Cardiovascular Research Symposium

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Registration

9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome

Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D.
Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine

Robert A. Harrington, M.D.
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine
Provost for Medical Affairs, Cornell University

9:10 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. | Session I: Vascular 

Moderator:
Thomas Cappola, M.D., ScM
William Smilow Professor
Chief, Cardiovascular Division
University of Pennsylvania

Speakers: 
Scott Damrauer, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Laura Wingler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University
Dean, Duke University School of Medicine

Costantino Iadecola, M.D.
Director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute
Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medicine

Mark Kahn, M.D.
Edward S. Cooper, M.D./Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor of Medicine
Director of Molecular Cardiology
University of Pennsylvania

10:15 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. | Coffee Break

10:35 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. | Session II: Aortopathies 

Moderator:
Jonathan Weinsaft, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Cardiology
Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian

Speakers:

Leonard Girardi, M.D.
O. Wayne Isom ProfessorChairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief
Weill Cornell Medicine/ NewYork-Presbyterian

Philip S.Tsao, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford University

Nupoor Narula, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
The Bruce B. Lerman, M.D. Clinical Scholar
Weill Cornell Medicine

11:25 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. | Session III: Imaging and Outcomes

Moderator:
Jiwon Kim, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Speakers:
Sreekanth Vemulapalli, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University

Jessica Peña, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Weill Cornell Medicine

Latha Palaniappan, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Stanford University

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | Afternoon Introduction

Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Institute, Simon H. Stertzer, M.D., Professor
Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

1:20 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. | Session IV: Arrhythmia

Moderator:
Bruce Lerman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine in Pediatrics, Cardiology Division
Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian

Speakers:
Ching Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles

Jim Cheung, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Saman Nazarian, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Shuibing Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Biology in Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine

2:25 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Session V: Congenital/Development 

Moderator:
Harsimran Singh, M.D.
David S. Blumenthal Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

Speakers:
Sean Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford University

David Frank M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
University of Pennsylvania

Michael Harrison, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
CVRI Faculty Member
Weill Cornell Medicine

3:15 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. | Coffee Break

3:35 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Session VI: Lightning Early Career Talks

Moderator
Bernhard Kuhn, M.D.
David Wallace-Starr Foundation Professor of Pediatric Clinical Cardiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

4:15 p.m. - 5:05 p.m. | Session VII: Computational Biology 

Moderator:
TBD

Speakers:
Trine Krogh-Madsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medicine

Olivier Elemento, Ph.D.
Professor of Computational Genomics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

Sanjiv Narajan, M.D.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford University

5:05 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Poster Session

6:30 p.m. | Dinner for Symposium Speakers

9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. | Introduction

Daniel Kelly, M.D
Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor, Perelman School of Medicine
Director, Penn and CHOP Cardiovascular Institutes
University of Pennsylvania

9:05 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. | Session VIII: Regenerative Medicine/RNA Biology

Moderator:
Shahin Rafii, M.D.
Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

Speakers:
Jingli Cao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
CVRI Faculty Member
Weill Cornell Medicine

Maria Basil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
University of Pennsylvania

Yicheng Long, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
CVRI Faculty Member
Weill Cornell Medicine

Conrad Hodgkinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor ofPathology
Duke University

Samie Jaffrey, M.D., Ph.D.
Greenberg-Starr Professor
Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medicine

10:15 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. | Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. | Keynote Speaker

Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University, School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy
Former Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and former Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden

11:35 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. | Session IX: Stem Cells/Precision Medicine/Gene Editing

Moderator:
Howard Rockman, M.D.
Edward S. Orgain Distinguished Professor of Cardiology
Duke University School of Medicine

Speakers:
Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Simon H. Stertzer, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Stanford University

Kiran Musunuru, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine),
Director, Cardiovascular Institute's Genetic and Epigenetic Origins of Disease Program
University of Pennsylvania

Walter Koch, Ph.D.
Professor in Surgery
Duke University

12:25 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. | Lunch

1:25 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Afternoon Introduction

Howard Rockman, M.D.
Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
Edward D. Orgain Distinguished Professor of Cardiology
Duke University School of Medicine

1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. | Session X: Pulmonary Hypertension

Moderator:
Evelyn Horn, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Cardiology Division
Weill Cornell Medicine

Speakers:
Sudarshan Rajagopal, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Duke University

Mark Reisman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
Weill Cornell Medicine

Edda Spiekerkoetter, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
Stanford University

2:20 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Session XI: Cardio-Metabolism

Moderator:
James Lo. M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
CVRI Faculty Member
Weill Cornell Medicine

Speakers:
Christopher Newgard, Ph.D.
W. David and Sarah W. Stedman Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the School of Medicine
Duke University

Daniel Kelly, M.D.
Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor, Perelman School of Medicine
Director, PennCardiovascular Institute
University of Pennsylvania

Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Resnick, M.D. Associate Professor
Head, Weslie R. and William H. Janeway Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism
The Rockefeller University

3:15 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. | Closing Remarks

Todd Evans, Ph.D.
Peter I Pressman, M.D., Professor in Surgery
Vice Chair for Research, Chief Division of Research
Weill Cornell Medicine