Sunday, September 14

(Pre-Meeting Workshops from 8:30am -4:30pm)

Greetings from Iman Hakim, Dean of Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona; greetings from Founding Dean, Marie Swanson, & Program overview by Betsy Foxman, Program Chair

"Savages, Stereotypes and Evolutionary Theory: A Brief History of Science and the Western Racial Imagination" (Robert A. Williams, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies & Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program)

"Disease, Evolution and Epidemiology" (Randolph Nesse, University of Michigan, moderator)

1. "A Genomic View of Human History: Epidemiology Reveals Human Evolution" (Mary-Claire King, PhD, American Cancer Society
   Professor, Departments of Medicine and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle).
2. "Evolution and Genetic Epidemiology in Admixed Populations" (Neil Risch, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Director, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco)
3. "Are there genes for hypertension?  A gene-environmental conspiracy", (Aravinda Chakravarti , Director Center for Complex Disease Research, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)

What can evolutionary theory tell us about health disparities?" (Marie Swanson, Founding Dean, University of Arizona School of Public Health moderator)

1."Understanding the power of ethnicity in explaining health disparities" (Kathryn Coe, Director of Shared Service for Special Populations, Arizona Cancer Center)

2."A Genetic Basis for Health Disparities in Common, Complex Lung Diseases" (Kathleen Barnes, Johns Hopkins University)

3."The Evolution and Revolution of Breast Cancer Disparities"(Lucile Adams-Campbell, Director Howard University Cancer Center)

Lunch

1. Career Mentoring Forum  ( Mentoring Committee)
2. Writing and submitting a manuscript: Who, What, How, and Where? (Publication Committee)
3. Ethics in Epidemiology:Focus on Research Integrity (Ethics Committee)

"Co-evolution of Microbes and Man" (Betsy Foxman, University of Michigan, moderator)

1. " Adaptations, costs, and benefits of Helicobacter pylori colonization of the human stomach " (Martin Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology)
2. "Public Health and Public Goods: Evolution, Epidemiology, and Economics" (Carl T. Bergstrom, Department of Biology, University of Washington)
3. "Evolution-proofing public health interventions: The case of malaria" (Andrew Read, Professor of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University)

"Policy developments shaping the practice of epidemiology in the age of GWAS". (Trisha Hartge, National Cancer Institute, moderator)

Panelists:

1. Teri Manolio, Director, Office of Population Genomics Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI,
2. " Public Health Policy: Individual vs. Population-wide Susceptibility"- Fernando Martinez, Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center at University of Arizona
3. Richard Rothenberg, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Epidemiology
4. Jon Samet, Professor Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Poster session

Reception: honoring ACE fellows and Epidemiology Chairs. All are welcome!

Breakfast Round tables

"Presidential Address" (Nancy Kreiger, Cancer Care Ontario,President, ACE)

"Student Prize Paper Presentation" (TBA)

"Transborder Collaborations in Environmental Toxicology"( Joaquin Ruiz, Professor of Geosciences and Dean, College of Law, The University of Arizona)

"Life History Traits and Epidemiology" (Kathyn Coe, Director of Shared Service for Special Populations, Arizona Cancer Center, moderator)

1. "Evolutionary perspectives on the epidemiology of neurodevelopmental disorders" Ezra Susser, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology and New York State Psychiatric Institute Professor. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
2. "Reproductive Effort and Epidemiology " Peter T. Ellison, John Cowles Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
3. "The fetal origins of adult health: Intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease" (Chris Kuzawa, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University)

BREAK

"Point, counterpoint: Genes and infection, genes and environment" ( Chris Reiber, Binghamton University, moderator)

1. "Studies of gene-environment interactions and cancer: historical perspective and lessons learned" (Nat Rothman, Senior Investigator, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute)
2. "Evolution and oncogenesis: the interplay of genes, germs, and mutagens" (Paul Ewald, Director, Program in Evolutionary Medicine, University of Louisville)

Awards Luncheon