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
Fahd Al-Mulla,
PhD
Chief Scientific Officer of Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait
Lecture title:
Genomes from the desert
Nir Barzilai,
MD
Professor of Genetics & Endocrinology. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lecture title:
GH/IGF1 pathway in human longevity.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Gaddy Getz,
PhD
Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Lecture title:
TBA
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
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
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
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
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
Yossi Maruvka,
MD
Assistant Professor, Cancer Genomics and Evolution, Technion, Israel
Lecture title:
Identifying Msi With Ai
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
George P. Patrinos,
PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Patras Univ., Greece
Lecture title:
Genome-guided therapies: If not now, when?
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)
Neil Risch,
PhD
Director, Human Genetics Inst, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA
Lecture title:
Missing Heritability is Context Dependent
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
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
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
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
Marc Abramowicz,
MD, PhD
Professor, Head, Genetic Medicine Dept, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Lecture title: Rare diseases: the Geneva Genome Board experience
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.
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
Paolo Boffetta,
MD
Professor, Stony Brook Univ. Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA
Lecture title:
Genetic screening of workers: potential benefits and pitfalls.
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
Ronen Durst,
MD
Heart Institute, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
Lecture title:
Cardiovascular Genetics: Is It Ready for Prime Time?
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
Naomi Gronich,
MD
Assistant Clinical Professor in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Lecture title:
Pharmacogenetics Of Anticoagulants
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
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
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
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.
Catalina Lopez-Correa,
MD, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Canada
Lecture title:
TBA
Victor Moreno,
MD,PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Catalan Oncology Inst., Spain
Lecture title:
Microbiome and colorectal cancer: potential for personalizing screening
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
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
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
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
Neli Ulrich,
PhD, MS
Professor, Cancer Research & Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Huntsman Cancer Centre/Utah Health Univ., USA
Lecture title:
TBA
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
Ian Jacobs,
MD
Professor, President & Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Australia
Lecture title:
TBA
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
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
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
Steven Narod,
MD
Professor of Preventive Medicine & Geriatrics, Women's Hospital, Canada
Lecture title
Prevention of hereditary breast cancer. MRI or mastectomy?
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
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
Harvey A. Risch,
MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Univ., USA
Lecture title:
Clinical Medical Evidence is Not Dominated by Randomized Controlled Trials.
Peter Sasieni,
PhD
Professor of Cancer Prevention, King's College London, UK
Lecture title:
The Future Face of Cancer Screening; Prs, Mced and More
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
Liewei Wang,
MD, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA
Lecture title:
TBA
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.
