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Fifth Annual New York Lung Cancer Symposium

The Westin New York at Times Square
New York, NY
November 10, 2009

Program Director

Vincent Miller, MD
Associate Attending Physician
Thoracic Oncology Service
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Román Pérez-Soler, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Oncology
Montefiore Medical Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

Faculty

Alex Adjei, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Senior Vice President, Clinical Research
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY

Abraham Chachoua, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Oncology
Department of Medicine
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY

Richard Gralla, MD
Chief, Hematology and Oncology
Vice President for Cancer Services
North Shore-LIJ Health System
New York Lung Cancer Alliance
Lake Success, NY

Nasser H. Hanna, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Indiana University
IU Simon Cancer Center
Indianapolis, IN

Steven M. Keller, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Montefiore Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

Fadlo R. Khuri, MD
Professor of Hematology, Oncology, Medicine, Pharmacology, and Otolaryngology
Blomeyer Chair, Translational Cancer Research
Deputy Director, Clinical and Translational Research
Department Chair, Hematology and Oncology
Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Atlanta, GA

Mark G. Kris, MD
Chief, Thoracic Oncology Service
Attending Physician
Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
The William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Marc Ladanyi, MD
Attending Pathologist
Chief, Molecular Diagnostics Service
Department of Pathology
Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Harry Raftopoulos, MD
Associate Attending Physician
Monter Cancer Center
North Shore-LIJ Health System
Lake Success, NY

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Physician
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Stephen Solomon, MD
Chief of Interventional Radiology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

William D. Travis, MD
Attending Thoracic Pathologist
Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Heather Wakelee, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
Stanford, CA

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Genentech BioOncology/
    OSI Oncology
  2. Eli Lilly and Company
  3. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  4. Agennix, Inc.