KCUMB Research Symposium

Each year, KCUMB's Research Symposium provides an opportunity to showcase research conducted by KCUMB faculty, students, and staff and to learn from national experts in areas ranging from genetic medicine to obesity and diabetes.

The keynote speaker plays a major role by addressing topics that illustrate the value of research and its importance in increasing knowledge, improving health and enhancing the empirical care of patients.

Presentations include significant biological information as well as behavioral and psychosocial issues. Faculty and students also participate in oral and poster presentations at KCUMB's Research Symposium. A panel of external evaluators drawn from the local community, as well as two student researchers evaluates the oral and poster presentations.

18th Annual KCUMB Research Symposium

“Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians”

March 18, 2010
Poster Reception, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Mary Lou Butterworth, D.O. Alumni Center

March 19, 2010
KCUMB Research Symposium
Ricci Auditorium & Classroom A

7:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast/Networking, Atrium of Strickland Educational Pavilion

8:00 - 8:15 a.m. - Welcome and Overview of Research

8:15 - 12:00 p.m. - Presentations

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch Break

1:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Presentations

4:00 p.m. - Presentation of Awards

Keynote Speaker: Larry K. Pickering, M.D.

Larry K. Pickering, M.D., is senior advisor to the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Executive Secretary of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. He received his medical degree from the West Virginia University School of Medicine, and subsequently completed his pediatric residency and infectious diseases fellowship at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Pickering is past president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of North America and a past member of the Infectious Diseases Subboard of the American Board of Pediatrics. He is the treasurer of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).

Dr. Pickering is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Program Committee of Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, the Maternal and Child Health Subcommittee of the Section on Breastfeeding of the AAP, and Research Advisory Committee A of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He is a member of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society and the Program Committee of IDSA.

Dr. Pickering’s research interests include immunizations, infectious diarrhea, child-care related illnesses, and protective factors in human milk.

He is past associate editor and the current editor of the Red Book® of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), coeditor of the third edition of the book Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and sits on several editorial boards.

Dr. Pickering is a recipient of the Distinguished Physician Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the Edward J. van Liere Research Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Founder’s Award of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research. He was named Outstanding Clinical Faculty Members for Research by the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk.

Former Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker 2009 Kathleen E. Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology Professor of Pediatrics The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Keynote Speaker 2008 Vivian Pinn, M.D. Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health	Keynote Speaker 2007 John P. Foreyt, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Baylor University College of Medicine "Trends in the Long-Term Management of Obesity"