Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Session III: Cardiovascular and Kidney disease

Session Chair: Margrit Schwarz, Ph.D.

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

8:00 AM  Franz Simon Poster Award/Introduction – Recipients To be Announced - Moshe Levi, MD, President, Kern Lipid Conference University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

8:05 AM  Introduction and Presentation of the Roger Davis Lecturer - Robert H. Eckel, MD, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado.
Roger Davis Lecture: TBD

8:30 AM “Dissecting Diet-Microbe Interactions and their Impact to Cardiometabolic Disease"- Federico Rey, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison”

9:20 AM “Novel Mediators of Diabetes Associated Atherosclerosis” - Sudha Biddinger, MD, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital

10:10 AM “Lipoprotein Transport of Microbiome and Environment-Derived Bacterial Small RNAs” - Kasey Vickers, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

11:00 AM “Extracellular Vesicles, Lipid Mediators, and Inflammation in NAFLD” - Harmeet Malhi, M.B.B.S., Mayo Clinic

12:10 PM Introduction to David L. Williams Lecture and Award - Mary Sorci-Thomas, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin