The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University is proud to announce the Symposium on Health Disparities, featuring the 2022 Academy of Medicine Distinguished Lecture:
 

"Diminishing Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Biomedical Research"

by Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D.
University Professor and Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chief Executive Officer, Connecticut Convergence Institute
University of Connecticut
 

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

11 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

11:05 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Symposium Lecture

• “Understanding and Addressing Health Disparities: An Anti-Racist Approach”
• Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Ph.D., Spelman College

11:50 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Coulter BME Seed Grant: “Phenotyping a Novel Mouse Model of Glaucoma in Individuals of African Ancestry”

• Cydney Wong, Ph.D. student
• C. Ross Ethier, Ph.D.

12:05 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Coulter BME Seed Grant: “Research Tools for Studying Alopecia Areata as a T-cell Mediated Autoimmune Disease”

• Valencia E. Watson, Ph.D. Student
• Cheng Zhu, Ph.D.

12:20 p.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Coulter BME Seed Grant: “A Preclinical Model of Allostatic Load in Traumatic Brain Injury”

• Eva Martínez Luque, Intern
• Michelle LaPlaca, Ph.D.

12:35 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Coulter BME Seed Grant: “Investigating a Metabolic Link Between Obesity and Epigenetics in Triple Negative Breast Cancer”

• Karmella Haynes, Ph.D.

12:50 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Lunch

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
"Diminishing Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Biomedical Research"

• Cato Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• Academy of Medicine Distinguished Lecture

3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Diminishing Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Biomedical Research

• Karmella Haynes, Ph.D., Emory University & Georgia Tech
• Sheryl Heron, M.D., Emory University
• Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., Morehouse School of Medicine

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Reception