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Medisprof Association’s BEST OF ASCO licence is exclusive for Romania

A different approach, more interdisciplinarity, integrated in the well-established format of one of the most prestigious professional societies in the world, ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology).

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ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program

DAY 1

FRIDAY, JUNE 26th, 2020

8:30 - 8:40

Welcome speech & Online procedures introduction

Dr. Adrian Udrea
MD, PhD, Medical Oncologist, Medical Director

Medisprof Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

08:40 - 09:00

Track 1: Thoracic tumors - Best of ASCO slides

Prof. Dr. Tudor Ciuleanu
MD, Medical Oncologist, IOCN, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

11:50 – 12:20

Track 5 : Challenges in modern Radiotherapy – will SRS-SBRT become the new standard of care

Prof. Dr. Dwight E. Heron
MD, MBA, FACRO, FACR, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

12:20 – 13:10

Track 6: Quality in Oncology

Speakers:
Dr. Rafael Lopez
MD, PhD, Medical Oncology Department and Translational Medical Oncology Group, University Clinical Hospital and Health Research Institute (IDIS), CIBERONC, Santiago de Compostela University School of Medicine, Spain

Dr. Adrian Udrea
MD, PhD, Medical Oncologist, Medical Director Medisprof Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dr. Evangelia D. Razis
Medical Oncologist, Director 3rd Oncology Department, Director Contemporary Oncology Team, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

Gene Cunningham, Director, Performance Improvement Program and Grants Clinical Affairs, American Society of Clinical Oncology, USA

13:50 PM -15:45 PM Lunch

17:45 - 18:25

Track 11: Breast cancer - Best of ASCO slides

Dr. Evangelia D. Razis
Medical Oncologist, Director 3rd Oncology Department, Director Contemporary Oncology Team, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

DAY 2

SATURDAY, JUNE 27th, 2020

09:00 - 9:50

Track 13: Gastro-intestinal malignancies - Best of ASCO Slides

Dr. Gabriela E. Chiorean
MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

09:50 -10:15

Track 14: Case presentations

Dr. Dennis Orkoulas - Razis
MD, Department of Internal Medicine, PGY-1 University of Maryland Medical
Center, Virginia USA

Dr. Adina Sabău
MD, medical oncologist, Medisprof Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dr. Andrea Onisim
MD, medical oncologist, Medisprof Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10:50 -11:20

Track 16: Role of SABR in patients with liver malignancies

Prof. Dr. Alina M. Mihai
MD, MS, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, UCD
School of Medicine, Director of Oncology Research, Beacon Hospital, Dublin,
Ireland

12:00 – 12:15

Track 18: Cancer and COVID 19 – Best of ASCO slides

Dr. Adina Sabău
MD, Medical Oncologist, Medisprof Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Speakers

Saiful Huq, PhD

I provide oversight and supervision of the entire Medical Physics Division at UPMC CancerCenter/University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. I have performed clinical research in the areas of medical physics since 1988. During the last twenty years I have published 133 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. I was a co-principal investigator of a few NIAID and industrial grants and have supervised over 17 postdoctoral fellows, MS level medical physicists, and dosimetry students. I served as a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology and have also served as reviewer and guest associate editor for major peer-reviewed journals in the field of medical physics. I am the founding board member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, 2015-2016.

Professor, Radiation Oncology

Evangelia D. Razis, MD, Phd

MD at the NORTHWESTERN University of Chicago, and PhD at the University of Crete, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Oncology Practice, she served as member of the ASCO International Affairs and QOPI steering group, Dr Razis is specialized in breast cancer, gastrointestinal and lung cancer, and special interest on Neuro-oncology and clinical research Dr. Razis is also a representative figure in the medical oncology communuty in Greece, joining ASCO's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) in 2013, her institution being one of the first ones to join this programme outside the United States and the first to be accredited.

Director, 3rd Oncology Department and Contemporary Oncology Team, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

Alina Mihai, M.D.

Prof. Alina Mihai is a full time Consultant Radiation Oncologist at Beacon Hospital, UCD Clinical Assistant Professor and our Director of Oncology Research. She founded the annual Irish SRS/SBRT Symposium which continues to expand and is recognized internationally. She is the Scientific Program Chair and Head of the Organising Committee. She is also part of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the Annual Best of ASCO-Best of ASTRO meeting, taking place in Romania since 2016.

Consultant Radiation Oncologist MD MSc, UCD Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Oncology Research

E. Gabriela Chiorean, M.D.

Dr. Gabriela Chiorean strives to improve care for patients with gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers. She leads early-stage clinical trials of new therapies for these cancers, including new chemotherapies, immunotherapies and targeted drugs. She also aims to identify biomarkers of cancer, such as molecules in the blood, that could be developed into a minimally invasive test for the early detection of cancers or precancers.

Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch