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Invited Speakers as of June 2022

Gad Rennert,
MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman,

Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center

Nir Barzilai,
MD

Professor of Genetics & Endocrinology. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Herman Brenner,
MD

Professor & Head, Division Clinical Epidemiology & Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

Pinchas Cohen,
MD

Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USA

Jack Cuzick,
PhD, FRS, CBE

Head, Cancer Prevention Unit, Centre for Prevention, Detection & Diagnosis, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Queen Mary Univ. of London

Susan Domchek,
MD

Professor of Oncology & Executive Director, Basser Center for BRCA, Pennsylvania Univ., USA

Gareth Evans,
MB, BS, MD

Professor in Medical Genetics & Cancer Epidemiology, Manchester Univ., UK

Judy Garber,
MD, MPH

Susan F Smith Chair and Chief, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, USA

Peter Goodhand,

CEO, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH), Ontario Cancer Research Inst., Canada

Leroy Hood,
MD, PhD

Professor, CEO, Phenome Health, Systems Biology Inst., USA

Ian Jacobs,
MD

Professor, President & Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Australia

Dhavendra Kumar,
MD, DSc (Hon), FRCP,
FRCPI, FRCPCH, FACMG

Hon. Professor William Harvey Heart Research Institute, QMUL. Hon. Consultant in Clinical Genetics / Cardiovascular Genetics, Barts Heart Centre, St. Barts Hospital. Medical Director/ CEO- The Genomic Medicine Foundation. Hon. Professor Medicine, Swansea School of Medicine, Swansea, UK

Steven M. Lipkin,
MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine & Genetic Medicine, Vice Chair for Basic & Translational Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

Victor Moreno,
MD,PhD

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Catalan Oncology Inst., Spain

Timothy D. O'Connor,
PhD

Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

George P. Patrinos,
PhD

Professor of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Patras Univ., Greece

Michael F. Press,
MD, PhD

Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics, PediatriProfessor of Pathology, Southern California Univ., USAc Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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Harvey A. Risch,
MD, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Univ., USA

Hope Rugo,
MD

Professor of Medicine, Director, Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program, Univ. of California at San Francisco, USA

Xiao-Ou Shu,
MD, PhD

Ingram Professor for Cancer Research.Associate Director for Global Health, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Sapna Syngal,
MD, MPH

Director of Research, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.

Richard Weinshilboum,
MD

Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Elad Ziv,
MD

Professor, Medicine & Human Molecular Genetics, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA

Marc Abramowicz,
MD, PhD

Professor, Head, Genetic Medicine Dept, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland

Sir Walter Bodmer,
PhD

Head, Cancer & Immuno-Genetics, Weatherall Inst. of Molecular Medicine, UK

Georgia Chenevix-Trench,
PhD

NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Head, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Inst., Australia

Giovanni Corso,
M.D., Ph.D.

Breast Surgeon, European Institute of Oncology, Italy

Andrea De Censi,
MD, PhD

Professor, Director, Medical Oncology Unit, National Hospital E.O. Ospedali Galliera, SC Oncologia Medica, Italy

Ian O. Ellis,
MB, BS, BSc, FRCP

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Genetics, School of Medicine, Liverpool Univ., UK

James Ford,
MD

Professor, Director, Stanford Clinical Cancer Genomics, Stanford Univ., USA

Gaddy Getz,
PhD

Susan F Smith Chair and Chief, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, USA

Stephen B. Gruber,
MPH, MD, PhD

Vice President, COH Medical Center, Center for Precision Medicine City of Hope, USA

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Anthony Howell,
MB, Bsc

Professor of Medical Oncology, Manchester Univ., UK

Jaak Janssens,
MD

Professor of Oncology, President ECP, Limburg Oncological Center, Salvator Hospital, Belgium

Heinz-Josef Lenz,
MD

Professor of Medicine & Preventive Medicine, Southern California Univ., USA

Catalina Lopez-Correa,
MD, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Canada

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Steven Narod,
MD

Professor of Preventive Medicine & Geriatrics, Women's Hospital, Canada

Kenneth Offit,
MD

Chief, Clinical Genetics Service, Chair, Inherited Cancer Genomics, Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Medicine Dept, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Gloria Petersen,
PhD

Professor of Epidemiology, Quantitative Health Sciences Dept, Mayo Clinic, USA

David Ransohoff,
MD

Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC, USA

Neil Risch,
PhD

Director, Human Genetics Inst, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA

Peter Sasieni,
PhD

Professor of Cancer Prevention, King's College London, UK

Alan Shuldiner,
MD

VP, Regeneron, Professor, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

Neli Ulrich,
PhD, MS

Professor, Cancer Research & Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Huntsman Cancer Centre/Utah Health Univ., USA

Jeffrey N. Weitzel,
MD

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Natera, USA

Chris Amos,
PhD

Professor & Director, Clinical & Translational Research Inst, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Paolo Boffetta,
MD

Professor, Stony Brook Univ. Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA

David C. Christiani,
MD, MPH, MS

Professor of Occupational Medicine & Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Fergus J. Couch,
PhD

Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Vajira Dissanayake,
MBBS, PhD

Chair & Senior Professor of Anatomy, Anatomy Dept, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo Univ., Sri Lanka

Cathy Eng,
MD

Professor of Oncology, Vanderbuilt-Ingram Cancer Center, USA

William D. Foulkes,
PhD, MBBS

James McGill Professor in the Depts of Medicine, Oncology & Human Genetics, McGill Univ., Canada

Geoffrey Ginsburg,
MD, PhD

Chief Medical & Scientific Officer, All of Us Research Program, National Inst. of Health, Medicine Dept, Duke Univ. School of Medicine, USA

Samir M. Hanash,
MD, PhD

Director, Red & Charline McCombs Inst., Evelyn & Sol Rubenstein Distinguished Chair, Cancer Prevention MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

David Hunter,
MD, PhD

Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Bruce R. Korf,
MD, PhD

Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Guo-Min Li,
PhD

Professor, Director of Translational Research, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Ranjit Manchanda,
MD, MRCOG, PhD

Professor of Gynaecological Oncology & Consultant (Honorary) Gynaecological Oncologist

Larry Norton,
MD

Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Medical Director, Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center; Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Olufunmilayo Olopade,
MD

Professor in Medicine (Oncology) and Human Genetics, Univ. Chicago, USA

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Sharon E. Plon,
MD, PhD

Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics, Pediatric Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Timothy Rebbeck,
PhD

Professor of Cancer Prevention & Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA

Mark E. Robson,
MD

Professor, Chief, Breast Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Stephanie Schmit,
phD, MpH

Associate Staff and Vice Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute. Cleveland Clinic; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

Vered Stearns,
MD, FASCO

Professor of Oncology, Director, Women’s Malignancies Disease Group, Breast Cancer Research Chair in Oncology. The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Under Armour Breast Health Innovation Center, USA

Liewei Wang,
MD, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Wei Zheng,
MD, PhD

Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Epidemiology

Director, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center

Associate Director for Population Sciences and Co-Leader of Cancer Epidemiology Program

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, USA

Invited Speakers as of June 2022

Gad Rennert, MD, PhD

Nir Barzilai, MD

Herman Brenner, MD

Pinchas Cohen, MD

Jack Cuzick, PhD, FRS, CBE

Susan Domchek, MD

Gareth Evans, MB, BS, MD

Judy Garber, MD, MPH

Peter Goodhand,

Leroy Hood, MD, PhD

Ian Jacobs, MD

Dhavendra Kumar, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCP, FRCPI, FRCPCH, FACMG

Steven M. Lipkin, MD, PhD

Victor Moreno, MD,PhD

Timothy D. O'Connor, PhD

George P. Patrinos, PhD

Michael F. Press, MD, PhD

Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD

Hope Rugo, MD

Xiao-Ou Shu, MD, PhD

Sapna Syngal, MD, MPH

Richard Weinshilboum, MD

Elad Ziv, MD

Marc Abramowicz, MD, PhD

Sir Walter Bodmer, PhD

Georgia Chenevix-Trench, PhD

Giovanni Corso, M.D., Ph.D.

Andrea De Censi, MD, PhD

Ian O. Ellis, MB, BS, BSc, FRCP

James Ford, MD

Gaddy Getz, PhD

Stephen B. Gruber, MPH, MD, PhD

Anthony Howell, MB, Bsc

Jaak Janssens, MD

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD

Catalina Lopez-Correa, MD, PhD

Steven Narod, MD

Kenneth Offit, MD

Gloria Petersen, PhD

David Ransohoff, MD

Neil Risch, PhD

Peter Sasieni, PhD

Alan Shuldiner, MD

Neli Ulrich, PhD, MS

Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD

Chris Amos, PhD

Paolo Boffetta, MD

David C. Christiani, MD, MPH, MS

Fergus J. Couch, PhD

Vajira Dissanayake, MBBS, PhD

Cathy Eng, MD

William D. Foulkes, PhD, MBBS

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD

Samir M. Hanash, MD, PhD

David Hunter, MD, PhD

Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD

Guo-Min Li, PhD

Ranjit Manchanda, MD, MRCOG, PhD

Larry Norton, MD

Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD

Sharon E. Plon, MD, PhD

Timothy Rebbeck, PhD

Mark E. Robson, MD

Stephanie Schmit, phD, MpH

Vered Stearns, MD, FASCO

Liewei Wang, MD, PhD

Wei Zheng, MD, PhD

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