MGH

The Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
at Massachusetts General Hospital

The Warren M. Zapol Symposium on Anesthesia & Critical Care Research


Date: June 9-10, 2023
Richard B. Simches Research Center,185 Cambridge Street,
Room 3-3110, Boston, MA 02114



DAY 01/02 - Friday, June 9: Therapeutic gases & scientific discoveries

Time Presentation Video
08:30-09:15 AM Opening session: "The Warren M. Zapol Symposium on Anesthesia ritical Care Research"
Chair: Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju

1. Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju and Robert E. Kingston: Welcome & Introduction
2. Nikki, David, Liza Zapol and Paul Alfille: Family reflections

*** Short break and restart @ 9:30 AM ***
09:30-11:00 AM Nitric oxide
Chairs: Lorenzo Berra & Fumito Ichinose

1. Louis Ignarro: Biology of nitric oxide
2. Jesse Roberts: Nitric oxide - a critical regulator of newborn lung developmentand function
3. Mark Gladwin: Nitric oxide, metabolites and hemoglobin

*** Short break and restart @ 11:15 AM ***
11:15-12:15 PM Sickle cell anemia, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfide
Chairs: Mark Gladwin & Donald Bloch

1. Akito Nakagawa: Identification of small molecules that regulate the affinity of hemoglobin for oxygen; implications for the treatment of sickle cell disease
2. Luca Zazzeron: Carbon monoxide poisoning and phototherapy
3. Fumito Ichinose: Hydrogen sulfide - from suspended animation to neuroprotection

*** Lunch break ***
1:45-2:45 PM A world of discoveries: PART 1
Science from the artic and beyond

Chairs: Stuart Harris & James Rathmell

1. Mead Treadwell: Polar Biology, Geophysics, and Human Health:
What Explorer and Adventurer Warren Zapol brought home
2. Manu Buys: Following in the footsteps of Warren's Weddell seal research:
sight and sounds of Antarctica
3. Jessica Meir: Taking direction from specially adapted animals:
experimenting on the ice and amongst the stars (A portion of the video has been removed as it was unpublished.)

*** Short break and restart @ 3:00 PM ***
3:00-4:30 PM A world of discoveries: PART 2
Evolution, oxygen and wilderness: Learning from mammalian adaptations to extreme conditions
Chairs: Emmanuel Buys & Ryan Carroll

1. Paul Falkowski: The emergence of oxygen and the evolution of large placental mammals
2. Vamsi Mootha: Hypoxia as a therapy for mitochondrial disease
3. Diana Laird: Extreme reproductive longevity in the naked mole-rat
4. N. Stuart Harris: Physiological adaptation to extreme conditions

*** Short break and restart @ 4:45 PM ***
4:45-5:30 PM The Warren M. Zapol Symposium Lecture
Introduction by ~ Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju

Emery N. Brown: Anesthesia and the brain: new understanding in neurosciences

*** Short break and restart @ 4:45 PM ***



DAY 02/02 - Saturday, June 10: Nitric Oxide, Respiratory Failure, Sepsis and Innovation in Medicine

Time Presentation Video
08:30-09:30 AM PART 1: Nitric Oxide
Nitric Oxide & Respiratory Failure

Chairs: Fumito Ichinose & Louis Ignarro

1. Carl Nathan: Nitric oxide: antimicrobial mechanisms and bacterial resistance
2. Lorenzo Berra: High dose inhaled nitric oxide: recent clinical findings
3. Pankaj Arora: Recent advances in the clinical use of inhaled nitric oxide

*** Short break and restart @ 9:45 AM ***
09:45-11:00 AM PART 2: Respiratory failure
the known and unknown

Chairs: Antonio Pesenti & Jeanine Wiener-Kronish

1. Daniel Talmor: What we learned (and did not) during Covid-19 and in ARDS
2. Katerina Vaporidi:: Respiratory drive in respiratory failure
3. Maurizio Cereda: Lung imaging in respiratory failure
4. Ryan Carroll: Respiratory failure in children

*** Short break and restart @ 11:15 AM ***
11:15-12:15 PM Sepsis, Inflammation, and Atherosclerosis
Chairs: Donald Bloch & Maurizio Cereda

1. H. Shaw Warren: Sepsis, and animal models to study sepsis
2. Aranya Bagchi: Iron and inflammation
3. Rajeev Malhotra: Atherosclerosis and vascular calcification mechanisms

*** Lunch break ***
1:15-2:15 PM Innovation in pain and neuroplasticity
Chairs: Jianren Mao & Clifford Woolf

1. Clifford Woolf: Understanding and conquering pain
2. Gary Brenner: Attenuated Salmonella typhimurium
as immunotherapy for painful nerve sheath tumors

*** Short break and restart @ 2:30 PM ***
2:30-3:30 PM Innovation in medicine
Chairs: Ryan Carroll, Nathaniel Sims and David Zapol

PART 1: How to go about innovation in research, in academia and in education.
1. Richard Rox Anderson: Teaching out of the box: an MIT course on innovation
2. Paul Yu: A journey from basic science lab discovery to drug Development.
3. Robert Langer: From nanotechnology to mRNA therapies, and what's to come:
How overcoming skepticism and barriers led to new cancer
and heart disease treatments, vaccines, and ways to tackle global health challenges

*** Short break and restart @ 3:45 PM ***

3:45-4:45 PM Innovation in medicine
Chairs: Ryan Carroll, Nathaniel Sims and David Zapol

PART 2: Inhaled nitric oxide therapy from idea to commercialization: A thirty-year story.
4. Ashleigh Palmer: Visionary and pragmatist-Lightning only strikes onceā€¦
5. Binglan Yu: Beyond cylinders: production of nitric oxide from air
6. David Zapol: Next generation nitric oxide

4:45-5:00 PM Fumito Ichinose: Concluding Remarks


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