University of Manitoba - Shantou University Symposium

2nd International Symposium on Recent Advances in Basic, Clinical and Social Medicine

(Organizers: Patrick Choy and Frieda Law)
 
Monday, November 23
(For Invitees from North America and Hong Kong)
9:00Bus departing from Harbour Plaza North Point, Hong Kong
4:00 Arriving Shantou, check-in to the Academic Conference Centre (ACC), Shantou University
6:00 Informal dinner at ACC, evening free

(For Invitees from Mainland China)
12:00-6:00 Fly directly to Shantou, check-in to ACC, Shantou University
6:00 Informal dinner at ACC, evening free

(For All Other Participants)
3:00-11:00 Check-in to your reserved hotel in Shantou
  There is no shuttle service between hotel and the Symposium site at the Shantou University
 
Tuesday, November 24
7:30-8:30Registration – ACC
 
8:30Opening Ceremony - President Xu (STU) and President Barnard (UM)
 
9:00-10:30Telemedicine (CETV) – Medical Imaging - Opening remark by Dean Gu, STU
  K. Brindle, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Cambridge University
  I. Smith, Director, IBD-NRC, Professor of Human Anatomy, UM
 
10:30-11:00Break
 
11:00-12:00Keynote Lectures - Infectious Disease (Dean Sandham, Chair)
J. Embree (UM) - H1N1 2009 (swine) Influenza: Manitoba’s Experience
J. Gu (STU) - Pathology and Pathogenesis of Newly Emerged Infectious Diseases
 
12:00-2:00Brown bag lunch and poster judging for student awards
E. Kroeger, Assistant Dean of Medicine, UM, Co-Chair
D. Huang, Associate Dean of Medicine, STU, Co-Chair
T. Turner and M. Chan, Coordinators
 
2:00-3:15Landmark Lecture I - Cancer and Immunology (J. Davie and H. Zhang, Co-Chairs)
J. Davie (UM) - Nucleosomal response and immediate early gene expression
G. Hicks (UM) - Genetic Modeling of Human Cancer and Diseases
H. Zhang (STU) - Novel mechanisms of resistance to endocrine therapy in breast cancer
J. Mukherjee (State U of NY) - Interference of Tumor Potentiating Environmental Pollutants with p53 Signaling
 
2:00-3:15Frontier Lecture I - Medical Imaging (D. Lee and R. Wu, Co-Chairs)
I. Smith (UM) - Detection of Cancer in the Hepatobiliary Tract by 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Bile
R. Wu (STU) - Biomarker of tissue and cell: Characterized by magnetic resonance spectroscopy
K. Brindle (Cambridge) - Imaging biology in the cancer patient: Detecting early tumour responses to treatment
G. Zhang (STU) - Optical imaging and anti-cancer drug discovery
 
3:15-3:45Break
 
3:45-5:00Landmark Lecture II - Diabetes and Liver Disease (R. Stimpson, Chair)
P. Cattini (UM) - Regulation of Growth Hormone
X. Zha (Fudan) - The effect of RPTPκ on cell adhesion induced by N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V
G. Minuk (UM) - Electrogenics: A New Concept in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
 
3:45-5:00Frontier Lecture II - Medical Education (J. Boyd and R. Man, Co-Chairs)
B. Martin (UM) - Medical Education
C. Dyck (UM) - The Shantou University Medical College/University of Manitoba Family Medicine Academic Exchange
J. Xu (STU) - Simulation technology and basic clinical skills teaching at Shantou University Medical College
R. Man (HKU) - Student Centred Learning - The University of Hong Kong Experience
 
6:00Dinner at ACC, evening free
 
Wednesday, November 25
8:00 - 8:30Registration – ACC
 
8:30-10:00Keynote Lectures - Funding in Medicine (J. Gu, Chair)
Y. Gong (UM) - Natural Science Foundation of China
M. Czubryt (UM) & X. Yang (UM) - The China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative Review Process
D. Sandham (UM) - Global Need for Physicians: Supply, Demand and Funding
F. Law (STU)- Li Ka Shing Foundation - Funded medical philanthropy, LKS Foundation
 
10:00-10:30Break
 
10:30-12:15Landmark Lecture III - Metabolism and Nutrition (H. Cook and Z. Yao, Co-Chairs)
G. Pierce (UM) - The use of nutrition from bench to bedside to better living in the fight against cardiovascular disease
G. Shen (UM) - Role of oxidtive stress in diabetic cardiovascular complications
Z. Yao (U Ottawa) - Hepatic lipoproteins - diseases & therapeutic targets
Y. Zhou (STU) - Arachidonic Metabolism in Vascular Wall: Insight from Genetically Altered Mice
 
10:30-12:15Frontier Lecture III - Mental Health (J. Kong and J. Ye, Co-Chairs)
X. Li (UM) - Therapeutic Strategies for the Disease-Modification of Alzheimer’s Disease
Q. Huang (STU) - Community Mental Health Care in Shantou
H. Chochinov (UM) - Palliative Care Research: Breaking New Ground
W. Lin (STU) - Psycho-social-spiritual care of the National Hospice Service Program
 
12:00Lunch at ACC
 
1:00-7:30Tour organized by STU - sign up required
9:00Return to ACC
 
Thursday, November 26
Lipid, Lipoprotein and Membrane Biology (Festschrift for P. Choy)
(Organizers: G. Hatch and R. Man)
 
8:00Introduction of Session by R. Man, Associate Dean of Medicine, HKU
 
8:05-9:45Lipid, Lipoprotein and Metabolism I – D. Vance, Chair
G. Arthur (UM)- Cytotoxic Ether Lipids: Effects of Changing Head and Tail Moieties
J. Lin (STU) - The identification of HERG potassium channel interacting proteins
B. Lu (UC at SF) - Identification of Phospholipid Synthetic Enzymes in Patrick Choy's Lab
M. Wu (STU) - JNK pathway participate in the difference expression of MMP9 in calriticulin deficient cells
 
9:45-10:15Break
 
10:15-12:00Lipid, Lipoprotein and Metabolism II – G. Hatch, Chair
W. Schneider (VMU) - Lipoproteins, Receptors, and Oocyte Growth
D. Mymin (UM) - Phytosterolemia: Case-finding in a Manitoba Hutterite Kindred
K. O (UM) - Role of oxidative stress in metabolic disease
B. Ryan (UC Berkeley) - How Apolipoprotein A-V Modulates Plasma Triacylglycerol Levels
 
12:00-2:00Lunch and poster judging (E. Kroeger and D. Huang, Co-Chairs)
T. Turner and M. Chan, Coordinators
 
2:00-3:30Plenary Lecture - Lipid Biology and Biosignalling, W. Schneider, Chair

D. Vance, Canada Research Chair in Molecular & Cell Biology of Lipids, U of Alberta - Phospholipid Methylation: An Unexpected Player in Disease
G. Hatch, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiolipin Metabolism, UM - Regulation of Cardiolipin Metabolism: Lessons from Patrick Choy!
C. McMaster, Canada Research Chair in Biosignalling, Dalhousie U - Surprising Roles for Phospholipid Binding Proteins Revealed Through High Throughput Genetics
 
3:30-4:00Break
 
4:00-4:30Plenary Lecture- Lipid Biology, T. Dembinski, Chair
P. Choy - Musings on Thirty Years of Lipid Research (My Life in Grease)
 
4:30-5:30Greetings from Colleagues, T. Dembinski, Chair

L. Chen, Head of Pharmacology, Jilin University, Changchun, China
H. Cook, Dean of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada
X. Hong, Associate Professor of Surgery, Jilin University, Changchun, China
D. Lee, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, University of Western Ontario, Canada
R. Man, Associate Dean of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
J. Mukherjee, Adjunct Professor, State U of NY at Buffalo
W. Schneider, Chair of Medical Genetics, Vienna Medical University, Austria
X. Zha, Associate Dean of Medicine, Fudan University, China
Greetings from exchange student representative, STU, China
 
5:30-5:40Note of Appreciation
P. Choy - A tribute to the Li Ka Shing Foundation and Dr. F. Law for the support of the Academic Exchange Program between STU and UM
 
5:30-5:40Closing remarks - G. Hatch
 
6:30Farewell dinner and presentation of awards
 
Friday, November 27
(For Invitees from North America, Europe and Hong Kong)
 
9:00Bus departure from ACC to Hong Kong
 
4:00Arriving Harbour Plaza, North Point, Hong Kong

Updated Date: November 2, 2009