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First Annual Meeting
May 9 – 12, 2007
Washington Plaza Hotel
10 Thomas Circle NW
Washington DCWednesday May 9
4:00 pm
Meeting Registration Exhibit set up 5:00 – 7:00 pm Reception/Exhibits 7:00 – 8:00 pm Opening Keynote Lecture
Thursday May 10 8:30-10:30 am
Panel I: Sex, Hormones and Autoimmunity
Chair: Rhonda R. Voskuhl, M.D., UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Program, Department of Neurology, University of California,Los Angeles, CA o Rhonda R. Voskuhl, M.D., UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Program, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA o Cory Teuscher, Ph.D., Department of Medicine and Pathology and Medical Biostatistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT o Betty A. Diamond, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10:30- 11:00 am
Break and Poster viewing/Exhibits 11:00- 1:00 pm Panel II: Sex Differences in Obesity and Metabolic Disease
Chair: Jennifer Lovejoy, Ph.D. School of Nutrition and Exercise Science, Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA o Deborah J. Clegg, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH o Steven R. Smith, M.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Batton Rouge, LA o Andrea Dunaif, M.D., Division of Endocrinology, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 2:00 – 4:00 pm Poster Session I/Exhibits 4:00-6:00 pm Panel III: Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Disorders
Chair: Saralyn Mark, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor adjunct of Medicine and OB/GYN at Yale and Georgetown Schools of Medicine o Joan McGowan, Ph.D., Musculoskeletal Diseases Branch, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, M.D. o Jay R. Shapiro, MD., Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD o Laura L. Tosi, MD., Department of Orthopaedics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Friday May 11
8:30-10:30 am Panel IV: Sex Differences in Pain
Chair: Arthur Arnold, Ph.D. Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA o Jeff S. Mogil, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada o Linda LeResche, Sc.D., Department of Oral Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA o Roger B. Fillingim, Ph.D. University of Florida College of Dentistry, Public Health Services and Research, Gainesville, FL 10:30- 11:00 am
Break and Poster viewing/Exhibits 11:00- 1:00 pm Panel V: Sex Differences in Lung Cancer
Chair: Jill M. Siegfried, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine o Jill M. Siegfried, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Lung Cancer Program, Pittsburgh, PA o Pamela A. Hershberger, Ph.D., The Hillman Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA o Shama C. Buch, Ph.D., Center for Clinical Pharmacology,University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Poster Session II/Exhibits 4:00-6:00 pm Panel VI: Sex Differences in Behavioral Disorders: Depression, Anxiety and Schizophrenia
Chair: Geert J. de Vries, Ph.D., Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst o Tracy Bale, Ph.D., Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA o Jill M. Goldstein, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA o Robert T. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday May 12
8:30 – 10:30 am Panel VII: Imprinting and Parent-of-Origin Effects
Co-chairs: Carmen Sapienza, Ph.D. Temple University
Rosanna Weksberg, M.D., Ph.D. University of Toronto o Marisa S. Bartolomei, Ph.D., Department of Cell and Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA o Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Medicine and Center for the Epigenetics of Common Human Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD o TBA 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Closing Keynote Address (Distinguished speaker) o David Skuse, M.D. FRCP FRCPsych FRCPCH, Behavioral Brain Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK 12:00 pm
Meeting Adjourned
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