Lung Cardiac and Colon Screening with CT

CT scanning, also called CAT scanning, is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions. Drs. Fergus Coakley, Brett Elicker, and Judy Yee, UCSF Department of Radiology, explore the risks and benefits of lung, heart and colon screenings with CT. 

Multilevel Interventions in Health Care Conference

Multilevel Interventions in Health Care: Building the Foundation for Future Research Goals, with his background as an oncologist, researcher and administrator, Dr. Otis Brawley (American Cancer Society) brings his unique perspective on multilevel interventions in clinical practice and consider how health care changes and multilevel interventions. Dr. Brawley currently serves as professor of hematology, oncology, medicine and epidemiology at Emory University. From April of 2001 to November of 2007, he was medical director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and deputy director for cancer control at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. He has also previously served as a member of the Society’s Prostate Cancer Committee, co-chaired the U.S. Surgeon General’s Task Force on Cancer Health Disparities, and filled a variety of capacities at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), most recently serving as assistant director.

The Evolution of the p53 Family of Genes: Somatic Cell & Germ Cell Fidelity

Arnold J. Levine, The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study. Arnold Levine is a widely acclaimed leader in cancer research. In 1979, Levine and others discovered the p53 tumor suppressor protein, a molecule that inhibits tumor development. He established and heads the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute, which concentrates on research at the interface of molecular biology and the physical sciences: on genetics and genomics, polymorphisms and molecular aspects of evolution, signal transduction pathways and networks, stress responses, and pharmacogenomics in cancer biology.