Center for Healthy Aging Fall Research Symposium
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023
8 am - 1:30 pm
Join Us!
The Center for Healthy Aging (CHA) invites you to attend its Fall Research Symposium highlighting current aging research at Stony Brook and announcing winners of the latest round of CHA Pilot Grants. Mr. Greg Olsen, Acting Director of the New York State Office for the Aging, will offer insights on New York's Master Plan for Aging and related research opportunities. Dr. Vishwa Deep Dixit, Director of Yale's Center for Aging Research, will deliver Medical Grand Rounds and discuss exciting new avenues for collaborative aging research.
Registration for the event is has closed
Please register by November 24.
The program will be held in two locations: the morning in the MART Auditorium and the afternoon in the Hospital Pavilion – 4W-010. Lunch will be served in the Hospital Pavilion.
Agenda
PART 1 |
Center for Healthy Aging Research: Shaping the Vision
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| 7:15 – 7:45 am | Coffee, Registration |
| 7:45 – 8 am | Welcome Remarks William A. Wertheim, MD, MBA Interim Executive Vice President for Health Sciences Endowed Chair in Graduate Medical Education Stony Brook University |
| 8 – 9 am |
Medical Grand Rounds (virtual and live) **If you are joining virtually via Zoom, use this meeting link: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/94284463017?pwd=ZTFrNWczdHFUSXQxMThJaTdWNWszdz09 Meeting ID: 942 8446 3017 Passcode: 425906 Anyone may join regardless of department. Just be sure your first and last name show up as the display name on Zoom in order to receive credit. |
| 9 – 9:15 am | Introduction of new Vice Dean for Research and Morning Guest Speakers Peter Igarashi, MD Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine |
| 9:15 – 9:55 am | New York State’s Master Plan for Aging: Research Opportunities Related to the Goals and Desired Outcomes of the Plan Greg Olsen, MSW Acting Director, New York State Office for the Aging |
| 9:55 – 10:30 am | Exciting new directions and opportunities in the field of collaborative aging research Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD Director, Yale Center for Research on Aging Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Pathology, Immunobiology and of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Break |
PART 2 |
Highlights of Current Stony Brook Aging Research
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| 10:45 – 10:55 am | Quick Overview and Introduction of Speakers Christine DeLorenzo, PhD |
| 10:55 – 11:15 am | Introduction of Cholinergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease Mala Rajam Ananth, PhD, Stony Brook Alumna Post-doctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| 11:15 – 11:30 am | Home-based Sensors to Support Healthy Aging Fan Ye, PhD Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University |
| 11:30 – 11:45 am | Life in the fast lane: utilizing the short-lived African killifish for lifelong experiments in aging research Chi-Kuo Hu, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University |
| 11:45 am – Noon | TDP-43 Proteinopathies: Role for Retrotransposons in Neurodegenerative Diseases Roger Sher, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University |
| Noon – 12:30 pm | Break and Move to New Location for Lunch and Networking — Hospital Pavilion, 4W-010 |
PART 3 |
Initial Workshop Awardee Lectures and Announcement of the New
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| 12:30 – 12:45 pm | Gratitude to Senior Leadership and Reviewers for Support, Introduction of First CHA Pilot Grant Awardees Suzanne Fields, MD |
| 12:45 – 1 pm | CHA Pilot Award Winner: Secondary Falls Prevention through a Post-ER Multidisciplinary Home Visit Adam Singer, MD Professor and Interim Chair of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine |
| 1 – 1:15 pm | CHA Pilot Award Winner: Cellular Senescence in Parkinson’s Disease Markus Riessland, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University |
| 1:15 – 1:30 pm | Announcement of New CHA Awards and Closing Remarks Susan Hedayati, MD Professor of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research and Lina Obeid Chair in Biomedical Research, Renaissance School of Medicine |
Questions? Please email Dr. Christine DeLorenzo at christine.delorenzo@stonybrookmedicine.edu or Dr. Suzanne Fields at suzanne.fields@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
We hope you'll participate!
