Colloquium Series | Harvard Catalyst

The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series has provided an important forum for scientific and educational exchange at the cutting edge of clinical and translational research.

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Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series

The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series, a major event of Harvard Catalyst, has educated and inspired clinical and translational scientists, from fellows and students to junior and senior investigators. To date, the colloquium series has featured nineteen presentations on state-of-the-art advances in clinical and translational research; highlighted the application of core principles in clinical and translational research; augmented existing courses on clinical and translational research; promoted networking, collaboration, and integration among trainees and faculty; and fostered access to Harvard Catalyst throughout the university.

Presentations have been organized around seven main topic areas:

Discovery in translational medicine
Translational and emerging technologies
Biostatistics and epidemiology
Ethics in clinical and translational research
Responsible conduct of research
Health disparities research
Works in progress

By rotating sites and holding sessions in the major Harvard academic health centers, as well as at Harvard Medical School, the series has offered a novel approach and opportunity to the Harvard community. Individuals from all of the Harvard affiliates have attended. Of the more than 1,400 total participants, one-third have been trainees, about 10 percent have been junior faculty, and about one-third have been senior faculty. The quality of the presentations has been high; more than 90 percent of participants have indicated that they were either satisfied or very satisfied with the lecture they attended.

Colloquium Speakers & Topics:

Douglas Melton, PhD Making Pancreatic Beta Cells for Diabetics	Robert Truog, MD Ethical Conflicts in Randomized Clinical Trials
William Crowley, MD Changing Models of Biomedical Research	David Korn, MD Financial Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine
Robert Langer, ScD Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering	Robert Stickgold, PhD Sleep, Memory and Dreams: From Pathology to Promise
Dan Brock, PhD Informed Consent for Research: Some Current Issues and Controversies	Nan Laird, PhD Family-based Designs for Genetic Association
JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH Can Vitamin D Prevent Cardiovascular Disease? Emerging Evidence	Nancy Cook, ScD Development and Evaluation of Risk Prediction Models: The Reynolds Risk Score Example
Aaron Cypess, MD, PhD Identification of Brown Adipose Tissue in Adult Humans and Its Impact on Metabolism	Steven Joffe, MD The Ethical Conundrum of Incidental Findings in Clinical & Translational Research
John Ayanian, MD Understanding & Eliminating Health Care Disparities: What is the Role of Translational Research?	Joseph Martin, MD, PhD Bruce Bean, PhD Rachel Wilson, PhD Leading by Listening
Paul Ridker, MD From Bench to Beside to Population and Back: Inflammation, CRP and the JUPITER Trial	P.P. Pandolfi, MD, PhD Deconstructing the Molecular Genetics of Human Cancer and Its Therapeutic Implications
David Williams, MD Genetic Therapy for Immunodeficiency: A Translational Approach to "Insertional" Leukemia	Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD Genome-wide Association Studies: What Can Be Learned?
Mel Feany, MD, PhD Studying Human Neurogenerative Diseases Using Drosophila as a Model Organism

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Archived recordings of the presentations and associated background readings and discussion questions will soon be available. These materials provide potential building blocks for a longitudinal curriculum in clinical and translational research for any student, trainee, or faculty member at Harvard with eCommons access.

Stay tuned for future symposia formats following in the Colloquium Series' experience.

Colloquium Series Organizing Committee

Jenifer Lightdale, MD, MPH Director, Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series	David Golan, MD, PhD Dean for Graduate Education Director, Harvard Catalyst Research Education Program
Bruce Levy, MD Director, Discovery in Translational Medicine Curriculum	Steven Joffe, MD Director, Ethics in Clinical and Translational Science Curriculum
Doff McElhinney, MD Director, Translational and Emerging Technologies Curriculum	Sad Sayeed, MD, JD Director, Responsible Conduct of Research Curriculum
Henry Feldman, PhD Director, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Curriculum	John Ayanian, MD Director, Health Disparities Research Curriculum Director, Harvard Catalyst Health Disparities Research Program
Anne Nicholson-Weller, MD Director, Clinical and Translational Education, BIDMC	Eric Rosenberg, MD Director, Clinical and Translational Education, MGH