Oncology Continuing Education Rounds
Held the 3rd Friday of each month (with some exceptions) from 8:00-9:00am September through November, and January through June. This educational event is approved as an Accredited Group Learning Activity under Section 1 of the Framework of CPD options for the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1 credit per rounds).
2024 Dates
November 15, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: TBA
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October 18, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: TBA
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September 20, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: TBA
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June 21, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Shabbir Alibhai, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Scientist, KITE (TRI)/Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital
Title: TBA
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcuuqqD4iGNOtNViASE0bmrtrAQuZHQe4
May 17, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Bishoy Faltas, Weill Cornell Medicine/Gellert Family-John P. Leonard, MD Research Scholar in Hematology and Medical Oncology
Title: TBA
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofu2vpzgjEtKWOoP-c0u8VfkVexWf6YlY
April 19, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Muna Al-Khaifi, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Cancer-free is not Burden-free: Impact and Learned Lessons from an Innovative Breast Cancer Survivorship Program
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpd-2uqDgtE92663KnVM4xjjZeU1lKAKtV
February 16, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: David Kirsch, Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Opportunities and Challenges Combining Radiation Therapy and Immunotherapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduChqTgjGtWWnG5L6aA54y11BVEEK7ma
January 19, 2024 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Adrian Sacher, Cancer Clinical Research Unit (CCRU), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Recent Advances in KRAS-Directed Therapy in Solid Tumours: Targeting the Un-targetable
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvduGhqD4vHdJUvGHYmYHVukuYiiUxkZ_a
2023 Dates
November 17, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Edward Chow, Senior Scientist, Odette Cancer Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Research Institute/Professor of Radiation Oncology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Prevention of Acute Radiation Dermatitis in Breast Cancer
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdu6pqTkqHNVeKKemF2RZiqjvBjX1Yn4e
October 20, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Jillian Tsai, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Radiotherapy as Part of Multidisciplinary Approach in Treating Patients with Metastatic Cancer
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtduirrz4pE9SjiBmhIwPDno5JD7-iCGGa
June 16, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Jason Efstathiou, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School/Co-Director, Bertucci Centre for GU Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre
Title: Bladder-Preserving Trimodality Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Current State of the Art
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuqtpjgsHN3bUyQ-HdFLh2JhsK_CDd7p
May 19, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Weei Yuarn-Huang, Associate Professor of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Comprehensive Cancer Molecular Testing at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre: An Overview of Current Testing Methods and Limitations
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcemrrTspHd2GYzsX76RpJAX_sRRA3Lyj
April 21, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Yoo Joung-Ko, Medical Oncologist, Odette Cancer Centre/Medical Director, Unity Health Oncology and Endoscopy Program/Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Colon Cancer: Thymidylate Synthase and Beyond
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qduusrT4oGtyJlRuHbw0wFW8GhGCHDXVP
February 17, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Calvin Law, Surgical Oncologist, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre/Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto
Title: How a Surgeon Thinks About Neuroendocrine Tumours, and Why It Has to Fit Inside a Multidisciplinary Plan
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscuitqjMtH92Lk5lMeJDL4-tTAqOk1Zgf
January 20, 2023 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Adrian Sacher, Thoracic Oncologist and Affiliate Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Assistant Professor of Medicine and Immunology, University of Toronto
Title: Novel Targeted and Immunotherapeutic Approaches to KRAS Mutant Solid Tumours
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuc-utqT8iH9GTiDjmQE-XQfsCK69_1VTr
2022 Dates
November 18, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Raymond Kim, Head of Provincial Genetics Program. Cancer Care Ontario-Ontario Health; Medical Geneticist (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Mount Sinai Hospital/Hospital for Sick Children; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Cancer Genetics and Genomics: Advances, Simplified
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldumhrj4sHdN_depgnoPykd4OnAcB5yZc
October 21, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Geoffrey Watson, Clinical Research Fellow Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Current Landscape and Future Directions in the Treatment of Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-ivrjgrEtG9VFkmRaO8kLZpMMrS-vS_
September 16, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Katarzyna Jerzak, Medical Oncologist, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Breast Cancer Brain Metastases
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrce2urD0tEtPQq41dwJWGg19thesVjT0_
June 17, 2022 (online via Zoom) - PRESENTATION POSTPONED TO 2023
May 20, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Christopher Witiw, Surgeon Investigator, St. Michael’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Title: Incorporating Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques into the Management of Spine Metastases
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudOGtrjwoHtfcb1MwX6A73tzgZGelpo4K
April 22, 2022 (online via Zoom) - PRESENTATION POSTPONED TO 2023
February 18, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Parneet Cheema, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Medical Director of Cancer Care, William Osler Health System
Title: Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer and Implementation of These Advances in a Large Community Centre
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdOGqrzooG9C3lVUSoFbL2ADchUogPsmF
January 21, 2022 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Robert Hamilton, Associate Professor – Urology, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: WATChmAN: a Novel Asynchronous Virtual Care Model in Cancer Surveillance
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-6gqDMuH9TKUAUIgLggzJPCrbj0pqr2
2021 Dates
November 19, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Adrian Sacher, Affiliate Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Novel Approaches to the Treatment of KRAS Mutant Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlce6tpj8tHtxy6RdP8po99TRb7kjcRHH6
October 15, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Di (Maria) Jiang, Division of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: A New Era in the Management of Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Emerging Concepts, Controversies, and Challenges
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqceGgqzsiH9RZmrHe8tCNJB5ZeYMNQ6KX
September 17, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Penelope Bradbury, Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Emerging Treatment Options for Pleural Mesothelioma
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qfuyspzwiHtHTURLdWCLv6tlMv96g4DXm
June 18, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Andrea Bezjak, (Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation), Shaf Keshavjee (Professor, Thoracic Surgery), and Geoffrey Liu (Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics), Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Working title: Stage IV Thymoma - A Multidisciplinary Approach
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-ioqDotGtDpO6ayRbf3zpL8eSuortzt
May 21, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Coleman Rotstein, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Cancer Patients and Variants of Concern
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdemsqTssEtxe6dzFN5L74mmVZTqnxLIc
April 16, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speakers: Nathan Perlis (Assistant Professor, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto) and Srinivas Raman (Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto)
Title: Novel Treatment Options for Localized Prostate Cancer
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-quqjIjGtJqi6rknVY_vbEIzmKRAfaJ
February 19, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Phillipe Bedard, Staff Medical Oncologist, Division of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Applications of DNA-Sequencing for the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kf-ytpjMrE9RYhUXkcl2VeyAbbcrzIXby
January 15, 2021 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Aaron Hansen, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Integration of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) in Phase I trials
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88152339901?pwd=WlZoT1hSYkg5VkJsRll6SDh3cDMwZz
2020 Dates
November 20, 2020 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: Arjun Sahgal, Radiation Oncologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Title: The Latest in Brain Metastases: Radiosurgery and much more at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
To Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOyqpjguGtKG-Js140pj5n_nWclpnIHq
October 23, 2020 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: David Cescon, Clinician Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/University Health Network
Title: Breast Cancer Immunotherapy
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMldOyvqzoqGdYAhlR1rw6FW_UpdwaXxMGh
Note: Pre-registration required on a first-come, first-served basis (max 100 participants)
September 18, 2020 (online via Zoom)
Speaker: David Shultz, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: Spine SBRT: Who, What, and When
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkc-6spj4oHtSsTp0rb-SOV3s84_vNRujA
Note: Pre-registration required on a first-come, first-served basis (max 100 participants)
March - June 2020 No rounds (due to Covid-19)
February 21, 2020
Speakers: Shabbir Alibhai (Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute/Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto) and Arielle Berger (Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto)
Title: Moving Beyond "Chemo versus No Chemo": A framework for treatment decision-making in older adults with cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 17, 2020
Speaker: Eitan Amir, Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: A Clinician's Guide to Biosimilars in Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2019 Dates
November 15, 2019
Speaker: Jenny Lau, Tertiary Palliative Care Unit, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (moved from Sept. 20)
Title: Promoting Safer Opioid Prescribing for Patients With Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 18, 2019
Speaker: Jordan Feld, Phelan Chair in Translational Liver Research, Toronto General Hospital
Title: We Can Cure HCV - Will That Prevent or Cause Cancer?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 20, 2019
Speaker: Mark G. Kris, Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York
Title: Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Development: Focus on Clinical Trials
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
Summer 2019 - No rounds (July and August)
June 21, 2019
Speaker: Heidi Schmidt, Interim Radiologist-in-Chief (JDMI), Department of Medical Imaging, Women's College Hospital
Title: LDCT Lung Cancer Screening - Let's Get Ready!
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 17, 2019
Speaker: Srikala Sridhar, Associate Professor, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: The Rapidly Changing Landscape in the Management of Bladder Cancer in 2019
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 12, 2019
Speakers: Gary Rodin (Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto), Madeline Li (Clinician Scientist, Department of Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre), and Rebecca Wong (Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto)
Title: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): Implications for Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 2019 - No rounds (March break)
February 15, 2019
Speaker: Marcus Butler, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Cell Therapy for Solid Tumours
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 18, 2019
Speaker: Warren Mason, Medical Director, Gerry and Nancy Pencer Brain Tumour Centre/Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto/Kirchmann Family Chair in Neuro-oncology Research
Title: Advances in the Molecular Classification of Brain Tumours: Implications for patient management
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2018 Dates
November 16, 2018
Speaker: Marc de Perrot, Division of Thoracic Surgery, John Cho, Department of Radiation Oncology, and Penelope Bradbury, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Management of Mesothelioma: Current and Future Perspectives
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 2018 - No rounds
September 21, 2018
Speaker: Coleman Rotstein, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto
Title: Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia (PJP) Prevention in Oncology - Who, When, and What?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
Summer 2018 - No rounds (July and August)
June 15, 2018
Speaker: James Brierley, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: AJCC and UICC TNM, an Introduction to the 8th Edition: Controversies and future directions
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 18, 2018
Speaker: Ronald Burkes, Medical Oncologist, Mount Sinai Hospital/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Gonzalo Sapisochin Cantis, Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto
Title: The Multidisciplinary Management of Metastatic Colorectal Liver Metastases: The role of liver transplant
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 20, 2018
Speaker: Eitan Amir, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Biosimilars: Oncology and Beyond
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 2018 - No rounds (March break)
February 16, 2018
Speaker: Arjun Sahgal, Deputy Chief, Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Title: Radiosurgery and the Paradigm Shift in the Management of Brain Metastases Away from Whole Brain Radiation
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 19, 2018
Speaker: Natasha Leighl, Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Time to Abandon the RCT? Canada's barriers to a precision approach in lung cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2017 Dates
November 17, 2017
Speaker: Geoffrey Liu, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Title: Its ALK Crazy: The rapidly changing therapeutic face of ALK positive lung cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 20, 2017
CANCELLED
September 15, 2017 (rescheduled from January 2017)
Speaker: David Hogg, Site Leader, Melanoma Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: New Therapies for Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 16, 2017
Speaker: John Kim, Staff Radiation Oncologist, Princess Margaret Hospital
Working Title: Anal Canal Cancer: A Changing Paradigm of GI Pelvic Radiotherapy
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 19, 2017
Speaker: David Warr, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Working Title: Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting: Is it Still a Problem and Why?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 21, 2017
Speakers: Jennifer Knox (Department of Medicine, University of Toronto) and Laura Dawson (Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto)
Working Title: Combined Modality Care for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: New Hope
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 2017 - no rounds (March break)
February 17, 2017
Speaker: Lillian Siu, Staff Physician, Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Changing Landscape in Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 20, 2017 (CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS - WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN YEAR)
Speaker: David Hogg, Site Leader, Melanoma Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: New Therapies for Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2016 Dates
November 18, 2016
Speaker: John Waldron, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: Evolution of the Management of Oropharyngeal Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 21, 2016
Speaker: Kathy Pritchard, Medical Oncologist, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Title: The Oxford Overview of Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer: What's New
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 16, 2016
Speaker: Eugene Chang, University Health Network
Title: Cancer Rehabilitation: The Role of the Physiatrist in Oncology Care
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 17, 2016
Speaker: Penelope Bradbury, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Systemic Therapy Advances for Pleural Mesothelioma
Location: Toronto General Hospital, R.F. Elliott Wing Room 4S-436, 190 Elizabeth St. (Map)
May 20, 2016
Speaker: Marcus Butler, Division of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Engineering Better Anti-Tumour Immune Responses
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 15, 2016
Speaker: Camilla Zimmermann, Head of Palliative Care Services, University Health Network
Title: Early Palliative Care: Why and How?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 2016 - no rounds - March break
February 19, 2016
Speaker: Raymond Kim, Litwin Family Centre in Genetic Medicine, University Health Network
Title: Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: The Next Generation
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 15, 2016
Speaker: Jordan Feld, Francis Family Liver Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital
Title: Curing Hep C: Implications for Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2015 Dates
November 20, 2015
Speaker: Heidi Roberts, Professor of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Lung Cancer Screening in Ontario: What to Expect for 2016
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 16, 2015
Speaker: Anthony Fyles, Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Molecular Subtypes for Prediction of Breast Cancer Radiation Response
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 18, 2015
Speaker: Paul Wheatley-Price, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Title: The Advantages of Community: How We Work Better in Partnership
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 19, 2015
Speaker: Neesha Dhani, Department of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: Precision Medicine for Pancreatic Cancer: A Quest for Needles in the Haystack
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 15, 2015
Speaker: Arjun Sahgal, Clinician Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Title: SBRT to Spine and Non-Spine Bones: Rationale and Current Status
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 17, 2015 - no rounds
March 2015 - no rounds - March break
February 20, 2015
Speaker: Scott Berry, University of Toronto Medical Oncology Training Program, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Title: Is Less Chemotherapy More? Chemotherapy Strategies for the Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 16, 2015
Speaker: Michael Milosevic, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Title: How Technological Changes have Revolutionized Management of Gynaecological Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2014 Dates
November 21, 2014
Speaker: Lee Krug, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York City, NY
Title: New Approaches for Treating Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 17, 2014
Speaker: David Warr
Title: Supportive Care is More Than Just Palliative Care
Location (New for October only): Toronto General Hospital, R.F. Elliott Wing Room 4S-436, 190 Elizabeth Street
September 19, 2014
Speaker: Narinder Paul, Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network
Title: Thoracic Imaging for Oncology Patients: Past, Present, Future
Location (New for September only): Toronto General Hospital, R.F. Elliott Wing Room 3S-439, 190 Elizabeth Street
June 20, 2014
Speaker: Shabbir Alibhai, Division of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Toronto General Hospital
Title: 2014 Update on Geriatric Oncology for Aging Oncologists
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 16, 2014
Speaker: Monika Krzyzanowska, Department of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Optimizing the Quality of Systemic Therapy in Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 11, 2014
Speaker: Christopher Booth, Kingston Regional Cancer Centre
Title: Cancer Care and Outcomes in the Real World: Are We Achieving the Achievable?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 21, 2014
Speaker: Rebecca Wong, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Oligometastases and Stereotactic Radiotherapy - Who Would Benefit?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 17, 2014
Speaker: Michael Crump, Department of Medical Oncology & Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Primary Treatment of Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Maintaining Balance
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2013 Dates
December 13, 2013
Speaker: Laura Dawson, Department of Radiology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Radiation Therapy for Liver Cancer: Ready for Prime Time?
Location: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
November 15, 2013
Speaker: Philippe Bedard, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Molecular Profiling of Advanced Solid Tumours
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 18, 2013
Speaker: Caroline Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: Changing Landscape in the Management of Brain Metastases
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 20, 2013
Speakers: Kelvin Chan (Medical Oncologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre), Allan Grill (Chair, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care Committee to Evaluate Drugs)
Title: pCODR to CED: A guide to cancer drug funding ecision making in Ontario
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 17, 2013
Speakers: Marcus Bernardini, Antonio Finelli, and Kazu Yasufuku, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital
Title: Robotics in Surgical Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 19, 2013
Speaker: Lillian Siu, MD FRCPC
Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre/Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Personalized Cancer Medicine: No Longer Just Buzzwords
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 15, 2013
Speaker: Camilla Zimmermann, MDCM PhD FRCPC
Medical Director, Lederman Palliative Care Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Early Palliative Care: Benefits and Barriers
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
January 18, 2013
Speaker: Suresh Senan, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology
VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: Follow-up after Curative Therapy for an Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: New insights from the surgical and stereotactic radiotherapy literature
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 15, 2013
Speaker: Camilla Zimmermann, MDCM FRCPC PhD
Head, Palliative Care Services, University Health Network
Medical Director, Lederman Palliative Care Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Early Palliative Care: Benefits and Barriers
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 22, 2013 - NO ROUNDS (MARCH BREAK)
April 19, 2013
Speaker: Lilian Siu, MD FRCPC
Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Title: Personalized Medicine
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 17, 2013
Speakers: Marcus Bernardini, MD MSc FRCSC (Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Princess Margaret
Hospital), Antonio Finelli, MD MSc FRCSC (Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital), and Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD PhD (Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital)
Title: Robotics in Surgical Oncology
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 21, 2013
Speaker: Helen MacKay, MD
Division of Medical Oncology & Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Gynaecological Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 20, 2013
Speaker: Kelvin Chan MD, Department of Medicine,University of Toronto, and Allan Grill MD, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: A Guide to Cancer Drug Funding Decision Making in Ontario
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 18, 2013 - TBA
November 15, 2013
Speaker: Philippe Bedard, MD FRCPC, Department of Medicine,University of Toronto
Title: Molecular Profiling of Advanced Solid Tumours
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2012 Dates
January 20, 2012
Speaker: Alex Spyropoulos, MD
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Wilmot Cancer Centre, School of Medicine, Rochester University
Title: Risk Assessment Models for Optimal Thromboprophylaxis in Medical Patients
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 17, 2012
Speaker: Brian O'Sullivan, MD, FRCPC
Director, Head and Neck Cancer Program
Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Dealing with the Current Epidemic of HPV-driven Oropharyngeal Cancer: Were We Asleep at the Switch?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 20, 2012
Speaker: David Warr, MD FRCPC
Department of Medical Oncology
Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis: Are We Doing Our Best?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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May 18, 2012
Speaker: Kathleen Pritchard, MD FRCPC
Co-chair, Breast Cancer site group for NCIC Clinical Trials Group
Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Title: The EBCTCG (Early Breast Cancer Trialist’s Collaborative Group) Overview: Is it still relevant in 2012?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 15, 2012
Speaker: David Hogg, MD FRCPC
Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology
Faculty of Medicine,University of Toronto
Title: The Occasional Melanoma Oncologist
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 7, 2012
Speaker: Tony Mok MD
Department of Clinical Oncology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: A Personal Path in Personalized Medicine
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 21, 2012
Speaker: Anthony Joshua, MBBS
Department of Medical Oncology
Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Prostate Cancer: Looking over the Horizon
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
October 19, 2012
Speaker: Richard Kim, MD FRCPC
Director, Centre for Clinical Investigation & Therapeutics
Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
Title: Personalized Medicine for Oncology Patients
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
December 14, 2012 - POSTPONED
Speaker: Phillipe Bedard, MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor of Medicine,University of Toronto
Department of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Molecular Profiling of Advanced Solid Tumours
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2011 Dates
January 21, 2011
Speaker: James Downar, MD(CM) FRCPC
Palliative Care and Intensive Care Medicine,
University Health Network/Toronto East General Hospital
Title: Why is DNR a Four-Letter Word? Resuscitation and life support for patients with advanced cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 18, 2011
Speaker: Pamela Catton, MD FRCPC
Title: Survivorship @ PMH: Empowerment, Integration and Coordination
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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March 25, 2011
Speaker: William Pao MD, PhD
GOLDENBERG MEMORIAL LECTURER
Associate Professor of Medicine, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research
Director, Personalized Cancer Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Title: Next Generation Cancer Medicine
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 15, 2011
Speaker: Elaine Jaffe, MD
Head, Hematopathology Section, Centre for Cancer Research,
National Institute of Health (NIH), Maryland USA
Title: WHO Lymphoma
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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May 20, 2011
Speaker: Brian Rini MD
Department of Solid Tumour Oncology
The Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
Title: New Advances in the Treatment of Advanced RCC
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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June 17, 2011
Speaker: Ivan Silver MD MEd FRCPC
Vice-Dean, Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development
Faculty of Medicine,University of Toronto
Title: Enhancing Your Lifelong Learning to Support Your Practice and Teaching
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 16, 2011
Speaker: Heidi Roberts MD FRCPC
Site Director - Medical Imaging, Women's College Hospital
Professor of Radiology, University of Toronto
Title: Screening for Lung Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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October 21, 2011
Speaker: Jack Holland MD FRCP FRCPC
Chair, Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board (OCREB)
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Title: The Ethics of Cancer Research
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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2010 Dates
January 15, 2010
Speaker: Frances Shepherd, MD, FRCPC
Division of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Predictive Markers for EGFR Therapy
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 19, 2010
Speaker: James Tulsky, MD
Centre for Palliative Care, Duke University Medical Centre
Title: Good Communication is Not Magic: An Empirical Approach to Talking With Cancer Patients
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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March 26, 2010
Speaker: Robert Kerbel, MD
Division of Molecular & Cellular Biology Research, Sunnybrook
Title: Contrasting Impact of Antiangiogenic Drugs (antibodies vs TKIs) and Metronomic Chemotherapy on Early Stage or Advanced Metastatic Cancers
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 16, 2010
Speaker: Andrea Bezjak, MD FRCPC
Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: SBRT (Stereotactic body radiotherapy) - the Hype and the Promise
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 21, 2010
Speaker: Ron Burkes, MD, FRCPC
Medical Oncologist Mount Sinai Hospital
Title: Colon Cancer and Management of Liver Metastases: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 18, 2010
Speaker: Benjamin Neel, MD
Director, Ontario Cancer Institute
Title: Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Human Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
September 17, 2010
Speaker: Ian Tannock, MD PhD DSc
Daniel E. Bergsagel Professor of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital/University of Toronto
Title: Management of Prostate Cancer (and why I refuse to know my own PSA)
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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October 15, 2010
Speaker: Jordan Feld, MD MPH
Toronto Western Hospital Liver Centre/McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
Title: Chemotherapy-Related Hepatitis B Reactivation: Can We Do Better?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
November 19, 2010
Speaker: David Warr, MD FRCPC
Department of Medical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Chemo Induced Emesis: Are antiemetic guidelines consistent with the science?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital, Room #7-605, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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2009 Dates
January 16, 2009
Speaker: Bill Brien, MD, FRCPC
University Health Network/Toronto Medical Laboratories
Title: Cancer and Venous Thromboembolism
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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February 20, 2009
Speaker: Martin Blackstein, MD
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Title: The GIST Of The Story Of GIST. An Examination Of The Events Of 10 Years Which Lead To An Untreatable Cancer Becoming Curable
Location: Room #7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 20, 2009
Speaker: Peter Anglin, MD
Department of Medical Oncology & Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Expensive Cancer Drugs, Ontario, and Canadian Patients: What does "unfunded drug" really mean?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 17, 2009
Speaker: Michael Crump, MD FRCPC
Department of Medical Hematology-Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Cure and Late Effects in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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May 15, 2009
Speaker: Gabriel Hortobagyi, MD FACP
M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas
Title: Clinical Application of Gene-Profiling Systems in Breast Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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June 19, 2009
Speaker: Lillian Sung, MD
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Title: Infections in Pediatric AML: What Have We Learned?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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September 18, 2009
Speaker: Eric Chen, MD
University Health Network
Title: Targeting EGFR in Colorectal Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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October 16, 2009
Speaker: George Dranitsaris, MPharm
Statistical Consultant, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: The Development of Prediction Models in Oncology to Optimize Drug Efficacy and Minimize Toxicity
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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November 20, 2009
Speaker: John Dipersio, MD - annual Goldenberg Basic Sciences Lecturer
Chief, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis
Title: Mobilization of Normal and Leukemic Stem Cells
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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2008 Dates
January 18, 2008
Speaker: Camille Zimmermann, MD, FRCPC
Medical Director, Lederman Palliative Care Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Outpatient Palliative Care: Oxymoron or Innovation?
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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February 15, 2008
Speaker: Hans Messner, MD
University Health Network/Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Current Status of Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplants in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Location: Room #7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 28, 2008
Speaker: David Malkin, MD FRCPC
Co-Director, Cancer Genetics Program, Hospital for Sick Children
Title: SNPs, Chips and Telomere Tips: New Genetic Models of Cancer Predisposition
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
April 18, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Michael Jewett, Dr. Jennifer Knox
University Health Network
Title: New Trends in the Management of Kidney Cancer
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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May 16, 2008
Speaker: Shabbir Alibhai, MD FRCPC, Departments of Medicine/Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Title: Will You Still Screen Me, Will You Still Treat Me, When I'm 64? How About 84? (A Brief Tour of the Wonderful World of Geriatric Oncology)
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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June 20, 2008
Speaker: Coleman Rotstein, MD FRCPC FACP, Division of Infectious Diseases, McMaster University
Title: Update on the Treatment of Invasive Fungal Infections for the Oncologist
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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September 19, 2008
Speaker: Patricia Shaw MD FRCPC, University Health Network
Title: Tumour Bio-Banks: The Past, Present, and Future
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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October 17, 2008
Speaker: Annual PMH Meeting
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
November 21, 2008
Speaker: Carlos L. Arteaga, MD [ Goldenberg Lecturer ], Vanderbilt Breast Cancer Program, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Title: Mechanisms of Action and Resistance of HER2-Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer: Clinical Implications
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
December 19, 2008
Speaker: Geoffrey Liu, MD, MSc, University Health Network/Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Pharmacogenetics of Upper Aerodigestive Tract
Location: Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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2007 Dates
January 19, 2007
Speaker: Frances Shepherd, MD, FRCPC,Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; Division of Hematology-Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Comes of Age
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
February 16, 2007
Speaker: Tim Whelan, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Supportive Director, Supportive Cancer Care Research Unit, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton
Title: Decision Aids in Oncology: A Model for Health Services Research
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
March 16, 2007
Speaker: Ming Tsao, MD FRCPC, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Princess Margaret Hospital / University Health Network
Title: Molecular Diagnosis in Treatment of Lung Cancer
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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April 20, 2007
Speaker: Mary Gospodarowicz, MD FRCPC FRCR, Chief, Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Lymphoma
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
May 18, 2007
Speakers: Warren Mason, MD PhD, Clinical Studies Resource Centre, Ontario Cancer Institute, and Normand
Laperriere, MD FRCPC, Central Nervous System Site Group Leader, University Health Network
Title: Update on the Role of Temozolomide and Pseudoprogression in Gliomas
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
June 15, 2007
Speaker: David Jaffray MD, Head, Physics Department, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: Retooling Radiation Oncology
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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September 21, 2007
Speaker: Mark Clemons, MD, Princess Margaret Hospital / University Health Network
Title: The Latest is the Greatest? Future directions in the management of patients with bone metastases from breast cancer
Location: 6th Floor Auditorium, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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October 19, 2007
Speaker: Ian Quirt, MD, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital
Title: The Safe Use of Erythropoietin in Oncology Patients
Location: 6th floor lecture theatre, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
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December 14, 2007
Speakers: Juanita Crook, MD FRCPC and Charles Catton, MD FRCPC, Professors of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network
Title: Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Inside and Out
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, Toronto
2006 Dates
January 20, 2006
Speaker: Harvey Schipper, MD, FRCPC, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Bringing Science to the Bedside: What it Takes to Commercialize
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University
Avenue
February 17, 2006
Speaker: Charles Balch, MD, CEO, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Title: Successes and Failures in the Management of Melanoma
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
March 17, 2006
Speaker:
Steven Gallinger, MD, FRCSC, Researcher, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Title: Translational GI Cancer Genetics
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University
Avenue
April 21, 2006
Speaker:
Lawrence Einhorn, MD,Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Lance Armstrong Foundations, Professor of Oncology, Indiana University Medical Centre
Title: Testicular Cancer: A Model for a Curable Neoplasm
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
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May 19, 2006
Speaker:
Charles Erlichman, MD, FACP, FRCPC, Chair, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Centre
Title: Implications of Bench and Bedside Studies for Therapy directed at HSP90
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
June 16, 2006
Speaker: Harvey Schipper, MD, FRCPC, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Bringing Science to the Bedside: What it Takes to Commercialize
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
Note: These rounds are re-scheduled from January 2006
September 15, 2006
Speaker: Linda Elting, MD, Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics - University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre
Title: Outcomes of Febrile Neutropenia: Comparison of Inpatient and Outpatient Therapy
Location: Room #7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
October 20, 2006
Speaker: Martin R. Chasen, MBChB FCP(SA), Clinical Director, Cancer Nutrition-Rehabilitation Program, Department of Oncology, McGill University
Title: Cancer Nutrition and Rehabilitation - It Does Make a Difference
Location: Room #7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
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November 17, 2006
Speaker: 4th Annual Goldenberg Lecture - Robert Lowsky MD, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Stanford University
Title: Total Lymphoid Irradiation and Anti-Thymocyte Globulin for Tolerance Induction and Protection from Graft-versus-Host Disease
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
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December 15, 2006
Speaker: Rob Bristow, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Researcher, Division of Applied Molecular Oncology, Ontario Cancer Institute
Title: DNA Repair and Prostate Cancer Progression: New Targets and New Therapies
Location: Room 7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
2005 Dates
January 21, 2005
Speaker:
Andrea Bezjak, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC, Radiation Oncologist, Princess Margaret Hospital; Associate Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Title: The Secrets of Our Success: Quality of Life Assessment in NCIC Clinical Trials
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital,
600 University Avenue
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February 18, 2005
Speaker: John Kirkwood, MD, Director, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Title: Melanoma: Adjuvant Therapy from IFN to Vaccines
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
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March 18, 2005
Speaker: Roy Patchell, MD, Chief of Neuro-Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky
Title: New Developments in the Treatment of Spinal Cord Compression Caused by Metastatic Cancer
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
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May 20, 2005
Speaker:
Neil MacDonald, MD, CM, FRCPC, FRCP(Edin), LLD, Director, Nutrition and Rehabilitation Program, Department of Oncology, McGill University
Title: A Focus on Cancer Cachexia Anorexia
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 UniversityAvenue
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June 17, 2005
Speaker: Glenwood Goss, MD, BCh, FCP, FRCPC, Head, Medical Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre
Title: Update on Targeted Therapy in NSCLC
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
October 21, 2005
Place: Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
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November 18, 2005
Speaker: Third Annual Goldenberg Lecture - Stan Riddell, MD, Associate Program Head, Program in Immunology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
Title: Molecules and Mechanisms of the Graft versus Leukemia Effect
Location: 18th Floor Auditorium, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue
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December 16, 2005
Speaker: Rob Bristow, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Clinician-Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute and Princess Margaret Hospital (University Health Network); Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Title: DNA Repair and Prostate Cancer Progression: New Targets and New Therapies
Location: Room #7-605, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
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2004 Dates
January 16, 2004
Speaker:
David Warr, MD, FRCPC,Medical Oncologist, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Hospital,
Title: Should NK1 Receptor Antagonists Become Part of Standard Antiemetic Therapy?
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by videoconference)
February 20, 2004
Speaker: Ian Tannock, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Staff Physician, Princess Margaret Hospital; Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute
Title: From Evidence-based Medicine to Clinical Practice -- Not Always Straightforward
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by videoconference)
March 19, 2004
Speaker: Robert A. Phillips, PhD, President and CEO, Ontario Cancer Research Network
Title: Ontario Cancer Research Network: The challenge of commercialization as a driver for clinical investigation
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue,
Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by videoconference)
April 16, 2004
Speaker: Donald E. Low, MD, FRCPC, Microbiologist-in-Chief, Toronto Medical Laboratories/Mount Sinai Hospital
and
Dr. Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC Microbiologist, Director of Infection Control, Mount Sinai Hospital,
Title: Lessons from SARS
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by videoconference)
May 7, 2004
Combined Hematology/OCE City-Wide Rounds
Speaker: Robert Twycross, DM, FRCP, FRCR, Emeritus Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University
Title: What Can Palliative Care Offer Hematological Oncology?
Location: 6th floor Auditorium, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue
May 21, 2004
Speaker: Adrian Harris, BSc Hons, MB, ChB, MA, DPhil, FRCP, Director, Cancer Research UK, Oxford Cancer Centre, Medical Oncology Unit,
Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Title: Pharmacodynamic Monitoring in New Drug Development and Phase I Trials
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue
June 18, 2004
Speaker: Kathleen I. Pritchard, MD, FRCPC Head, Clinical Trials & Epidemiology, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre
Title: Breast Cancer Trials Research in the NCIC Clinical Trials Group: Achievements, Activities, and Plans for the Future
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by videoconference)
October 15, 2004
Speaker: Marko Simunovic, MD, MPH, FRCPC General Surgery/Oncology, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton - Assistant Professor, Department of
Surgery, McMaster University
Title: A Surgical Knowledge Translation Strategy: The Quality Initiative in Rectal Cancer Trial
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by
videoconference)
November 19, 2004
Speaker: Second Annual Goldenberg Lecture - Gordon Mills, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Molecular Therapeutics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Title: The Genomics of Ovarian Cancer: Identification of New Targets for Therapy
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by
videoconference)
December 17, 2004
Speaker: Jennifer Blake, MD Head of Women's Health and Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UofT Clinic, Sunnybrook and Women's College Hospital, Toronto
Title: HRT Post-WHI: What is Safe?
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Auditorium, 18th Floor, 600 University Avenue/Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Shumak CEO Boardroom (by
videoconference)