Pittsburgh International Lung Conference
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Virtual Conference

Agenda

Friday, October 28, 2011

 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
   
 Opening Comments
   
 8:00 AM - 8:10 AMWhy are we here and what are the questions we would like to answer?
Naftali Kaminski, MD
   
 8:10 AM - 8:30 AMFuture directions in lung research
James P. Kiley, PhD
   
 Session 1The First Frontier - COPD
Chairs: Jessica Bon, MD, and John J. Reilly, Jr., MD
   
 8:30 AM - 8:35 AMSession Chair Introduction
   
 8:35 AM - 8:55 AMClassification of disease heterogeneity in COPD (phenotyping)
Frank C. Sciurba, MD
   
 8:55 AM - 9:15 AMGenetic epidemiology of COPD
Edwin K. Silverman, MD, PhD
   
 9:15 AM - 9:35 AMEpigenomics of COPD
Peter J. Barnes, FRS
   
 9:35 AM - 9:55 AMThe COPD transcriptome
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc
   
 9:55 AM - 10:15 AMExome sequencing
Rasika Mathias, ScD
   
 10:15 AM - 10:35 AMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 10:35 AM - 10:55 AMRefreshment Break
   
 Session 2Beyond Wheezing - Asthma
Chair: Sally Wenzel, MD
   
 10:55 AM - 11:05 AMIntroduction - Asthma phenotypes
Sally Wenzel, MD
   
 11:05 AM - 11:25 AMAsthma biomarkers and personalized medicine
Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH
   
 11:25 AM - 11:45 AMGenes, allergens and asthma in Puerto Ricans
Juan C. Celedon, MD, DrPH
   
 11:45 AM - 12:05 PMAsthma, allergy and ethnicity
Kathleen C. Barnes, PhD
   
 12:05 PM - 12:25 PMUnderstanding asthma through genomics
Scott T. Weiss, MD, MS
   
 12:25 PM - 12:35 PMEpigenomics of asthma
Carrie V. Breton, ScD
   
 12:35 PM - 12:55 PMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 LunchFeatured Lunch Presentation
Chair: Naftali Kaminski, MD
   
 12:55 PM - 2:10 PMPersonalized medicine and health care reform
Steven D. Shapiro, MD
   
 Session 3Personalizing Acute Lung Injury
Chairs: Rama K. Mallampalli, MD, and Bryan McVerry, MD
   
 2:10 PM - 2:30 PMWe still need mice - dissecting mechanisms of human acute lung injury
George D. Leikauf, PhD
   
 2:30 PM - 2:50 PMGenomics of acute lung injury
Joe G.N. Garcia, MD
   
 2:50 PM - 3:10 PMCan we predict the outcome of sepsis and pneumonia patients?
Sachin Yende, MD
   
 3:10 PM - 3:30 PMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 3:30 PM - 3:50 PMRefreshment Break
   
 3:50 PM
   
 Session 4Bench to Bedside: Industry-Academia Happy Hour
Chairs: Mark T. Gladwin, MD, and Clay B. Marsh, MD
   
 3:50 PM - 4:05 PMPersonalized medicine - the road to translation
Clay B. Marsh, MD
   
 4:05 PM - 5:05 PMIndustry Panel Discussion
Thomas R. Martin, MD
Marc S. Malandro, PhD
Ray Jupp, PhD
Ramona L. Doyle, MD
   
 Post-Scientific Session Events
   
 5:05 PM - 6:40 PMPoster Reception
   
 Banquet Dinner at Heinz History Center
   
 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMThe NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program: A model for personalized medicine
William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, DHHS
   


Saturday, October 29, 2011

 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
   
 
   
 8:00 AM - 8:05 AMWelcome
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
   
 8:05 AM - 8:15 AMOpening Remarks on Genomic Medicine
Weiniu Gan, PhD
   
 Session 5Information - The Key to Personalized Medicine
Chairs: Harry Hochheiser, PhD, and M. Michael Barmada, PhD
   
 8:15 AM - 8:35 AMBioinformatics in clinical medicine
Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD
   
 8:35 AM - 8:55 AMAn integrative approach to lung disease
Charles Auffray, PhD
   
 8:55 AM - 9:15 AMDriving discovery through data integration
John Quackenbush, PhD
   
 9:15 AM - 9:35 AMMultilevel gene regulation: from microRNA genes to disease regulatory networks
Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, PhD
   
 9:35 AM - 9:45 AMIntegrative phenotyping framework: Integration of phenomic and genomic data elucidates phenotypes in interstitial lung disease and COPD
Don Kang, PhD
   
 9:45 AM - 10:05 AMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 10:05 AM - 10:25 AMRefreshment Break
   
 Session 6Discovering the Gene is Only the Beginning - Lessons From Monogenic Diseases
Chairs: Yingze Zhang, PhD, and Joseph M. Pilewski, MD
   
 10:25 AM - 10:30 AMSESSION CHAIR INTRODUCTION
   
 10:30 AM - 10:50 AMMonogenic diseases are still complex - the example of Sickle Cell Disease
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
   
 10:50 AM - 11:10 AMAlpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency: Role of autophagy in liver disease and COPD
David H. Perlmutter, MD
   
 11:10 AM - 11:30 AMDisease modifier genes in cystic fibrosis
Gary Cutting, MD
   
 11:30 AM - 11:50 AMThe elastic fiber/TGF-beta gene network in rare and common forms of COPD
Zsolt Urban, PhD
   
 11:50 AM - 12:10 PMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 LunchFeatured Lunch Presentation
Chair: Oliver Eickelberg, MD
   
 12:10 PM - 1:25 PMFrom protein degradation to personalized medicine
Jacob I. Sznajder, MD
   
 Session 7Charting Uncharted Land - Interstitial Lung Disease
Chairs: Kevin F. Gibson, MD, and Kristen L. Veraldi, MD, PhD
   
 1:25 PM - 1:30 PMSESSION CHAIR INTRODUCTION
   
 1:30 PM - 1:50 PMPhenotypes and biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Fernando Martinez, MD
   
 1:50 PM - 2:10 PMGenotypes and phenotypes of sarcoidosis
Joachim Muller-Quernheim, MD
   
 2:10 PM - 2:30 PMGenetics of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
David A. Schwartz, MD, MPH
   
 2:30 PM - 2:50 PMGenomics and personalized medicine in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Naftali Kaminski, MD
   
 2:50 PM - 3:00 PMEpigenomics of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Ivana V. Yang, PhD
   
 3:00 PM - 3:20 PMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 3:20 PM - 3:40 PMRefreshment Break
   
 Session 8Genomics of Pulmonary Hypertension and Sleep
Chairs: Hunter Champion, MD, PhD, and Charles W. Atwood, MD
   
 3:40 PM - 3:45 PMSession Chair Introduction
   
 3:45 PM - 4:10 PMIdiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension - clinical characteristics and survival
Marc Humbert, MD, PhD
   
 4:10 PM - 4:30 PMGenetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension
James E. Loyd, MD
   
 4:30 PM - 4:50 PMGenomics of sleep and its disorders
Allan I. Pack, MD, PhD
   
 4:50 PM - 5:10 PMPANEL DISCUSSION
   
 Conference Summary
   
 5:10 PM - 5:30 PMJohn J. Reilly, Jr., MD
   
 5:30 PMAdjournment