 The Department of Anesthesiology is pleased to announce that the inaugural Anesthesiology Research Day is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. This event will feature a poster session (with awards for best posters), oral presentations, light lunch, and keynote addresses by renowned researchers in the fields of anesthesia and pain mechanisms.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We invite junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, graduate and medical students, and research staff to submit abstracts for the poster session.
The Research Day Committee will review all abstracts and acceptance notifications will be sent out no later than April 17, 2009. Several outstanding abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. Individuals selected to give oral presentations will receive separate notification and instructions for preparing their presentations.
Note: If you have presented a research poster at a professional meeting during the current academic year, you may submit it in the appropriate format as your abstract for the 2009 Anesthesiology Research Day.
Deadline for Submission – Monday, April 13, 2009
Please contact S. Hirsch @ hirschsc@upmc.edu for a copy of the abstract and poster guidelines.
PROGRAM
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and Poster Set-Up
10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Poster Presentations
(Judging: 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Welcome: John P. Williams, MD
(light lunch) Peter & Eva Safar Professor and Chair
Distinguished Speaker: Patrick W. Mantyh, PhD, JD
Professor of Pharmacology University of Arizona College of Medicine
Cancer Pain: Causes, Consequences and Therapeutic Opportunities
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Oral Presentations – Highlights of Current Research in the Department
(Junior Faculty, Postdocs, Fellows, Residents, Medical & Grad Students)
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. BREAK
2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Oral Presentations – Highlights of Current Research in the Department
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Distinguished Speaker: Alex S. Evers, MD
Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Dept. of Anesthesiology
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Anesthetic Binding Sites: Approaches to Identification and Characterization
5:00 – 5:15 p.m. Awards Presentation
5:30 p.m. Reception
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Alex S. Evers, M.D. is the Henry Eliot Mallinckrodt Professor and head of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. He is renowned for his research on the molecular mechanisms through which anesthetics depress the nervous system.
He studies how anesthetics make patients lose consciousness, focusing on target molecules with which general anesthetics preferentially interact. Using labeling techniques, Evers has identified various proteins involved in the anesthetic-protein interactions, as well as structures of specific anesthetic binding sites. His laboratory also works to identify specific cellular functions that are affected by anesthetics.
Dr. Evers was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors medical scientists in the United States can receive. Evers was honored for his professional achievement in the health sciences, specifically in the area of anesthesiology.
Patrick W. Mantyh, Ph.D., J.D., Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, is nationally recognized for his research of chronic inflammatory nervous system and cancer-related pain.
Dr. Mantyh's research is focused on understanding the factors involved in bone and pancreatic cancer pain, pain resulting from fracture of the skeleton and peripheral neuropathy (pain and numbness in the hands and feet) caused by cancer chemotherapy. Using cellular, molecular, pharmacological and anatomical techniques, he is exploring how nerve cells that innervate peripheral tissues (such as bone, muscle and skin) detect and convert environmental stimuli that are perceived as harmful into electrochemical signals. Dr. Mantyh's work explores how these signals are transmitted to the central nervous system, how inflammatory and immune responses are regulated in nerve-containing peripheral tissues and how nerve cells do or don't survive and regenerate following injury to the central nervous system.
For more information and to learn how to submit an abstract for the poster session, please contact S. Hirsch at hirschsc@upmc.edu or 412-648-9582. |
