklis, MD’84, Director, MGH-HMS Center for Nervous System Repair; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
  • Cardiology - Shaun Coughlin, MD ’82, Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI); Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology UCSF
  • Infectious Disease - David Ho, MD ’78, Scientific Director and CEO of Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and Professor, Rockefeller University
  • Cancer - Barbara L. Smith, MD ’83, PhD, MGH Cancer Center Gillette Center for Women's Cancers- Center for Breast Cancer
Q&A
10:45-11:00   Break
11:00-12:00   HST Impact – Translational Education: From Boston to Beyond
(Jennifer Elisseeff, PhD ’99, Principal Investigator, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University - moderator)
  • Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD ’90, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University
  • Susan Voss, PhD’98, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Picker Engineering Program, Smith College
  • George Wodicka, PhD ’89, Chair, Purdue-Indiana University Biomedical Engineering Graduate program

12:00-1:30   Lunch featuring keynote speaker Farish A. Jenkins Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, HST, HMS
1:45-2:45   HST Impact – Bringing Products to Market
(Chris Goh Bardon, MD, ’98, Associate, MPM Capital- moderator)
  • Howard Bernstein, MD, PhD, ’89, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Acusphere, Inc.
  • Dennis Choi, MD ’78, EVP for Neuroscience at Merck Research Lab Merck & Co, Inc.
  • Shai Gozani, MD’94, PhD, Chairman and CEO, NeuroMetrix, Inc.
  • James Tananbaum, MD, ’89 Managing Partner, Prospect Venture Partners

2:45-3:00   Break
3:00-4:00   HST Impact – Healthcare Policy – A Dialogue
(Jack Tsao, MD ’97, moderator)
  • Allan Detsky, MD ’78, Physician in Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, CA
  • Mark McClellan, MD ’92, PhD Administrator, CMS (unconfirmed)

4:00-6:00   Exhibit of HST Research and Programs (Domenica Karavitaki, PhD ’02, Research Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School - organizer)
7:00pm   Evening Gala -- Sheraton, Boston, HST

Sunday, September 25: Closing Brunch, MIT Faculty Club