PROGRAM
Sol Katz Lecture
Mark G. Kris, MD
5:30 p.m.Registration and Cocktails
Exhibits, Poster Session & Judging
6:45 p.m.Dinner
7:00 p.m. Welcome
Nargues Weir, MD
President, MDCTS
7:10 p.m.Sol Katz Lecture
“Personalizing Care for Persons with Lung Cancers”
Mark G. Kris, M.D.
William and Joy Ruane Chair
in Thoracic Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
8:00 p.m.Questions and Answers
Nargues Weir, MD, Moderator
8:20 p.m.Announcement of Abstract Competition Winners
Stewart Levine, MD,
Chief Judges, MDCTS
9:00 p.m. Meeting Adjournment
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the sponsorship of Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Dr. Mark Krisis the William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Since 2012, he has served as the Lead Physician for the Memorial Sloan Kettering - IBM Watson Collaboration.
Dr. Kris graduated from Fordham University. After receiving his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College, he served as Chief Medical Resident and Fellow in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
He is author or coauthor of over 300 original scientific publications. Dr. Kris served as a member of the guideline panels on non-small cell lung cancers and antiemetics for the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network from 1995-2015. He served as co-chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology guideline panel for adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation for non-small cell lung cancers. He received the first American Society of Clinical Oncology Humanitarian Award in 2011. Dr. Kris also received the Annie Blount Storrs Award from Calvary Hospital 2014.
Dr. Kris’ research focuses on developing strategies to choose treatments for patients based on molecular characteristics of their tumor specimens. His research also includes the evaluation of targeted cancer therapies, multimodality therapy and the training of the IBM Watson cognitive computer to assist physicians in choosing the best treatments for their patients with cancers.
Medstar Georgetown University Hospitaldesignates this educational activity for a maximum of 1AMA PRACategory 1 Credit(s)™.Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Georgetown University
Hotel and Conference Center
3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC 20057
Presents The
2016 Annual Meeting
Metro DC Thoracic Society
Research Competition
and
Sol Katz Lecture
The2016Metropolitan DC Thoracic Society Annual Meeting and Research Competition is made possible in part by support from our Sponsors: Genentech, Meda, Veran Medical Technologies, CSL Behring, Novartis, Bayer, Merit Medical Endotech, Boston Scientific, Gilead, BoehringerIngelheim, Molecular Imaging Technologies, Astra Zeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb. We thank our Sponsors and our Exhibitors for their support.
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016