Seminars

In the interest of the perioperative medicine of all who may attend, seminars will be held in person. Please review each date and email communications for more details. Email invitations containing a Teams link, when applicable, will be sent out on or before the week of each seminar. Please contact Toya Hall if you have any questions or would like to be added to (or removed from) the IPM mailing list.

Upcoming Seminars

There will be no Institute of Perioperative Medicine Seminars on October 28, 2026 & November 04, 2026.

Past Seminars

Seminar Title	Speaker Information	Date	Time
"Therapeutic Targeting of TREM2+ Macrophages to Accelerate Liver Repair”	Junda Gao, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Wednesday, October 21, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"CHI3L1 Sustains Immunosuppressive Neutrophils and Limits Anti-PD-1 Efficacy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma"	Yuanyuan Fan, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Wednesday, October 21, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"Cardiac Remodeling in Cancer Patients: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities”	Mohit Hulsurkar, PhD Instructor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine	Wednesday, October 14, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"Shaping Immunometabolic Homeostasis by Organelle Stress Response”	Ling Yang, PhD Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	Wednesday, October 07, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“The Role of Perioperative Teamwork in Surgical Outcomes”	Aubrey Samost-Williams, MD Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Wednesday, September 30, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Hippo pathway deletion to regenerate the human heart”	James Martin, MD, PhD Professor, Vivian L. Smith Chair in Regenerative Medicine, Vice Chairman of Integrative Physiology, Director Cardiomyocyte Renewal Lab, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine.	Wednesday, September 23, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"Lipocalin-2 Links White Adipocyte Mitochondrial Stress to Brown Fat Whitening"	Fenfen Wang, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Wednesday, September 16, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"Decoding Disease in the AI Era: From Molecular Networks to Mechanistic Discovery”.	Stephen Yi, PhD Director in the Center for AI and Biomedical Discovery (AIBD), Baylor College of Medicine.	Wednesday, September 09, 2026	1:00 p.m.
"Role of Neutrophil-derived HIF1a signaling in Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury"	Yankai Wen, PhD Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Wednesday, August 12, 2026	1:00 p.m.

2026 Prior Seminars

Seminar Title	Speaker Information	Date	Time
“Immunological and Cellular Mechanisms Driving Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation”	Xander Wehrens, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Physiology and Medicine Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute Baylor College of Medicine	Wednesday, May 27, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Scaling Nanotechnology for Multiomic Disease Diagnostics and Therapeutic QC Intelligence”	Qimin Quan, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, NanoMosaic Inc.	Wednesday, May 20, 2026	4:00 p.m.
“Computational multi-omics integration: long-read, single-cell, and spatial transcriptomics”	Suchang “Silvia” Liu, PhD Director Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	Thursday, May 14, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“From Bioprinting to Perioperative Medicine: Building Human Models to Predict Outcomes”	Vahid Serpooshan, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics	Wednesday, May 6, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Renal denervation-prevented ventricular arrhythmogenesis after acute myocardial infarction”	Dongze Zhang, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine	Wednesday, April 29, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“MicroRNA-147 restrains pathogenesis in IBD”	Agnieszka Czopik, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine	Wednesday, April 22, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Multi-Region Single-Nucleus Multiomics of Sporadic Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Reveals Cell Type-Specific Regulatory Programs and Dysregulation”	Chai-Hao Tung, PhD Research Scientist D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics	Wednesday, April 15, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Adipose tissue dysfunction and neuroinflammation”	Yu “Aaron” An, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Care and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, April 8, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“A temporal study of POI incidence of MHHS”	Shuyu Lu, PhD PhD Student, Center for TEAM-AI D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics	Wednesday, March 25, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“POI-KB Evidence Synthesis”	Jinlian Wang, PhD Assistant Professor D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics	Wednesday, March 25, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Circadian Rhythms: From Discovery in Flies to Mouse Phenotypes and Human Diseases”	Dongyin Guan, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine–Endocrinology Baylor College of Medicine	Wednesday, March 18, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Neutrophil-Endothelial Crosstalk via the miR-223-3p-RhoB Axis Protects Against Myocardial Reperfusion Injury”	Xinxin Ma, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, March 4, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Impact of HIV on Perioperative Organ Injury and Surgical Outcomes in 41 Million Surgical Patients”	Simon Betancourt Escobar, MD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, February 25, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Prevalence, Impact, and Attributable Mortality in a National Surgical Cohort”	Serena Dasani, MD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, February 25, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“Perioperative Anemia: Outcomes, Prevention, and Post-Discharge Management”	Alparslan Turan, MD Professor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, February 4, 2026	1:00 p.m.
“A self-explainable temporal deep learning architecture for dynamic risk prediction”	Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics	Wednesday, January 28, 2026	12:30 p.m.

2025 Prior Seminars

Seminar Title	Speaker Information	Date	Time
“HIF-1α–miR-27a-5p Axis in Megakaryocytes and Platelets during Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome”	Jieun Kim, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, December 3, 2025	1:00 p.m.
“Endocrine roles of circulating N-acetylaspartate”	Sean M. Harting, PhD Associate Professor, Medicine–Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Molecular, and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine	Wednesday, November 12, 2025	1:00 p.m.
“HIF2A-dependent enhancement of Tregs during myocardial injury”	Cong Luo, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, November 5, 2025	1:00 p.m.
“Identification of the renal proton pump ATP4A as a novel target for acute kidney injury prevention”	Inhyuk Bang, PhD Instructor Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine UTHealth Houston	Wednesday, October 29, 2025	1:00 p.m.
“Defining novel transcriptional regulators of cell cycle and mitochondria in human intestinal stem cells”	Joseph Burclaff, PhD Assistant Professor, Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Thursday, August 28, 2025	2:00 p.m.
“Co-repression of Yap1 and Sox9 Abrogates Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma by Eliminating Transcriptional Compensation Sustaining ILF2 and WWTR1 Expression”	Sungjin Ko, PhD Assistant Professor, Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology University of Pittsburgh	Wednesday, August 27, 2025	1:00 p.m.