2026 Preliminary Agenda - AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
APSA Business Meeting

Jessica Ding
APSA President Elect, Michigan State University

 
 
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Interviewing an Icon

Paul Negulescu, PhD
Senior Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceutical

 

 
 
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM
A physician-scientist’s journey from lab to labyrinth

Joshua A. Gordon
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

 
 
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Scientific Showcase (4 minute oral abstract presentations)

11:00 AM - 11:04 AM 

Structural basis for repeat-associated non-AUG translation initiation on C9orf72 mRNA

Moderator: Rohini Guin
Presenter: Roff Kaufhold
University of Michigan

11:04 AM - 11:08

Integrative genomic and functional analyses of CDK19 variants illuminate translational mechanisms of early-onset epilepsy, infantile spasm, and neurodevelopmental delay

Moderator: Juanita Merchant
Presenter: Hyunyong Koh
Baylor College of Medicine

11:08 AM - 11:12 AM

A two-hit mechanism locks alveolar progenitors in a pro-fibrotic transitional state

Moderator: Pricilla Hsue
Presenter: Ella Mclaren
UC San Diego

11:12 AM - 11:16 AM

Single-nucleus atlas of the mouse heart reveals the CXCL10/CXCR3 axis as a key driver of heart failure following severe pneumococcal infection

Moderator:  Rohini Guin
Presenter: Daniel Minassian
University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:16 AM - 11:20 AM

Lysophosphatidic Acid Sensitizes Gut Nociceptors Through Enteric Glial Signaling Mechanisms

Moderator: Juanita Merchant
Presenter: Visha Parmar
Michigan State University

11:20 AM - 11:24 AM

TET2 and DNMT3A clonal hematopoiesis have mutation-specific molecular and phenotypic consequences

Moderator: Pricilla Hsue
Presenter: Yash Pershad
Vanderbilt University

11:24 AM - 11:28 AM 

Host glucosylceramide influences Bourbon virus glycoprotein dependent membrane fusion.

Moderator: Rohini Guin
Presenter: Amith Punyala
Washington University School of Medicine

11:28AM - 11:32 AM

Host glucosylceramide influences Bourbon virus glycoprotein dependent membrane fusion.

Moderator: Juanita Merchant
Presenter: Celina Nguyen
UC San Diego

11:32 AM - 11:36 AM 

TDP-43 dysregulation of polyA site selection is a defining feature of RNA misprocessing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

Moderator: Priscilla Hsue
Presenter: Cameron Stockford
Yale School of Medicine

11:36 AM - 11:40 AM

VISTA contributes to disease progression in high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome

Moderator: Rohini Guin
Presenter: Raymond Zhang
Vanderbilt University
 

 

 




 

 

 
 
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
APSA Presidential Address

Rohini Guin
APSA President, Stony Brook University

 

 
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Mentorship Lunch
 
 
 
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Plenary Session I: The relationship between academia-federal government-industry: current trends and future directions

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

America's Biomedical Edge: Will we Lead or Fall Behind

Scott Gottlieb, MD
American Enterprise Institute

 

 

 

 

 

1:20 PM - 1:40 PM

Navigating Evidence Generation and Implementation in Turbulent Times

Robert Califf, MD
Duke University

 

 

 

 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM

A Giant Leap: AI and the Transformation of Academic Medicine

Robert M. Wachter, MD
University of California, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Discussion with Questions and Answers

 
 
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Trainee Oral Abstract Presentation

Myeloid IL-1 signaling drives the precancer-to-cancer evolution of human pulmonary nodules

Matthew D. Park
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

 
 
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
AAP Helen M. Ranney Award Lecture

Catalyzing Healthcare Policy Change: Expanding Access to Care for Underserved Populations

Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSCS
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

 
 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
 
 
 
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
AAP Meet & Greet the Speakers and a Taste of Chicago
 
 
 
3:30 PM - 5:35 PM
Plenary Session II: ASCI Awards

Moderators: TBD

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM    
The ASCI/Harrington Prize Lecture 

Charles L. Sawyers, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


3:50 PM - 4:10 PM    
ASCI Presidential Address 

Priscilla Y. Hsue, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine

4:10 PM - 4:25 PM    
The ASCI / Seldin~Smith Award Lecture  

Alexander G. Bick, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Clonal hematopoiesis: a precancer that accelerates aging


4:25 PM - 4:40 PM    
The ASCI / Ropes Award Lecture  

Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine
From HIV care to cure: Pediatric pathways to durable viral control


4:40 PM - 4:55 PM    
The ASCI / Sullivan Award Lecture  

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Advancing the rigor of Alzheimer’s disease research


4:55 PM - 5:20 PM    
The ASCI / Korsmeyer Award Lecture  

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine


5:20 PM - 5:35 PM    
The ASCI / Scharschmidt~Crawford  Distinguished Lectureship

Kevin Navin Sheth, MD
Yale School of Medicine
From idea to impact: Building the future of brain diagnostics and care

 
 
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Near-Peer Mentorship Hour

Strengthen peer mentorship by empowering trainees at all stages to both give and receive advice, fostering cross-institutional connections that extend beyond the Joint Meeting.

 
 
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
ASCI President's Reception
 
 
 
7:00 PM - 9:45 PM
AAP Past President’s Reception/Dinner

By Invitation Only

 
 
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
APSA Welcome Reception

Offsite Event at Spin Chicago

 
 
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM
ASCI Dinner and New Member Induction Ceremony

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
From Chasing my Cure to Everycure: Using biomarkers to drive precision medicine and drug repurposing

 
 
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
AAP Council Meeting
 
 
 
APSA Board Meeting
 
 
 
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Plenary Session III: Long COVID – Fireside Chat/Gene Editing State of the Art

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Michael Peluso, MD, MHS
University of California, San Francisco

Ezra Spier
Patient Advocate

 

 

 


8:30 AM -  9:00 AM 

Mutation-specific, mutation-agnostic, and disease-agnostic therapeutic genome editing

David R. Liu PhD
Broad Institute

Advancing personalized gene editing therapies for rare diseases

Rebecca Ahrens Nicklas, MD, PhD
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

 

 
 
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Resident/Fellow Oral Abstract Presentation

Spatial Human Kidney Map Highlights B cell driven Kidney Disease Subgroup

Bernhard Dumoulin, MD
University of Pennsylvania

 
 
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
APSA - Lasker Speaker

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD
Lasker laureate & Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA

 
 
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
FNIH Trailblazer Prize Lecture - A new stem cell basis for skeletal pathology

A new stem cell basis for skeletal pathology

Matthew Greenblatt, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell 

 
 
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Break
 
 
 
10:15 AM - 11:20 PM
Poster Session A
 
 
 
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Lunch and Mentor Lunch
 
 
 
12:20 PM - 1:25 PM
Poster Session B
 
 
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Plenary Session IV: The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Philanthropic Funding of Health

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

 

Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development: Developing Future Leaders in Academic Medicine

David S. Wilkes, MD
Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development

 

 

 

1:50 PM - 2:15 PM

Accelerating Discovery

Jonathan S. Stamler, MD
Harrington Discovery Institute

 

 

 

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM 
Questions and Answers

 
 
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
AAP Presidential Address

Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD

 
 
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Break
 
 
 
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Plenary Session V: AI and Medicine Fireside Chat

Nigam Shah MBBS, PhD
Stanford University

Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA    
Enlightening Results

Michael Matheny, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 
 
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
Kober Medal Presentation

Recipient
Victor Dzau, MD
National Academy of Medicine

Presenter
Ravi Thadhani, MD

 

 
 
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
AAP Business Meeting
 
 
 
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Building Bridges: Integrating Advocacy Into Research

Adam J. Milam, MD, PhD, MHS
Professor of Anesthesiology; Vice Chair for Health outcomes; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Johns Hopkins Medicine

 
 
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Should Physician-Scientists Be Advocates?: Evidence, Advocacy, and Trust in Medicine

John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc.
Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science

Moderator
Brad Ryva, PhD
APSA Advocacy Chair, Michigan State University

 
 
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
ASCI Food and Science Evening
 
 
 
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
AAP New Member Induction Ceremony Dinner

Ticketed event and black tie attire.

Rebuilding Public Trust in Science
Featured Speaker: Marcia K. McNutt, President, National Academy of Science

 
 
7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
APSA Founder's Award Presentation (Dessert Reception)

Paige Cooper Byas, PhD
Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

 
 
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ASCI/AAIM/BWF Physician-Scientist Pathways Annual Workshop

 

The workshop gathers those engaged in training physician-scientists at the pre- and post- graduate levels, including faculty, junior faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and staff, to share best practices, network, and explore the theme: How to navigate, mentor, and support physician-scientists in an evolving federal and academic environment.

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*A separate registration is required to attend this workshop.

 
 
7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Registration
 
 
 
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Society Leadership Wrap Up Meeting
 
 
 
Specialty Interest Breakfast

 

The Specialty Interest Breakfast offers a casual platform for physician-scientist trainees to engage directly with physician-scientist mentors from a variety of specialties and subspecialties.

 
 
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
The Courage to Pivot: Taking Big Risks, Resilience, and Defining Success

 

Mukesh K. Jain, MD
Senior Vice-Provost for Life, Sciences, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University


Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA
President of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Moderator

Marzieh Ghiasi, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

 

 
 
Creative Collaborations & Community Engagement in MD-PhD Research: Lessons Learned from the Social Sciences & Humanities

 

Scott Stonington MD, PhD
Internal Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Michigan


Seth Holmes, MD, PhD
Medicine and Anthropology at UC Berkeley


Mayssa Rekhis MD, PhD
Medicine and Social Sciences at the University of Gothenburg


Niranjan Karnik MD, PhD
Psychiatry and Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago

Moderators
Arthi Kozhumam, APSA Social Sciences & Humanities Committee Member
MD-PhD student at Northwestern University

Zoe Boudart, MD-PhD, APSA Social Sciences & Humanities Committee Chair
Anthropology Student at the University of Michigan

 
 
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Finding Balance on the Physician-Scientist Journey: A Junior Faculty Perspective

 

Florence L. Chiang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Department of Radiology, Advanced Imaging Research Center, and O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern

 
 
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
From Training to Residency Luncheon

 

The From Training to Residency Luncheon is an opportunity to gather current MD/DO-PhD and MD/DO trainees with directors and administrators of research-track residency programs. Pre-medical trainees can also connect with program directors of MD/DO-PhD programs.