Medicine Grand Rounds: Genetic Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction of Women’s Cancers: Progress and Challenges

When:
November 28, 2018 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2018-11-28T08:00:00-08:00
2018-11-28T09:00:00-08:00
Where:
LKSC Berg Hall
Li Ka Shing Building
291 Campus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94305
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Talia Ochoa
Medicine Grand Rounds: Genetic Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction of Women's Cancers: Progress and Challenges @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Allison Kurian, MD, M.Sc.

Associate Professor of Oncology and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University

Allison W. Kurian, M.D., M.Sc. is an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, trained as a resident in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed her fellowship training in Medical Oncology along with a master’s degree in Epidemiology at Stanford University. As Director of the Stanford Women’s Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, Kurian’s clinical practice centers on women at high risk for developing breast and gynecologic cancers.

Kurian’s research focuses on the identification of women with elevated breast and gynecologic cancer risk, and on the development and evaluation of novel techniques for early cancer detection and risk reduction. One current area of investigation is the utility of next-generation sequencing technology for clinical decision-making. Dr. Kurian’s research has been supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Komen Foundation, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the California Breast Cancer Research Program, the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.