San Francisco Bay Area institutions host AMA's seventh annual reporters conference

Abstract

EVERY YEAR, at about the same time as an Indian summer, the American Medical Association (AMA) holds its annual science reporters conference. This year's, the seventh, was held with the cooperation of two of the San Francisco Bay Area's academic giants, Stanford University Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Last week's conference was held in a hotel on San Francisco's palm-lined Union Square, with 14 researchers and medical experts on the program. One afternoon was devoted to the topic of misconduct and fraud in medical research. (Please see accompanying article.) <h3>Scheduled to Speak</h3> The conference program included the following: Charles Epstein, MD, UCSF professor of pediatrics and biochemistry, has developed a model of Down's syndrome by endowing a mouse with three copies of the murine chromosome 16. Because this chromosome contains many of the same genes as the human chromosome 21, this trisomy mimics the trisomy