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.
Prior Speakers
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Agnieszka Czopik, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
“MicroRNA-147 restrains pathogenesis in IBD”
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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Chai-Hao Tung, PhD
Research Scientist
D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
“Multi-Region Single-Nucleus Multiomics of Sporadic Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Reveals Cell Type-Specific Regulatory Programs and Dysregulation”
Wednesday, April 08, 2026
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Yu "Aaron" An, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“Adipose tissue dysfunction and neuroinflammation”
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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Shuyu Lu, PhD
Ph.D. Student, Center for TEAM-AI
D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
“A temporal study of POI incidence of MHHS”
Jinlian Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
“POI-KB Evidence Synthesis”
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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Dongyin Guan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine - Endocrinology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Circadian Rhythms: From Discovery in Flies to Mouse Phenotypes and Human Diseases”
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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Xinxin Ma, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
“Neutrophil-Endothelial Crosstalk via the miR-223-3p-RhoB Axis Protects Against Myocardial Reperfusion Injury”
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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Simon Betancourt Escobar, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“Impact of HIV on Perioperative Organ Injury and Surgical Outcomes in 41 Million Surgical Patients”
Serena Dasani, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“Prevalence, Impact, and Attributable Mortality in a National Surgical Cohort”
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
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Alparslan Turan, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“Perioperative Anemia: Outcomes, Prevention, and Post-Discharge Management”
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
“A self-explainable temporal deep learning architecture for dynamic risk prediction”
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
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Jieun Kim, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“HIF-1α–miR-27a-5p Axis in Megakaryocytes and Platelets during Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome”
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Sean M. Harting, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine-Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Endocrine roles of circulating N-acetylaspartate”
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
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Cong Luo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“HIF2A-dependent enhancement of Tregs during myocardial injury”
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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Inhyuk Bang, PhD
Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
“Identification of the renal proton pump ATP4A as a novel target for acute kidney injury prevention”
Thursday, August 28, 2025
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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
“Defining novel transcriptional regulators of cell cycle and mitochondria in human intestinal stem cells”
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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Sungjin Ko, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology
University of Pittsburgh
“Co-repression of Yap1 and Sox9 Abrogates Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma by Eliminating Transcriptional Compensation Sustaining ILF2 and WWTR1 expression”