2019 Retreat

UCSF CCMBM and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Scientific Retreat - Unleashing your Inner Athlete: Accelerating MSK Healing through Discovery

Inspired by elite athletes who push the limits of what the musculoskeletal system can achieve, musculoskeletal research seeks to help everyone unleash the inner athlete to live a healthy and active life. This scientific event brings together researchers from the Bay Area and beyond to discuss cutting edge research that aims to transform human health by improving musculoskeletal function across the lifespan. Researchers from the biological, engineering, imaging, and epidemiologic sciences will discuss advances in soft and mineralized skeletal tissues and muscle in health and disease.

Please join us for this special two-day retreat sponsored by the NIH P30 Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM) and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery for all musculoskeletal researchers. The following is the tentative event agenda:

Seats are limited - RSVP by Friday, 4/5

DAY 1 - TUESDAY, April 9th, 5:00-8:00PM
Genentech Hall, 600 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94158

Open only to CCMBM Members & Department of Orthopaedic Surgery faculty and their trainees.

Welcome Gathering: Reception for MSK Leaders, UCSF Leaders, and invited guests
Event Program with Keynote Speaker - Kari Miller, 2016 Gold Medalist Paralympian in Sitting Volleyball; panel discussion, slam talk competition
Exhibits and Reception

Graduate students, postdocs, and other trainees: Opportunities to present your research via a slam talk on Day 1, and/or posters on Day 2 are available here.

Guidelines for Slam Talk [PDF file download]

Guidelines for Poster Presentation [PDF file download]

THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS

University of California, San Francisco

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Endocrine Unit
at SF-VAMC

Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations

DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, April 10th, 8:00 AM-5:00PM

Gladstone Institutes, Mahley Auditorium, 1650 Owens St, San Francisco, CA 94158

8:00 am Light Breakfast

8:15 am Welcome Remarks
Tamara Alliston, PhD
UCSF, Orthopaedic Surgery & CCMBM Event Chair

Jeffrey Lotz, PhD
UCSF, Orthopaedic Surgery & CCMBM Center Director

SESSION I - Translating MSK Solutions for Mineralized Tissues

Moderated by Robert Nissenson, PhD

8:30 am Richard O’Donnell, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
Implanted Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Device Platform
Technology as a METRiCS Paradigm

9:20 am Galateia Kazakia, PhD
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
Visualizing vasculature within bone and understanding its role
in diabetic bone disease

9:40 am Sunita Ho, PhD
Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences,
UCSF
Biominerals: Teeth, Bones, and Stones

10:00 am BREAK

SESSION II – Engineering Biologic MSK Solutions

Moderated by Richard Schneider, PhD

10:15am Todd McDevitt, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease & Department of
Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
Engineering stem-cell technologies to understand and treat
musculoskeletal conditions

10:35am Joy Wu, MD, PhD
Department of Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism,
Stanford University
Pluripotent stem cells and skeletal regeneration

10:55am Jonathan Brunger, PhD
Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
Engineered Cell-based Therapies for Musculoskeletal
Regenerative Medicine

11:05am Hsuan Lung, DDS
Oral and Craniofacial Sciences Graduate Program, UCSF
Elucidating Cellular Mechanisms and Identifying Potential Drug
Therapies of Fibrous Dysplasia

11:30 am- POSTER SESSION at Genentech Atrium
12:30 pm

12:00 pm- NETWORKING LUNCH at Genentech Atrium
1:15 pm

SESSION III – Innovating Quantitative Solutions for Non-mineralized MSK Tissues

Moderated by Rich Souza, PT, PhD

1:30 pm Corey Neu, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Colorado
Inaugural Bradford Distinguished Lectureship
Multiscale Imaging and Mechanobiology in the Skeleton

2:20pm Grace O’Connell, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Intervertebral Disc Biomechanics – what we’ve learned in the
laboratory

2:40pm Valentina Pedoia, PhD
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
MRI-Based Multi-Task Deep Learning for Cartilage Lesion
Severity Staging in Knee Osteoarthritis

3:00 pm BREAK

SESSION IV – Systemic Solutions for MSK Health

Moderated by Anne Schafer, MD

3:15 pm   Andrew Brack, PhD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
Muscle stem cells: stress resistance and aging

3:35 pm   Peggy Cawthon, PhD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF
Muscle mass assessed by D3Cr dilution and its relation to
strength, physical performance, fractures and disability

3:55 pm   Blaine Christiansen, PhD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
Systemic Bone Loss Initiated by Fracture

4:15 pm CLOSING REMARKS
Tamara Alliston, PhD
Closing remarks with Slam Talk & Poster Awards

4:30 pm RECEPTION
Networking, light snacks and drinks

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