Dec
5
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer @ LKSC Berg Hall
Dec 5 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Electron Kebebew, MD

Harry Oberhelman Jr. and Mark Welton Professor of Surgery

Electron Kebebew, MD, is an internationally recognized expert in Endocrine Oncology and Surgery. He has performed more than three thousand operations on the adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid glands, and for neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas.

Kebebew has published over 400 articles, chapters and textbooks, and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for 54 biomedical journals. He has received awards from the American Cancer Society, American Association for Cancer Research, American Thyroid Association, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, and International Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

Sep
24
Tue
The 2019 Early Detection of Cancer Conference @ Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Sep 24 – Sep 26 all-day
The 2019 Early Detection of Cancer Conference @ Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center

The Canary Center at Stanford, founded in 2009 as the first research center in the world, entirely dedicated to cancer early detection, The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, a leader in precision cancer medicine, and Cancer Research UK, the largest independent funder of cancer research globally have formed an international collaboration to accelerate research in the early detection of cancer.

The goal of this unique trans-Atlantic agreement is to find lethal cancers as they’re forming so they can be treated more effectively. Survival increases significantly when the disease is treated at an early stage.

The collaboration also seeks to accelerate progress by breaking down barriers for scientists, including:

  • A lack of cohorts of sufficient size and a shortage of clinical samples available for research
  • Development and deployment of new technologies
  • Lack of understanding of the biology of early cancer and technologies to detect its features

2019 conference topic list includes:

  • Integrative Early Detection through multiple technologies
  • Prognostic Early Detection
  • Signals from beyond the tumor
  • Integrative Susceptibility for Early Detection
  • Fostering a translational mentality in Early Detection Research

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Oct
22
Tue
“My Surgical Success” A Digital Behavioral Pain Medicine Intervention @ Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, Room LK120 
Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

“My Surgical Success” shows the impact of a digital behavioral pain medicine intervention on time to opioid cessation after breast cancer surgery. Beth Darnall, PhD and Principal Investigator of the Stanford PCORI Project on Opioid and Pain Reduction (the EMPOWER study) will discuss how digital solutions are expanding access to behavioral pain management through tools like virtual reality and helping to reduce opioid dependence.