Conference Details - Faculty
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Sixth International Symposium on Melanoma and Other Cutaneous Malignancies
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park
New York, NY
March 13-14, 2009
Program Director
Sanjiv S. Agarwala, MD
Chief, Medical Oncology and Hematology
St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network
Bethlehem, PA
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Planning Committee
Allan Halpern, MD
Chief, Dermatology Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Axel Hauschild, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Head, Dermato-Oncology and Dermatologic Surgery
Department of Dermatology
University of Kiel
Senior Consultant Dermatologist
Department of Dermatology
University Hospital, Kiel Campus
Kiel, Germany
Vernon K. Sondak, MD
Chief, Division of Cutaneous Oncology
Director, Surgical Education
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Professor
Departments of Oncologic Sciences and Surgery
University of South Florida College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
Faculty
Charles Balch, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Oncology, and Dermatology
Deputy Director, Clinical Trials and Outcomes Research
Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Baltimore, MD
Boris Bastian, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Leader, Cutaneous Oncology Program
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Richard Bezozo, MD
Assistant Professor, Primary Care
President
MoleSafe
Linden, NJ
Julide T. Celebi, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology
Columbia University
New York, NY
Marie-France Demierre, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Director, Skin Oncology Program
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Friederike Egberts, MD
Department of Dermatology and Dermato-Oncology
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Kiel, Germany
Alexander Eggermont, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgical Oncology
Head, Department of Surgical Oncology
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Keith T. Flaherty, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
James Grichnik, MD, PhD
Professor, Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
Melanoma Program
UMHC/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Jean-Jacques Grob, MD
Professor
Department of Dermatology
Sainte-Marguerite University Hospital
Marseille, France
Omid Hamid, MD
Associate Director, Clinical Research
The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
David Lawson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
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
Jane L. Messina, MD
Professor of Pathology and Dermatology
Dermatopathologist, Cutaneous Oncology Program
University of South Florida College of Medicine
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Tampa, FL
Steven O’Day, MD
Chief of Research
Director, Melanoma Program
The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Santa Monica, CA
Poulam M. Patel, MBBS, PhD, FRCP
Professor of Clinical Oncology
Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology
Nottingham University Hospitals
Nottingham, UK
James F. Pingpank, Jr, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Surgical Oncology
Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Antoni Ribas, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Hematology and Oncology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Alain H. Rook, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Director, Cutaneous Lymphoma Program
The University of Pennsylvania Health System
Perelman Center for Advancing Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Krista M. Rubin, MS, RN, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Melanoma Disease Center
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, MA
Charles R. Scoggins, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Surgical Oncology
CFO, Department of Surgery
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Michael Smylie, MD, MBChB, FRCP(C)
Medical Oncologist
Cross Cancer Institute
Professor, Department of Oncology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hussein Tawbi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science
Co-Leader, UPCI Sarcoma Program
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
John Thompson, MD, FRACS, FACS
Director, Melanoma Institute Australia (Incorporating the Sydney Melanoma Unit)
Royal Prince Alfred and Mater Hospitals
Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology
Discipline of Surgery
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD
Director
Massachusetts General Hospital Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Center/Melanoma Genetics Program
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Timothy Wang, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD
Senior Member and Director, Comprehensive Melanoma Research Center
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Tampa, FL
Educational Grants
An educational grant for this activity was provided by:
- Bristol-Myers Squibb / Medarex
- GlaxoSmithKline / Synta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Merck Oncology
- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
- Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals/
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Curagen Corporation
- Eisai, Inc.