Lung Cancer & Other Thoracic Malignancies: Advances in the Management and Diagnosis

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Keynote Speakers

Alfred Gilman, MD, PhD
Nobel Laureate 1994, Medical School
Dean Emeritus, Chief Scientific Officer CPRIT

Dr. Alfred Gilman, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost of UT Southwestern Medical Center, serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) and heads up the agency’s research division. He is responsible for the planning, developement, review, adminstration, monitoring, and reporting of CPRIT’s scientific programs.

Charles Geyer, Jr., MD
Chief Medical Officer CTNet

Dr. Charles Geyer is an accomplished oncologist, clinical investigator, and professpr with an emphasis in the study and treatment of breast cancer. Statewide Clinical Trials Network of Texas (CTNeT) board selected Dr. Geyer to serve as its Chief Medical Officer. In this role, he will facilitate the regulatory, quality, safety, and data monitoring of clinical studies and collaboratively work with the Stategic Sterring Committee to implement the most progressive scientific initiatives.

Course Directors

Hak Choy, MD
Professor & Chairman
Radiology Oncology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Adi Gazdar, MD
Professor Hamon Center
Therapeutic Oncology, Pathology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Kemp Kernstine, MD, PhD
Professor & Chairman
Division of Thoracic Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center

John Minna, MD
Professor
Internal Medicine, Pharmacology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Joan Schiller, MD
Professor, Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Guest Faculty

Deni Aberle, MD
Professor of Radiology, Thoracic Imaging
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Alexander Bankier, MD
Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

Patrick Loehrer, MD
Associate Dean Cancer Research
Director, IU Simon Cancer Center
Indianapolis, Indiana

Linda Sarna, DNSc, RN
School of Nursing, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
University of California, Los Angeles

UT Southwestern Faculty

Thomas Chiu, MD
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Diseases

J. Michael DiMaio, MD
Associate Professor
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Jonathan “Jed” Dowell, MD
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine

David Gerber, MD
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine

Muhanned Abu-Hijleh, MD
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine

Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Radiation & Oncology

David Johnson, MD
Professor & Chairman
Internal Medicine

James Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology

Stuart Spechler, MD
Professor
Internal Medicine

David Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine

Michael Wait, MD
Professor
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery