2025 Chicagoland K Day
February 6, 2025
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
University of Illinois Chicago Student Center East
Address
Barbara Henley Auditorium, 3rd floor, 750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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Join UIC's CCTS for Chicago K Day featuring presentations and discussions to support the needs of institutional K awardees and junior faculty pursuing federal career development grants.
Keynote Talk: "Advancing Health Equity: The Critical Role of Clinician Investigators in Fighting Truth Decay”
Monica Peek, MD, MPH
Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice of Medicine
Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research
University of Chicago
Program Agenda
1:00 - 1:15pm Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:15pm Keynote Talk
2:15 - 3:15pm Panel Discussion: Navigating Your Career and Building Your Mentor Team (see panelist bios below)
3:15 - 4:00pm Lightning Talks, Round 1*
4:15 - 4:50pm Lightning Talks, Round 2*
5:00 - 7:00pm Closing Remarks & Networking Social
Appetizers and beverages included.
*Please indicate your interest in presenting a Lightning Talk on your registration form. Submissions are due December 4, 2024.
Who Should Attend:
- Early career faculty and postdocs
- Faculty working towards a clinical or translational K award
- Any faculty holding an individual K series career development grant or similar career development award
Hosted by the University of Illinois Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science
CCTS KL2 Program Leadership:
Director, Shane Phillips, PhD
Associate Director, Lisa Sharp, PhD
Sponsored by University of Illinois Chicago Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute and University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine
Date posted
Aug 26, 2024
Date updated
Nov 18, 2024
Speakers
Rachel Caskey, MD, MaPP | Former CCTS KL2 Scholar; Earl M. Bane Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, UIC College of Medicine
Luisa A. DiPietro, DDS, PhD | Former CCTS KL2 Director; Professor of Periodontics, Director of the Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, UIC College of Dentistry
