Chair
Chhavi Chauhan, PhD
American Society for Investigative Pathology
Session Description: This session will touch upon numerous dimensions of understanding and containing the ongoing global pandemic. This timely session is structured for various experts to present short lightening talks sharing updates on mechanisms underlying COVID-19 infections and its pathogenesis as well as exploring and predicting outcomes based on underlying co-morbidities. The experts will also share updates on the current and emerging treatments for containing the global COVID-19 pandemic. The lightening talks will be followed by a live moderated Q&A session based on audience questions. This session will appeal to researchers, clinicians, companies developing COVID-19 surveillance, management, and treatment products, as well as the caregivers and lay public.”
| Chair - Welcome and Introductions | ||
| 2:05 PM - 2:15 PM | Analysis of 30,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes, Houston, Texas: Should We Fear the Scariants? James Musser, MD, PhD • Houston Methodist Hospital |
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| 2:15 PM - 2:25 PM | The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine Emily Erbelding, MD, MPH • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health |
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| 2:25 PM - 2:35 PM | View of the COVID-19 Tsunami from the Trenches of a Clinical Molecular Lab Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center |
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| 2:35 PM - 2:45 PM | Mitigating COVID-19 in Meat and Poultry Processing Plants A. Sally Davis, DVM, PhD • Kansas State University |
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| 2:45 PM - 2:55 PM | Pathobiology of COVID-19: Insights into Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis From Autopsy-Based Clinicopathological Correlation L. Maximilian Buja, MD • University of Texas Science Center |
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| 2:55 PM - 3:05 PM | The Pathophysiology of COVID-19 from an autopsy pathologist’s perspective Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD, MBA • Louisiana State University Health Science Center |
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| 3:05 PM - 3:15 PM | The NIH COVID Autopsy Consortium: An Effort At Systematic Understanding of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Stephen Hewitt, MD, PhD • National Cancer Institute - NIH |
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| 3:15 PM - 3:25 PM | Empowering Clinical Informatics for COVID: The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD • National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences |
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| 3:25 PM - 5:00 PM | Moderated Question and Answer Session |