Friday Forums: 2018-2019
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Date: Sept 14, 2018
Speaker: Caroline Fox, MD
Title: Vice President and Head, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Merck Research Lab, Boston, MA Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Topic: “Career Transitions and Industry Positions: What Mentors and Trainees Should Know”
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Date: Nov 16, 2018
Speaker: Michelle Odden, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Topic: “Understanding the Optimal Preventive Strategies for Healthy Aging”
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Date: Jan 25, 2019
Speaker: Paul Ridker, MD
Title: Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Topic: “Reducing Inflammation to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk: Understanding the CANTOS and CIRT Trials”
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Date: Feb 15, 2019
Speaker: Samia Mora, MD
Title: Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Topic: “Plasma Lipids and Other Metabolites and Risk of Chronic Disease”
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Date: April 26, 2019
Speaker: JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH
Title: Chief of Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor of Medicine and the Micheal and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School
Topic: “VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL): Results for Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer”
Wines: (1) 2016 Joseph Carr Reserve Cabernet (2) 2015 Segal Fusion Red
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Date: May 17, 2019, Fellows and Trainees Forum
Speakers: Andrew Synn, MD, “Pulmonary Vascular Pruning on CT Imaging and Risk of Death in the Framingham Heart Study”
Jun Li, MD, PhD, “Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Plasma Metabolome, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk”
Laila Al-Shaar, MS, MPH, “Physical Activity and Mortality among Male Survivors of Myocardial Infarction”
Jie Hu, MD, PhD, “Differences in Metabolomic Profiles between Black and White Postmenopausal Women and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the Women’s Health Initiative”