Enest E. Just Symposium

Ernest Just Scientific Symposium
February 22, 2013

Located in the James E. Clyburn Research Center Auditorium

Part 1: Introduction
8:00-900 am	Registration and Breakfast - Entrance to Auditorium
9:00-9:10 am	Opening: Stephen Lanier, Ph.D. Associate Provost for Research Professor of Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina Etta D. Pisano, M.D., Dean, College of Medicine Vice President for Medical Affairs, Medical University of South Carolina
	Greeting: Perry V. Halushka, Ph.D., M.D. Professor, Pharmacology and Medicine Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Medical University of South Carolina
9:10 - 9:40 am	Title: "The Creativity of Ernest Everett Just" William McDade, M.D., Ph.D. Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues Office of the Provost University of Chicago
Part II: Role Models
9:40-10:10 am	Title: "Finding it in ALL Academic Medicine" Samantha E. Kaplan, M.D., MPH Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology Assistant Dean for Diversity & Multicultural Affairs Director, Early Medical School Selection Program Boston University School of Medicine
10:10-10:30 am	Break
Just Symposium Keynote
10:35-11:15am	Title: "Science: A Powerful Tool for Justice" Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D. Director, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health

Graduate Presenter
11:20-11:30am	Title: "What's Wrong with my Heart? Improving left ventricular function following Myocardial Infarction" Presenter: Denise Kimbrough, PhD candidate Medical University of South Carolina Molecular and Cellular Biology & Pathobiology Department of Cardiology Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
Undergraduate Presenter	Title: "Paralysis Due to Caffeine at the Neuromuscular Junction" Presenter: Ms. Melissa Carr-Reynolds Spelman College
11:45-12:55 pm	BREAKOUT SESSIONS/Lunch Campus tour for visiting students, Undergraduate Advisors meet with MUSC College Admissions Officers (Drug Discovery Bldg. Rm 111)
Part III Science
1:00-1:50 pm	Title: "The role of iRhom2/ADAM17 in EGFR receptor signaling and TNF-dependent pathologies" Carl Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. Professor: Departments of Medicine & Physiology & Biophysics Center for Vascular Biology Weill Cornell Medical College
2:00-2:50 pm	Title: "Creating the Optimal Environment: Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine" Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering Director, Translational Tissue Engineering Center (TTEC) Wilmer Eye Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering John Hopkins University
3:00-3:50 pm	Title: "CANCER - The Close Cousin of Wound Healing" Kapil Mehta, Ph.D. Professor of Experimental Therapeutics Cancer Medicine (Biochemistry) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center