RAND Conference Program

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

July 13-14, 2005

RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California

Note: Speakers are preliminary and are subject to change.

July 13th, 2005
8:30 - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30am	Introduction and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 11:15am	Judy Campisi, Berkeley National Laboratory Tumor Suppression, Cancer and Aging Presentation: "Aging and Cancer: Rival Demons?" Senescent Cells, Tumor Suppression, and Organismal Aging: Good Citizens, Bad Neighbors Cancer And Ageing: Rival Demons? Note: These are not RAND documents.
11:15 - 11:30am	Break
11:30 - 12:00pm	Q&A with Georgeanne Patmios, National Institute on Aging Acting Branch Chief, Population & Social Processes Branch
12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 - 2:45pm	Rita Effros, UCLA School of Medicine The Immune System: Friend or Foe? The Role of CD8 T-cell Replicative Senescence in Human Aging Replicative Senescence of CD8 T Cells: Potential Effects on Cancer Immune Surveillance and Immunotherapy Is Immunosenescence Infectious? Note: These are not RAND documents.
2:45 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 4:30pm	David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School Aging: A New Molecular Understanding and the Promise of a Medical Revolution Small Molecule Activators of Sirtuins Extend Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Lifespan The Emerging Therapeutic Potential of Sirtuin-interacting Drugs: From Cell Death to Lifespan Extension Small Molecules that Regulate Lifespan: Evidence for Xenohormesis Calorie Restriction Promotes Mammalian Cell Survival by Inducing the SIRT1 Deacetylase NAD to the Rescue Note: These are not RAND documents.
4:45pm	Adjourn
6:00 - 8:30pm	Dinner at The Lobster
July 14th, 2005
8:30 - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00 - 10:45am	Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School Health Externalities: How Illness and Health Care in one Spouse Affect the Survival of the Other Social Networks and Collateral Health Effects The Health Impact of Health Care on Families: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Descendents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses Note: These are not RAND documents.
10:45 - 11:00am	Break
11:00 - 11:15am	Opportunities at RAND
11:15 - 12:00pm	Breakout Sessions
12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 - 2:45pm	Steven Austad, University of Texas Health Science Center An Evolutionary Perspective on Modern Aging Research Is Aging Programed? A Biologist's Perspective: Whence Come We, Where Are We, Where Go We? Are Mice Calorically Restricted in Nature? Note: These are not RAND documents.
2:45 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 4:30pm	Andrew Steptoe, University College London Psychobiological Processes: Pathways Linking Social Factors with Disease Presentation: "Psychobiological Processes: Pathways Linking Social Factors with Disease" Tools of Psychosocial Biology in Health Care Research Positive Affect and Health-Related Neuroendocrine, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Processes Socioeconomic Status and Coronary Heart Disease: A Psychobiological Perspective Note: These are not RAND documents.
4:45pm	Adjourn

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RAND Conference Program

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

July 13-14, 2005

July 13th, 2005

Presentation: "Aging and Cancer: Rival Demons?"

July 14th, 2005

Presentation: "Psychobiological Processes: Pathways Linking Social Factors with Disease"