Physician-Scientist Research Symposium

Creation of durable knowledge that can enhance human health demands testing at the bedside as well as in the laboratory. Physician-scientists are well positioned to bridge the ever-widening distance between practicing clinicians and fundamental scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, over the last 30 years, as resources and institutionally-supported time dedicated to research have become increasingly scarce, proportionately fewer physician-scientists have committed to a research-intensive career. To apply the power of fundamental scientific discovery to human health, the supply of early-career physician-scientists must be sustained and replenished.

The Physician-Scientist Research Symposium aims to bring together physician-scientists from UCSF and Stanford University, with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco as the convergence point, in order to build a research community of early-career physician-scientists and advocate for the continued engagement of physicians in scientific discovery.

ABOUT
The symposium celebrates the research accomplishments of CZ Biohub SF Physician-Scientist Fellows from Stanford and UCSF who have participated in a two- to three- year research training and career development program to develop their expertise and prepare them for careers as independent investigators.

In addition to lightning talks from Fellows, the Symposium features a research and career retrospective keynote from Gladstone Institutes President Deepak Srivastava and a panel discussion of faculty at UCSF and Stanford on the challenges facing early-career physician-scientists and recommendations for institutional and grassroots solutions to support and promote physicians engaged in scientific discovery.

The symposium will be followed by a poster and networking session. Early-career physician-scientists at UCSF and Stanford are invited to present a poster on their research.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER & PANELISTS

Deepak Srivastava, M.D.

President and Senior Investigator
Gladstone Institutes (Keynote)

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, M.D.

Co-Director of Translational Investigator Program
Associate Professor of Medicine
(Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
Stanford University School of Medicine (Panelist)

Jennifer Grandis, M.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
UCSF School of Medicine (Panelist)

Arun Padmanabhan, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Director, CZ Biohub SF Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
UCSF School of Medicine (Panelist)

Mercedes Paredes, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Director of Medical Scientist Training Program
Associate Professor of Neurology
UCSF School of Medicine (Panelist)

PJ Utz, M.D.

Director of Physician Scientist Training Program
Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
Stanford University School of Medicine (Panelist)