2015 Stanford Cardiovascular Research Symposium

9:00am | Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

Welcome Remarks

Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology & Radiology

9:05am | Garret A. FitzGerald, MD

"Progress with prostanoids and their inhibitors"

McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

9:45am | Todd Brinton, MD

"The Role of an Innovation Process for Development of CV Medical Devices"

Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

10:10am | Paul Heidenreich, MD

"Understanding and improving implantable defibrillator (ICD) therapy"

Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System

10:55am | Matthew Porteus, MD

"Using the CRISPR/Cas9 system to edit primary hematopoietic cells"

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cancer Biology) Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation

11:20am | Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

"Targeting points of Intersection of genetics, metabolism and inflammation in pulmonary hypertension"

Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor in Pediatric Cardiology

11:45am | Dean Lloyd B. Minor, MD

"Precision medicine"

The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery and, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and Bioengineering

1:00pm | Clyde W. Yancy, MD

"Addressing racial disparities in heart failure; from the bench to the community"

Chief, Division of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

1:40pm | Kelly LaMarco, PhD

"Translational medicine: Minding the Gaps"

Senior Editor, Science Translational Medicine

2:00pm | Elena Matsa, PhD

"A platform for precision medicine to predict drug toxicity"

Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute

2:10pm | Andrew Chang

"Dach1 is a mechanoregulated transcription factor that stimulates coronary artery growth and remodeling"

2:20pm | James Priest, MD

"Maternal mid-pregnancy glucose levels and risk of congenital heart disease in offspring"

2:50pm | Thomas Quertermous, MD 

"Mapping the disease pathways in genome wide coronary disease associations"

William G. Irwin Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, Co-Chair Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

3:15pm | Matthew Mell, MD

"Barriers to regionalization for complex vascular care"

Associate Professor Surgery (Vascular Surgery)

3:40pm | Alison L. Marsden, PhD

"Computational surgical planning in pediatric and congenital heart disease"

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering

4:00pm | Brian Kobilka, MD

"G protein coupled receptors: challenges in drug discovery"

Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology, Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Vinicio A. de Jesus Perez, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Staff Physician

Phillip C. Yang, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Sean Wu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

Ngan F. Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)

Joshua Knowles, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Themistocles (Tim) Assimes, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)