The Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards
In Aging Research Program
2014 Annual Meeting
Loews Coronado Bay Hotel, San Diego, California
October 8 – 11, 2014
DRAFT AGENDA AS OF 9/9/14
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm John A. Hartford Foundation – Change AGEnts update
4:00 p.m. Hotel Check-in Time
4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Registration
Atrium
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
Bay Terrace
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Welcome
Commodore AB
Thomas Gill, MD
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology
Yale University School of Medicine and
Chair, Beeson Program Advisory Committee
Marcus Escobedo, MPH
Program Officer, the John A. Hartford Foundation
NIA representative
AFAR representative
Introduction of New Scholars
Keynote address:
David Reuben, MD
Director, Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology and Chief, Division of Geriatrics
University of California, Los Angeles
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner
Commodore AB
Thursday, October 9, 2014
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
Mistral Poster Set Up and General Viewing (entire day) in Constellation Ballroom
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 1
Commodore AB Angela Jefferson, Heather Whitson, Cynthia Boyd, Stephanie Cosentino
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Funding Information Session
Commodore AB Chyren Hunter, PhD, moderator
Deputy Director and Training Officer, Division of Extramural Activities National Institute on Aging
Speakers:
Joe Selby, MD, MPH
Executive Director
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of California, San Francisco
12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Bay Terrace
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.
Check the Session Assignments Tab for your assigned group. Other meeting participants are encouraged to attend these sessions and should choose the session that most closely matches their own research interests.
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Break
4:45 – 6:45 p.m. Poster Session and Reception
Constellation Ballroom Please remove your poster at the conclusion of the session.
6:45 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner
Marina Terrace
Friday, October 10, 2014
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
Constellation A Note: A private breakfast meeting for the Program Advisory Committee will be held in Constellation B from 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 2
Commodore AB Joe Ross, Amy Kind, Heidi Wald, Steven Russell, Michael Steinman
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Team Science
Commodore AB Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, moderator
Richard M Fairbanks Professor of Aging Research
Indiana University School of Medicine
Speakers:
Randall Bateman, MD
Distinguished Professor of Neurology,
Washington University School of Medicine
Nicolas Musi, MD,
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
· How to effectively manage collaborations
· How to effectively establish multi-site studies/trials
· Breakout sessions: How to establish/ run a lab or research team
o Lab research
o Clinical science/ health services
o Translational research
11:45 a.m. Lunch Boxes available to bring to Consultancies
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Consultancies and Aims Page Workshops (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.
Two sessions will be run as “Aims Page Workshops,” where researchers who are in the process of preparing grants can present their Aims Page for feedback and suggestions.
Groups will go to smaller meeting rooms ‐ check the Session Assignments for your assigned group.
1:45 – 3:15 p.m. Graduating Scholars Presentations: Group 3
Commodore AB Leora Horwitz, Dena Dubal, Michael McWilliams, Sei Lee
3:15 – 6:30 p.m. Free Time/ Mentoring Activities
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner- Entertainment/ activity TBD
Beach
9:00 p.m. Return to hotel
Saturday, October 11, 2014
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Adjourn
12:00 p.m. Hotel Check-Out time