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