Wednesday, October 19, 2011 (Welcome Dinner Events):

5:30 pm—9:00 pm

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will host a dinner for their fellows and scholars

6:00 pm—9:00 pm   

Dinner and social event for fellows in Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students, NIH Clinical Research Training Program, CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship, NCRR/CTSA, and Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars programs

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   Thursday, October 20, 2011 (Natcher Conference Center, Building 45):

7:50 am—8:00 am

Welcome from Drs. Michael M. Gottesman and Frederick P. Ognibene
Kirchstein Auditorium

8:00 am—8:30 am

Opening Address by Francis Collins, MD, PhD, NIH Director
Kirchstein Auditorium

9:15 am—10:30 am

   Breakout Session #1

• Career: Managing Finances and Family: Loan repayment and other helpful options
  
  • Henry Khachaturian, PhD, Extramural Program Policy Officer, Office of Extramural Research, OD, NIH
    Topic: NIH Loan Repayment Programs
  • Peg Nopoulos, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Iowa College of Medicine

• Special Topics: Rare and Orphan Diseases and Health Disparities Research
  • William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
  • Anne E. Sumner, MD, Senior Clinical Investigator, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
    Topic: The Effect of Race/Ethnicity on Screening Tests: The Triglyceride Example

• Special Topics: Global Health and Public Health
  • Maria Freire, PhD, President, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
    Topic: "Drug Development and Diseases of the Poor"
  • Natalie J. Dailey, MD, MPH candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Topic: Global Disease Surveillance

10:30 am—10:45 am

Break

10:45 am—12:00 pm

   Alumni Panel: Practical Tips and Skills Needed for Careers in Clinical and Translational Research

Moderator: Frederick P. Ognibene, MD, Deputy Director, Educational Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, NIH Clinical Center

Speakers:

• Cesar Castro, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Charles Hong, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University
• Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Christine Kistler, MD, MPH. Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Topics:

• Residency and Fellowship Training
• Balance of Professional and Personal Lives
• Choosing a Mentor and the Importance of Mentoring
• Early Career Funding

12:15 pm—2:00 pm

   Networking Luncheon and Continuation of Breakouts-Networking Sessions for Students Based on Areas of Research Interest - to include fellow attendees plus experienced principal investigators and fellowship training directors from NIH, faculty from academic medical centers and other programs attending the CIST Forum.
Various conference rooms in the Natcher Conference Center

2:00 pm—2:15 pm

Break and return to Kirschstein Auditorium

2:15 pm—3:00 pm

Plenary Session with Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, Chief Scientist and Deputy Commissioner for Science and Public Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Topic: Opportunities for Advancing Regulatory Science to Transform Product Development and Evaluation
Kirschstein Auditorium

3:15 pm—4:30 pm

   Breakout Session #2:

• Career: Residency Selection and Success
  
  • Clifford R. Weiss, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Clinical Director of The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design 
  • Adam Zanation, MD, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina
  • Rosemarie L. Fisher, MD, Director and Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education, Yale University School of Medicine

• Career: Grants and Private Funding
  • Betsy Myers, PhD, Program Director for Medical Research, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
    Topic: NIH Funding Opportunities for Junior Investigators
  • Jaime S. Rubin, Ph.D., Associate Program Leader, Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program; Director of Research Development, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
  • Nancy Sung, PhD, Senior Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
    Topic: Jumpstarting your Career with Philanthropic Foundation Funding

• Special Topics: Setting Matters: Research in Community, Academic, and Industry Settings
  • Edward Garmey, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Cerulean Pharma, Inc.
    Topic: Apples and Oranges? Considering the Relative Merits of Careers in Industry vs. Academia - or Both!
  • Andrea Sawczuk, DDS, PhD, Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Clinical Research Resources, National Center for Research Resources, NIH
  • Adam L. Hartman, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital

4:30 pm—5:00pm

Afternoon Break
NOTE: Participants are encouraged to stay on campus during the break. See maps for locations of campus coffee shops and wifi hotspots. If it's necessary that you leave the campus, please remember to allow extra time to enter through NIH security at the Gateway Center.

5:00 pm—7:30 pm

   Keynote Event
Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)

• Introduction of Keynote Speaker - John I. Gallin, M.D., Director, NIH Clinical Center

• Keynote Remarks by Anthony Fauci, MD, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  Topic: Thirty Years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey

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   Friday, October 21, 2011 (NIH Clinical Center, Building 10):

9:15 am—10:45 am

   Breakout Session #3: "Team Science"

Topic: Principles for Successful Collaborations: A Partnership between an MD and a PhD – the Human Skin Microbiome

• Howard Gadlin, PhD, Director, NIH Ombudsman
• L. Michelle Bennett, PhD, Deputy Director, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
• Heidi Kong, MD, MHSc, Investigator, Dermatology Branch, National Cancer Institute
• Julie Segre, PhD, Senior Investigator, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute

9:15 am—10:45 am

   Focused Tours of the NIH Clinical Research Center: Translational Science from the Bench to the Bedside
Denise B. Ford, MS, RD, FADA, Chief, Office of Hospitality Services, NIH Clinical Center and colleagues
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10)
Participants visit their two pre-selected locations

10:45 am—11:00 am

Break

11:00 am—12:15 pm

   Plenary Session
Masur Auditorium

Moderator: Michael M. Gottesman, MD, Deputy Director for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health

Speakers:

• John I. Gallin, MD, Director, NIH Clinical Center
  Topic: The Clinical Center as a National Resource
  
• W. Marston Linehan, MD, Chief, Urologic Oncology Branch, NCI
  Topic: Studying the Human Model of Cancer: A Surgeon's Journey

12:15 pm

Informal Networking Luncheon

Forum concludes

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