FOR MORE INFORMATION:
DR. D. BRYAN BISHOP, Chair/Associate Professor, Biology
(218) 299-3806
AMY KELLY, College Communications and Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642
FUGLESTAD LECTURE AT CONCORDIA ON
HEART FAILURE AND GENES
The Concordia College Biology Department presents the 35th Annual Professor R. E. Fuglestad Memorial Lecture, “What Makes the Heart Fail? New insights from defective genes,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center. The lecture will feature Timothy M. Olson, M.D., professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
A 1983 graduate of Concordia, Olson is a native of Minnesota who received his B.A. degree in biology from Concordia and an M.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1987. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Michigan and subspecialty training in pediatric cardiology at the Mayo Clinic. As a clinician investigator, he practices inpatient pediatric cardiology and directs a research program focused on discovering genetic underpinnings of cardiovascular disorders.
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a heritable form of heart failure, accounting for a majority of cardiac transplantations in children and adults. Over the past 25 years, advances in human molecular genetics and genomics have enabled discovery of molecular defects that underlie this degenerative heart muscle disease. New knowledge from this research has translated into diagnostic testing and informed current and emerging regenerative therapies.
The Fuglestad Lectureship was established in 1982 in memory of R.E. “Ed” Fuglestad, who served the Concordia College biology department for 43 years.
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