2004 ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting


Friday, April 16, 2004
The following sessions took place at the Hyatt Hotel in conjunction with Clinical Research 2004
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM CR 2004 Trainee Plenary Session
Chairs: Richard Galbraith and Jane Reusch
Regency Ballroom
4:00 PM Elias A. Zerhouni
NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
National Institutes of Health
4:30 PM CR 2004 Outstanding Junior Investigator Award Winner Presentation
Epidemiologic and Clinical Determination of Maternal and Fetal Compartment Inflammation in Preterm Births
Morrish Gupta
Harvard Medical School
4:30 PM Abstract Presentations
The following sessions took place at the Fairmont Hotel
6:45 PM ASCI New Member Reception
Introduction of New ASCI Members
Moulin Rouge
7:45 PM ASCI Annual Dinner
The Diffusion of a Scientific Spirit
Barry S. Coller, MD, Rockefeller University
Poster Viewing
Imperial Ballroom

Saturday, April 17, 2004
The following sessions took place at the Fairmont Hotel
7:00 AM Coffee Service
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM ASCI Institutional Representative's Retreat
Ambassador Room
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Advances in Translational Research
Chairs: Kenneth Kaushansky, MD
and Ralph Snyderman, MD
A Joint Session with CR2004
8:00 AM Unraveling the Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance
Gerald I. Shulman, MD, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University School of Medicine
8:30 AM Stem Cell Therapy: Leveraging Nature's Therapeutic Potential
H. David Humes, MD
University of Michigan
9:00 AM New Genetic Pathways and Model Systems for Heart Disease
Kenneth Randall Chien, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
9:30 AM Translating from Bedside to Populations
Robert M. Califf, MD
Duke University School of Medicine
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ASCI and AAP New Member Presentations
Chairs: Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD and Michael J. Welsh, MD
10:30 AM Molecular Pathogenesis of Multiple Myeloma: The Basis for Targeted Therapy
ASCI: Peter Lief Bergsagel, MD
Weil Medical College of Cornell Medical University
10:50 AM New Developments Against Chloroquine-Resistant Malaria
AAP: Thomas E. Wellems, MD, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
11:10 AM Immune Evasion in KSHV Tumorigenesis
ASCI: Yuan Chang, MD
University of Pittsburgh
11:30 AM The Phagocytic Pathway
AAP: Steven Greenberg, MD
Columbia University
11:50 AM Invertebrate Models of Fat Biology
ASCI: Jonathan Michael Graff, MD, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
12:10 PM Understanding Racial Differences in Access to Renal Transplantation
AAP: Arnold Epstein, MD, MA
Harvard University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Poster Session with Lunch
Imperial Ballroom
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM Innate Immunity in Health and Disease
Chairs: Tadataka Yamada, MD and Leonard I. Zon, MD
2:15 PM Regulating the Balance Between Innate Immunity and Inflammatory Disease
Richard J. Ulevitch, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
2:45 PM On the Front Line of Immune Defense: Natural Interferon Producing Cells
Marco Colonna, MD
Washington University
3:15 PM Toll Like Receptors: First Responders to Bacterial and Viral Infections
Douglas Golenboch, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
3:45 PM David A Calderwood, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM ASCI Business Meeting/Presidential Address
Kenneth Kaushansky, MD
ASCI President
University of California, San Diego
  • Secretary-Treasurer's Report
  • JCI Editor's Update
  • Presidential Address
7:00 PM AAP Annual Reception and Dinner
How to Succeed in Mentoring Without Really Trying
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Duke University
Imperial Ballroom
10:00 PM Presidential Dessert Reception
Crystal Room

Sunday, April 18, 2004
7:30 AM Working Breakfast
8:00 AM ASCI Award Recipient Lecture
Molecular Basis of Inherited Coagulation Disorders
David Ginsburg, MD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Michigan
See announcement
9:00 AM AAP Business Meeting/Presidential Address
Ralph Snyderman, MD
AAP President
Duke University Health Systems
Duke University Medical Center
10:00 AM Trainee Best Poster Awards
10:15 AM Kober Medal Presentation
"It Only Gets Better"
Recipient: K. Frank Austen, MD
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Presenter: Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
10:45 AM AAP Transfer of Gavel
The American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians gratefully acknowledge the support of the following companies who have provided unrestricted educational grants.
BenefactorAmgen
GlaxoSmithKline
SponsorBurroughs Wellcome Fund