Featured Speakers:
Denise Aberle, MD
(UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center)
is a professor of Radiology in the School of Medicine and professor of Bioengineering in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology. Dr. Aberle's research centers on lung cancer screening, early diagnosis, prevention, and screening implementation. Other interests include oncologic imaging for response assessment; quantitative image analysis, and oncology informatics.
M. Patricia Rivera, MD, ATSF, FCCP
(URMC Wilmot Cancer Center)
is the C. Jane Davis & C. Robert Davis Distinguished Professor in Pulmonary Medicine, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). Dr. Rivera specializes in lung cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, and management of treatment complications.
Julien Sage, PhD
(Stanford Cancer Institute)
is the Elaine and John Chambers Professor in Pediatric Cancer and a Professor of Genetics at Stanford University where he serves as the co-Director of the Cancer Biology PhD program. Dr. Sage became initially interested in small cell lung cancer because of the nearly ubiquitous loss of RB in this cancer type and the intriguing relationship in mice and humans between loss of RB and the growth of neuroendocrine lesions. In the past few years, the Sage lab has developed pre-clinical models for small cell lung cancer and has used these models to investigate signaling pathways driving the growth of this cancer type and to identify novel therapeutic targets in this recalcitrant cancer.
Sudhir Srivastava, PhD, MPH
(National Cancer Institute)
is the Chief of the Cancer Biomarkers Research Group at the National Cancer Institute. His efforts focus on molecular biology of malignancies, early malignancies, risk assessment, and informatics, providing leadership in the areas of molecular screening and early detection. He is one of the principal authors of the Bethesda Guidelines for diagnosing Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer.
Deonni Stolldorf, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Nursing
Deonni Stolldorf, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Nursing
615-343-0637
deonni.stolldorf@vanderbilt.edu
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Danxia Yu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology)
Danxia Yu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology)
615-936-7389
danxia.yu@vumc.org
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Christine Smith, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
Christine Smith, M.D.
- Assistant Professor
christine.m.smith.2@vumc.org
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Eben Rosenthal, M.D.
- Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
- Co-Leader, Translational Research and Interventional Oncology Research Program
- Guy M. Maness Professor of Otolaryngology
- Barry and Amy Baker Chair in Laryngeal, Head and Neck Research
- Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Eben Rosenthal, M.D.
- Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
- Co-Leader, Translational Research and Interventional Oncology Research Program
- Guy M. Maness Professor of Otolaryngology
- Barry and Amy Baker Chair in Laryngeal, Head and Neck Research
- Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
e.rosenthal@vumc.org
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Courtney Penn, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Courtney Penn, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
courtney.penn@vumc.org
