Presentations of Thoracic Surgery Foundation Research Award Recipients

Moderator(s)

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  Farhood Farjah, MD

  University of Washington
  Seattle, Washington, United States

Panelist(s)

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  Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, MD MS

  Associate Professor
  Yale University School of Medicine
  New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• PT

  Paul Tang, MD, PhD

  Mayo Clinic
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  Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

  Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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  Danielle Gottlieb Sen, MS, MD, MPH

  Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  Johns Hopkins Medicine
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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  Patricia Thistlethwaite, MD-PhD

  Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
  University of California, San Diego
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  Yvonne Carter, MD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor, Section Chief of Thoracic Surgery
  UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine
  Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM – 9:03 AM CT

  Introduction
  

  Invited Speaker: Farhood Farjah, MD – University of Washington
• 9:03 AM – 9:15 AM CT

  Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Mechanistic Insights Through Genomic Studies
  

  Award Recipient : Rachel D. Vanderlaan, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hospital for Sick Children
• 9:15 AM – 9:27 AM CT

  Immune Cell Infiltration and function after Neoadjuvant Chemo-Immunotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  

  Award Recipient : Gavitt A. Woodard, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine
• 9:27 AM – 9:39 AM CT

  Developing Intratumoral mRNA-Based Immunotherapy Strategies to Eliminate Recurrences after Lung Cancer Surgery
  

  Award Recipient: Jarrod Predina, MD – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• 9:39 AM – 9:51 AM CT

  Investigation of the Biochemical Basis for Gender-Related Outcomes Following Heart Transplantation
  

  Award Recipient: Zachary Kiernan, MD, MSc – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
• 9:51 AM – 10:03 AM CT

  Alcohol and Notch Pathway Mutations Synergistically Induce Atrioventricular Canal Defects: Potential Rescue by Folic Acid
  

  Award Recipient: SunYoung Kim, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 10:03 AM – 10:15 AM CT

  The Impact of Metabolome Class in Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators and Its Role in Attenuation of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Growth
  

  Award Recipient : Chi Chi Do-Nguyen, DO (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
• 10:15 AM – 10:27 AM CT

  Audience Q&A
• 10:27 AM – 10:30 AM CT

  Closing Comments
  

  Invited Speaker: Farhood Farjah, MD – University of Washington