Pittsburgh Surgeon-Scientist To Speak at Arkansas Toxicology Symposium
Billiar will give the keynote Snider address at the Arkansas Toxicology Symposium presented by UAMS.

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NOV. 26, 2001 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will host the Arkansas Toxicology Symposium Fri., Nov. 30.

Timothy R. Billiar, M.D., a surgeon and basic scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will give the keynote Snider Address, “Lessons from the Liver on the Dochotomous Actions of Nitric Oxide,” at 3 p.m. The entire symposium will take place in Sam Walton Auditorium in UAMS’s Arkansas Cancer Research Center.

Dr. Billiar is the George Vance Foster Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Pittsburgh. Widely honored for his career as a physician-scientist, Dr. Billiar is an acknowledged expert in the area of liver cell responses and sepsis, the role of nitric oxide in liver apoptosis, shock and vascular biology. He is internationally known for his contributions to the understanding of the role of nitric oxide in gene therapy, trauma, liver disease, and other potential clinical applications. Dr. Billiar received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1983.


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Jack Hinson, Ph.D., professor and director of the Division of Toxicology in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the UAMS College of Medicine, will chair the symposium. Dan Casciano, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) in Pine Bluff, Ark., has praised the annual toxicology symposium as a worthy event and part of the collaboration of NCTR and UAMS.

In addition to Dr. Billiar, several scientists at UAMS and NCTR will present recent research findings: James Fuscoe, Ph.D., NCTR; Jack Hinson, Ph.D., UAMS; Paul C. Howard, Ph.D., NCTR; Nicholas P. Lang, M.D., UAMS and Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System; S. Michael Owens, Ph.D., UAMS; and Robert Turesky, Ph.D., NCTR.

Registration is $15 for faculty members who plan to attend a pre-symposium dinner on Thursday. (See registration information.) Admission to the Snider Address at 3 p.m. on Fri., Nov. 30, is open to all faculty.


The Division of Toxicology in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Medicine at UAMS hosts the annual symposium in collaboration with NCTR. NCTR has provided continued financial support for the symposium. The Dorothy Snider Foundation of Memphis contributed $10,000 for UAMS to host the upcoming symposium. Charles River Laboratories in Redfield and the Associated Universities for Toxicological Research and Education also are cosponsors.

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Department of Surgery: http://www.surgery.upmc.edu/old.htm
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology: http://www.uams.edu/pharmtox/pharmtox.htm
National Center for Toxicological Research: http://www.fda.gov/nctr/
Dorothy Snider Foundation: http://www.uams.edu/today/080201/snider.htm
Registration information: http://www.uams.edu/ats/

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