2015 Research Symposium & Multidisciplinary Oncology Conference
KU-Edwards campus, Day 1: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:30am – 4:45pm
AGENDA
8:00-8:30am
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30-9:10am
CP – Vicki Seewaldt, MD, Medicine and Pathology, Duke Cancer Institute,
“Breast Cancer Risk: from Kansas to Durham to California”
9:10-9:30am
CP – Dan Dixon, PhD, Cancer Biology, KUMC,
“HuR as a novel exosomal biomarker for colorectal cancer”
9:30-9:45am
Jennifer Crow, Graduate Student, Pathology, KUMC, “Tumor derived exosomes contribute to
the development of platinum resistance in ovarian cancer through activation of EMT”
9:45-10:00am
BREAK – Walk over to Poster Session #1
10:00-10:50am
Poster Session #1
10:50-11:00am
BREAK – Walk over to Auditorium
11:00-11:40am
CB - Ralf Krahe, PhD, Genetics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr,
“Deconstructing Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: In Search of Somatic Drivers Cooperating with
Mutant P53”
11:40-12:00pm
CB – Tomoo Iwakuma, MD, PhD, Cancer Biology, KUMC,
“Metabolic regulation of mutant p53 stability by the mevalonate pathway”
12:00-1:00pm
LUNCH, Program meetings for all 4 programs
1:00-1:40pm
CCPH – Laura Damschroder, MS, MPH, Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Mgmt Research,
“Where theory and praxis collide”
1:40- 2:00pm
CCPH – Christie Befort, PhD, Preventive Medicine & Public Health, KUMC,
“Treating obesity in rural primary care: the RE-POWER Trial”
2:00-2:15pm
BREAK – Walk over to Poster Session #2
2:15-3:05pm
Poster Session #2
3:05-3:15pm
BREAK – Walk over to Auditorium
3:15-3:30pm
Parthasarathy Rangarajan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, KUMC,
“Ciclopirox Prodrug for the Prevention of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer”
3:30-4:10pm
D3ET – John Taylor III, MD, MS, Surgery, Urology Research University of Connecticut
Health Center, “Preclinical modeling of bladder cancer; potential role of MIF inhibition”
4:10- 4:25pm
D3ET – Frank Schoenen, PhD, Higuchi Biosciences Center, KU-L, “Development of
metarrestin, a disassembler of the perinucleoloar compartment (PNC)”
4:25-4:45pm
Cancer Center Overview, Pilot Awards
Day 2: Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:30am – 1:05pm
7:30-8:00am
Breakfast and registration
Topic 1 – Metastatic Colon Cancer
8:00-8:20am
Medical Oncology
Joaquina Baranda, MD
8:20-8:40am
Interventional Radiology
Zachary Collins, MD
8:40-9:00am
Surgical Oncology
Mazin Al-kasspooles, MD
9:00-9:15pm
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
9:15-9:25am
Break
Topic 2 – Esophageal Cancer
9:25-9:45am
Medical Oncology
David Ilson, MD
9:45-10:05am
Radiation Oncology
Chris Lominska, MD
10:05-10:25am
Surgical Oncology
Peter DiPasco, MD
10:25-10:40am
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
10:40-10:50am
Break
Topic 3 – Breast Cancer
10:50-11:10am
Medical Oncology
Jodie Barr, DO
11:10-11:30am
Radiation Oncology
Melissa Mitchell, MD
11:30-11:50am
Surgical Oncology
Amanda Amin, MD
11:50-12:05pm
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
12:05-12:20pm
Break
Keynote Clinical Speaker:
12:20-1:20pm
Keynote Clinical Speaker: Mark Evers, MD, FACS