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MTSP Annual Research Symposium
The Annual Research Symposium is an annual event held in the spring of each year, planned and organized by MSTP students. A notable physician-scientist from outside UM is invited to give a scientific lecture to the entire Miller School community. The guest speaker also holds an informal mentoring session with MSTP students to discuss his/her experiences as a physician-scientist and making important career decisions. The event showcases research by the MSTP students through poster presentations and talks and provides a unique forum for interaction among students, mentors, and other faculty.
Past Keynote Speakers
June 17th, 2021
Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Executive Dean, Engineering Medicine
Chief Executive Officer, Engineering Health
Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National Academy of Medicine
November 6th, 2020
Julius M. Wilder, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University
Duke Division of Gastroenterology
Duke Clinical Research Institute
April 11th, 2019
Ana Diez-Roux, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
April 12th, 2018
Mark Rosenblatt, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 6th, 2017
Wafik El-Deiry, M.D., Ph.D., FACP
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Professor of Medical Oncology
Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Deputy Cancer Center Director for Translational Research
William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center
April 7th, 2016
Kathleen Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
University of Michigan
April 9th, 2015
Dan Rudolf Littman, M.D., Ph.D.
Helen L. & Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology
Professor, Departments of Pathology, Microbiology, & Molecular Pathogenesis
New York University
April 11th, 2014
Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Bullard Professor of Neurology & Harvard Medical School
Chief of the Division of Genetics at Children’s Hospital Boston
Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Children’s Hospital Boston
Former Director, Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program
March 8th, 2013
Diana M. Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D.
President George H. W. Bush, Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor & Director, Division of Medical Genetics,
Director, M.D./Ph.D. Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
March 16th, 2012
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Global Healthy Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
March 18th 2011
Andy Minn, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
University of Pennsylvania
March 12th, 2010
Margaret Baron, M.D., Ph.D.
Fishberg Professor of Medicine
Director, Hematology & Medical Oncology Research at Mount Sinai
March 13th, 2009
Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
VP for Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Director, Comprehensive Neurosciences Initiative
Emory University