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12th Annual Fall Oncology Conference: Clinical Challenges in Cancer Medicine Held in Conjunction With the Ninth Annual Medical Oncology Fellows Forum

The Westin Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head, SC
September 19-21, 2008

Program Director

J. Tate Thigpen, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Division of Medical Oncology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS

Faculty

Sanjiv Agarwala, MD
Chief, Medical Oncology
St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network
Bethlehem, PA

Morey Blinder, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Hematology Division
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Robert Coleman, MD
Professor
Director, Clinical Research
Department of Gynecologic Oncology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
   Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Jeffrey Crawford, MD
George Barth Geller Professor of Research in Cancer
Chief, Medical Oncology
Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Daniel J. DeAngelo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Adult Leukemia Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

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

Bruce Hillner, MD
Professor of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Howard A. Liebman, MD
Chief, Hematology Section
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Keck School of Medicine of the
   University of Southern California
Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and
   Center for the Study of Blood Diseases
Norris Cancer Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Paul Kelly Marcom, MD
Clinical Director, Breast Medical Oncology
Duke University Medical Clinic
Durham, NC

Nikhil C. Munshi, MD
Associate Director, Jerome Lipper Myeloma Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston VA Healthcare System
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Bert O'Neil, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
  of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC

Alfonso Quintas-Cardama, MD
Medical Oncologist
Division of Cancer Medicine
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Peter Ravdin, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Medical Oncology
The University of Texas Health Science Center
  at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Research Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Texas
  M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

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

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

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

Peter Voorhees, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of North Carolina Lineberger
  Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, NC

James Vredenburgh, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Clinical Research
The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

John A. Zic, MD
Associate Dean of Admissions
Office of Medical School Admissions
Assistant Professor of Medical Dermatology
Director, Vanderbilt University Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Novartis Oncology
  2. Merck Oncology
  3. Bristol-Myers Squibb/
    ImClone Systems
  4. sanofi-aventis U.S.