Center for Healthy Aging Fall Symposium

Wednesday, November 6, 7:45 am to 2:30 pm
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre (7:45 am–12:30 pm);
East Hall, Wang Center (12:45–2:30 pm)


Join us for our fall symposium to hear updates on pilot projects funded by the CHA, meet the Renaissance School of Medicine's new Chair for the Department of Neurology, and learn about the research done at the UConn Center on Aging. There will also be opportunities to join the NIH-funded SenNet Consortium, established to better understand the senescent cells that underlie aging and chronic disease development.
 

Symposium Agenda

PART I

Charles B. Wang Center Theatre

7:15 – 7:45 am

Coffee and Registration
7:45 – 8 am

Welcome Remarks
Peter Igarashi, MD
Professor of Medicine and Knapp Dean, Renaissance School of Medicine
8 – 9 am

Medical Grand Rounds (in-person and virtual)
Precision Geroscience: Resilience Mechanisms in Aging and Treatment Implications 
George Kuchel, MD CM, FRCP, AGSF, FAAS
Professor of Medicine, Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology
Director, UConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut
Director, NIH SenNet KAPP-Sen Tissue Mapping Center
9 – 9:15 am Center for Healthy Aging Research: Importance and Alignment with Mission of Stony Brook Medicine
William A. Wertheim, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President for Stony Brook Medicine
Endowed Chair in Graduate Medical Education
Stony Brook University
9:15 – 9:30 am

Introduction of Morning Speakers
Christine DeLorenzo, PhD
Interim Co-Director, Center for Healthy Aging
9:30 – 10 am

Accelerated Aging in 9/11 First Responders
Sean Clouston, PhD
Director of Research for the Program in Public Health
Professor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
10 – 10:30 am Promoting Myelination to Combat Neurodegenerative Disease in the Aging Brain
Holly Colognato, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Director, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology PhD Graduate Program
10:30 – 11 am Defining How the Hyperacute Innate Immune Response in Acute Ischemic Stroke of the Elderly Affects Functional Outcomes
Neil Nadkarni, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology 
11 – 11:15 am Break

11:15 – 11:45 am

Multidisciplinary Home-Based Intervention to Reduce Falls in Older Adult Emergency Department Patients
Adam Singer, MD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
11:45 – 12:30 pm Neurology Research: Gait Speed and Dementia
Joe Verghese, MBBS, MS
Chair, Department of Neurology 
   

PART II

East Hall, Wang Center
12:45 pm

Lunch and Networking / Introduction to Aging/SenNet
Suzanne Fields, MD
Interim Co-Director, Center for Healthy Aging
12:45–1:45 pm Aging/SenNet: Goals, Structure, Research Initiatives and Collaborative Opportunities
George Kuchel, MD CM, FRCP, AGSF, FAAS
1:45–2:30 pm Questions, Discussion, Networking