Maryland Cancer Plan

CANCER CONTROL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Cancer Issues and Challenges
The 14^th Maryland State Council on Cancer Control Conference

November 14, 2007

7:45 – 8:45               Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00               Call to Order, Welcome and Remarks

• John  M. Colmers, Secretary, Maryland Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene  
• J. Richard Lilly, MD,  Chair, Maryland State Council on Cancer Control

9:00 – 10:00             HPV Vaccines: One Year Later   

• Diane Solomon, MD, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute

10:00 – 11:00           Virtual Colonoscopy: Ready for Primetime?

• Ronald Summers, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator and Staff Radiologist, National Institutes of Health

11:00 – 11:10           Morning Break

11:10 – 12:00           Breast Cancer Detection through Use of MRI

• Deirdre Coll, MD, Chief of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center

12:00 – 1:00             Networking Lunch

1:00 – 1:45               CRF Impact on Health Measures  

• Carlessia Hussein, DrPH, RN,  Director of the Cigarette Restitution Fund, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene  

1:45 – 3:15               Research with CRF Funds: Progress and Promise

• John Groopman, PhD,  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center    
• Kevin Cullen, MD, Director, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center  

3:15 - 3:30                Summation and Adjournment