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Our Annual Scientific & Clinical Meeting will be held on Saturday June 18, 2016 in the John Shine Room on Level 6 of The Kinghorn Cancer Center at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney.

PROGRAM

Patient & Community Program

 

10:00am  WELCOME

Professor Anthony Gill
Chairman, APGI
Professor of Surgical Pathology, University of Sydney

10:05am  FAMILY HISTORY & PANCREATIC CANCER

Dr Alina Stoita
Gastroenterologist
St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney

10:20am  CLINICAL TRIALS UPDATE

Dr Lorraine Chantrill
Medical Oncologist, Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre Campbelltown Hospital, Sydney

10:35am  PANCREATIC CANCER SUPPORT AUSTRALIA

Dr Catherine Holliday
Chief Executive
Centre for Community-Driven Research, Sydney

10:45am  COMMUNITY ACTION GROUPS

Special presentation from Jessica Abelsohn
#Purple Our World

11:05am  MORNING TEA

COMMUNITY SESSION CLOSE

 

Clinical & Scientific Program

 

1:00pm  WELCOME

Professor Anthony Gill
Chairman, APGI Pancreatic Cancer Research Group
Professor of Surgical Pathology, University of Sydney

1:10pm  APGI ACHIEVEMENTS – WHERE WE HAVE BEEN

Professor Andrew Biankin
Director, Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre
University of Glasgow, UK

Professor Sean Grimmond
Director,  Centre for Cancer Research
University of Melbourne, Melbourne

1:45pm  CURRENT GENOMIC LANDSCAPE- WHERE WE ARE

Dr Nic Waddell
Head, Medical Genomics Group
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane

2:05pm  LOOKING TO THE FUTURE – WHERE WE ARE GOING

Dr Paul Timpson
Lab Head, Invasion & Metastasis,
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney

2:20pm  GROUP DISCUSSION / DRINKS

3:15pm  SUMMARY / CLOSING REMARKS

Professor Anthony Gill
Chairman, APGI

3:30pm  MEETING CLOSE