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Program Code:
530
Date:
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Time:
12:20 PM to 12:50 PM
EST
SPEAKER
(S):
R. Michael Tuttle, MD, Mem Sloan Kettering Cancer
Disclosure:R. Michael Tuttle, MD, has received consultant fees from Abbott, Genzyme, Lilly and Novo Nordisk.
Robert F. Gagel,
MD,
U of TX MD Anderson Cancer Ctr
Disclosure:Robert F. Gagel, MD, has served as consultant for AstraZeneca, Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Amgen and Exelixis; received research grant support from AstraZeneca; served as a speaker for Exelixis.
Dr. Robert Gagel is Professor and Head of the Division of Internal Medicine at the
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Gagel is a graduate of the Ohio
State University College of Medicine and trained at Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools.
His major research and clinical interests has been the diagnosis, causative molecular
defects and management of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). During his clinical and
research fellowships, Dr. Gagel worked with Drs. Seymour Reichlin and Armen Tasl~ian
to develop the concept of prospective screening for hereditary MTC. In a series of classic
studies, he and his colleagues defined the clinical syndrome of early MTC and developed
strategies to identify and cure patients with MTC by early surgical intervention. Current
laboratory research studies are focused on the identification of non-RET-mediated
abnormalities in MTC. Dr. Gagel has been actively involved in the development of
clinical trials for thyroid carcinoma and currently serves as the Chairman of the
International Thyroid Oncology Group, a consortium of thyroid cancer researchers from
major international cancer centers.
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