Agenda

The conference features three days of keynote speakers and panels, offering something for physician-scientist trainees of all stages and interests.

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= APSA sponsored event

Time Event
8:30 am – 11:00 am

APSA Business Meeting

Location: Rouge

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

APSA Session I

Location: International Ballroom

11:00 am – 11:45 pm

Selective Autophagy and Age-related Diseases: Making a Career out of Cellular Waste Managing

APSA Keynote Speaker: Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD, R.R. Belfer Chair for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Location: International Ballroom

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

How Dreams Come True:  Reflecting on a Physician/Scientist Career

APSA Keynote Speaker: Levi A. Garraway, MD, PhD, Eli Lilly and Company

Location: International Ballroom

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Poster Setup

Location: Imperial Ballroom

1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

AAP/ASCI/APSA Plenary Session I

Session Moderators: Vivian Cheung, Linda Fried, Jillian Liu

Location: International Ballroom

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Catalyzing Innovation and Charting a Path for the Future of Healthy Longevity: The Role of the National Academy of Medicine

Invited Speaker: Victor J. Dzau, MD, National Academy of Medicine President

Location: International Ballroom

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Luigi ferrucci, MD, PhD

Searching for the Common Root of Multi Morbidity and Functional Decline in Aging: The Geroscience Initiative

Invited Speaker: Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health

Location: International Ballroom

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

ASCI and AAP New Member Presentations

Understanding and Targeting Mutations in RNA Splicing Factors in Cancer

ASCI New Member: Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Time: 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm

The Rising Incidence of IBD in Immigrants: Is it All in the Genes?

AAP New Member: Maria T. Abreu, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Time: 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Our Red Queen's Race: The Conflict that Creates Genones and its Roles in Disease

ASCI New Member: Kathleen H. Burns, MD, PhD, John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Time: 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Clonal Hematopoiesis, Aging, and Human Disease

AAP New Member: Ross L. Levine, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Time: 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Location: International Ballroom

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

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Location: International Foyer

3:30 pm – 6:00 pm

AAP/ASCI/APSA Plenary Session I (Moderator Change)

Session Moderators: Kieren Marr, Serpil Erzurum, Allyson Palmer

Location: International Ballroom

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

ASCI/Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine Lecture

Recipient: Helen H. Hobbs, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Location: International Ballroom

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

APSA Lasker Award Winner Lecture

Elucidation of Cellular Oxygen Sensing Pathways: Implications for Medicine

APSA Keynote Speaker: Peter Ratcliffe, FRS, University of Oxford

Location: International Ballroom

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

ASCI Presidential Address

Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Location: International Ballroom

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD

ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award Lecture

Natural Product Drug Targets are Conserved from Model and Pathogenic Yeasts to Humans

Recipient: Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center

Location: International Ballroom

5:45 pm – 7:00 pm

APSA Diversity Working Group

Location: State

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

ASCI President’s Reception (invitation only)

Location: Gold Room

6:15 pm – 7:15 pm

Poster Viewing Only

Location: Imperial Ballroom

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AAP Offsite President’s Dinner

(by invitation only)

Location: Mid-America Club

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

ASCI Annual Dinner/Introduction of New Members Speaker (ticketed event)

Speaker: George Daley, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Location: Rouge

9:00 pm – 12:00 am

APSA Welcome Reception (ticketed event requiring ID)

Location: Mid-America Club, Aon, 200 East Randolph Drive, 80th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601

Time Event
7:00 am – 8:00 am

AAP Council Meeting

Location: State Room, 2nd Level

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Mentoring Breakfast: Navigating the Physician Scientist Career (ticketed event)

Location: Rouge

8:00 am – 9:00 am

APSA Board of Directors Meeting

Location: Embassy Room

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Poster session (Odd-numbered) and continental breakfast

Location: Imperial Ballroom

9:00 am – 11:45 am

AAP/ASCI/APSA Plenary Session II

Session Moderators: Mary Klotman, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Jason Siu

Location: International Ballroom

9:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Frailty and Resilience in Aging

Invited Speaker: Linda Fried, MD, MPH

Location: International Ballroom

9:30 am – 9:45 am
Kayla Berry

Oral Abstract Presentation:

Using CLCA1 vWA Domain to Activate Alternate Anion Currents in Cystic Fibrosis Airway

Speaker: Kayla Berry

Location: International Ballroom

9:45 am – 10:15 am
Eric Topol, MD

Digitizing Healthspan

Invited Speaker: Eric Topol, MD, The Scripps Research Institute

Location: International Ballroom

10:15 am – 10:30 am

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Location: International Foyer

10:30 am – 11:00 am
Mary Yousry Armanios, MD

The Telomere Syndromes: A Paradigm for Molecular Medicine

Invited Speaker: Mary Yousry Armanios, MD, Johns Hopkins

Location: International Ballroom

11:00 am – 11:30 am
Eric Verdin, MD

Revisiting a Classic: NAD+ Metabolism and Aging

APSA Keynote Speaker: Eric Verdin, MD, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Location: International Ballroom

11:30 am – 11:45 am

Presentation of the 2018 Donald Seldin~Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research

Recipient: TBA

Presentation: TBA

Location: International Ballroom

11:45 am – 1:30 pm

Poster Session (Even-numbered) with Lunch

Location: Imperial Ballroom

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm

Poster Review Meeting

Location: Royal Room, Level B2

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Poster Dismantle

Location: Imperial Ballroom

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

AAP/ASCI/APSA Plenary Session III

Moderators: John Carethers, Benjamin Ebert, Audra Iness

Location: International Ballroom

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Timothy J. Ley, MD

The Genome(s) and Epigenome(s) of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Invited Speaker: Timothy J. Ley, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Location: International Ballroom

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm
John Smestad

Oral Abstract Presentation:

Characterization and Metabolic Synthetic Lethal Testing in a New Model of SDH-Loss Familial Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

Speaker: John Smestad

Location: International Ballroom

2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Irving Weissman, MD

Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells

Invited Speaker: Irving Weissman, MD, Stanford Medicine

Location: International Ballroom

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Best Poster Awards

Location: International Ballroom

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm

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Location: International Foyer

3:15 pm – 5:15 pm

AAP/ASCI/APSA Plenary Session III (Moderator Change): TBA

Moderators: TBA

Location: International Ballroom

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Genes, Genomes and Future of Medicine

Invited Speaker: Rick Lifton, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine

Location: International Ballroom

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm

AAP Presidential Address

Speaker: Serpil Erzurum, MD, Cleveland Clinic

Location: International Ballroom

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Kober Medal Presentation

Location: International Ballroom

5:15 pm – 5:30 pm

AAP Business Meeting

Location: TBA

5:45 pm – 7:00 pm

APSA Panel: Critical and Social Perspectives on Aging Panel

Location: Ambassador Room

5:45 pm – 7:00 pm

APSA Panel: Policy and Advocacy Workshop

Location: Crystal Room

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

ASCI Food and Science: Featuring Poster Presentations by the ASCI’s 2017 YoungPhysician-Scientist Award Recipients and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellows (invitation only)

Location: Mid-America Club

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

APSA Dinner and Founder's Award Presentation (ticketed event)

Founder's Award Recipient: Dania Daye, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Location: Rouge

9:45 pm – 11:30 am

Dessert Reception (open to all attendees)

An opportunity for APSA members to converse with and learn from senior physician-scientist members of the AAP.

Location: Imperial Lobby

Time Event
8:00 am – 12:00 pm

APSA Session II

Location: International Ballroom

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Mentorship Breakfast: Medical Specialty Exploration (ticketed event)

Location: International Ballroom

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Society Leadership Wrap Up Meeting

Location: State Room

9:30 am – 10:00 am
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

APSA Research Pathway Director’s Meeting

Location: State Room

10:00 am – 11:00 am

APSA Panel: Alternative Careers

Location: Gold Room

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

APSA Panel: The Do's and Don'ts of MSTP Admissions

Location: Ambassador Room

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

APSA Panel: Resilience Workshop

Location: Gold Room

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Residency Luncheon

Location: International Ballroom

Come get your questions answered by the experts about specific programs and the nature of physician-scientist training after medical and graduate school. If you are applying to residency soon, this is an unrivaled opportunity to directly connect with program directors. Find a list of all the programs here