Program
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and the Division of Infectious Diseases at
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine present the
Second Annual Research Symposium
April 17, 2012
Lurie Building, Baldwin Auditorium
| 8:30am-9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am-9:05am | Welcome/Introductions |
| 9:05am-10:05am |
Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine |
| "Innate Immune Responses to Bacteria in the Lungs" |
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| 10:05am-10:25am | Nicole Theodoropoulos, MD, Infectious Diseases Fellow, Northwestern University |
| "Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis in the Immunocompromised Host" | |
| 10:25am-10:45am | Egon Ozer, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases Fellow, Northwestern University |
| "Pathogenicity-Associated Genomic Elements of Pseudomonas aeruginosa" | |
| 10:45am-11:20am | Robert Weinstein, MD, Chairman of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospitals System |
| "Region-wide Control of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella: The Chicago Experience" | |
| 11:20am-11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am-12:15pm | Pursuit of careers in academia: a panel discussion (Searle Seminar Room) |
| 12:15pm-1:30pm | Break |
| 1:30pm-2:05pm | Wyndham Lathem, PhD, Northwestern University |
| " Inflammation and Extracellular Proteolysis During Primary Pneumonic Plague" | |
| 2:05pm-2:25pm | Khalilah L. Gates, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary-Critical Care, Northwestern University |
| "Permissive Hypercapnia: Permission for Host Immune Dysfunction" | |
| 2:25pm-2:45pm | Kathryn A. Radigan, MD, Instructor, Division of Pulmonary-Critical Care, Northwestern University |
| "Mechanisms Linking Obesity with Influenza A-Induced Lung Injury" | |
| 2:45pm-2:55pm | Break |
| 2:55pm-3:55pm | Angela J.P. Campbell, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Washington |
| "Respiratory Virus Infections after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Misery and More" | |
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
