Predictive Health Symposium 2011

The Seventh Annual Symposium on Predictive Health:
HEALTH AND THE MICROBIOME

Sponsored by The Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute and Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute, and held on Dec. 2, 2011, the symposium presentations are available in video format and listed with links below. 

OPENING
Kenneth L. Brigham, MD
Associate Vice President for Predictive Health, Emory University
   
Welcome from Georgia Institute of Technology
Bud Peterson, PhD, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
   
Welcome from Emory University and Woodruff Health Science Center
S. Wright Caughman, MD, CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University, Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare

SESSION I – The Microbiome and Chronic Conditions

Cardiovascular Disease and Gut Microbiota
Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD
Vice Chair, Lerner Research Institute and Section Head, Preventive Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic

Gut Microbiota, Chronic Inflammation, and Metabolic Syndrome
Andrew Gewirtz, PhD
University Center Professor, Center for Inflammation, Immunity, & Infection, Georgia State University

Systems Biology of Vaccination in Humans
Bali Pulendran, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

SESSION II – The Microbiome and Immune Responses

Paradigm Shifts in Alzheimer’s Disease  
Todd Golde, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and Professor, Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida

Diversity of Genes and Genomes: Efforts to Robustly Characterize Complex Microbial Communities 
Joshua S. Weitz, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Biology & Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:30pm The Human Microbiome: 2011 and Beyond
Lita M. Proctor, PhD
Coordinator, Human Microbiome Project, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health