Conference Details - Faculty
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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™
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Seventh International Colorectal Cancer Congress
The Fairmont Turnberry Isle
Aventura, FL
October 16-18, 2008
Program Director
Edward Chu, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Chief, Section of Medical Oncology
Deputy Director, Clinical Research
Yale Cancer Center
New Haven, CT
Planning Committee
Jean-Yves Douillard, MD, PhD
Professor of Medical Oncology
Head, Department of Medical Oncology
Centre Rene Gauducheau
University of Nantes
Nantes, France
Lee M. Ellis, MD
Professor of Surgery and Cancer Biology
William C. Liedtke, Jr, Chair in Cancer Research
Chair Ad Interim, Department of Cancer Biology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Richard Goldberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Director
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Axel Grothey, MD
Professor of Oncology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
Bruce Minsky, MD
Associate Dean and Chief Quality Officer
Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Faculty
Alex Adjei, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Senior Vice President, Clinical Research
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY
Gerald Batist, MD, FACP
Minda de Gunzburg Professor and Chair, Department of Oncology
McGill University
Director, Segal Cancer Centre
Jewish General Hospital
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Al B. Benson III, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Director, Clinical Investigations
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Charles Cha, MD
Assistant Professor
Gastrointestinal Surgery and Surgical Oncology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Steven Curley, MD
Professor of Surgical Oncology
Charles B. Barker Chair in Surgery
Chief, Gastrointestinal Tumor Surgery
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Aimery de Gramont, MD
Professor of Oncology
Head, Department of Oncology
Hôpital Saint-Antoine
Paris, France
Cathy Eng, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Daniel G. Haller, MD
Professor of Medicine
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
J. Randolph Hecht, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, GI Oncology Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Howard Hochster, MD
Professor of Medicine
New York University Cancer Institute
New York, NY
Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD
Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sharon Carpenter Laboratory
Los Angeles, CA
John Marshall, MD
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Oncology
Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Clinical Director, Oncology Services
Director, Developmental Therapeutics and GI Oncology
Director, Lombardi MedStar Research Network
Associate Director, Clinical Research and Extramural Research
Clinical Research Management Office
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC
Emanuel Petricoin, PhD
Professor of Life Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Department of Molecular and Microbiology
George Mason University
Manassas, VA
M. Wasif Saif, MD, MBBS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Programs
Yale Cancer Center
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Udo Vanhoefer, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Chairman
Department of Medicine
Kath. Marienkrankenhaus gGmbH
Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Christopher Willett, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
John J. Wright, MD, PhD
Senior Clinical Investigator
Investigational Drug Branch
Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Educational Grants
An educational grant for this activity was provided by:
- Bristol-Myers Squibb/
ImClone Systems - sanofi-aventis U.S.
- AstraZeneca
- Roche Laboratories, Inc.