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Fifth Annual Symposium on the Future of Lung Cancer

Hyatt Regency Reston
Reston, VA
December 6, 2008

Program Director

Thomas Lynch, MD
Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Alexander Spira, MD, PhD
Staff Physician
Department of Medicine
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Fairfax-Northern Virginia Hematology-Oncology
Fairfax, VA

Faculty

Jeffrey Engelman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Nasser Hanna, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Primo N. Lara, Jr, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Director, Clinical Trials Support Unit
Co-Leader, Cancer Therapeutics Program
Associate Director, Translational Research
University of California, Davis Cancer Center
Sacramento, CA

Christopher Morse, MD
Instructor in Surgery
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard University
Boston, MA

Harvey I. Pass, MD
Professor of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Director, Surgical Research
New York University School of Medicine and NCI Cancer Center
New York, NY

Suresh Ramalingam, MD
Associate Professor of Hematology/Medical Oncology
Chief, Thoracic Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Winship Cancer Institute
Atlanta, GA

Gregory Riely, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Alan Sandler, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Director, Thoracic Oncology Program
Medical Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Affiliate Network
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Lecia Sequist, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Physician
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Alice Tsang Shaw, MD, PhD
Physician
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

George Simon, MD
Director, Thoracic Oncology Program
Department of Medical Oncology
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Stinchcombe, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, NC

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

Henning Willers, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Genentech BioOncology/
    OSI Oncology
  2. Merck Oncology
  3. AstraZeneca
    Lilly Oncology
  4. Bristol-Myers Squibb/
    ImClone Systems