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Invited Speakers 

Gad Rennert,
MD, PhD



 

Professor and Chairman,

Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center

The Chil and Berta Weissmann Chair in Precision Medicine,

B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Fahd Al-Mulla,
PhD

Chief Scientific Officer of Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait

Lecture title:

Genomes  from the desert

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Nir Barzilai,
MD


 

Professor of Genetics & Endocrinology. Albert Einstein College of Medicine

 

Lecture title:

GH/IGF1 pathway in human longevity.

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Sir Walter Bodmer,
PhD

 

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

Lecture title:

A perspective on cancer and ageing

Cancer Immunotherapy: Where Next?

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John Chambers,
MD, PhD

Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University

Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Imperial College, London (Visiting) Chief Scientific Officer, PRECISE, MOH

Lecture title:

Singapore’s National Precision Medicine Program.

 

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Giovanni Corso,
M.D., Ph.D.
 

Breast Surgeon, European Institute of Oncology, Italy






 

Lecture title:
CDH1 gene test for gastric and breast cancer risk

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Andrea De Censi,
MD, PhD

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

Lecture title:

Less is more: precision prevention of breast cancer with low dose drugs.

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Gareth Evans,
MB, BS, MD

 

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




Lecture title:
Breast cancer risk stratification in women of screening age: Incremental effects of adding mammographic density, polygenic risk, and a gene panel.

 

 

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Gaddy Getz,
PhD
 

Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group,  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Lecture title:

TBA

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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




Lecture title:

Cancer early detection: where are we heading

 

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Gregory Idos,
MD, M.S.

Associate Professor of Medicine | Division of Gastroenterology 
Center for Precision Medicine | Division of Clinical Cancer Genomics. 

Lecture title:

Development of The Premm Plus Model and Novel Health Care Delivery Models for Identification Of Hereditary Cancer Predisposition

 

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Jaak Janssens,
MD

 

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





Lecture title:
Cancer tissue acquisition in the era of molecular biology

 

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Paul Lacaze,
PhD

Head - Public Health Genomics, National Heart 
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine,
Monash University



Lecture title:
National pilot study of population DNA screening in Australia

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Steven M. Lipkin,
MD, PhD

 

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





Lecture title:
The NCI CAPIT Center for LNP RNA Cancer Immunoprevention

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Yossi Maruvka,
MD

 

Assistant Professor, Cancer Genomics and Evolution, Technion, Israel

Lecture title:

Identifying Msi With Ai

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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

Lecture title:

Gompertzian Growth and the Tumor Microenvironment: Have We Been Trying to Hear the Sound of One Hand Clapping

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George P. Patrinos,
PhD

 

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



 

Lecture title:

Genome-guided therapies: If not now, when?

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David Ransohoff,
MD

 

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

Lecture title:

Precision cancer screening: Can it be done by MCEDs? (multi-cancer early detection tests)

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Neil Risch,
PhD

 

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

Lecture title:

Missing Heritability is Context Dependent

 

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Stephanie Schmit,
PhD, MPH

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



Biological Determinants Of Colorectal Cancer Disparities In The Hispanic/Latino Population

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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

Lecture title:

Predictors of Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Discontinuation:
Primary Results from E1Z11 and Beyond

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Jeffrey N. Weitzel,
MD

 

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Natera, USA

Lecture title:

Multi-level implementation of genomic cancer risk assessment in Latin America: Lessons learned in the GRACIAS project

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Elad Ziv,
MD

 

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







Lecture title:

Genetics of the tumor immune microenvironment and response to immunotherapy

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Marc Abramowicz,
MD, PhD

 

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

 

 

 

Lecture title: Rare diseases: the Geneva Genome Board experience

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Chris Amos,
PhD

 

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




Lecture title:

Genomic approaches to precision medicine for lung cancer prevention and early detection.

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Lina Basel-Salmon,
MD, PhD

 

Director, The Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute
Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson campus and 
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Petach-Tikva, Israel

 

 

Lecture title:

 Medically Actionable Genetic Findings In Healthy Israeli Population

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Paolo Boffetta,
MD

 

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

Lecture title:

Genetic screening of workers: potential benefits and pitfalls.

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Haim Cohen,
PhD

 

Full Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences
Coordinator for MA Program in Gerontology, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences

Lecture title:

Maintaining healthy longevity by SIRT6

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Fergus J. Couch,
PhD
 

Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, USA





 

Lecture title:
Classification of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in cancer predisposition genes

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Ronen Durst,
MD

 

Heart Institute, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

Lecture title:

Cardiovascular Genetics: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

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James Ford,
MD

 

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




 

Lecture title:
Penetrance and clinical management of CDH1 mutation associated hereditary diffuse gastric cancer and lobular breast cancer

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Naomi Gronich,
MD
 

Assistant Clinical Professor in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Lecture title:

Pharmacogenetics Of Anticoagulants

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Anthony Howell,
MB, Bsc

 

Professor of Medical Oncology, Manchester Univ., UK

Lecture title:

The implications of including gene testing, SNPs and density into moderate and high risk clinics and how this alters management with respect to screening and chemoprevention

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Shai Izraeli,
MD

Professor, Tel Aviv University / Director of the Rina Zaizov Pediatric Hematology Oncology Division, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel / The Dora and Gregorio Shapiro Chair of Hematological Malignancies Dept. of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University 
 

Lecture title:

Childhood leukemia as a model for precision medicine - achievements, opportunities and challenges

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Bruce R. Korf,
MD, PhD

 

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





Lecture title:
The Alabama Genomic Health Initiative: Integration of Genomic Medicine into Primary Care

All Of Us Program, USA

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Heinz-Josef Lenz,
MD

 

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

Lecture title:

Molecular Landscape in Colorectal Cancer. Shaping the Future.

 

Lecture title:
Molecular Landscape in Colorectal Cancer. Shaping the Future.

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Catalina Lopez-Correa,
MD, PhD

 

Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Canada

Lecture title:

TBA

 

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Victor Moreno,
MD,PhD

 

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Catalan Oncology Inst., Spain





 

Lecture title:
Microbiome and colorectal cancer: potential for personalizing screening

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Timothy D. O'Connor, 
PhD

 

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

Lecture title:

A Retrospective Cohort Of >50k Latine Genomes

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Sharon E. Plon,
MD, PhD

 

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

Lecture title:

Lessons from Pediatric Cancer Genomics Studies: Every child with cancer patient should have genetic testing

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Timothy Rebbeck,
PhD

 

Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute



Lecture title:
Achieving equity in precision oncology

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Hope Rugo,
MD

 

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

Lecture title:

Her2 Status Directed Treatment Of Breast Cancer

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Alan Shuldiner,
MD

 

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



Lecture title:
Population genomics of the Middle East and South Asia identify novel disease genes for common and rare disorders

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathty

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Neli Ulrich,
PhD, MS

 

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

Lecture title:

TBA

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Yossi Yarden
PhD

 

Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology

Weizmann Institute of Science

Lecture title:

Mechanisms Underlying Resistance to Anti-Cancer Drugs

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Anna Alkelai,
PhD

 

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

Founder & Special Populations Genetics, Regeneron

Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Lecture title:

Exome sequencing: A powerful tool for deciphering complex genetic disorders

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Gil Atzmon,
PhD

Head, Laboratory of Genetics and Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity at Haifa University, Israel


Lecture title:
Switch theory in practice: a model to decipher the disease complexity

 

 


 

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Ohad Birk,  
MD, PhD

Professor; Head, Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center; Head, Morris Kahn Lab and National Research Knowledge Center for Rare Diseases, Ben Gurion University, Israel

 

Lecture title:

Rare diseases in inbred cohorts: from research to prevention and treatment.

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Dean Brenner,
MD

 

Professor of Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA




 

Lecture title:
Using stemness as a biomarker for evidence of clinical preventive efficacy

 

 

 


 

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Pinchas Cohen,
MD

 

Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USA

 

 

 

 

Lecture title:

Genetic variants in mtDNA encoded microproteins represent novel strategies for precision-based drug discovery for diseases of aging

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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

Lecture title:

TBA

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

 

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

Lecture title:

Genomic Testing in the Court Room.

Are we protecting children or probing the unknown?

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Judy Garber,
MD, MPH

 

Susan F Smith Chair and Chief, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

Lecture title:

Treatment of breast cancer in mutation carriers:  How have PARP inhibitors changed the questions?

 

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Stephen B. Gruber,
MPH, MD, PhD

 

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

Lecture title:

Precision Medicine at Enterprise Scale

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David Hunter,
MD, PhD

 

Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Lecture title:

The contribution of Polygenic Risk Scores to Integrated Risk Scores

 

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Ian Jacobs,
MD

 

Professor, President & Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture title:

TBA

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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


Lecture title: Genomics Input For Precision Clinical Cardiology - Genomic Approaches To Sudden Cardiac Death

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Efrat Levy-Lahad

Ephrat Levy-Lahad, MD

Professor,

Robin Chemers Neustein Director

Medical Genetics Institute

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel

Lecture Title:

Breast cancer genetics in Israel

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Ranjit Manchanda,
MD, MRCOG, PhD

 

Professor of Gynaecological Oncology & Consultant (Honorary) Gynaecological Oncologist

Lecture title:1.

Population testing for Cancer Susceptibility Genes: UK Experience

2.Cost-effectiveness of ovarian cancer prevention (RRSO) for multiple Ovarian cancer genes – RAD51C, RAD51D, BRIP1 and PALB2

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Steven Narod,
MD

 

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




 

Lecture title
Prevention of hereditary breast cancer. MRI or mastectomy?

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Olufunmilayo Olopade,
MD

 

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




Lecture title:

Reimagining a World without Breast Cancer: Getting to the Root of Inherited Susceptibility

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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

Lecture title:

TBA

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Harvey A. Risch,
MD, PhD

 

Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Univ., USA





Lecture title:

Clinical Medical Evidence is Not Dominated by Randomized Controlled Trials.

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Peter Sasieni,
PhD
 

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

Lecture title:

The Future Face of Cancer Screening; Prs, Mced and More

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Harold Snieder
PhD

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
Unit of Genetic Epidemiology & Bioinformatics
Department of Epidemiology – FA40
University Medical Center Groningen
University of Groningen, Hanzeplein

Lecture Title:

Genetics Of Hypertenson

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Liewei Wang,
MD, PhD

 

Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Lecture title:

TBA

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William J. Young
PhD

Electrophysiology Cardiology Registrar, Barts Heart Centre
NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

Lecture title:

genomic perspectives of cardiac arrhythmias, predominantly LQTS & Brugada.

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