GUMC Convocation Announced
July 2, 2008
Howard J. Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, announced the first annual GUMC Convocation to be held on September 12, 2008. “This event will bring together GUMC students, faculty and staff in a unified forum to kick-off the academic year and will offer an opportunity to celebrate as a campus while recognizing the uniqueness of our sectors, programs, and departments,” said Federoff.
The afternoon session, scheduled at 3:00 in the New Research Building Auditorium, will feature an academic procession and a faculty award ceremony. In addition, GUMC will recognize Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the Institute for Systems Biology and the foremost expert in the field of systems medicine for his outstanding scientific, medical, or educational achievements in caring for the whole person.
During the morning, each Medical Center sector will host concurrent sessions related to systems medicine. Dr. Hood will participate in each of these sessions.
At the NHS session, panelists will include Patricia Grady, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, director of the National Institute of Nursing Research; Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D., project director of the personalized health care initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Frederick S. Lee, M.D., M.P.H., product manager for personalized medicine and genomics at McKesson. The NHS session, entitled "Systems Medicine and Patient Care," will be held from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. in the New Research Building Auditorium with introductory remarks from Dr. Hood.
The BGRO session, “Systems Medicine and Neurological Disease – Science and Ethics” will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in NE-401 in the Med Dent Building. Panelists will include Robert Clarke, Ph.D., Ds.C., interim director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization; Kevin Fitzgerald, S.J., Ph.D., David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics; Barbara Bayer, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Neuroscience; Kenneth Kellar, Ph.D., professor and vice-chair in the Department of Pharmacology; Carolyn Ward, MSPH, program coordinator in the Department of Neurology; R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Memory Disorders Program;
Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience; Timothy Mhyre, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience; Italo Mocchetti, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neuroscience; and William Rebeck, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience.
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s session will be held from 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. in the Warwick Evans Room in Building D. Milton Brown, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Drug Discovery Program, and Dr. Hood will discuss the topic “Drug Discovery and Systems Medicine.”
The School of Medicine’s session, “Systems Medicine and Medical Education,” to be held in SW-107 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will be chaired by Elliott Crooke, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology. Panelists will include David Galas, Ph.D., professor at the Institute for Systems Biology; and Dean Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., dean for medical education at the School of Medicine.
Submit your news at any time to the GUMC Office of Communications at gumccomm@georgetown.edu.
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