2016-2017 Series - CDI

September 15, 2016	James D. Cherry, MD, MSc Distinguished Research Profesor, Pediatric Infectious Disease Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity “The history of Pertussis (whooping cough): Mistakes made during a 110 year odyssey and what some of the mistakes bode for the future”
October 20, 2016	Anil Sapru, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity “Acute respiratory distress syndrome: How can we design better clinical trials?”
November 17, 2016	Daniel Levi, MD, Professor, Pediatric Cardiology Topic: Neonatal Health & Development &ldquo“Development of biodegradable stents and Patent Ductus Arteriosus closure devices for small infants”
December 15, 2016	John Adams, MD, Distinguished Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery Topics: Nutrition, Metabolism & Growth “Immunobiology of Vitamin D”
January 19, 2017	Karin Nielsen, MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Topics: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity ”Zika virus: Mother to child transmission – what is known to date?”
February 16, 2017	Donald Kohn, MD, Professor, MIMG, Pediatrics, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Topic: Cancer & Regeneration “Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy: Progress and challenges”
March 16, 2017	Peter Butler, MD, Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology) Topic: Topic: Nutrition, Metabolism & Growth “Mechanisms of beta cell loss in diabetes”
April 20, 2017	Elizabeth Marcus, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity ”Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric injury”
May 18, 2017	Christopher Giza, MD, Professor, Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery Topics: Brain & Behavior "Is being plastic fantastic? Mechanisms of recovery after pediatric traumatic brain injury"
June 15, 2017	Loris Hwang, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity “Adolescent cervical maturation and biological vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)”

This series is supported in part by a Catalyst Award from the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI; NIH/NCATS grant #UL1TR001881).