December 4, 2015, 11am<\/strong>\u00a0~ Patricia A. Pioli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,\u00a0Micro Immunology &\u00a0Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth ~ Topic TBA ~ Evans 542<\/p>\n March 4, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0~ Jane A. Leopold, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Editor, Circulation<\/span> ~\u00a0<\/em>Gene Transfer of SERCA2a to the Pulmonary Vasculature: -Omics to Therapeutics\u00a0~ Evans 542<\/span><\/p>\n October 16, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0~ Bela Suki, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University School of Medicine ~ \u201cDynamics of mechanotransduction: Implications for vascular and respiratory function\u201d ~ <\/span>Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n September 11, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0~ Katia Urso, PhD, Research Fellow in Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital ~ “IL4RA on Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Regulates T cell Egress from Lymph nodes in Sclerodermatous Graft versus<\/em> Host Disease”. Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n May 29, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0Kurt R. Stenmark, MD,\u00a0Division Head, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Professor with tenure, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center\u00a0<\/span>~ “Epigenetic Regulation of the Metabolic State of Vascular Cells in Pulmonary Hypertension or Metabolic Regulation of the Epigenetic Phenotype of Vascular Cells in PH”<\/span><\/p>\n February 13, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0~ W. Evan Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine ~ “Efficient computational strategies for metagenomic profiling using unassembled sequencing data”.<\/p>\n January 16, 2015, 11am<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0Shervin Assassi, MD, MS,\u00a0Associate Professor,\u00a0Division of Rheumatology,\u00a0University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ~\u00a0Gene expression based biomarkers in systemic sclerosis ~ Evans 542<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n December 5, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0~ Robyn Domsic, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ~\u00a0Systemic sclerosis:\u00a0 focus on early diffuse disease.<\/p>\n November 21, 2014, 11am<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0Jeffrey S. Isenberg, MD, MPH,\u00a0Associate Professor of Medicine,\u00a0Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh\u00a0School of Medicine ~ Role of TSP1 via CD47 in promoting pulmonary arterial hypertension<\/p>\n October 10, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0~ Sanjiv Shah, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine ~ Phenomics of Cardiac Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis<\/p>\n September 12, 2014 <\/strong>~ Andrew Tager, MD, Principal Investigator, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, “Tissue stiffness gradients drive fibrosis by promoting fibroblast recruitment and activation through Cell “Durotaxis” ~ Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n August 1, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD,\u00a0Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;\u00a0Associate Physician, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital,\u00a0Division of Cardiology ~ \u201cCan biomarkers of pulmonary arterial hypertension reveal insights into mechanism?\u201d \u00a0(This talk is not available to view.)<\/p>\n April 11, 2014, 11am<\/strong>\u00a0~ Joseph Vita, MD, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine ~ “Studying Endothelial Biology in Humans”. \u00a0Click here to view the talk<\/a><\/p>\n March 14, 2014\u00a0<\/strong>~ Eric Hachulla, MD, Professor of Medicine, H\u00f4pital Claude Huriez, Lille, France ~ “The approach of early diagnosis of PAH in SSc and how to improve survival”. Click here to view the talk<\/a><\/p>\n February 14, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0~ Xaralabos (Bob) Varelas, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine ~ “Coordinating developmental signals: novel roles for the Hippo pathway effectors Taz and Yap”.\u00a0Click here to view the talk<\/a><\/p>\n January 17, 2014<\/strong>\u00a0~ Flora Sam, MD,\u00a0Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology and the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University Medical Center ~\u00a0Diastolic Dysfunction And Heart Disease In Systemic Sclerosis ~\u00a0Click here to view the talk<\/a><\/p>\n 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n December 6, 2013<\/strong> ~ <\/strong>Vincent Falanga, MD, FACP,\u00a0The Barbara A. Gilchrest Professor of Dermatology;\u00a0Professor of Biochemistry;Dermatology Program Director and Vice-Chair for Research,\u00a0Boston University School of Medicine ~\u00a0The topical application of multipotent or pluripotent bone marrow-derived adult stem cells for scleroderma digital ulcers” <\/strong>Click here to view the talk<\/a> November 8, 2013<\/strong> ~ Paul Hassoun, MD, Professor of Medicine; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ~ “Right ventricular-pulmonary arterial uncoupling in scleroderma-associated PAH”. Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n October 11, 2013<\/strong> ~ <\/strong>Steven D. Nathan, MD, Medical Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital ~ “Interstitial lung disease in scleroderma: Lessons from IPF.” Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n September 13, 2013 <\/strong>~ Dave P. Miller, Senior Director of Statistical Analysis, ICON Late Phase & Outcomes Research ~ “Risk Prediction, Observational Studies & PAH.” Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n August 2, 2013<\/strong> ~ David Abraham, PhD, Professor and Joint Head, Centre for Rheumatology, University College London ~ “Taming fibrosis: Shrewdly understanding regulatory pathways in scleroderma to advance research towards therapy.” \u00a0Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n March 1, 2013 <\/strong>~ Jonathan Goldin, MD, PhD, Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Executive Vice Chairman, Dept of Radiological Sciences-Clinical Care; Chief of Radiology, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center; Director, Thoracic Research Group and Laboratory ~ “CT as a Biomarker in Scleroderma.”Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n February 1, 2013<\/strong> ~ Patricia A. D\u2019Amore, PhD, MBA, Senior Scientist and Co-Director of Research, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology; Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School ~ \u201cA Novel Mechanism for the Regulation of Inflammation\u201d. Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n January 4, 2013 ~ <\/strong>Charles M. Perou, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Pathology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ~ “Breast cancer genomics: From the individual to the population”. Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n December 7, 2012 <\/strong>~ James P. Butler, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health ~ “Probing in vivo lung microstructure and function with hyperpolarized noble gas MRI”.\u00a0 Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n October 12, 2012 <\/strong>~ Hans Dooms, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine ~ Inhibiting memory T cells in autoimmune disease.\u00a0 Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n August 3, 2012 <\/strong>~ Catherine Valentine, MD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine (Pulmonary) and Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine ~ Regulation of the Host Immune Response During Sepsis by Costimulatory Molecules.\u00a0 Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n May 4, 2012 <\/strong>~ Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD, Director, Developmental Immunology Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Visiting Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT ~ “What You Learn From a Firm Handshake: Integrins, TGF-beta and Immune Regulation”.\u00a0 Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n April 6, 2012 ~ <\/strong>Robert Fuhlbrigge, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Pediatrics & Dermatology; Director of Research- Pediatric Rheumatology, Division of Immunology, Children\u2019s Hospital- Boston ~ “Tissue Specific Inflammation: Mechanisms Targeting Immune Responses to Skin”.\u00a0 Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n March 2, 2012 <\/strong>~ Maureen D. Mayes, MD, MPH, Professor and Elizabeth Bidgood Chair in Rheumatology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston ~ “The Genetics of Systemic Sclerosis”. Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n January 6, 2012, 11am <\/strong>~ Augustine M. K. Choi, MD, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham And Women’s Hospital ~ Pulmonary Fibrosis ~ Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n December 2, 2011, 11am<\/strong> ~ Ann-Hwee Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health ~ Unfolded protein response in animal physiology ~ Click here to view the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n Upcoming Speakers December 4, 2015, 11am\u00a0~ Patricia A. Pioli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,\u00a0Micro Immunology &\u00a0Physiology and Neurobiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth ~ Topic TBA ~ Evans 542 March 4, 2016\u00a0~ Jane A. Leopold, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Editor, Circulation ~\u00a0Gene Transfer of SERCA2a to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4558,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sscores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Past Speakers<\/h3>\n
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