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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

 

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Nir Barzilai,
MD


 

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

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Herman Brenner,
MD

 

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

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Pinchas Cohen,
MD

 

Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USA

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Jack Cuzick,
PhD, FRS, CBE

 

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

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Susan Domchek,
MD

 

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

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Gareth Evans,
MB, BS, MD

 

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

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Judy Garber,
MD, MPH

 

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

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Peter Goodhand,

 

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

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Leroy Hood,
MD, PhD

 

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

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Ian Jacobs,
MD

 

Professor, President & Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Australia

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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

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Steven M. Lipkin,
MD, PhD

 

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

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Victor Moreno,
MD,PhD

 

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Catalan Oncology Inst., Spain

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Timothy D. O'Connor, 
PhD

 

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

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George P. Patrinos,
PhD

 

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

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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

 

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Hope Rugo,
MD

 

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

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Xiao-Ou Shu,
MD, PhD

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

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Sapna Syngal,
MD, MPH

 

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

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Richard Weinshilboum,
MD

 

Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

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Elad Ziv,
MD

 

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

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Marc Abramowicz,
MD, PhD

 

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

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Sir Walter Bodmer,
PhD

 

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

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Georgia Chenevix-Trench,
PhD


 

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

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Giovanni Corso,
M.D., Ph.D.
 

Breast Surgeon, European Institute of Oncology, Italy

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Andrea De Censi,
MD, PhD

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

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

 

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

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James Ford,
MD

 

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

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Gaddy Getz,
PhD
 

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

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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

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Jaak Janssens,
MD

 

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

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Heinz-Josef Lenz,
MD

 

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

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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

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Kenneth Offit, 
MD

 

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

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Gloria Petersen,
PhD

 

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

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David Ransohoff,
MD

 

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

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Neil Risch,
PhD

 

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

 

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Peter Sasieni,
PhD
 

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

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Alan Shuldiner,
MD

 

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

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Neli Ulrich,
PhD, MS

 

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

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Jeffrey N. Weitzel,
MD

 

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Natera, USA

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Chris Amos,
PhD

 

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

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Paolo Boffetta,
MD

 

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

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David C. Christiani,
MD, MPH, MS

 

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

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Fergus J. Couch,
PhD
 

Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, USA

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Vajira Dissanayake,
MBBS, PhD

 

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

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Cathy Eng,
MD

 

Professor of Oncology, Vanderbuilt-Ingram Cancer Center, USA

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William D. Foulkes,
PhD, MBBS

 

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

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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

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Samir M. Hanash,
MD, PhD

 

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

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David Hunter,
MD, PhD

 

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

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Bruce R. Korf,
MD, PhD

 

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

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Guo-Min Li,
PhD

 

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

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Ranjit Manchanda,
MD, MRCOG, PhD

 

Professor of Gynaecological Oncology & Consultant (Honorary) Gynaecological Oncologist

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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

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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

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Timothy Rebbeck,
PhD

 

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

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Mark E. Robson,
MD

 

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

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Stephanie Schmit,
phD, MpH

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

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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

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Liewei Wang,
MD, PhD

 

Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

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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

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