2024 BIDMC Research Retreat Scientific Program

Welcoming Remarks (Amphitheatre)

• Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, Chief Academic Officer, BIDMC/BILH
• Alexa Kimball, MD, MPH, CEO, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP)
• Pete Healy, President, BIDMC and BILH Metro Division
• Co-Chairs: Jennifer Ho, MD, Rick Cummings, PhD

New Faculty Lightning Talks (Amphitheatre)

• "Programmable Molecular Technologies for Genome Editing and Cell Control," Jonathan Gootenberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/CVVR
• "Host-Microbiota Interactions Regulating the Colon Mucus Barrier in Health and Disease," Michael Grey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology
• "Spatial Transcriptomics Study of the Human Frontal Cortex," Maria Mavrikaki, PhD, Instructor, Pathology
• "Cytoskeletal Impairment and Mechanical Stress in Podocyte- Mediated Kidney Disease," Di Feng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine
• "Investigating Memory Recall and Imagination with a Hippocampal Brain-Machine Interface," Albert Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurology

Morning Concurrent Sessions: 

A. Clinical and Scientific Promise of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Amphitheatre)
Session Chair: Jennifer Stevens, MD, MS, Director of the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science

• “ML in Cardiovascular Research: Applications and Future Directions,” Jennifer Ho, MD, Associate Professor, Cardiology
• “Expanding Neuroimaging Diagnostics Using AI,” Salil Soman, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Neuroradiology
•  “Applying ML/AI in Breast Cancer,” Jan Heng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology
• “Machine Learning and Sleep: Pioneering Biomarkers for Brain Health,” Wolfgang Ganglberger, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurology

B. Hub Highlights Session (Pechet Room)
Session Co-Chairs: Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology; Barbara (Basia) Wegiel, PhD, Associate Professor, Surgery; Veronique VanderHorst, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology; Frank Slack, PhD, Professor, Pathology

• Pathogens, Inflammation and Immunity Hub: "Women and Liver Diseases," Michelle Lai, MD, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology
• Neuroscience Connections Hub: “Assessing Brain and Behavior: Smartphones, Sensors and Screens for Advancing Remote Measurement and Care for Brain Disorders," John Torous MD, MBI, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
• Neuroscience Connections Hub: “The D-Cog Test, a 2-Minute Cognitive Measure of Spatial Working Memory," Daniel Press, MD, Associate Professor, Neurology
• Cancer Research Institute: “Tumor-Stroma Interactions in Treatment Resistance," Taru Muranen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology
• Systemic Effects of Metabolic Disease Hub: “A Physical and Digital Biobank Data Repository: The BiodataBank,” Zsu Zsu Chen, MD, Assistant Professor, Endocrinology

C. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender-Based Research: Insights from Across Career Stages (Bray Room)
Session Co-Chairs: Jeanne-Marie Guise, MD, MPH, MBA, Director, Massachusetts Institute for Equity Focused Learning System Science, and Rose Molina, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

• “Sleep Disturbances and Chronic Pain – Does Sex Matter?” Monika Haack, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology
• “Novel Small Molecule Therapeutics for Preeclampsia,” Zsuzsanna K. Zsengeller PhD, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine
• “A Pathologist’s role in Translational Research, Endometriosis,” Jonathan Hecht, MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology
• “Improvements in Healthcare Delivery: Advancing Pregnancy Care," Ethan Litman, MD, Clinical Fellow, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
• “Transitions: My Research Journey from Bench to Field,” Rosemary Duda MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology

Propelling BIDMC Research through Collaborations and Partnerships: Introducing InSPIRE 2030 (Amphitheatre)
Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, Professor, Gastroenterology; Mitchell T. Rabkin, Chair, and Dean of Academic Affairs, HMS; Chief Academic Officer, BIDMC/BILH

Afternoon Concurrent Sessions:

A. Career Opportunities from Early-Stage to Established Investigators (Amphitheatre)
Session Chair: Steven Freedman, MD, PhD, Director, Franklin Epstein Society

Panelists: Aarti Asnani, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiology; Elysia Larson, Sc.D, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Biology; Katy Stephenson, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine/CVVR; Usman Tahir, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiology

B. Diversifying/Consolidating Funding: Beyond the RO1 Panel (Pechet Room)
Session Co-Chairs: Janet Mullington, PhD, Professor, Neurology, and Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Robert Gerzsten, MD, Professor, Cardiology

Speakers:

• “ARPA-H: The Vision and Mission,” Joseph Shonkwiler, MD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer/ARPA-H
• “T32 + K12 Programs: Institutional Grants Worth Knowing About,” Seward Rutkove, MD, Nancy Lauri Marks Professor of Neurology
• “U Grants: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Robert Gerszten, MD, Herman Dana Professor of Medicine, Cardiology

Pitch It! Competition Hosted by the Technology Ventures Office (Amphitheatre)

“Pitchers”:
Kathleen Mahoney, MD, PhD, Instructor, Medicine  
Prateek Misra, MD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Orthopedics
Carmelo Nucera, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology

Judges:
Cherie Butts, PhD, Medical Director, Therapeutics Development Unit, Biogen, and Member of BIDMC Research Oversight Committee
Michael Draper, PhD, Senior Vice President, Academic Partnerships-Lab eN2
Mark Tepper, PhD, President & CEO, Eumentis Therapeutics Inc., and BIDMC Venture Mentor