Medicine Grand Rounds – Supplementation Nation: A Heart Stopping Tale of Pursuit of the Fountain of Youth

Calendar
When:
May 4, 2016 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2016-05-04T08:00:00-07:00
2016-05-04T09:00:00-07:00
Where:
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor
Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Department of Medicine
650-721-1166
Email
Medicine Grand Rounds
Cardiology supplements
Medicine Grand Rounds - Supplementation Nation: A Heart Stopping Tale of Pursuit of the Fountain of Youth @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Berg Hall, 2nd Floor | Stanford | California | United States

Presenters:
Ron Witteles, MD – Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Joy Wu, MD, PhD  – Assistant Professor, Endocrinology
Justin Parizo, MD –  Stanford Univeristy

Joy Wu:  Joy Wu graduated from Stanford University (B.S., Chemistry) with honors and distinction. She then attended Duke University as a combined M.D./Ph.D. degree student in the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program. She earned her Ph.D. with Dr. Anthony Means studying the role of calmodulin-dependent kinases in male germ cell development. After completing medical school, Dr. Wu did her residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a clinical fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital. She performed her postdoctoral research on skeletal biology under the mentorship of Dr. Henry Kronenberg. Dr. Wu became an Assistant Professor at Stanford in 2012, where her research focuses on skeletal development and the bone marrow hematopoietic niche, and she is the head of the Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic at Stanford. She is a recipient of the Endocrine Scholars Award and Merck Senior Fellow Award from the Endocrine Society, the John Haddad Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and a Mary Kay Foundation Cancer Grant. Dr. Wu has served the Endocrine Society as Co-Chair of the Trainee and Career Development Core Committee and as an ex officio member of Council. She is currently a member of the Membership Engagement Committee of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the Board of Directors of Advances in Mineral Metabolism, and the Leadership Task Force of the Endocrine Society.

Ron Witteles: Ron Witteles’ research focuses on three major areas: Cardiac toxicity of cancer therapies, amyloidosis, and insulin resistant cardiomyopathy. His clinical trials include cancer-therapy related cardiotoxicity, cardiorenal syndrome, and amyloidosis.