Schedule: Metabolism and Health Across the Lifespan

Opening Remarks

Mary Klotman, MD  
Professor of Medicine; EVP Health Affairs, Duke University; Dean, School of Medicine;
Chief Academic Officer, Duke Health

Christopher Newgard, PhD
W. David and Sarah W. Stedman Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the School of Medicine; Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Medicine; Director, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center; Director, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute

10:05 AM

New Frontiers in Aging and Metabolism
Heather Whitson, MD, MHS
Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience;
Professor of Medicine, Neurology, Head & Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, and Ophthalmology;
Director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development

Legacy in Motion: Long-Term Impacts of Midlife Exercise on Later-Life Health
Leanna Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Measuring Aging While We’re Still Healthy
Terrie Moffitt, PhD
Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology;
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Precision Metabolism: From Pathways to People
Svati Shah, MD, MHS
Associate Dean for Translational Research;
Director of the Duke Precision Genomics Collaboratory; 
Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases;
Professor of Medicine

Energy Expenditure Across the Human Life Course
Herman Pontzer, PhD
Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

12:05 PM

LUNCH

Longevity in a Capsule: Rethinking Dieting Through Pharmacology  
James White, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Assistant Research Professor of Cell Biology 

Muscle Fiber Type Shapes Mitochondrial Phenotype and Lipid Tolerance
Deborah Muoio, PhD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Disease;
Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology;
Associate Director of the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute

Training Adipose Tissue to Withstand Future Metabolic Challenges
Rana Gupta, PhD
W. David and Sarah W. Stedman Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology,
Metabolism, and Nutrition; Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology

2:15 PM

Break

Alpha-to-Beta Cell Communication, GLP-1 Receptor Aensitivity and Therapeutic Implications
David D’Alessio, MD
Lindquist Presidential Distinguished Chair of Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition;
Professor of Medicine 

Functional Implications of Biased Signaling at the GLP-1R
Jonathan Campbell, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Research Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Deciphering Visceral Instincts & the Future of Medicine
Diego Bohórquez, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology;
Associate Research Professor of Neurobiology

Emerging indications, molecules and mechanisms for GLP-1 medicines

Dan Drucker, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto

Reception to follow