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Fairmont Hotel
Washington, DC
June 07, 2008 - June 10, 2008
 
 
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SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2008

8:30 - 9:15 AM Overview of the BLSA
            
 Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD
Director Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Editor-in-Chief Journals of Gerontology Medical Sciences
Longitudinal Studies Section
Clinical Research Branch
 National Institute on Aging
 
9:15 - 10:15 AM Rheumatoid Arthritis with Particular Emphasis on its Influence on Mortality/Survival

Joan  Bathon, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Deputy Director, Division of Rheumatology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

10:30 - 11:30 AM Depression

 Glenn Treisman, MD
Professor, Department of  Medicine,
Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008

8:15 - 9:05 AM Political Landscape
New Challenges

Kimberly Olson Dorgan
Executive Vice President, Federal Relations
American Council of Life Insurer

9:05 - 9:55 AM Mortality Discussion

Robert Anderson
Branch Chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 

10:10 - 11:00 AM Mortality Considerations in Interstitial Lung Disease and COPD

Robert  Wise, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary/Respiratory
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


11:00 - 11:50 AM Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

Thomas Traill, B.M.-B.Ch.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


1:15 - 2:15 PM Geriatric Frailty

Jeremy Walston, MD 
Associate Professor, Department  of Medicine/Geriatric Medicine
 The Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

2:15 - 3:15 PM Traumatic Brain Injury
 
Ali Bydon, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery/Spine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
                 
 3:30 - 4:30 PM Functional Assessment in the Context of Morbidity Claims 

Oscar Cartaya, MD
Medical Director
RGA Reinsurance Company
 
 
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2008
 
8:50 - 9:40 AM Defibrillators:   Prediction of Survival for a Patient with an AICD

Joseph Marine, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

9:40 - 10:30 AM     Untangling Obesity and Mortality

Katherine Flegal, PhD
Distinguished Consultant
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

10:30 - 11: 20 AM         Ovarian Tumors of Low Malignant  Potential

Edward Trimble, MD,  MPH           
Associate Professor, Department of
Gynecology and Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Head, Gynecologic Cancer Therapeutics and Quality of Cancer Care Therapeutics
Clinical Investigations Branch
Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute


 
 

   
     

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