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2004 Speakers at the GI Research Forum

This weekly series is presented every Thursday at 4:00pm in Room M112 of Baylor College of Medicine’s DeBakey Building, from September through May. UTHSC also provides visiting guests to the DDC audience.

Speakers include a diverse mix of clinicians and basic scientists, senior investigators from the Texas Medical Center in Houston, and from across the country.

 

January 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

15

Jian-Ying Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Surgery & Pathology
University of Maryland
College Park , M.D.
Cellular Signaling in Intestinal Restitution: Implication of Polyamines and K+ Channels

Mark Hellmich, Ph.D.

22 Keith D. Lindor, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Medical Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Gene LeSage. M.D.

29

Saul Tzipori, Ph.D., DSc, FRCVS
Professor, Infectious Diseases
Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
North Grafton MA

The Challenge of Protecting Children against Shiga Toxin Induced Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)

Susan Henning, Ph.D.

February 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

5

P. Kay Lund, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology, Pediatrics & Nutrition President, UNC Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars;
University of No. Carolina , Chapel Hill
Growth hormone : IGF-I axis and the intestine : signaling, stem cell survival, differentiation and tumorigenesis

S. Henning

12 Norman Sussman, M.B.B.Ch.
Assistant Professor, Medicine-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine
Rethinking idiosyncratic drug toxicity  
19 Leonard R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Gerwin Professor and Chairman Department of Physiology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis , TN
To die or not to die, that is the question or (apoptosis in the gastrointestinal tract) M. Hellmich

26

Jonathan A. Dranoff, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine-Digestive Diseases;
Yale University , New Haven CT

A novel mechanism for the regulation of bile ductular proliferation

G. LeSage

March 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

4

Anthony Axon, M.D., FRCP
Honorary Professor of Gastroenterology
The General Infirmary at Leeds Leeds , England
Hilda Schwartz Visiting Professorship
Acid, H pylori, GERD and cancer

G. Ergan

11 To Be Announced    
18 Laurence J. Miller, M.D.
Professor, Medicine & Biochem /Molecular Biology
Mayo Medical School Scottsdale , Arizona
G protein-coupled receptors: beyond the fourth dimension M. Hellmich

25

Jan Huizinga, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine & Biomedical Sciences,
McMaster University , Ontario , Canada

Role of Interstitial Cells of Cajal in Motor Control and Innervation of the Gut

N. Weisbrodt Sponsor:   Janssen

April 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

1

Kenneth S. Helmer, M.D.
Dept. of Surgery
University of Texas-Medical School

Ketamine attenuates endotoxin-induced gastric injury: The role of iNOS and HO-1

N. Weisbrodt

8

Patrick Tso, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Cincinnati

The role of apolipoprotein A-IV on food intake and body weight regulation

M. Justice

15

David Y. Graham, M.D.
Professor; Medicine-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine

Gastric Cancer and Helicobacter pylori: the problem and a solution

M. Estes

22

Jay D. Horton, M.D.
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX

Molecular mediators of hepatic steatosis

G. LeSage

29

Nicholas Shaheen, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Barrett's Esophagus and Esophageal Cancer The Mountain and the Molehill

H. El-Serag

September 2004

2004-2005

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

16

Christopher Mantyh, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Surgery-General
Duke University
Durham NC

Broadcast from UTMB Neurogenic Intestinal Inflammation

GRIP/UTMB

23

Herbert DuPont, M.D.
Chief, Internal Medicine, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Center for Infectious Disease
University of Texas School of Public Health

Rifaximin in Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology

M. Estes

Baylor

30

Alexander Kurosky, Ph.D.
Professor, Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics
University of Texas Medical Branch/Galveston

Proteomic Research Opportunities for G.I. Researchers:   Development of a G.I. Proteomics Core

 

October 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

7

Gregory J Gores, M.D
Professor of Physiology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Inflammation and Bile Duct Carcinogenesis

G. LeSage UTHSC

14

Pomila Singh
Professor, Dept of Neurosciences and Cell Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch/Galveston

Broadcast from UTMB Proliferative, Anti-Apoptotic and Co-Carcinogenic Effects of Progastrin Mechanisms

GRIP/UTMB

21

Douglas O. Faigel, M.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine- Gastroenterology
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland OR

Endoscopic Oncology

Douglas Adler UTHSC

28

Michael Helmrath, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery
Texas Children's Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine

Effect of Massive Small bowel Resection on Intestinal Secretory Lineages

Baylor

November 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

4

B Ulysses Kwang Li, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine,
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Chicago,

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in a Brain-Gut Paradigm

R. Shulman Baylor

18

James Galligan, Ph.D.
Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI

Broadcast from UTMB
Enteric nervous system circuitry

GRIP/UTMB

December 2004

Date

Speaker

Topic

Faculty Host

2

David Schwartz, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Medicine, Gastroenterology, Liver, and Nutrition
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Clinic
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

New Diagnostic Tools in Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease

GI Div, UHSC

9

Douglas Pleskow, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Medicine-GI
Harvard Medical School
Director, Colon Cancer Center, Beth Israel
Bosston , MA

Endoscopic Therapy for GERD

GI Div, UHSC

16

Andrew B. Leiter, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine-Gastroenterology
New England Medical Center
Boston , MA

Broadcast from UTMB
Cell-Fate Determination of Gastrointestinal Endocrine Cells

GRIP/UTMB