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Breast SPORE Research in Progress Meeting

"Cancer Serology Comes of Age: Proteomics for Cancer Detection and Prognosis"

Karen Anderson, M.D. , Ph.D.

Instructor, Department of Medicine - HMS

Instructor in Medicine, Hematology/Oncology - DFCI

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

5:30pm SM308/309 DFCI

Breast Cancer in the
Developing World:
Meeting the Unforeseen Challenge
to Women, Health and Equity

November 3-5, 2009
 
Longwood Medical Area
 
Register at:
www.hsph.harvard.edu/breastandhealth/

Open to the Harvard Community
Questions? breastandhealth@harvard.edu



Please note: If you registered previously, prior to the posting of workshops on the website, kindly re-register and sign-up for the workshop(s) that you would like to attend. These are now included in the registration process.



Dates & Venues:  November 3-5, 2009, Longwood Medical Area, Boston, Massachusetts



Tuesday, November 3 (13:00-19:30)

Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, Roxbury Crossing, MA

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA

Pre-conference workshops. Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited.



Wednesday, November 4 (full day beginning at 9:00)

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115.

Plenary sessions and lunch event. Pre-registration is recommended (but not required) for plenary sessions. Pre-registration is required for the lunch. Seating is limited for opening session, keynote and lunch.



Thursday, November 5 (full day beginning at 9:00)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium

44 Binney St. Boston, MA 02115.

Plenary sessions and workshops.  Pre-registration is recommended (but not required) for plenary sessions. Pre-registration is required for workshops. Seating is limited.


Conference Overview:

The conference will be opened by Jeffrey Flier, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; by Felicia Knaul, Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative; by Her Excellency Madam Tobeka Madiba Zuma, First Lady, The Republic of South Africa and Vice Chairperson, Forum of African First Ladies Against Breast & Cervical Cancer; by HRH Princess Dina Mired, Director General, King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Honorary Chairperson, National Breast Cancer Committee, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; by Lawrence Shulman, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and by Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University. The opening keynote address will be delivered by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy of Harvard University. A video address will be delivered by Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.


Confirmed speakers include: Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and World Health Organization; Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School, and former Minister of Health of Mexico; Lawrence Shulman, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International Center for Research on Women; Marina A. Njelekela, Chairperson, Medical Women's Association of Tanzania; Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Director, National Cancer Institute of Mexico; Peter Piot, Director, Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London and former Executive Director, UNAIDS; and, John Seffrin, CEO, American Cancer Society.


Conference Steering Committee:

Flavia Bustreo, MD

Director, Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health-Secretariat

World Health Organization



Alessandra Durstine

Vice President of Regional Strategies, International Affairs Department

American Cancer Society



Paul Farmer, MD, PhD

Presley Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine,

Harvard Medical School

Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Co-founder, Partners In Health



Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD

Dean, Harvard School of Public Health

T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School



Mary Gospodarowicz, FRCPC, FRCR, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto

Medical Director of the Oncology Program and Chief of the Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital



Julie Gralow, MD

Director of Breast Medical Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine



Paula Johnson, MD, MPH

Executive Director, Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School



Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD (conference organizer)

Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative

Associate Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Founder, "Cáncer de mama: Tómatelo a Pecho"



Ana Langer, MD

President and Chief Executive Officer, EngenderHealth



Lawrence Shulman, MD

Chief Medical Officer and Sr. Vice-President for Medical Affairs, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School


Sponsors include (in addition to the institutions represented by the steering committee) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Susan G. Komen for the Cure; and International Development Research Center, Canada.