
Preliminary Conference Agenda
Last updated May 12, 2022
Thursday, November 3
11:00AM – 2:00PM ET
Early Investigator Forum
Featuring Melissa Marshall from Present Your Science
2:30PM – 3:30PM ET
Welcome Session. Defining Community: The Evolution of PeDRA and PeDRA’s Future
3:30PM – 5:00PM ET
Breakout Session 1
5:00PM – 6:00PM ET
Poster Viewing Reception 1
6:00PM – 7:00PM ET
Keynote Session. Chasing my Cure: Leveraging Individual Purpose to Drive Collective Effort
Featuring David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA from the University of Pennsylvania
7:15PM – 8:15PM ET
NextGen Research Forum Reception
Friday, November 4
7:00AM – 8:30AM ET
Breakfast Available
7:00AM – 8:15AM ET
NextGen Research Forum
Moderated by Keith Choate, MD, PhD and Lara Wine Lee, MD, PhD
7:00AM – 8:00AM ET
Industry Breakfast
Partner event.
8:30AM – 9:30AM ET
Plenary Session 1: Finding Purpose for Success Part 1
Featuring Victor Strecher, PhD, MPH from the University of Michigan
9:30AM – 11:00AM ET
Breakout Session 2
11:00AM – 11:15AM ET
Break
11:15AM – 12:45PM ET
Concurrent Skill-Building Workshops
- Conducting Community Based Research
- Building Your Clinical Trial Toolbox
- Grant Writing
12:45PM – 1:30PM ET
Lunch Available
Business Meeting (for PeDRA Members)
1:30PM – 2:30PM ET
Plenary Session 2: Finding Purpose for Success Part 2
Featuring Victor Strecher, PhD, MPH from the University of Michigan; Dominique Pichard, MD from the International Rett Syndrome Foundation; Others TBD
2:30PM – 2:45PM ET
Break
2:45PM – 4:15PM ET
Breakout Session 3
3:00PM – 6:00PM ET
Camp Wonder at PeDRA 2022
Patient event.
4:15PM – 4:30PM ET
Break
6:00PM – 7:00PM ET
Poster Viewing Reception 2
7:00PM – 8:00PM ET
Social Activity
Details coming soon.
Saturday, November 5
6:30AM – 8:00AM ET
2022 Dash for Discovery Fun Run/Walk
Details coming soon.
8:00AM – 9:30AM ET
Breakfast Available
9:00AM – 10:00AM ET
Breakfast with NIAMS
Featuring Lindsey Criswell, MD, MPH, DSc from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
10:00AM – 11:00AM ET
Plenary Session 3: Building a Community of Resources
Featuring Larissa Aviles-Santa, MD, MPH from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD); PJ Brooks, PhD from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
11:00AM – 11:15AM ET
Break
11:15AM – 11:45AM ET
Oral Presentations from Selected Abstracts
11:45AM – 12:15PM ET
Closing Session
12:15PM ET
Conference ends