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National Cancer Institute (NCI) Science Writers’ Seminar Series with the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia To view the archived videocast of this seminar, held on Wed., Nov. 30, 2005, visit http://videocast.nih.gov. Once on the site, select "Past Events." Then click on "Special" and scroll between pages of event listings (organized by date) and select the following video: National Cancer Institute - Columbia University Medical Center Science Writers’ Seminar Wednesday, November 30, 2005 H. Freeman, I.B. Weinstein, A. Neugut, D. Hershman, R. Santella and V. Grann Total Running Time: 02:02:58 Agenda:
Dr.
Bernard Weinstein is the Frode Jensen Professor of Medicine at Columbia
University Medical Center. He is also professor of genetics and
development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and professor of public health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public
Health. He is an Attending Physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia.
Dr.
Alfred Neugut is the Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research in
Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He is also
professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of
Public Health, as well as head of Cancer Prevention and Control for the
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and co-director of the
Cancer Prevention Center of New York Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia.
Dr.
Dawn Hershman is assistant professor of medicine at the Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Division of
Medical Oncology. Additionally, she is co-director of the Breast
Program for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia
University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
Dr.
Regina Santella is professor of environmental health sciences at the
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University Medical Center,
where she is also director of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
in Northern Manhattan, director of the Molecular Epidemiology Program
and Biomarkers Core Facility of the Cancer Center and director of the
Jean Sindab African American Breast Cancer Project.
Dr.
Victor Grann is clinical professor of medicine and epidemiology and
health policy and management at the College of Physicians &
Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Medical Center. He is also director of health outcomes research
and directs the recruitment, retention, and outcomes core at the
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr.
Harold Freeman was associate director of the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) and director of NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, until
September 2005. He is currently senior advisor to the NCI
Director on minority and underserved communities. He is also medical
director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in
New York, NY, and a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
*Learn more about the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center by visiting: http://www.ccc.columbia.edu/
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