AGENDA

Wednesday, February 7 


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Arrivals


9:00 - 3:00 PM Optional Tour: Scape EcoPark Meet in Hotel Lobby
4:00 - 6:00 PM Registration Desk Open Lobby
     

6:00 - 7:30 PM

WELCOME RECEPTION

Eclipse Club


Thursday, February 8

8:00 - 8:15

Welcome & Introductions
Jack Lipton, President (MSU)

Baitoa Room 4
8:15 - 9:15

S1: Recruitment and Retention Best Practices

Chair: Alfredo Fontanini (SUNY Stony Brook)

Jennifer Bizon (UF), Paul Pfaffinger (Baylor)





9:15 - 10:15

S2: Revitalize, Repurpose or Retire? Challenges of Waning Faculty Productivity

Chair: Jack Lipton (MSU)

Paul Pfaffinger (Baylor), Chris Cowan (MUSC)


     
9:00 - 11:00  Social Guest Program: Salsa Class on the Beach 
     

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break


10:30 - 11:30

S3: Scientist vs Chair: Can You Do Both Well?

Chair: Bill Guido (Louisville)

Panelists: Lynn Dobrunz (UTHSC), Adam Kohn (Albert Einstein), Xinyun Lu (Augusta), Linda Richards (Wash U), Paul Pfaffinger (Baylor)



11:30 - 12:30

S4: Lifespan and Arc of a Neuro Chair

Chair: Alfredo Fontanini (SUNY Stony Brook)

Panelists: Michael Fox (UMass Amherst), Lucia Notterpek (U Nevada Reno), Bill Guido (Louisville)

 
 
 
12:30 - 1:15 

Lunch on your own 

 La Riviera
     

1:15 - 6:30

Group Excursion: Catamaran Cruise & Reef Snorkeling

Included for all registered attendees & social guests 


Meet in Hotel Lobby

Friday, February 9

8:15 - 9:15

S5: Fundraising: Strategies to Grow Unit Gifts and Endowments

Chair: John Foxe (U Rochester)

James O'Brien (U Rochester)


     

9:15 - 10:15

S6: Shared Governance Strategies to Help You Excel as Chair

Chair: Jack Lipton (MSU)

Tyler Silvestri (MSU)

Baitoa Room
     

10:15 -10:30

Coffee Break


10:30 - 11:30

S7: Update on the NIH BRAIN Initiative

Chair: John Foxe (U Rochester)

John Ngai, Director, NIH BRAIN Initiative


11:15 - 12:30

S8: Problems of Prestige Publishing

John Foxe, Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Neuroscience

Sabine Kastner, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Neuroscience



12:30
Lunch on your own
 La Riviera
     
2:00 - 5:30 Optional Tour: CanAm Adventure  Meet in Hotel Lobby


Saturday, February 10


8:15 - 9:15

S9: Buried Treasure - Value of Utilizing Large National Datasets

Chair: John Foxe (U Rochester)

Hugh Garavan (Vermonth), Gayathri Dowling (Dir ABCD @ NIDA)


Baitoa Room

9:15 - 10:15

S10: Bylaws & Feedback

Chair: Jack Lipton (MSU)



10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break


     

10:30 - 11:30

S11: AMSNDC Business Meeting

Chair: Jack Lipton (MSU)



11:30 - 6:00

Lunch  & Free afternoon





6:30– 9:30 PM

FAREWELL DINNER (all attendees & guests)

Secrets Babaro Beach


Sunday, February 11


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Departures


Association of Medical School Neuroscience Department Chairs
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