2023 Scientific Session Schedule

Thursday, May 11

330-530pm: Welcome/Registration at AC Marriott Hotel

530 pm:  Transportation to Chandler Hill Winery

600-900 pm: Dinner

Friday, May 12

700am: Transportation to RGA

715-745am:  Breakfast at RGA

745am-750amMMDA President’s Welcome by Dr. Maryam B. Shapland, VP and Medical Director, RGA

750-755 am: LLF Welcome by Dr. Daniel Zimmerman, SVP and Chief Science Advisor, RGA and Managing Director, Longer Life Foundation

800-850 am:  Keynote Speaker Dr. Alexander Garza, former head of St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force—Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and What the Future Holds for Public Health 

900-950 am:  Dr. Georgiana Willwerth-Pascutiu, VP and Global Medical Director, RGA– Climate Risk Analysis-the Medical and Insurance Perspective

1000-1050 am: Dr. Brian Ivanovic, Medical Consultant, Milliman IntelliScript– Long COVID and Mortality

1100am-1150am: Dr. Anuja Java, Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic, John Cochran VA Medical Center–The Role of Complement in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

1200-1245pm:  Lunch/Business Meeting

100-150pm: Dr. Bettina Mittendorfer, Washington University School of Medicine–Effect of Diet on Cardiometabolic and Muscle Function: Should We Get High on Protein?

200p-250pm: Dr. Kory Lavine, Director of the CV Precision Medicine Research Initiative, Washington University School of Medicine–Precision Medicine for Inflammatory Heart Diseases

300-350pm: Speaker’s Corner, Dr. Maryam B. Shapland, VP and Medical Director, RGA and Dr. Lisa Duckett, retired VP and Medical Director, RGA- Life After Insurance Medicine

400pm: Transportation back to hotel

515pm:  Meet in lobby to walk to Ruth’s Chris Steak House

530-800pm: Dinner