45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892
Description
The conference Unraveling Vascular Inflammation: From Immunology to Imaging 2016, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), seeks to convene scientists, researchers and physicians from around the world with an interest in immunology, human translational studies involving cardiovascular imaging and quantification.
Hosted at the NIH campus, in Bethesda, MD, October 24 and 25, the day and a half conference will feature three keynote speakers (immunology, human inflammation and imaging), poster session and competition (including cash poster award and A High-Yield Series of Imaging Talks, a rapid fire series of 10 minutes talks by leading imaging scientists in the field.
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the website for Unraveling Vascular Inflammation: from Immunology to Imaging, the first symposium of its kind to focus on vascular inflammation emerging research as it relates to immunology, systemic inflammation and multi-modal imaging. The conference will bring together the world’s most renowned experts in the field, providing a forum for international collaboration across disciplines to speed new discoveries, fill gaps in existing knowledge, and potentially lead to critical breakthroughs in ways to understand vascular inflammation as it relates to future cardiovascular disease events.
Participants will explore our evolving understanding of the pathophysiology of vascular inflammation as a risk factor in cardiovascular health and disease, novel approaches to and advances in imaging as a key to understanding vascular inflammation, clinical disease states that provide biological platforms to test modulation of vascular inflammation, and therapeutic approaches to modulate vascular inflammation. Fast-paced presentations and discussions will facilitate exchange of ideas on critical topics, including translational studies involving cardiovascular imagery and quantification and the immunology of inflammation. A poster session will enable evaluation and discussion of additional, unpublished research and guidance to early career researchers.
I invite you to join us in October at the National Institutes of Health to discuss the latest exciting developments in this rapidly changing field and to contribute to future successes. To learn more about the exciting program we have planned, please consult the detailed agenda and biographies of our featured speakers. The site also includes all the details about how to register and how to share your own research by submitting an abstract by September 16 and presenting your poster at the conference.
I look forward to seeing you in Bethesda in October.
Nehal N. Mehta, MD, MSC, Organizing Chairman
Lasker Clinical Research Scholar
Section of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, DHHS
Program Overview
Thank you for your interest in the 2016 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) conference Unraveling Vascular Inflammation: From Immunology to Imaging.
This conference is the first of its kind focusing on research from three fields: immunology, inflammation and imaging. It will be held October 24-25, 2016 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Focusing on the role of innate immunity and inflammation in the development of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, this conference will use a transdisciplinary approach that involves genetic epidemiology, translational medicine and novel cardiovascular imaging approaches.
This conference will feature keynote speakers on immunology, human inflammation and imaging, a fast-paced series of talks by leading scientists in the field, and a poster session and competition, including a cash poster award.
Registration
There is no fee to register, but registration is required. Please visit:
Abstract Guidelines
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words. The abstract should have four clearly identifiable components: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusion. You may use special Greek or mathematical characters in your abstract as well as tables and images. Please note that ownership of abstracts and posters remains with the author(s). Simultaneous submissions of abstracts and posters to NIH and to other organizations/meetings are also permitted.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
Key Dates
Due to overwhelming response, we are extending the submission deadline. The new dates for submission and acceptance are:
Submission deadline: September 23, 2016
Notice for acceptance for oral presentations: October 3, 2016
Notice for acceptance for poster presentations: October 7, 2016
Awards
Oral Podium Poster Presentations
Three submitted abstracts will be selected for a featured short talk at the conference. Oral presentations will be on October 24 and 25, 2016.
Attended Poster Presentations
Poster presentations give authors the opportunity to acquaint attendees and experts in the field with the fundamentals of their abstract and research. Authors present at their poster boards during the attended poster session on October 24, 2016. Poster display size is 4 ft. high by 3 ft. wide (1.2 m high by 1.8 m wide).
Poster Peer Science Award
During the poster reception, all attendees will be invited to judge the posters based on outstanding scientific research. The top score will receive a Peer Science Award.
Please contact simone.katz@strategicresults.com if you have any questions about the status of your abstract.
Program Contact
Nehal N. Mehta, MD MSCE FAHA
Chief, Section of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Phone: 301-827-0483
Meeting Logistics
Simone Katz
simone.katz@strategicresults.com(link sends e-mail)
Phone: 240-449-8427
Location
William H. Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
301.496.9966
The meeting will be held in the auditorium, located on the lower level of conference center.
Travel
International Participants
Plan early: please contact the meeting coordinators (simone.katz@strategicresults.com) for a letter of invitation.
At this time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a high-tech registration system in place to fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors who are required to have visas as they enter through designated U.S. airports and seaports. Visitors with visas will be photographed and have their index fingers electronically fingerprinted or verified upon entering or exiting the U.S. The program will exempt permanent U.S. residents and foreign visitors from 36 countries who do not need visas to enter the US.
All Visa Waiver Program travelers must present a machine-readable passport at the U.S. port of entry to enter the U.S. without a visa; otherwise a U.S. visa is required.
Organizing Committee
- Nehal N. Mehta, MD, MSC, FAHA, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS – Organizing Chair
- Mark Ahlman, MD, NIBIB, NIH, DHHS
- Abass Alavi, MD, University of Pennsylvania
- Andrew Arai, MD, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS
- David Bluemke, MD, PhD, NIBIB, NIH, DHHS
- Marcus Chen, MD, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS
- Zahi Fayad, PhD, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Peter Grayson, MD, NIAMS, NIH, DHHS
- Steven Grinspoon, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Mariana Kaplan, MD, NIAMS, NIH, DHHS
- Michael Lederman, MD, Case Western Reserve University
- Paul Ridker, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- James HF Rudd MD, PhD, University of Cambridge
- Michael Sack, MD, PhD, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS
- Ahmed Tawakol, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital