Programme

WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

16.30 Registration for the conference and for the public symposium
17.00-21.30 PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Fighting Cancer through Prevention and Improving Treatments
 

THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

8.00 Registration
8.30 300 years of the Trinity Medicine – Professor Davis Coakley, Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin
Session I GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER
Chairs:
Professor Kevin Conlon
, Professor of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin
Mr Justin Geoghegan, St Vincent’s Hospital
9.00 MANAGEMENT OF CYSTIC NEOPLASMS OF THE PANCREAS – Murray F. Brennan, MD, Vice President for International Programs, Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
9.30 A CENTURY OF GASTROENTEROPANCREATIC TUMOURS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE – Bertram Wiedenmann, MD PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, chairman of the Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases at Charité Medical School, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
10.00 TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE : CURRENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS IN GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER – Michael Goggins, MD, Professor of Pathology, Medicine and Oncology Director of the Early Detection Research Laboratory, Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA  
10.30 MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF OESOPHAGEAL CANCER – Professor JJB van Lanschot, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
11.00 COFFEE/EXHIBITION/POSTER VIEWING
11.30 Chaired by Provost of Trinity College Dublin Dr Patrick Prendergast

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MARY MCALEESE
11.55 STATE OF CANCER CARE IN IRELAND – Dr Susan O’Reilly, National Director, National Cancer Control Programme
12.15 Edward Hallaran Bennett Lecture
Introduced by Professor John V. Reynolds
GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS – A NEW ERA IN ONCOLOGY – Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FACS, Vice Chair, Department of Surgery; Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology; Leslie H. Blumgart Chair in Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
13.00 LUNCH
Session II CANCER IN WOMEN
Chairs:
Professor Arnie Hill
, Chair of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Professor John O’Leary, Professor of Pathology, Trinity College Dublin
14.00 AT THE HORIZONS OF CARE FOR BREAST CANCER AND OTHER SOLID TUMORS – CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS, TUMOR DORMANCY, AND ROLE FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES – Stefanie S. Jeffrey, MD, Professor of Surgery, John and Marva Warnock Professor in Cancer Research, Chief, Surgical Oncology Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA
14.30 ADVANCES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER, AND IN NEOADJUVANT APPROACHES -
Dr Lisa Carey, UNC Breast Center, University of North Carolina, USA  
15.00 MANAGEMENT OF CERVICAL CANCER - Dr Desmond Barton,  The Royal Marsden, London  
15.30 COFFEE/EXHIBITION/POSTER VIEWING
16.00 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED OVARIAN CANCER – Professor Mitchel Hoffman, Division and Fellowship Program Director Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA  
16.30 The Peter A. Daly Lecture in Medical Oncology
Introduced by Dr John Kennedy
BREAST CANCER IN THE AGE OF PERSONALISED CANCER CARE –
Nancy Davidson, MD, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers and Associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research at the University of Pittsburgh, USA
17.15 POSTER SESSION
19.30 STATE RECEPTION IN DUBLIN CASTLE
 

FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

8.00 Registration
Session I MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED TUMOURS
Chairs:
Dr Ghassan Abou-Alfa
, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Dr Barry O’Connell, St James’s Hospital
Professor Ronan O’Connell, Professor of Surgery, University College Dublin
8.30 ACCEPTANCE OF DEATH AS A GOAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE – William Breitbart, M.D. is Chief of the Psychiatry Service, Vice-Chairman and Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
9.00 MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED LUNG CANCER – CURRENT APPROACHES, BENCHMARKS AND FUTURE VISTAS – Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD, Director, Yale Cancer Center, Physician-in-Chief Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Richard and Jonathan Sackler Professor of Internal Medicine
9.30 COLORECTAL METASTASES – ADVANCES IN MEDICAL THERAPY, AND INTEGRATION WITH OTHER MODALITIES OF CARE – Dr Eileen O’Reilly, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
10.00 EXTENDING THE LIMITS OF SURGERY FOR COLORECTAL METASTASES TO THE LIVER – Mr Myrddin (Merv) Rees MS FRCS, Department of Surgery, Basingstoke, UK
10.30 COFFEE/EXHIBITION/POSTER VIEWING
Session II MANAGEMENT OF LOCALISED TUMOURS
Chairs:
Professor Eilis McGovern
, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Professor Donal Hollywood, Professor of Clinical Oncology, Trinity College Dublin
11.00 THE MANAGEMENT OF THYROID CANCER IN 2011: NUANCES AND INNOVATIONS – Dr Patrick J. Gullane, Professor and Chair Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery University of Toronto, Wharton Chair Head and Neck Surgery, Otolaryngologist-in-Chief, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
11.30 TREATMENT OF EARLY LUNG CANCER – OPTIMUM APPROACH, AND CURRENT OUTCOMES – Dr Stephen Cassivi, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, Rochester, USA
12.00 MANAGEMENT OF LOCALISED PROSTATE CANCER - ACTIVE MONITORING, SURGERY OR RADIOTHERAPY, DO WE KNOW? – Professor Freddie Hamdy, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, Professor of Urology, Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 Tour of the Book of Kells and the Long Hall
Session III MALIGNANT MELANOMA

Chairs:
Dr Patrick Ormond
, Consultant Dermatologist, St James’s Hospital
Professor Ken O’Byrne, Professor of Clinical Oncology, Trinity College Dublin
14.15 Walter C. Stevenson Lecture
MALIGNANT MELANOMA – PROGRESS AT LAST?
– Dr Paul Lorigan, Senior Lecturer in Medical Oncology, University of Manchester Christie NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Session IV HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY

Chairs:
Professor Paul Browne
, Head of the Department of Haematology, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Helen Enright, Lecturer in Haematology, Trinity College Dublin
15.00 LESSONS LEARNED IN PAEDIATRIC LEUKAEMIA – Professor Martin Schrappe, MD, FRCP (Glasg)
Chair of General Pediatrics, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany
15.30 COFFEE/EXHIBITION/POSTER VIEWING
16.00 DENIS PARSONS BURKITT – IRISH BY BIRTH, TRINITY BY THE GRACE OF GOD – Professor Owen Smith, Professor of Haematology, Trinity College Dublin, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Ireland
16.20 Denis Burkitt Lecture
BURKITT LYMPHOMA – TREATMENT, STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: A TRIBUTE TO DENIS BURKITT – Mitchell S. Cairo, MD, Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology & Stem Cell Transplantation; Director, Children’s & Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center; Medical and Scientific Director, Stem & Cellular Therapy and Re-Engineering Clinical Laboratory Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and Cell Biology & Anatomy; Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, USA
17.00
ORAL PRESENTATIONS OF TOP 6 SELECTED ABSTRACTS IRISH CANCER SOCIETY BEST ORAL PRIZE AWARD PRIZES FOR BEST POSTERS BY TRINITY CANCER RESEARCH (C.R.O.S.S.)
18.00 CLOSING REMARKS
19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

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