SAC 2021 Agenda

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION

2:00 – 5:00 PM | CELEBRATION OF SCIENCE

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, Massachusetts General Hospital

ECOR REPORT
David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, Chair, Executive Committee on Research (ECOR), Chief of Dermatology

CLASS OF 2021 MGH RESEARCH SCHOLARS
Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, PhD, Scientific Director, Mass General Research Institute

MARTIN PRIZE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

Large-Scale Topological Changes Restrain Malignant Progression in Colorectal Cancer
Martin Aryee, PhD, Center for Cancer Research

MARTIN PRIZE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH

Trial of Sodium Phenylbutyrate-Taurursodiol for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD, Healey Center for ALS

HOWARD M. GOODMAN FELLOWSHIP

Development and Application of Therapeutic Genome Editing Technologies
Benjamin Kleinstiver, PhD, Center for Genomic Medicine

HOWARD M. GOODMAN FELLOWSHIP

Neuro-immune Circuits Controlling the Initiation of Allergic Immunity
Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

10:00 – 12:00 PM | COVID-19, HEALTH EQUITY AND DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF POPULATION AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY TEAM SCIENTISTS

Welcome | Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, Massachusetts General Hospital

PART I: DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION

Completing the Translational Research Arc at MGH from Discovery to Delivery Science and Health Equity
Stephen Bartels MD, MS, Director, The Mongan Institute
Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Research Faculty- Challenges and Opportunities
Katrina A. Armstrong, MD, Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine
Advancing Equity and Diversity and Growing the Pipeline of the Next Generation of Population and Health Care Delivery Scientists:
the MGH COVID-Corps Research Internship Program
Long Nguyen MD, MS, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH, Director, Disparities Solutions Center
Moderated Q&A Session |Dr. Bartels

PART II: EXAMPLES OF COVID-19 POPULATION AND HEALTH TEAM SCIENCE

Mobile Epidemiology of COVID-19 and the Coronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium
Andrew Chan MD, MPH, Chief, Clinical Translational and Epidemiology Unit
David Drew PhD, Division of Gastroenterology
Rapid Observational Data Collection for COVID-19 Research at Mass General Brigham
Andrea Foulkes, ScD, Biostatistics Center
Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, Division of Infectious Diseases
Virginia Triant, MD, MPH, Division of Infectious Diseases
Informing COVID-19 Public Health Policy Locally and Internationally Through Simulation Modeling
Krishna Reddy, MD, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critial Care
Moderated Q&A Session |Dr. Bartels

Delivery Science: Rapid Development, Testing and Implementation of New Models of Care

COVID-19 Health Disparities Research
Margarita Alegría, PhD, Director, Disparities Research Unit
COVID-19: Global Health Equity in Pandemic Response
Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Global Health
Leveraging Implementation Science to Increase Workforce for Mental Health
Luana Marques, PhD, Department of Psychiatry
Panel Discussion: Junior Investigator COVID-19 Research in Vulnerable Populations
Julie Levison, MD, MPhil, MPH, Department of Medicine
Efren Flores, MD, Department of Radiology
Alister Martin, MD, MPP, Department of Emergency Medicine
Moderated Q & A | Dr. Bartels

12:00 – 1:00 PM | LUNCH

1:00 – 2:15 PM | COVID-19 INNOVATION
Moderator: Galit Alter, PhD, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

2:15 – 2:45 PM | EXECUTIVE SESSIONS (SAC MEMBERS ONLY)

2:45 – 3:15 PM | DEBRIEF: RESEARCH INSTITUTE STEERING COMMITTEE AND SAC MEMBERS (Closed)