EGRP Hosts Workshop on Understudied Rare Cancers
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Agenda
| SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 Conference Center at Harvard Medical School |
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| 4:00 – 5:00 P.M. Rotunda (3rd floor) |
Poster Session I Set-up |
| 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. Lobby (ground floor) |
Registration |
| 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. Rotunda (3rd Floor) |
Welcoming Reception and Poster Session |
| OPENING SESSION | |
| 6:00 – 6:45 P.M. Amphitheater (ground floor) |
Session Chair: Margaret Spitz, M.D., M.P.H. Hello! And Welcome! 1st NCI Epidemiology Leadership
Workshop: Tobacco, Diet and Genes Rare Cancers Working
Group Report Statistics on Rare Cancers from the SEER Program Cancer Registry
Issues in Studying Rare Cancers: A NAACCR Perspective |
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS | |
| 6:45 – 7:15 P.M. Amphitheater |
My 30-Year Love Affair with Hodgkin's Lymphoma – Lessons
Learned |
7:15 – 7:30 P.M. |
Closing, Charge, and Mission: Who Are We and
Why Are We Here? Ed Trapido, Sc.D. Associate Director, Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, National Cancer Institute |
| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 Conference Center at Harvard Medical School |
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7:30 – 8:30
A.M. |
Breakfast Meet and Greet with EGRP Program Directors and Other NCI/NIH Staff |
Amphitheater |
Training and New Investigator Awards |
| PLENARY SESSION | |
8:30 – 9:30 A.M. |
Creating Consortia: Rationale, Roadblocks, and
Successes Consortia: A Tool for Interdisciplinary Research
in Epidemiology An Example From the Brain Tumor Consortium Discussion |
| PANEL DISCUSSION | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 A.M. | Opportunities for Partnerships Along the DCCPS
Cancer Control Continuum Surveillance Research Program Applied Research Program Office of Cancer Survivorship NCI Cancer Information Service |
| 10:30 – 11:00 A.M. Lobby (ground floor) |
Break |
Rotunda (3rd floor) |
Poster Session I Tear-down |
| CANCER SITE WORKING GROUPS: Consortia and Transdisciplinary Science | |
| 11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. Various Locations |
Discussion Questions:
Cancer Sites:
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| LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ADDRESS | |
| 12:30 – 2:00 P.M. Rotunda (3rd Floor) |
Bioinformatics Initiatives at NCI |
2:00 – 2:15
P.M. |
Group Photo |
| PLENARY SESSION AND PANEL DISCUSSION | |
2:15 – 3:30 P.M. |
Transdisciplinary Science: Partnering Population
and Basic Sciences Merging Basic and Population Sciences to Elucidate
Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Development Synergizing Pharmacology, Clinical Medicine, and
Population Science to Improve Treatment and Care of Myeloma
Patients Remarks Shelia Zahm, Sc.D. |
| 3:30 – 4:00 P.M. Lobby (ground floor) |
Break |
| CANCER SITE WORKING GROUPS | |
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4:30 – 5:30 P.M. |
Continuation of morning session: Setting priorities and resources Discussion Questions:
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5:30 – 7:30 P.M. |
Reception and Poster Session |
7:30 – 8:30 P.M. |
Poster Session II Tear-down |
| Time and Location TBD | Chairs and Co-chairs of Respective Working Groups
Meet (Informal meetings to synthesize information from the day) |
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,
2005 Westin Copley Place |
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8:00 – 9:00 A.M. |
Continental Breakfast New Investigator Breakfast Roundtables: Jonine Bernstein, Ph.D. Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D. Melissa Bondy, Ph.D. James Cerhan, M.D., Ph.D. Elizabeth Holly, Ph.D. |
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8:00 – 10:00 A.M. |
Working Group Chairs and Co-chairs Working Breakfasts |
| 9:00 – 10:00 A.M. | RARE CANCER ADVOCACY SESSION |
10:00 – 10:30 A.M. |
Break |
10:00 – 11:45 A.M. |
Report Backs: |
11:45 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. |
Meeting Evaluation, Wrap-up, and The Bottom Line…. |

