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SPEAKER BIOSKETCHES
Richard Zhao, M.D. Opening Speaker
Stephen C. Yang, M.D., Keynote Speaker
Michael Choi, M.D.
Jeannine Schiller, M.P.H.
Paul Thuluvath, M.D.
Marta Hanson, Ph.D.
Ben Ho Park, M.D., Ph.D.
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Richard Zhao, Ph.D.
Opening Speaker |
Dr. Zhao, who specializes in molecular pathology, received his MS and Ph.D., degrees from Oregon State University . His postdoctoral training was at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University . Dr. Zhao served as a faculty member at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Chicago Children's Medical Research Center from 1994-2003. During his tenure at Northwestern, he was named as the Bernard L. Mirkin PhD MD Research Scholar, an endowed Chair established by the Medical Research Institute Council with one million dollar endowment to support his HIV-related research.
Dr. Zhao joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Zhao actively engages in various HIV/AIDS-related activities. He served as a Chairman on a HIV-related expert panel for the National Institute of AIDS and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, NIH). He is currently president of the US-China AIDS Alliance, scientific advisor for the China AIDS Foundation and a member of virology committee for the National Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Groups (PACTG). Dr. Zhao has served on numerous scientific editorial boards including Cell Research, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Science Press, New York Ltd, Clinical and Applied Immunology Review, Frontiers in BioSciences and Chinese Journal of Clinical and Experimental Virology. He is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Division of Molecular Pathology Department of Pathology at University of Maryland School of Medicine. |
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Stephen C. Yang, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P.
Keynote Speaker |
Stephen C. Yang, M.D., graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Biochemistry (music minor) and received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia in 1980. His training included a general surgical residency at the University of Texas Health Science in Houston , a 3 year thoracic surgical research fellowship at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center , and a cardiothoracic surgical fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. In 1994, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital and currently is Associate Professor of Surgery and of Medical Oncology. In 2001, he was named Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
He serves as the medical student Surgical Curriculum and Educational Director, Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, Associate Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency, and recently stepped down as Director of the Adult and Pediatric Lung Transplantation Program. He was the 1997 American Association of Thoracic Surgery Research Scholar, the 1996 William F. Rienhoff award for teaching and research at Johns Hopkins, the 2004 Medical College of Virginia Outstanding Alumnus, and the 2007 Thoracic Surgery Directors Association Program Director research award.
He currently serves on the Postgraduate Affairs, Medical School Admissions, Educational Policy, and Curriculum Reform Committees in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is an active member of the American College of Surgeons, American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Association for Academic Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, and the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. He is Editor of “ Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine ” and guest editor/ reviewer for numerous peer review journals. He is co-editor of the book “ Current Therapy in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery”, and co-edited the esophageal surgical section in the 2nd edition of “Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery” with John Cameron, M.D.
His laboratory research interests include using molecular techniques for lung cancer screening and for molecular staging of micrometastasis to predict recurrence following surgical resection. His clinical practice and research covers the breath of general thoracic surgery in pulmonary and esophageal surgery, video-assisted and robotics thoracic surgery, mediastinal and pleural work, lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema, and work in geriatric thoracic surgery.
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Michael J. Choi, M.D. |
Michael J. Choi, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also the Nephrology Fellowship Director. Dr. Choi received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine. Dr. Choi completed his postdoctoral fellowship in nephrology at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine .
He has authored and coauthored various articles and chapters in the field of nephrology. His major clinical areas of expertise are nephrolithiasis and glomerular diseases where he has been invited to speak at the American Society of Nephrology and National Kidney Foundation meetings. He is Co-Chair of the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical meeting in 2007 sessions on Nephrolithiasis and Lupus nephritis and vasculitis. Dr. Choi has served as a reviewer for Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Medicine, Kidney International, American Journal of Kidney Diseases , Urology , and Journal of General Internal Medicine . He has been the recipient of the W. Barry Wood Jr. Award, awarded by the second year medical students of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for outstanding preclinical teaching and The Department of Medicine Housestaff Teaching Award.
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Jeannine Schiller, M.P.H. |
Jeannine Schiller graduated from Loyola College in 1999 with a B.S. in biology and received her M.P.H. from Boston University in 2002. Her M.P.H. was focused on epidemiology and biostatistics and more specifically, statistical modeling, statistical computing, and genetic epidemiology. While in graduate school, she had the opportunity to work on genetic studies of the Framingham Heart Study as a data analyst.
Ms. Schiller is currently a health statistician for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, located in Hyattsville , MD. She has been working on the National Health Interview Survey, an annual survey on the health of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States , for nearly 5 years. Her main responsibilities are the production of a quarterly surveillance report on 15 key health indicators and research based on the NHIS. Her main research interests are vaccination, chronic conditions, and health behaviors.
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Ben Ho Park, M.D., Ph.D. |
Dr. Park is a native of the Midwest and attended The University of Chicago for his A.B. degree, followed by dual training at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in 1995. Dr. Park then trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at The Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania prior to coming to Johns Hopkins where he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer genetics in the laboratory of Drs. Ken Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein. In 2002, Dr. Park joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Oncology at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins where he is researching the genetic effectors of breast carcinogenesis and drug resistance.
Dr. Park has been actively involved with all aspects of biomedical research training including teaching of graduate and medical students, post-doctoral fellows, interns, residents and clinical fellows. He has been a Clinical Skills Instructor teaching second year medical students patient history and physical exam for the past six years.
Dr. Park's hobbies include telling bad jokes, visiting microbreweries and spending time with his wife and 2 year old daughter (not necessarily in that order). |
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