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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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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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Sir Walter Bodmer,
PhD

 

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

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David C. Christiani,
MD, MPH, MS

 

Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA.  

Lecture title:

Smoking and tumor mutation burden

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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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Susan Domchek,
MD

 

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

Lecture title:
Germaine testing informing systemic cancer therapy

 



 

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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

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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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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


Lecture title: 
Genomic approaches to sudden cardiac death

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Guo-Min Li,
PhD

 

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


 



Lecture title
The mechanism by which mismatch repair deficiency benefits cancer immunotherapy

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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




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

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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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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.




Lecture title:
Circulating miRNAs as diagnostic and early detection biomarkers for pancreatic cancer.

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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.



Lecture title:

Development of the PREMMplus model and novel health care delivery models for identification of hereditary cancer predisposition

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Jeffrey N. Weitzel,
MD

 

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Natera, USA

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Marc Abramowicz,
MD, PhD

 

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

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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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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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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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Ronen Durst,
MD

 

Heart Institute, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

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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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Talia Golan,
MD

 

Head, Sheba Pancreatic Cancer Center, Israel







Lecture title:
The spectrum of response in HR-deficient pancreatic cancer

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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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David Hunter,
MD, PhD

 

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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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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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Fahd Al-Mulla,
PhD

Chief Scientific Officer of Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait

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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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Dean Brenner,
MD

 

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




 

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


 

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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

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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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Judy Garber,
MD, MPH

 

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

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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

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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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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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Sharon E. Plon,
MD, PhD

 

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

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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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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




Lecture title

A multidisciplinary approach to investigate factors underlying the rise in young-onset colorectal cancer

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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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Elad Ziv,
MD

 

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







Lecture title:
Use of Genomics and Other Omics Data to Gain New Insights into Cancer Etiology and Biology.

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


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

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