Speakers
14th Annual Research, Education & Innovation Week- April 22-26, 2024
“The Curative Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease: The Good, The Bad and The Future”
Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine; JC Peterson Endowed Chair Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Pediatrics; Founder and Director, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease
“Developing CAR T cells for Pediatric Cancers”
Crystal L. Mackall, M.D.
Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy; Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Stanford; Associate Director, Stanford Cancer Institute
“A Change of Heart: From Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease to New Therapeutics”
Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
President and Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
“Novel Therapies for Children and Adolescents”
Catherine M. Gordon, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
“Medical Education in an Era of High Value Care: Can the Patient Be Saved?”
Lewis R. First, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine; Chief of Pediatrics, UVM Children’s Hospital; Editor-in-Chief, Pediatrics
“Enhancing Diversity in Pursuit of Health Equity in Genetics and Genomics”
Vence L. Bonham Jr., J.D.
Acting Deputy Director, Office of the Director; Associate Investigator, Social and Behavioral Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
“Translating Genomic Discoveries into Pediatric Practice”
Cynthia A. Prows, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N.
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
“Bringing HIV Cell and Gene Therapy to Resource Limited Parts of the World”
Cissy Kityo Mutuluzza, MBChB, M.Sc, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Joint Clinical Research Centre, Uganda