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Labor and Population

RAND Conference Program

Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists

July 12-13, 2006

RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California

Note: Speakers are preliminary and are subject to change.

Wednesday July 12, 2006
9:00 - 9:30am	Breakfast
9:30 - 10:00am	Introductions and opening remarks
10:00 - 11:45am	Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health The Search for Optimal Diets: A Progress Report Rebuilding the Food Pyramid Note: This is not a RAND document.
11:45am - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 - 2:30pm	Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington Antibiotic Resistance and Hospital-Acquired Infection Evolution in Action: Understanding Antibiotic Resistance Ecological theory suggests that antimicrobial cycling will not reduce antimicrobial resistance in hospitals The epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in hospitals: paradoxes and prescriptions Note: These are not RAND documents.
2:30 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 4:30pm	Judith Campisi, University of California, Berkeley Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons? The thorny path linking cellular senescence to organismal aging Suppressing Cancer: The Importance of Being Senescent Note: These are not RAND documents.
4:30pm	Adjourn
6:00 - 8:30pm	Dinner at I Cugini
Thursday July 13, 2006
9:00 - 9:30am	Breakfast
9:30 - 10:00am	Opening remarks
10:00 - 11:45am	Thomas Seyfried, Boston College Caloric Restriction in Disease Management Influence of Caloric Restriction on Motor Behavior, Longevity, and Brain Lipid Composition in Sandhoff Disease Mice Targeting energy metabolism in brain cancer: review and hypothesisy Management of multifactorial idopathic epilsepsy in EL mice with caloric restriction and the ketogenic diet Note: These are not RAND documents.
11:45am - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00 - 2:30pm	David A Snowdon, University of Kentucky Aging with Grace: Findings from the Nun Study Abstracts of all Nun Study publications are available at www.nunstudy.org
2:30 - 3:00pm	Break
3:00 - 4:30pm	S. Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois, Chicago Health and Longevity in the 21st Century A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century In pursuit of the Longevity Dividend Note: These are not RAND documents.
4:30pm	Adjourn