I-Health Seminar Lecture Series 2023

Fall 2023

Photo	Date	Guest Speaker	Title of Lecture	Host
	Feb. 9	Erika Friedmann, Ph.D. Professor Emerita University of Maryland School of Nursing	Human—Animal Interaction Research Related to Human Health: What we Know and Challenges for Future Research	Cheryl Krause-Parello, Ph.D.
	Feb. 23	Linda Pao, MD Co-Medical Director, Principal Investigator JEM Research Institute, A Headlands Research Site Watch seminar here	Status of Clinical Trials in Dementia: Bridging the Gap Between Biomedical Research and Clinical Applications	Ximena Levy, MD – MPH

Date	Guest Speaker	Title of Lecture	Host
Feb. 9	Themis R. Kyriakides, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Biomedical Engineering Yale University Watch seminar here	Native proangiogenic hydrogels for tissue repair and regeneration	Yunqing (Kevin) Kang
Feb. 23	Suresh Rana, Ph.D., DABR Director of Medical Physics, Lynn Cancer Institute - Radiation Oncology Boca Raton Regional Hospital	State-of-the-Art Radiotherapy Technologies for Cancer Care at Lynn Cancer Institute: Current Status and Future Directions	Theodora Leventouri, Ph.D.
Mar 16	Megan Coffee, MD, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor, Grossman NYU School of Medicine Watch seminar here	Approaching Future Outbreaks with AI	Oge Marques, Ph.D.
April 6	James William Snider, III, MD South Florida Proton Therapy Institute Watch seminar here	Emerging Radiation Oncology Techniques and Proton Therapy: The Engineering of Modern Cancer Care	Theodora Leventouri, Ph.D.
April 13	Sandro Matosevic, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy Purdue University Watch seminar here	Reprogramming Natural Killer Cells for Immunotherapy of Cancer	Mare Cudic, Ph.D.

Date	Guest Speaker	Title of Lecture	Host
Jan 27	Krista A. McCoy, Ph.D. Associate Research Professor, HBOI Watch seminar here	Exploring the mechanisms of resilience that reduce the effects of environmental chemicals	Gregg Fields
Mar 24	Francesca Gullo, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Gift of Life Cell and Gene Therapy Center Watch seminar here	Ex vivo Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Mobilized Peripheral Blood	Gregg Fields
April 14	Kristen Lynch, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Watch seminar here	Alternative Splicing and the Human Immune System	Massimo Caputi, Ph.D.
May 5	Steve Lacroix, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Medicine Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Université Laval, Québec (QC), Canada Watch seminar here	Involvement of the IL-1 cytokine system in CNS pathologies	Ning Quan, Ph.D.
Oct. 20	Oleg Denisenko, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington	Epigenetics of HIV latency	Andrew Oleinikov
Nov. 17	Luana Colloca, Ph.D. MPower Distinguished Professor, Director of the Placebo Beyond Opinions Center School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore View presentation here	Neurophysiological mechanisms and clinical phenotypes of placebo effects	Cheryl A. Krause-Parello