Date and Time

Saturday, September 1, 2007, 14:00-16:00

place

Kitano Hospital 5th floor Kitano Hall

theme

PPARs and Type 2 Diabetes as a Vascular Disease 2007

Opening Remarks

Dr. Eri Muso, Director of the Department of Nephrology, Kitano Hospital

Lecture

Chair: Assistant Professor, Department of Diabetes and Nutrition, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Professor Yoshiyuki Hamamoto
"Diabetes and Macrovascular Disease"
Dr. Tetsuya Matsushita, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Saga University School of Medicine

special lecture

Chair: Dr. Shunichi Miyazaki, Professor of Cardiology, Kinki University

Special lecture 1:

"Pathogenesis and treatment strategies of metabolic syndrome from the perspective of PPARs and adipokines"
Department of Integrative Molecular and Metabolic Disease Science, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Visiting Associate Professor Toshimasa Yamauchi

Special lecture 2:

“PPARs as Therapeutic Targets: Promises, Pitfalls and Ongoing Progress”
Jorge Plutzky, MD
Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention Program, Cardiovascular Division,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Closing Remarks

Dr. Takashi Nohara, Vice Director and Director of the Cardiac Center, Kitano Hospital