2007 Research Day

2007 Research Day Award Recipients:

The W. James Metzger, Jr., MD, Junior Faculty Research Award. Presented for the most outstanding presentation by a Junior Faculty Instructor or Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine

2007 Recipient: Christopher A. Newton, MD
Assistant Professor, Endocrinology

Trainee Research Award. Awarded for the best oral presentation and best poster presentation by a medical or graduate student, house officer, fellow, or research staff member in the Department of Internal Medicine.

2007 Recipient: Heidi Dalrymple
PhD Candidate, Pulmonary

Research Day Scientific Research Poster Award

2007 Recipient: Maria C. Collins, BS
Internal Medicine-Cardiology/Surgery

Research Day Clinical Vignette Poster Award

2007 Recipient: Andrei Talantov, MD
Fellow, Endocrinology

In hosting this yearly event, we hope to provide a forum for discussion of research ideas and accomplishments and to promote professional interactions.

Faculty, staff, residents, fellows and students are encouraged to present their research or clinical vignettes with a poster or presentation.

A continental breakfast will be available beginning at 7:30 a.m.

Lunch follows the keynote address which begins at 11:00 a.m.

This year's keynote speaker is
W. Stratford May, Jr., MD, PhD

Dr. May is an internationally recognized cancer researcher in the areas of bone marrow transplant, signal transduction and apoptosis, He became the first full-time University of Florida Shands Cancer Center (UFSCC) Director in 1999 and serves not only as the Harry F. Innes Professor in Cancer Research but also Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Dr. May has earned many awards and honors during his career for outstanding cancer research, including the Leukemia Society’s 50th Anniversary Award and 2003 Leadership Award. Dr. May currently serves on the executive committee of the Florida Dialogue on Cancer and was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Florida Cancer Council (2004-2006).

Please attend Dr. May's presentation:
"Jaz(z)ing up p53 Tumor Suppressor Activity: A Novel Cancer Strategy?"

If you have questions, please call the Chairman's office at 744-2570

2007 Research Day Advisory Committee:
Elizabeth Byrd, MD, Roy Carlton, Paul Cook, MD, Randy Horton, Timothy Johnson, PhD, Cindy Kukoly, Barbara Little, Belinda Perkinson, Paul Phibbs, PhD (chairman)