ENDO 2010 Annual Meeting - Includes 5 Complimentary Sessions
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CLINICAL - Vitamin D: Cradle to Grave
Program Code:
S11
Date:
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Time:
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
EST
SPEAKER
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John M. Pettifor, MD PhD, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hosp, Johannesburg, South Africa
Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
JoAnn E. Manson,
MD PhD,
Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA
Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
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JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH is Professor of Medicine and the Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Co-Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at BWH. An endocrinologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Manson has been Principal Investigator of the Boston site of the Women’s Health Initiative since its inception in 1993, P.I. of the cardiovascular component of the Nurses’ Health Study for more than a decade, P.I. of the Boston site for the KEEPS trial, and more recently, P.I. of the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL), which is testing the role of vitamin D and the marine omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. She is actively involved with translational research, including several large clinical trials and observational studies of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She has extensively studied the role of endogenous and exogenous hormones in relation to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, the role of biochemical and genetic markers in predicting risk, and the effects of vitamin D on diverse health outcomes.
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Martin Hewison,
PhD,
Univ of California-Los Angeles, Calabasas, CA
Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
Dr Hewison is currently a Professor at UCLA where his group has an established interest in the role of vitamin D in human physiology, and in particular the interaction between vitamin D and the immune system. Dr Hewison gained his PhD from the University of London (Guy’s Hospital Medical School) in 1986 and then spent 9 years as research fellow in the Department of Medicine at University College London. He then moved to the University of Birmingham where he established the UK’s major vitamin D research group, leading to an appointment as Professor of Molecular Endocrinology in 2004. In 2005 he moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles but was then recruited to neighboring UCLA at the end of 2007. He currently has a team of four postdocs and a clinical fellow and his work is supported by funds from the NIH and March of Dimes.
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