7:30 a.m. | Registration opens
7:45 - 8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Research Accomplishments
Carlos Del Rio, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine
8:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Featured Research I: Small Vessels with Big Problems: Exploring Coronary Microcirculation in Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Puja Mehta, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
8:15 - 9:15 a.m. | Oral Presentations I
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Ti Wang (Visiting Fellow, Cardiology) “PP2A, a critical modulator of Cardiomyocyte Ferroptosis in Takotsubo Syndrome”
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Sam Lim (Professor, Rheumatology) “Stress Predicts Cardiovascular Disease in a Population-Based Cohort with Lupus”
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Veronica Posse (Staff Scientist, Renal Medicine) “Effect of antihypertensive medications on urinary sodium to potassium ratio”
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Giri Krishnamurthy (Assistant Professor, Geriatrics) “Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress changes during subacute stroke recovery”
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. | Poster Session I
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Featured Research II: The role of perturbed iron metabolism in liver injury - toward an in-depth understanding
Peijian He, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Digestive Diseases
10:45 - 11:45 a.m | Oral Presentations II
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | Karlyn Tunnell (Resident, General Internal Medicine) “Successful Performance of the Xpert® HCV test for Point of Care Detection of HCV”
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Natalia Smirnova (Assistant Professor, Pulmonary) “Trends, setting and timing of palliative and hospice care in COPD”
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. | Matthea Schor (Undergraduate Student, Endocrinology) “Dietary fat intake and body composition in adults with Cystic Fibrosis”
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. | Arun Balasubramaniam (Postdoctoral Fellow, Digestive Diseases) “Western Diet-Induced Ferroptosis Promotes Enteric Neurodegeneration: A Mechanism”
11:45 a.m - noon | Featured Research III: Building evidence for social dance as medicine
Madeleine Hackney, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatrics & Gerontology
noon - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (group photo)
12:45 - 1 p.m. | What's New in DOM Office of Research
Vibha Lama, MD, MS, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Keynote Presentation: A learning health system: Lessons from rural health
Sandra Wong, MD, Dean, Emory University School of Medicine, Chief Academic Officer, Emory Healthcare
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Poster Session II
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. | Featured Researcher IV: The Effectiveness of smallpox vaccines against Mpox in Military personnel
Boghuma Titanji, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
3:15 - 4:15 p.m. | Oral Presentations III
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Su Yeon Oh (Graduate Student, Endocrinology) “Revealing Metabolic Consequences of Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes with Omics”
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Harriet Blankson (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiology) “Transcriptomic profiling to predict cardiovascular health in Black females”
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | Carlos Saldana (Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases) “Enhancing Sexual Health Access for Hispanic and Latino Men in the Southern U.S”
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | Albahi Mailk (Postdoctoral Fellow, Pulmonary) “Risk Factors for Bradycardia in Patients on Dexmedetomidine: A Retrospective Study”