The 4th annual conference of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) will be held in Austin, TX at the Renaissance Hotel on January 4-5. Honorary Chairman Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison will deliver closing remarks for the conference that will feature state and national leaders in the fields of medicine, engineering and science. The winners of the 2007 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards will also be announced during the conference.
Keynote speakers at this year’s TAMEST conference include Mr. Norman R. Augustine, chairman of the National Academies Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee and retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation Director Dr. Arden L Bement, Jr., and MIT Nobel Laureate Dr. Samuel C.C. Ting.
The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) was formed by U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Texas’ Nobel Laureates, Dr. Michael Brown and the late Dr. Richard Smalley. Created as a Texas-version of the National Academies, TAMEST consists of the state’s 11 Nobel Laureates and 200 plus members of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and is dedicated to increasing national awareness of and funding for research and development at Texas colleges and universities. The annual two-day conference is designed to facilitate greater collaboration among the state’s leading academics and grow the ranks of Texans in the prestigious National Academies.
***A complete meeting schedule and list of participants is listed below***
Thursday, January 4, 2007
8:30 am Academy Registration*
9:45 – 10:30 am Annual Meeting of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
Dr. Donald R. Paul, 2006 President
Daniel W. Foster, M.D., 2007 president
10:30 – 11:15 am Education Committee Report
Dr. William R. Brinkley, Education Steering Committee Co-Chair
Dr. Mary Ann Rankin, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin - speaking about UTeach Mr. Tom Luce, Former Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, and now a public education advocate - speaking about AP Strategies
11:15 – 11:30 am Break
11:30am – 1:00 pm Luncheon
Keynote: Mr. Norman R. Augustine
Chair, National Academies Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee and Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin
1:30 – 3:15 pm Presentations by the Recipients of the 2007 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards
3:15 – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 – 5:30 pm Our Present Knowledge of the Universe
Moderator:
Dr. Steven Weinberg
Nobel Laureate
Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Presenters:
Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
The University of Texas at Austin
“The Early Universe as Seen by the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation”
Dr. Karl Gebhardt
Professor of Astronomy
The University of Texas at Austin
“HETEX: Going After Dark Energy, Texas-style”
Dr. Maio C. Diaz
Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
the University of Texas at Brownsville
“Increasing Our Knowledge of the Universe with a Mew Astronomy: LIGO, and the
Gravitational Wave Observatories”
5:30 – 6:30 pm Networking Time
6:30 – 7:30 pm Cocktail Reception
7:30 – 9:30 pm Dinner Honoring the Recipients of the 2007 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards
Keynote: Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr.
Director, National Science Foundation
9:30 – 11:30 pm After Dinner Reception
*Academy members and university presidents and chancellors only.
Friday, January 5, 2007
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast
8:45 – 10:30 am Cardiovascular Engineering
Moderator:
Dr. Fazle Hussain
Cullen Distinguished Professor
University of Houston
Presenters:
Dr. Jay D. Humphrey, Carolyn S. & Tommie E. Lohman
Professor and M.E. DeBakey Institute Fellow
Texas A&M University
"Biomechanical Factors in Vascular adaptations and Disease Progression”
Dr. James E. Moore, Jr
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University
"Biomechanics of Vascular Interventional Devices”
Dr. Jennifer West
Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University
“Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering”
10:30 – 11:00 am Break
11:00am – 12:45 pm The Biology of Inflammation
Moderator:
Dr. Ferid Murad, Nobel Laureate
Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Presenters:
Carole Mendelson, Ph. D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Director, North Texas March of Dimes Birth defects Center
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical center at Dallas
“Inlammatatory Signaling in the Timing of Birth”
James T. Willerson, M.D.
President, Texas heart Institute and President, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston at Austin
"Inflammation and Coronary Artery Disease”
David Y. Graham, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Chief, Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine
“Bacteria-induced Inflammation, the Environment and Gastric Cancer, The Evolving Helicobacter Story”
1:00 – 2:45 pm Luncheon & Closing Remarks
Keynote: Dr. Samuel C.C Ting
Nobel Laureate, Thomas Cabot Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Closing Remarks
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Daniel W. Foster, M.D.
