The Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards
In Aging Research Program
2013 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
October 2-5, 2013
DRAFT AGENDA AS OF 09/11/13
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm John A. Hartford Foundation Alumni Discussion Group
Room TBD Marcus Escobedo, Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Rachael Watman, Senior Program Officer, The John A. Hartford Foundation
The session will provide an update on the activities related to the Change AGEnts Initiative. During this session, Rachael Watman and Marcus Escobedo will present further details and take questions about the initiative’s components and opportunities that will be available for Beeson Scholars, alumni, advisory board members and others affiliated with the program.
4:00 p.m. Hotel Check-in Time
4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Registration
Mountain View Foyer
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
Wolf Patio
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Welcome
Tamaya ABC
Remarks by Program Committee Chair, AFAR Rep, JAHF rep, NIA Rep
Introduction of New Scholars
Keynote address: A quest to resolve the aging riddle: clinical and biological science at a crossroad
Luigi Ferrucci, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, NIA Scientific Director and
Chief, Longitudinal Studies Section, National Institute on Aging
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner
Tamaya ABC
Thursday, October 3, 2013
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
Wolf/Wolf Patio Poster Set Up and General Viewing (entire day) – Tamaya D
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 1
Tamaya ABC Bernadette McGuiness, Margaret Fang, Kimberly Johnson, Anna Csiszar
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Maintaining Integrity in Research
Tamaya ABC Focus of this session is how easy it is for researchers to compromise the “ethics” of their research in the face of career pressures, etc. The general sense is that this could happen to anyone.
Gerald Koocher, DePaul University
Why scientists cheat and what am I supposed to do about it?
Jason Karlawish, University of Pennsylvania
Research ethics and living a life
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Wolf/Wolf Patio
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Free time/Mentoring Activities/General Poster Viewing
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Data Blitz!
The academic equivalent of speed dating – a fast-track vehicle to understand research and possible synergies with others. Each session involves a research theme, with current scholars each presenting their research in five minutes or less – the time limit will be strictly enforced. The presentations will be followed by a group discussion. Groups will be arranged by content area.
Hawk A, B, C, Badger A, C
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Break
4:45 – 6:45 p.m. Poster Session and Reception
Tamaya D
6:45 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner
Hummingbird Garden
Friday, October 4, 2013
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
Wolf/Wolf Patio Note: A private breakfast meeting for the Program Advisory Committee will be held in the Council Room
8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 2
Tamaya ABC Julie Bynum, Paul Rosenberg, Angela Jefferson
9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. I’ve made it this far, but where to go from here?
(Leadership Development Session)
Tamaya ABC Stephanie Studenski, MD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh
Breakout Sessions:
Basic Science – Hawk A
Clinical Research – Hawk B
Health Services Research – Hawk C
11:45 a.m. Lunch Boxes available to bring to Consultancies
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Consultancies and Aims Page Workshop (Working Lunch)
A consultancy is a problem‐solving activity, structured to enable a group of people with a variety of knowledge and expertise to provide support, new perspectives, and ideas to one another, particularly around an important or difficult challenge. Groups will go to smaller meeting rooms.
One or more consultancy sessions will be run an “Aims Page Workshop,” where researchers who are in the process of preparing grants can present their Aims Page for feedback and suggestions. In order to participate in the Aims Page consultancy, participants will be expected to read others’ submissions and give feedback.
1:45 – 3:15 p.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 3
Tamaya ABC Stephen Todd, Mara Schonberg, Steven Russell, Alex Federman
3:15 – 6:30 p.m. Free Time/ Mentoring Activities
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner at Pavilion
Cottonwoods
9:30 p.m. Return to hotel
Saturday, October 5, 2013
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
Hawk/Hawk Patio
8:30 a.m. Adjourn
12:00 p.m. Hotel Check-Out time