Current Perspectives on the Future of Cancer Research

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 1:30 – 2:45 pm, Eastern Time

Registrants can listen in live over the phone or online as a webcast.

Topics Covered

• Understanding the Future of Cancer Research & Clinical Trials
• Increased Focus on Earlier Detection & Treatment of Cancer
• Health Care Disparities Research
• Enhanced Knowledge of the Molecular Portrait of Cancer
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Approaches for Diagnosis & Treatment of Cancer
• Microsatellite Instability (MSI): Mutations in DNA Mismatch Repair Genes – Implications for Treatment
• Immunotherapy
• CAR T-Cell Therapy
• Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors & Blockade
• Monoclonal Antibodies
• Cancer Treatment Vaccines
• Immune System Modulators
• Targeted Immunotherapies
• Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT)
• Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs)
• Robotic Surgery
• Additional Focus on Lifestyle, Exercise, Nutrition & Hydration
• Increasing Role of Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Michael K. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Physician in Chief, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sara Grisales Jaramillo, MSW

Insights & Call Center Program Manager, CancerCare

Michael D. Offin, MD

Assistant Attending, Thoracic Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Aparna Kalyan, MBBS

Associate Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology), Surgery (Organ Transplantation), Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS), Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Joshua Fein, MD

Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FACS

Edgar M. Housepian Professor of Neurological Surgery, Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs,  NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, Director, Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory, Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center

Susan Slovin, MD, PhD

Attending Physician, Genitourinary Oncology Service, Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill College of Cornell University

Sean McBride, MD, MPH

Radiation Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Shaunak Pandya, MD

Hematology-Oncology and Integrative Medicine in Hematology Oncology (IMHO) Fellow, University of Arizona – Tucson

Carolyn Messner, DSW, BCD, FAPOS, FAOSW

Senior Director of Education and Training, CancerCare

Continuing Education Credits

(Live Only)

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.25 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.25 Contact Hour.

Registered Dietitians: This program has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for 1.25 Continuing Professional Education Unit (CPEU).

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession and address to connect@cancercare.org after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed and submitted within two weeks of the live program.

Brochure

You can download the brochure for this workshop