CIMIT FORUM
AGENDA
September 18, 2007
4:00 – 6:00 PM
CIMIT
Investigator Orientation
Today’s CIMIT Forum is devoted to CIMIT Funded
Investigators (2008 awardees) both in introduction (by their institution CIMIT
site miners) and orientation to CIMIT. Awardees and audience will be provided
an overview of the 2008 projects, a review of CIMIT, meet CIMIT facilitation
team members and hear a case study from CIMIT Investigator, Yolonda Colson, MD,
PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
3:30PM Meet CIMIT Facilitation Team Members
CIMIT
staff will be available to answer questions regarding proposals and pending
awards:
Dan McAuliffe, Science Administration Director -
Animal Use
JoAnn Moretti, Director of Finance - Human Use
Lesley Watts, Research Administration Manager - Preaward
Nancy Sencabaugh, Finance Manager - Postaward Finance
4:00PM Welcome – John
Parrish, MD, Director of CIMIT,
jparrish@partners.org
4:05PM CIMIT Overview and Program Moderator – Kirby Vosburgh, PhD, Associate Director of CIMIT; Director, CIMIT
Science Review and Administration; Liaison, DoD; Liaison, Image Guided Therapy,
Trauma and Casualty Care, kvosburgh@partners.org
4:20PM Site
Miner Introductions, New Awardee Introductions
Steven Schachter,
MD, Site Miner, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, sschachter@bidmc.harvard.edu
Jay Schnitzer, MD, PhD, Site Miner, Massachusetts General Hospital, jschnitzer@partners.org
George O’Connor, MD, Site Miner, Boston Medical Center, goconnor@lung.bumc.bu.edu
Donald Ingber, MD, PhD, and Frank Pigula, MD, Site Miners,
Children’s Hospital, donald.ingber@childrens.harvard.edu, frank.pigula@cardio.chboston.org
Frederick Schoen, MD, PhD, and Joseph
Bonventre, MD, PhD, Site Miners, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fschoen@partners.org, jbonventre@partners.org
Jeffrey Borenstein, PhD, Site Miner, Draper Laboratory, jborenstein@draper.com
Ron Newbower, PhD, Site Miner,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, rnewbower@partners.org
Keith Isaacson, MD – Site Miner, Newton Wellesley Hospital, kisaacson@partners.org
Mark Grinstaff, PhD, Site Miner, Boston University, mgrin@bu.edu
5:00PM CIMIT
Case Study
Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard
University/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ycolson@partners.org
Moderator: Mark Grinstaff,
PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
and Chemistry, Boston University; CIMIT Site Miner, Boston University, mgrin@bu.edu
Video of this presentation to be
made available at a later date.