Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Stanford University

Lloyd Minor, MD
The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University

Benoit Bruneau, PhD
Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

Brian Black, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF
Professor of Biochemistry, UCSF

Deepak Srivastava, MD
President, Gladstone Institutes
Wilma and Adeline Pirag Distinguished Professor in Pediatric Developmental Cardiology and Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF

Brian Black, PhD
Professor and Director, UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute

Bruce Conklin, MD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
Deputy Director, Innovative Genomics Institute
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, and Ophthalmology, UC San Francisco

Alison Marsden, PhD
Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University

Michael Ma, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University

12:00-12:20 pm

Panel Discussion

12:30-1:45 pm

Lunch and Early Career Development Conversations

Christina Theodoris, MD, PhD
Assistant Investigator, Gladstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF

Jesse Engritz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Stanford University

Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, DVM, PhD
Assistant Investigator, Gladstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF

2:30-2:50 pm

Panel Discussion

Rong Wang, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Strouss Endowed Chair, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, UCSF

Nicholas Leeper, MD
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University

Ngan Huang, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothroacic Surgery, Stanford University

3:35-3:50 pm

Panel Discussion

3:50-4:10 pm

Coffee Break

Focus: 1-minute pitches from selected poster presenters

E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD
William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair and Executive Director, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health

4:50-5:00 pm

Q&A

5:00 pm

Closing

5:00-6:00 pm

Networking Reception and Poster Session I

Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Benoit Bruneau, PhD
Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Senior Investigator and William H. Younger Chair in Cardiovascular Research, Gladstone Institutes

Casey Gifford, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Genetics, Stanford University

Eleonora Grandi, PhD
Chair, Biophysics Graduate Group
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UC Davis

11:20-11:40 am

Panel Discussion

Patrick Jurney, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SJSU

Amir Munir, MD
Clinical Instructor, School of Medicine, UCSF

Xiaojie Qiu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Stanford University

Alessandro Bellofiore, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, SJSU

Jennifer Woo, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

Alexander Payumo, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, SJSU

AJ Rogers, MD, MBA
Instructor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

James Pirruccello, MD
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, UCSF

12:20-12:30 pm

Q&A

Focus: 1-minute pitches from selected poster presenters

12:40-2:00 pm

Lunch and Poster Session II

Jan Christoph, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, UCSF

Colleen Clancy, PhD
Airline Miller Rolkin Professorship in Health Innovation, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Director of Precision Medicine and Data Science, UC Davis

Vasanth Vedantham, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UCSF

William Goodyer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University

3:00-3:20 pm

Panel Discussion

Daniel Bernstein, MD
Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University

Kiran Khush, MD
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

Victoria Parikh, MD
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University

4:05-4:25 pm

Panel Discussion