The 42nd Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day will be held in April at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus.
The event will take place on Thursday, April 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the theme for this year's Research Day is “Advancing Health Through Translational Science.” Research Day will showcase breakthroughs in basic and translational sciences, clinical, public health, medical education, social and behavioral sciences, and quality improvement.
The event will consist of six oral presentations throughout the day featuring faculty from WMed and Western Michigan University, as well as resident physicians, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, and students from the medical school. Lunch will be served and Research Day will conclude with an awards ceremony in the William D. Johnston and Ronda E. Stryker Auditorium.
WMed and WMU faculty who will present at Research Day are Adil Akkouch, PhD; Wendy Scott Beane, PhD; Christopher Jondle, PhD; Yong Li, MD, PhD; Andromeda Nauli, PhD, and Momoko Yoshimoto, MD, PhD. The resident physicians who will present oral presentations at Research Day are Mikayla Moody, DO (General Surgery), Kelsey Sheets, MD (Orthopaedic Surgery), and Matthew Sweet, MD (Orthopaedic Surgery). Other presenters include postdoctoral fellow Joshua Mitchell, PhD (Center for Immunobiology) and research scientists Michael Gutknecht, PhD (Center for Immunobiology), and Naeem Khan, PhD (Center for Immunobiology).
CE credit provided by Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. For more information about CE credit, please visit https://bit.ly/3Tb3uBN.
The keynote speaker for Research Day 2024 Saranya P. Wyles, MD, PhD, who serves as senior associate consultant in the Department of Dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Wyles, who also serves as the associate director for Education at the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, pioneered the development of a novel regenerative medicine curriculum for medical and graduate students to better prepare the next generation of health care workers in regenerative clinical practice. Dr. Wyles’ research focuses on the science of skin aging and wound healing through the lens of cellular aging and regenerative medicine. Her current work aims to develop new regenerative therapies and clinical trials in dermatology to counteract the detrimental impact of senescent cells with aging and age-related skin diseases.
For more information about Research Day, please visit wmed.edu/researchday. Questions about this year’s activities can be submitted to the WMed Office of Research at office.research@wmed.edu.