Leading-edge Breakthroughs, N.C. Cancer Hospital Headline Clinical Symposium

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Clinical Symposium, Translating Scientific Advances into Clinical Care for Cancer, was held in Chapel Hill November 6-7, 2009. More than 130 physicians, nurses and oncology professionals were in attendance.

Matthew Cotter, PhD, Regional Medical & Research Specialist at Pfizer Oncology, presents UNC’s Richard Goldberg, MD, and Edison Liu, MD, Executive Director of the Genome Institute of Singapore with plaques recognizing the 2009 Pfizer Visiting Professorship in Oncology, which supported Dr. Liu’s participation in the symposium and other activities at UNC Lineberger.

Dr. Shelley Earp congratulates Nancy Davenport-Ennis, founder and executive director of the National Patient Advocate Foundation, who was the featured speaker at the symposium dinner, held at the N.C. Cancer Hospital.

Tom Shea, MD, associate director for clinical outreach at UNC Lineberger and organizer of the clinical symposium, and Richard Goldberg, MD, associate director for clinical research and physician-in-chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital thank N.C. Oncology Association’s Jennie Crews, MD, for the association’s support of the symposium.

UNC Lineberger’s Hy Muss, MD, visits with those who trained with him when he was on the faculty of Wake Forest University. L - R: Patty Zekan, MD, from Winston-Salem; Hy Muss, MD; Don Jackson, MD, from Asheville; and Susan Williford, MD, from High Point

Beverly Mitchell, MD, Director of the Stanford Cancer Center, visits with UNC’s Claire Dees, MD and Ned Sharpless, MD.

Yale Cancer Center Director Thomas Lynch, MD visits with a symposium attendee after his lecture on lung cancer.

Nancy Davidson, MD, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers addresses symposium attendees on updates in breast cancer treatment.

Speakers from the nation’s top comprehensive cancer centers and abroad joined UNC Faculty to provide insight about how advances in basic science have lead to improved care and longer survival for patients with many different types of cancer.

Fred Appelbaum, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Henry Brem, MD, Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Nancy Davenport-Ennis, Founder, Patient Advocate Foundation
Nancy Davidson, MD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers
Richard M. Goldberg, MD, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thomas Herzog, MD, Columbia University Medical Center
W. Marston Linehan, MD, National Cancer Institute
Edison Liu, MD, Genome Institute of Singapore
Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, Yale Cancer Center
Beverly S. Mitchell, MD, Stanford Cancer Center
Hyman B. Muss, MD, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Michael Myers, MD, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Donald Rosenstein, MD, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Joel E. Tepper, MD, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Robert Z. Orlowski, PhD, MD, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center