Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds

2006-2007

Friday Speaker Title
    Hematology Core Lectures
July 7, 2006 Morey Blinder Peripheral blood smears (PowerPoint)
July 14 Monica Bessler Bone marrow failure (PowerPoint/HTML)
July 21 Morey Blinder Anemia (PowerPoint)
July 28 Doug Lublin Transfusion (PowerPoint)
August 4 Morey Blinder Bleeding disorders (PowerPoint)
August 11 Evan Sadler Von Willebrand disease and TTP (PowerPoint)
August 18 Chuck Eby Laboratory testing for venous thromboembolism risk assessment (PowerPoint)
August 25 Doug Tollefsen Anticoagulants and HIT (PowerPoint)
September 1 Morey Blinder Diagnostic hematology: monoclonal gammopathies and hemoglobin disorders (PowerPoint)
    Grand Rounds
September 8 Josh Field
Tanya Wildes
Rich Walgren
Protocol design and submission (PowerPoint)
September 15 Mark Pomerantz
(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
Hormones, genes and prostate cancer risk
September 22 Kerry Williams Medullary renal carcinoma - the seventh sickle cell nephropathy (PowerPoint)
  Stuart Kornfeld Molecular origins of chronic myeloproliferative disorders (PowerPoint)
September 29 CANCELED  
October 6 James Mosley Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (PowerPoint)
  Mark Schroeder Mysteries of the mantle zone: good is bad and bad is good except in mantle cell (PowerPoint)
October 13 Mike Martin Management of a Jehovah's Witness with TTP (PowerPoint)
  Daniel Morgensztern Carcinoma of unknown primary (PowerPoint)
October 20 John Welch APL and ATRA: sure it works, but how? (PowerPoint)
  Cynthia Ma Adjuvant chemotherapy for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer: more questions than answers (PowerPoint)
October 27 Julie Kanter (Pediatrics) Malignant mesenchymoma: a review of the literature and treatment options (PowerPoint/HTML)
  Priya Gopalan Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy in breast cancer (PowerPoint)
November 3 Jeff Bednarski (Pediatrics) CNS germinomas, diabetes insipidus, and chemotherapy: challenges in management (PowerPoint)
  Morey Blinder Unexplained iron deficiency anemia (PowerPoint)
November 10 Richard Walgren Epigenetic changes in MDS (PowerPoint)
  Matt Walter Detection of deletions and amplifications in primary AML genomes
November 17 Boone Goodgame Tailored toxic therapy: identifying platinum resistance (PowerPoint)
  Phil Majerus The association of ITP with TTP in a young woman (PowerPoint)
December 1 Todd Fehniger Regulatory T cells in anti-tumor immunity (PowerPoint)
  John DiPersio Review of Washington University mobilization database (PowerPoint)
December 8 ASH   
December 15 Coy Heldermon Her-2 or not (PowerPoint)
  Mike Martin Pemetrexed in thoracic malignancies (PowerPoint)
January 5, 2007 Nima Sharifi
(National Cancer Institute)
Prostate cancer: from TGF-beta resistance to androgen independence
January 12 Kerry Williams Irinotecan: can we predict toxicity? (PowerPoint)
  John Welch CML: goal oriented therapy (PowerPoint)
January 19 Tom Fong Copper deficiency and myelodysplasia (PowerPoint)
January 26 David Threadgill
(UNC Chapel Hill)
EGFR-inhibition therapies are dependent upon genetic and environmental context
February 2 Jeff Bednarski (Pediatrics) Thymic carcinoma: should biology dictate therapy? (PowerPoint)
  Kathy Ponder New treatments for iron overload (PowerPoint)
February 9 Tanya Wildes Targeted therapy in relapsed Hodgkin's disease (PowerPoint)
  David Kuperman Induction therapy for squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (PowerPoint)
February 16 Mark Schroeder Steroid refractory acute GVHD (PowerPoint)
  Elaine Majerus Familial thrombocytopenias (PowerPoint)
February 23 Julie Kanter (Pediatrics) The clinical implications of treating patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (PowerPoint)
  James Mosley Management of mechanical complications of lung cancer (PowerPoint)
March 2 Coy Heldermon Neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer (PowerPoint)
  Dan Link Pathogenesis of severe congenital neutropenia (PowerPoint)
March 9 Boone Goodgame Prognostic value of FDG-PET for early stage carcinomas (PowerPoint)
  Doug Tollefsen Drug-induced thrombocytopenia (PowerPoint)
March 16 Priya Gopalan Ovarian cancer (PowerPoint)
  Monica Bessler Complement inhibition for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: results from the TRIUMPH/SEPHARD study (PowerPoint)
March 23 Todd Fehniger Emerging therapies for fludarabine-refractory CLL (PowerPoint)
  Donald Lombardi Treatment and biology of HER-2/neu gene amplified breast cancer
March 30 Mike Martin How Andy Warhol treated myelodysplastic syndrome (PowerPoint)
  Ben Tan Treatment of liver-only metastatic colorectal cancer (PowerPoint)
April 6 Richard Walgren Pharmacogenomic studies of human treatment-related MDS and AML (PowerPoint)
  Gerry Linette Cancer immunotherapy update (PowerPoint)
April 13 Tanya Wildes Physical activity and cancer risk (PowerPoint)
  Evan Sadler Stroke in a nineteen year old girl with sickle cell disease (PowerPoint)
April 20 Kerry Williams Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking a gynecological malignancy (PowerPoint)
  Kathy Weilbaecher G-CSF enhances bone tumor growth in mice in an osteoclast-dependent manner (PowerPoint)
April 27 David Kuperman Autologous stem cell transplants for solid tumors (PowerPoint)
  Steven Sorscher Rationale for cancer gene therapy: si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumpice (PowerPoint)
May 4 Tom Fong Tumors of the small bowel (PowerPoint)
  Caron Rigden Her2 positive breast cancer: beyond trastuzumab (PowerPoint)
May 11 John Welch Post-chemotherapy nausea (PowerPoint)
  Rama Suresh Breast MRI (PowerPoint)
May 18 Mark Schroeder Cancer stem cells: a review and implications for novel therapeutic approaches (PowerPoint)
  Chuck Eby Thrombotic complications during treatment of bleeding in hemophiliacs (PowerPoint)
May 25 James Mosley Hormone-refractory prostate cancer: current trends and future directions (PowerPoint)
  Paula Fracasso Concurrent cetuximab, cisplatin, and radiation therapy in advanced cervical cancer (PowerPoint)
June 1 ASCO