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Symposium on Hereditary Gastrointestinal Cancer, June 17th, 2011

June 17th, 2011

• To discuss tumour pathology in terms of identifying and managing Lynch Syndrome patients
• To describe screening and management for Lynch, non– Lynch Syndrome and gastric cancer patients
• Outline and evaluate current criteria to identify Lynch syndrome, MutYH–Associated Polyposis and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
• The event will run from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
• Lunch and light refreshments will be provided

To register online click here

Speakers

• Zane Cohen, MD, FRCSC
  Director, Zane Cohen Center for Digestive Diseases
  Chairman Division of General Surgery, Department
  of Surgery, University of Toronto; Professor
• Steven Gallinger, MSc, MD, FRCSC
  Co-Director, Zane Cohen Center for Digestive Diseases
  Head, Division of Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic
  Surgical Oncology, UHN; Professor, Department of
  Surgery, University of Toronto
• Aaron Pollett, MSc, MD, FRCPC
  Staff Pathologist, Mount Sinai Hospital; Assistant
  Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and
  Pathobiology, University of Toronto
• Eugene Hsieh, MD, FRCPC
  Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
  and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University
  of Toronto; Staff Pathologist Sunnybrook
  Health Sciences Centre; Women’s College Hospital
• Blaise Clarke, MD
  Staff Pathologist, Assistant Professor, Department
  of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, The University
  Health Network, Toronto General Hospital
• Lea Velsher, MD, CM, FRCPC, FCCMG
  Clinical Geneticist, North York General Hospital
  Lecturer, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University
  of Toronto
• Robert Gryfe, MD, PhD, FRCSC
  Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai
  Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital; Assistant Professor,
  Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
• Carol Swallow, MD, FRCSC
  Head, Division of General Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital;
  Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgical Oncology,
  UHN, Princess Margaret Hospital; Associate
  Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and
  Pathobiology, Professor Department of Surgery,
  University of Toronto
• Peter J. Ainsworth, BSc, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPC
  Director, Molecular Diagnostic Lab London Health
  Sciences Centre
• Eva Tomiak, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
  Clinical Geneticist, Inherited Cancer Programme,
  Department of Genetics, Children’s Hospital of
  Eastern Ontario; Assistant Professor, Department
  of Medicine, University of Ottawa