What’s New in Precision Medicine

Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Eastern Time

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

Topics Covered

• Understanding Precision Medicine: Overview & Value of Precision Medicine
• How Precision Medicine is Different from Targeted Treatments?
• Precision Medicine’s Role in Informing Treatment Decisions: Predicting Response to Treatment
• The Role of Precision Medicine in Deciding the Treatment for Lung Cancer, Leukemia & Colon Cancer
• Talking with Your Health Care Team About Precision Medicine & its Benefits
• The Role of the Pathologist
• OpenNotes – Asking Your Health Care Team & Pathologist to Help You Understand OpenNotes
• How Precision Medicine Contributes to Treatment Options & Quality of Life
• Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology & Prepared List of Questions
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Aaron D. Goldberg, MD, PhD

Assistant Attending Physician, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michael B. Foote, MD

Assistant Attending Physician, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Jennifer A. Marks, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Affiliate Staff, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology

Jesse L. Cox, MD, PhD, A(ACHI)

UNMC Pathology Residency Program Director, James Linder, M.D., Residency Director Distinguished Professorship/Chair, Director, Tissue Typing HLA Laboratory, Nebraska Medicine, Director, Molecular Forensics Laboratory, UNMC, Medical Director, Nebraska Public Service Laboratory, UNMC, Medical Director, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, Associate Director, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Nebraska Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

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 1.0 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 1.0 Contact Hour.

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

Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®): This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Cancer Care, Inc is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

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