Support the Andrew P. Goldberg, MD Memorial Lectureship
Your generosity to enhance medical education is greatly appreciated!
Tuesday, December 1, 2026
1 p.m. - Lecture with Keynote Address
Leadership Hall in MSTF
University of Maryland School of Medicine
685 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
2:30 p.m. - Poster Session and Networking Reception
Atrium in MSTF
About The Andrew P. Goldberg, MD Memorial Lectureship
The Andrew P. Goldberg, M.D. Memorial Lectureship has been established in memory of Dr. Andrew P. Goldberg, Professor Emeritus of Medicine. Dr. Goldberg began his tenure at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) in 1990 as Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, which he held until his retirement in 2015.
Dr. Goldberg had a vision for innovative research and a keen ability to connect with people, leading to long-lasting, successful collaborations and friendships. Most known for his work in diabetes, diet, and exercise in older populations, he also formed and was Director of a VA-funded Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) in Baltimore, and served as the Principal Investigator for the UMSOM's Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
He was committed to mentoring the next generation of clinical researchers. He mentored nearly 50 post-doctoral fellows on NIA-funded training grants and over 20 junior faculty on NIH/VA Career Development Awards. Even after his diagnosis with metastatic pancreatic cancer in February 2022, he routinely called colleagues and former students to inquire about progress of their research.
Dr. Goldberg's love for travel, his wife of nearly 50 years Gail, his sons Ethan (wife Elizabeth) and Justin (wife Sara) and five grandchildren (Greta, Rose, Peter, Vivian and Emmett) was well known by all that knew him. Dr. Goldberg passed away on October 25, 2022 after his battle with cancer.
Keynote Address
Topic: “I don’t bounce back like I used to: aging and resilience”
Resilience, defined here as one’s ability to resist functional decline or recover after health stressors, tends to deteriorate with age. In this talk, Dr. Whitson describes a conceptual framework and methods for quantifying resilience developed in the Duke Pepper Center. She will discuss how this framework is being used to identify novel biomarkers, test paradigms and hypotheses regarding the geroscience-based mechanisms that underlie resilience, and develop interventions to optimize late-life resilience to health challenges.
Dr. Heather Whitson, MD, MHS
Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Professor in Ophthalmology
Professor in Head & Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
Professor in Neurology
Director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
About Dr. Whitson
Dr. Whitson is a geriatrician, memory care specialist, and clinical researcher. Her career is focused on improving care options and resilience for people with multiple chronic conditions. In particular, she has interest and expertise related to how aging biology and comorbidities impact brain health and risk for Alzheimer's disease.
She is co-director of the Duke/UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Duke/UNC ADRC), which aims to transform dementia care and research in Eastern North Carolina while developing novel preventions and treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease by identifying aging-related factors across the lifespan that drive risk, progression, or experience of dementia. Read full bio
Poster Session
This symposium includes a poster session, open to all faculty, students, and trainees highlighting technology, translational and basic science in aging research anyone listed as first author must be at the event to present.
- Font: 11-point arial
- Word limit: 1 page maximum. You may include tables, figures or pictures as long as it does not exceed 1 page. DO NOT submit an actual poster; only abstracts will be accepted.
- Must be submitted in MS Word format
FAQs:
- Poster abstracts must be aging-related research.
- Poster abstracts will be reviewed, and notifications will be sent out by Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
- Posters will not be judged during the poster session and therefore no prizes will be awarded. If you are chosen to present you are encouraged to add this event to your CV.
- There will be two 40 minute poster sessions you will be assigned the session in which you are presenting anyone listed as first author must be at the event during the assigned session to present their work
- You are encouraged to present a poster that was used at another conference or meeting
- There is a limit of one poster abstract per person as the first author that can be submitted
Please use the link below to submit an abstract for the poster session and/or register to attend.
Deadlines:
Abstracts: October 26, 2026
Registration: November 30, 2026