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2007 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.

Spring 2007

January  
Speaker
Topic
Host
11

Kwang-Hyub Han, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seoul, Korea

Recent non-surgical treatment of primary liver cancer

B. Yoffee

18

Mary K. Estes, Ph.D., Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor, Dept of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and Medicine-GI, Baylor
            and
Robert Atmar, M.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Baylor

What’s New with
 Noroviruses

M. Estes

25

Robert J.Coffey, Jr., M.D.
Professor, Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Sorting Out Roles for EGF Receptor Ligands in GI Neoplasia

G. LeSage
UTHSC

February 1

Joyce Repa, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas

Nuclear Orphan Receptor Regulation of Cholesterol Balance in the Intestine

G. LeSage
UTHSC

8

Daniel Present, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Medicine  - Gastroenterology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York

Best Practices in Colorectal Cancer (Risk Identification, Surveillance and Prevention)

G. LeSage
UTHSC

15

Dr Reza Shaker, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and Otolaryngology, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Director of the Digestive Disease Center
Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Hilda Swartz Visiting Professor
Reciprocal Physiology of Upper GI and Airway

Menaz Shafi
BCM

22      
March 1      
8      
15      
22  
29      
April 5      
12      
19      
26  
 
Fall 2007
 

September
 
Speaker    
Topic
Host
6

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Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine-Pathology
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Endoscopic Ultrasound in GI and
Lung Malignancies?

H. El-Serag
BCM, VA

 

William A. Faubion, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

When is surgery indicated for Crohn's disease?

13

Ray Dubois, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director DDC
Provost, Executive Vice President
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX

Inflammation & Cancer: COX-2

M. Estes
BCM

20

Robert Waterland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Depts. of Pediatrics and Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Epigenetic mechanisms and gastrointestinal development

D. Burrin, CNRC

27

Paul Jedlicka M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Pathology
University of Colorado, The Children’s Hospital, Denver CO

Ets transcription factors in intestinal biology

M. Finegold
BCM

October

4

Satish SC Rao, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP (Lon)
Professor of Medicine
Director, Neurogastroenterology & GI Motility, University of Iowa

Constipation, Motility & Brain-Gut Axis

Sushovan Guha
MDA

11

Pankaj Singh, M.D.
Director of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Texas A&M University
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Temple, Texas. USA

Newer Applications of EUS-FNA (endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration)

H. El-Serag
BCM. VA

18

Shumei Song M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of GI Medicine & Nutrition
U.T.MD.Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd- Unit 436
Houston, TX 77030

The Role of Bile Reflux in the Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

H. El-Serag
BCM. VA

25

Fasiha Kanwal, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Quality of care in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

H. El-Serag
BCM. VA

November

1

Molly Bray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Nutrition Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine

A Multifactoral Approach to Finding Genes for Obesity

H. El-Serag
BCM. VA

8

Rosemary Kozar, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Texas-Houston

Glutamine, a novel PPARg agonist, abrogates injury and inflammation in the post ischemic gut: From beside to benchtop and back

M. Rhoads
UTHSC

15

Lee-Jun C. Wong, Ph. D.
Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics
Director, Mitochondrial Diagnostic Lab
Baylor College of Medicine

Infantile liver failure due to mitochondrial DNA depletion

S. Karpen
BCM

22

Happy Thanksgiving

29

Neena Abraham, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Medicine-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine

NSAIDs in the Elderly: Outcomes and Implications for Medication Decision-Making

H. El-Serag
BCM. VA


December
6


J.S. Dunn & Regents Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director, Center for Cancer & Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT)
Texas A&M Health Science Center

FGF Signaling in Metabolic Homeostasis and Hepatoma

S. Karpen
BCM

13

Noah F. Shroyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

TBA

G. Darlington
BCM

22

Happy Holidays

27

Happy Holidays