2024-2025 Schedule of Speakers & Presentations

DATE SPEAKER PRESENTATION TITLE
October 1, 2024

Stuart H. Bloom, MD, MSc

Associate Professor & Associate Director of Physician and Faculty Well-Being, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation

Burnout and Recovery

November 12, 2024

Courtney Jordan Baechler, MD, MS

Cardiology, Park Nicollet HealthPartners Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital

Cardiac Health Equity for Women

December 3, 2024

Christopher J. Tignanelli, MD, MS,

Associate Dean, Data
Science in Health Care UMN Medical School; Scientific Director,

Program for Clinical Artificial Intelligence; Associate Professor of Surgery

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

January 9, 2025 

Badrinath Konety, MD

Urologic Surgeon; President, Allina Health Cancer Institute; Chief System Research Officer

Update on Prostatic Cancer: Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes

February 5, 2025

Stephanie Terezakis, MD

Department Head; Professor; Vice Chair of Research; Radiation Oncology, UMN

New Promises in Radiation Oncology

March 12, 2025

Penny Wheeler, MD

Board of Regents, UMN CEO Allina Health (Retired)

Physicians as Leaders

April 1, 2025

Walter C. Low, Ph.D.

Novel Stem Cell Therapies for Treating Degenerative Organs and Cells

May 6, 2025

Laura Niedernhofer MD, PhD

Professor; Director, Institute on the Biology of Aging & Metabolism;
and Paul Robbins, PhD; Professor
of Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Associate Director of the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism

Can We “Cure” Aging?!

(Dates for speakers and presentation titles are subject to change)