MEETINGS

227th Meeting, Boston, MA
November 1, 2024

Agenda

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8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

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8:45 am

Welcome and Introduction

Paul Yu, MD, PhD, Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute MGH and HMS
Boston Councilor

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9:00 am

Leonard Zon

Professor of Medicine, HMS and Boston Children’s Hospital

“Programming niche endothelial cells to support HSC development”

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9:20 am

Marc Sabatine, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, HMS and BWH

“The future of cardiovascular risk modification”

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9:40 am

Naomi Hamburg, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine, Boston University

“Endothelial Health as a Window to the Heart”

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10:00 AM

Break

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10:00 am

Kathleen Burns MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, HMS and DFCI

“A retrotransposon in cancer: The marker and the mutator”

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10:20 am

Anand Vaidya, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS and BWH

“Salt, Aldosterone, and the Pathogenesis of Hypertension”

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10:40 am

Paul Yu, MD, PhD

Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH

“The road to sotatercept, an activin inhibitor for pulmonary hypertension”

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11:00 am

Walk to the MGH Etherdome

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11:15 am

Lunch Keynote Speaker: A Discussion with Jeffrey Flier, MD

Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine, and former Dean, HMS

“Challenges to academic freedom in higher education and medicine”

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11:45 am

A History of the MGH and the Etherdome

Sarah Alger, George and Nancy Putnam Director
Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation

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12:15 pm

Walk back to Simches 3rd Floor Conference Room 3110

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12:30 pm

Lunch

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1:00 pm

Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD

Chief of Gastroenterology, MGH and HMS

“Hepatocyte Vitamin D Receptor functions as a nutrient sensor to regulate
energy storage and tissue growth”

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1:20 pm

Iris Jaffe, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Tufts University

“Aldosterone Signaling in the Peripheral Vasculature”

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1:40 pm

Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award:
William Hwang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, HMS and MGH

“Spatial oncology: Translating contextual biology to patient care”

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2:15 pm

Break

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2:45 pm

Introduction to the Jonathan Epstein Scholars Program

MD PhD student talks, 4 total

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3:45 pm

Awards

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4:00 pm

Business Meeting (ICC Members Only)

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5:00 pm

Break

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6:30 pm

Cocktail Reception and Tour of Paul S. Russell Museum

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7:30 pm

Dinner

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8:30 pm

Dinner Keynote speaker: David S. Jones, MD, PhD

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, HMS

“When Every Operation Is an Experiment: The Ethics of Innovation in Cardiac Surgery”

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9:30 pm

Adjourn