Conference Details - Faculty
Continuing Education Information
Physicians: Physicians' Education Resource is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category 1 CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Eighth International Congress on Targeted Therapies in Cancer
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
August 21-23, 2009
Program Director
Alex Adjei, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Senior Vice President, Clinical Research
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY
Anthony Tolcher, MD
Director, Clinical Research
START Center for Cancer Care
San Antonio, TX
Faculty
Howard A. Burris III, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer
Director, Drug Development
Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Associate
Tennessee Oncology, PLLC
Nashville, TN
James B. Bussel, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Director, Platelet Disorders Program
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Raphael A. Clynes, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Microbiology
Columbia University
Attending Physician
Medical Oncology Service
Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Phillip A. Dennis, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator
Head, Signal Transduction Section
Medical Oncology Branch and Affiliates
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Grace K. Dy, MD
Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Oncology
Phase I and Thoracic Medicine
Department of Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY
Adolfo A. Ferrando, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY
Greg Finak, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Computational Biology Unit
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD
Chief, Medical Oncology Branch
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
David M. Jablons, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of General Thoracic Surgery
Ada Distinguished Professor and Program Leader, Thoracic Oncology Program
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Craig T. Jordan, PhD
Professor of Medicine
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
Patricia LoRusso, DO
Director, Phase I Clinical Trials Program
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, MI
Wen Wee Ma, MBBS
Attending Physician
Phase I and GI Oncology
Department of Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY
Giovanni Melillo, MD
Senior Investigator
Head, Tumor Hypoxia Laboratory
Developmental Therapeutics Program
Adjunct Investigator
Medical Oncology Branch
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Frederick, MD
Stephan W. Morris, MD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Departments of Pathology and Oncology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Robert Motzer, MD
Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Robert J. Penny, MD, PhD
Executive Director expO
PI The Cancer Genome Atlas Biospecimen Core Resource
Chairman NIH TCGA Biospecimen and Bioanalyte Working Group
Chief Medical Officer
Member Board of Directors
International Genomics Consortium
Phoenix, AZ
Ramesh K. Ramanathan, MD
Senior Investigator
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Medical Director, TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare
Clinical Professor of Medicine
College of Medicine
The University of Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
Elizabeth A. Repasky, PhD
William Huebsch Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY
Gary K. Schwartz, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Melanoma/Sarcoma Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Drew Torigian, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Peter Van Vlasselaer, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Arresto BioSciences, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA
Louis M. Weiner, MD
Director, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Francis L. and Charlotte G. Gragnani Chair and Professor
Chair, Department of Oncology
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC
Sai Yendamuri, MD
Thoracic Surgeon
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University at Buffalo
School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Buffalo, NY
Anas Younes, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Clinical and Translational Research
Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Educational Grants
An educational grant for this activity was provided by:
- Genentech BioOncology
- Amgen
- Merck Oncology
- sanofi-aventis U.S.
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
- Novartis Oncology
- ImClone Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company
- OSI Oncology