1999 Endocrinology Programming

Friday, April 30

Saturday, May 1

8:00 am - 12:00 noon ** LWPES Diabetes Symposium

1 pm - 3 pm ** Poster Symposium - Endocrinology I

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm ** Platform Session - Endocrinology & Diabetes II

5:15 pm - 7:15 pm ** Poster Session I

Sunday, May 2

8 am - 10 am ** Platform Session - Endocrinology & Diabetes III

10:15 am - 11:45 am ** APS Howland Award

Abraham M. Rudolph, M.D. – Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Rudolph has been one of the most significant investigators in pediatric cardiology, taking the knowledge gained from his experimental work in fetal physiology and applying it to the practice of cardiology. Dr. Rudolph is also the Editor of Rudolph’s Pediatrics, and the author of over 400 medical and scientific publications.

11:15 am ** Joseph. St. Geme Leadership Award

James A. Stockman, III, M.D., President, The American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill

11:45 am - 1:45 pm ** Poster Session II

2:30 pm - 4 pm ** State of the Art Plenary - Childhood Obesity

4 pm - 6 pm ** Topic Symposium - Development in Vitamin D Metabolism and Rickets

Monday, May 3

8 am - 10 am ** Platform Session - Genetic Basis of Disease

10:15 am - 11:45 am ** SPR E. Mead Johnson Award Lectures

Steven H. Abman, M.D., Pediatrics Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver for his work on fetal and newborn pulmonary circulation

Chaim M. Roifman, M.D., Paediatrics/Immunology & Allergy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario for his work on Signal transduction and the molecular basis of immunodeficiency

10:15 am - 11:45 am ** SPR Young Investigator Award Lecture

Louis Muglia, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics/Endocrinology & Metabolism; Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Dr. Muglia's work has focused on the study of three specific factors he postulated play a role in prenatal and postnatal development and parturition. He has developed unique animal models in which these factors have been ablated by the use of state-of-the-art recombinant DNA and knock-out technology. In the first example, he generated a novel mouse in which the corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) gene has been ablated. In the absence of prenatal glucorticoids, the animals die shortly after birth because of respiratory failure thus, demonstrating that prenatal glucocorticoids are essential for normal fetal pulmonary development and survival. In the second, he demonstrated that the hormone oxytocin, once believed to be essential for normal labor is actually not required for normal parturition, but that cyclooxygenase ,COX-1, is required for normal prostaglandin formation and normal labor.

Dr. Muglia received both his M.D. and Ph.D from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He completed his Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship at the Children's Hospital in Boston and has been an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis since 1996. Dr. Muglia demonstrates excellence in research, teaching and patient care and he is an outstanding role model for aspiring pediatric scientists. He is a rising star amongst pediatric endocrinologists.

12:45 pm - 2:45 pm ** Platform Session - Inborn Errors of Metabolism

3 pm - 4:30 pm ** State of the Art Plenaries

Tuesday, May 4

8 am - 10 am ** Platform Session - Clinical Genetics/Dysmorphology

9 am - 1 pm ** APA George Armstrong Award Lecture

David Satcher, MD, PhD, Assistant Secretary of Health and Surgeon General

10 am - 11:30 am ** March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology Lectures

Martin J. Evans, Ph.D., FRS, Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cambridge University, England, for the development of innovative techniques to identify and grow the embryonic stem cells in mice in vitro and to introduce specific mutations into these cells. This groundbreaking work provided numerous insights into early mammalian development, and made it possible to create "knockout" and transgenic animals to reveal the roles of specific genes and to study specific birth defects and diseases.

Richard L. Gardner, Ph.D., FRS, Henry Dale Professor of the Royal Society, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, England for being the first to introduce specific mutations into the embryonic stem cells of mice. His innovative micro-surgical techniques provided numerous insights into early mammalian development, and made it possible to create "knockout" and transgenic animals to reveal the roles of specific genes and to study specific birth defects and diseases. His work on removing cells from the early-stage embryo of the mouse laid the foundations for today’s pre-implantation diagnostic tests.

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