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This meeting is the culminating experience for the undergraduate participants sponsored by the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases Summer Research Program. The conference will bring all of the students together to share their research accomplishments, network with peers and distinguished faculty, and receive timely career development advice. This added exposure to professional and scientific opportunities in renal, urologic, and hematologic diseases will entice undergraduates to continue their medical or graduate careers in areas within the research mission of the Division.
Registration Deadline
July 20, 2018
Agenda
August 1, 2018
3:00 p.m.
Student dorm check-in
Simmons College Residence Campus
Pilgrim Road, Boston, MA 02115
4:00 p.m.
Faculty check hotel check-in Inn at Longwood, 342 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Dinner and poster set-up
Simmons College Academic Campus
Faculty – School of Management 5th floor dining room and terrace
Students – Fens dining room and quad
Breakfast
Students – Bartol Dining Hall, Simmons College Residence Campus
Faculty – Common Grounds, Main College Building, Simmons College Academic Campus
9:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Main College Building, Simmons College Academic Campus
Robert A. Star, M.D.
Director, Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases, NIDDK
Gregory G. Germino, M.D.
Deputy Director, NIDDK
Tracy Rankin, Ph.D.
Director, Career Development and Training for Kidney and Urologic Diseases, NIDDK
Joseph V. Bonventre, M.D., Ph.D.
Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Renal Medicine
Chief, Division of Engineering in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
9:30 a.m.
“Current State of Medical Education and Integration of Training in Clinical Medicine, Research and Innovation” (Tentative title)
Edward M. Hundert, M.D., Dean for Medical Education
Daniel D. Federman, M.D., Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education, Harvard Medical School
10:00 a.m.
“Historical Vignettes – Dialysis & Transplantation” (Tentative title)
Edgar Milford, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Tissue Typing Laboratory and Transplant Nephrologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
10:30 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m.
“Kidneys in the News” (Tentative title)
Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D., Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Martin Pollak, M.D., Chief of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medial School
11:30 a.m.
Group photo
Harvard Medical School quad
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
Fens Dining Room, Main College Building, Simmons College Academic Campus
1:00 p.m.
Moderated Poster Session 1
Main College Building, Simmons College Academic Campus
3:00 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Panel discussion with Near Peers
(Medical students, Ph.D. graduate students, post-docs, nephrology fellows, etc.)
5:30 p.m.
Dinner
Simmons College Academic Campus
Faculty – School of Management 5th floor Dining Room and Terrace
Students – Fens Dining Room, Main College Building
7:00 p.m.
Strayboots scavenger hunt
Downtown Boston
August 3, 2018
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
Students – Bartol Dining Hall, Simmons College Residence Campus
Faculty – Common Grounds, Main College Building, Simmons College Academic Campus
9:00 a.m.
“Diversity and Community Partnerships” (Tentative title)
Joan Reede, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., M.B.A., Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“From Discovery to Translation” (Tentative title)
Second Speaker TBD
9:45 a.m.
Break
10:00 a.m.
Moderated Poster Session II
12:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
Faculty – School of Management 5th floor dining room and terrace
Students – Fens dining room and quad
1:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion - Next Steps in Your Career
(Admissions, M.D./Ph.D. programs, M.D.s doing bench research, HST program, etc.)
