Inaugural UMB-UMBC Research&Innovation Partnership Symposium
Location
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 7th Floor
Date & Time
January 30, 2015, 8:00 am – 1:30 pm
Description
UMBC will be hosting the Inaugural UMBC-UMB Partnership Symposium on Friday, January 30, 2015 at UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library. We are delighted that Dr. Yvonne Maddox, Acting Director of the NIH Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), will join us as our keynote speaker.
The goal of this annual event is to actively support establishing meaningful and sustainable research partnerships between our two institutions. Therefore, we encourage all researchers from UMB and UMBC to join us at this event to explore existing and possible collaborations. We also encourage you to provide posters that will be on display during the coffee break and luncheon buffet.
up a statement that registration is complete and that unfortunately, we can not accept any additional participants.
Registration is complete and, unfortunately, we can not accept any additional participants. We hope you can join us next year at UMB for the second annual UMBC-UMB Symposium.
Event Program:
| 8:00 am | Registration and Coffee |
| 8:30 am | Welcome |
| – President Freeman A. Hrabowski, UMBC | |
| – President Jay A. Perman, UMB | |
| 8:55 am | Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
| – Dean William LaCourse, CNMS, UMBC | |
| 9:00 am | Keynote Presentation |
| – Yvonne T. Maddox – Acting Director, NIH-NIMHD | |
| "The Science of Health Disparities" | |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break & Poster Session |
| 10:45 am | Research Presentations by 2013/14 Research & Innovation |
| Partnership Seed Grant Teams | |
| Moderator – Bruce E. Jarrell, Chief Academic Officer, UMB | |
| • Tülay Adali (UMBC) & Kelly Westlake (UMB – SOM) | |
| • Charles Bieberich (UMBC) & Paul Shapiro (UMB – SOP) | |
| • Marie-Christine Daniel (UMBC) & Peter Swaan (UMB–SOP) | |
| • Kathleen Hoffman (UMBC) & Asaf Keller (UMB–SOM) | |
| • Bradford Peercy (UMBC) & Martin Schneider (UMB–SOM) | |
| 12:00 pm | Announcement of 2014/15 Partnership Grant Teams |
| – Karl V. Steiner, Vice President for Research, UMBC | |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 1:30 pm | Research & Innovation Partnership Symposium Concludes |
About the Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Yvonne T Maddox, PhD, is the Acting Director of the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). She oversees the NIMHD budget of approximately $268 million. In addition, she provides leadership for the minority health and health disparities research activities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Maddox has also served as the Acting Deputy Director of the NIH and the Deputy Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Throughout her academic and government career, Dr. Maddox has been a champion of issues related to women and children. She leads two teams of international scientists as part of a joint India-U.S. Partnership to improve reproductive health and maternal and child health in both countries. In addition, she directs the NICHD Safe to Sleep campaign (formerly the Back to Sleep campaign) to reduce sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the NIH Down Syndrome (DS) Consortium, a federal/private partnership to advance research in DS. Dr. Maddox is a spokesperson for the NICHD in the area of health equity and leads several committees and working groups to advance medical research for affected communities to improve their health. She chairs the Federal SIDS/Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Working Group, served as Executive Director of the DHHS Cancer Health Disparities Progress Review Group, and co-chaired the DHHS Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality in Minority Communities.
Dr. Maddox received her B.S. in biology from Virginia Union University, Richmond, and her Ph.D. in physiology from Georgetown University. She studied as a visiting scientist at the French Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay, France, and graduated from the Senior Managers in Government Program of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
For more information on NIMHD, please see www.nimhd.nih.gov.
Registration is complete and, unfortunately, we can not accept any additional participants. We hope you can join us next year at UMB for the second annual UMBC-UMB Symposium.
