Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, April 27, 2018 

“Role of IL-17A in the Development of Heart Failure”

Daniela Čihakova, MD, PhD, D(ABMLI)

Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Pathology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Director, WHO Collaborating Center, Johns Hopkins University

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the MD/PhD Program and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives: Participants will be able to: 

1. Identify the role of IL-17A in cardiac inflammation
2. Describe the role of myeloid cells in the development of heart failure
3. Define a new pathway that drives the development of heart failure in inflammatory heart diseases involving IL-17A, cardiac fibroblasts and myeloid

Dr. Cihakova is an Associate Professor of Immunology in the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is also an ABMLI board certified clinical laboratory immunologist and an Associate Director of Immunology Laboratory and Director of World Health Organization collaborating center at JHU. Over the last 15 years, she has concentrated on inflammatory heart disease, using myocarditis mouse models and adding translational aspects to studies by adding human data to many publications.  Dr. Cihakova’s laboratory studies the immunologic aspects of inflammatory heart disease using cutting edge techniques, such as analysis of cardiac resident and immune cells by multicolor flow cytometry or AAV shRNA delivery.

Dr. Cihakova reported no conflicts of interest.

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