Day 1: Thursday, October 20, 1:30-6:00pm, Covel Commons
Keynote Speaker
Richard Kitsis, MD Professor, Medicine – Cardiology, and Cell Biology; Chair, Cardiovascular Disease, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Session I – Cardiovascular Therapeutics & Engineering
- Rachelle Crosbie, PhD (Moderator) Professor & Chair, Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA College of Life Sciences
- Jeff Hsu, MD, PhD (Moderator) Health Sciences Clinical Instructor, Medicine – Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Robert Gerszten, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Harvard Medical School
- Song, Li, PhD, Professor, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
- Lauren Black, III, PhD, Professor, School of Engineering, Tufts University
Poster Session
Contact – Rosemary Portal – cri@mednet.ucla.edu
Website – https://medschool.ucla.edu/cv-theme-seminars
Day 2: Friday, October 21, 8:15-5:00pm, Covel Commons, and Zoom
Session II – Cardiovascular Development & Congenital Heart Disease
- Jau-Nian Chen, PhD (Moderator) Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences
- Marlin Touma, MD, PhD (Moderator) Associate Professor-in-Residence, Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Cecilia Lo, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
- Austin Nakano, MD, PhD, UCLA College of Life Sciences
- Guo Huang, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Session III – Basic Electrophysiology & Ventricular Arrhythmias
- Michela Ottolia, PhD (Moderator) Professor-in-Residence, Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Zhilin Qu, MD, PhD (Moderator) Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Stephen Cannon, MD, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Marmar Vaseghi, MD, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Glenn Fishman, MD, New York University
Session IV – Metabolism
- Elizabeth Tarling, PhD (Moderator) Associate Professor, Medicine – Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Tamer Sallam, MD, PhD (Moderator) Associate Professor, Medicine – Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Anthony Covarrubias, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Rong Tian, MD, PhD, University of Washington
Session V –Systems Biology
- Tom Vondriska, PhD (Moderator) Professor-in-Residence, Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Jake Lusis, PhD (Moderator) Professor-in-Residence, Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Dino DiCarlo, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Xia Yang, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine
- Frank Conlon, PhD, University of North Carolina
Contact – Rosemary Portal – cri@mednet.ucla.edu
Website – https://medschool.ucla.edu/cv-theme-seminars
