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Ninth International Congress on Genitourinary Malignancies

Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
July 16-18, 2009

Program Director

Ronald Bukowski, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Emeritus Staff, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH
Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee
Kidney Cancer Association
Evanston, IL

Oliver Sartor, MD
Piltz Professor of Cancer Research
Departments of Medicine and Urology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

Faculty

Michael Atkins, MD
Deputy Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Director, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs
Director, Cancer Clinical Trials Office
Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center
Leader, Kidney Cancer Program
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Dean Bajorin, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Genitourinary Oncology Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

James Brugarolas, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Oncology
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, TX

Steven C. Campbell, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Director, Residency Program
Section of Urologic Oncology
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Mellar Davis, MD, FCCP
Associate Professor
Solid Tumor Oncology
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH

Angelo DeMarzo, MD
Professor of Pathology, Urology, and Oncology
Department of Pathology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Colin P. N. Dinney, MD
Chairman and Professor, Department of Urology
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Division of Surgery
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Jean-Bernard Durand, MD, FACC, FCCP
Associate Professor of Cardiology
Medical Director, Cardiomyopathy Services
Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Research
Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

James Eastham, MD
Chief, Urology Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Attending Surgeon
Urology Service
Department of Surgery
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases
New York, NY

Stephen Freedland, MD
Associate Professor
Duke Prostate Center
Division of Urology
Departments of Surgery and Pathology
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Jorge A. Garcia, MD
Associate Staff
Solid Tumor Oncology and Urology
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute and Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland, OH

Edward Gelmann, MD
Clyde Wu Professor of Hematology/Oncology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Deputy Director for Clinical Research
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Daniel George, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Robert H. Getzenberg, PhD
Donald S. Coffey Professor of Urology
Director, Urology Research Laboratories
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Wayne Hellstrom, MD
Professor of Urology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

Thomas Hutson, DO, PharmD, FACP
Director, Genitourinary Oncology Program
Texas Oncology.
Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, TX

Eric Klein, MD
Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Head, Center for Urologic Oncology
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCSC
Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto
Chief, Division of Urology
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mario E. Lacouture, MD
Director, SERIES™ Clinic
Assistant Professor
Department of Dermatology
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

David McDermott, MD
Clinical Director, Biologic Therapy Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

David G. McLeod, MD
Director, Center for Prostate Disease Research
Uniformed Services University
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC

Abraham Morgentaler, MD, FACS
Director, Men’s Health Boston
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (Urology)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Robert Motzer, MD
Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

William K . Oh, MD
Clinical Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Associate Attending Physician in Oncology
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Alan Pollack, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL 

Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP
Director, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Chairman, Cancer Division
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
M. Frank and Margaret Domiter Rudy Distinguished Chair in Translational Cancer Research
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Victor E. Reuter, MD
Vice-Chair, Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Howard Sandler, MD
Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Susan Slovin, MD, PhD
Associate Attending Physician
Genitourinary Oncology Service
Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostrate and Urologic Cancers
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Walter Stadler, MD, FACP
Fred C. Buffett Professor
Associate Dean of Clinical Research
Sections of Hematology/Oncology and Urology
Departments of Medicine and Surgery
Director, Genitourinary Oncology Program
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Samir S. Taneja, MD
James M. Neissa and Janet Riha Neissa Associate Professor of Urologic Oncology
Director, Division of Urologic Oncology
Department of Urology
GU Program Leader, New York University Cancer Institute
New York University Langone Medical Center
Chief, Urology Section, Veterans Administration
New York Harbor Healthcare System (Manhattan campus)
New York, NY

Clare M. C. Tempany, MD
Professor of Radiology
Ferenc Jolesz Chair of Radiology Research
Vice Chair, Radiology Research
Director, Clinical Focused Ultrasound
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA

Robert Uzzo, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgical Oncology
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Temple University School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Robert L. Vessella, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair, Genitourinary Cancer Research Laboratory
Department of Urology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Christopher G. Wood, MD, FACS
Associate Professor and Deputy Chairman, Department of Urology and Cancer Biology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. AstraZeneca
  2. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals/
    Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  3. Genentech BioOncology
  4. sanofi-aventis U.S.