Agenda and Speakers

Katrina Armstrong, MD

Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Chief Executive Officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Laureen Hill, MD, MBA

Group Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Irving Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Oncology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Chief of Cancer Services at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD

Former director of the National Cancer Institute

“Cancer on a Chip”

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD

University Professor; Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Columbia University

“Artificial Intelligence is Changing How We Find and Treat Cancer”

Lisa A. Kachnic, MD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Chief of the Radiation Oncology Service at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

“Embracing the Complexity of Cancer”

Andrea Califano, Dr

Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Systems Biology) and Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics), Columbia University; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Centter; Director, JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center; Co-Leader, Precision Oncology and Systems Biology Program, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

Moderator: Max Gomez, MD

CBS News Medical Correspondent

Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)

Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Mary Beth Terry, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology (in Environmental Health Sciences), Mailman School of Public Health; Associate Director for Community Cancer Prevention, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center; Co-Leader Cancer Population Sciences, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

"Defining Previvors: the Future of Genetic Testing for Cancer"

Fay Kastrinos, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

“How Where You Live Impacts Your Cancer Risk”

Andrea Baccarelli, PhD

Leon Hess Professor of Environmental Health Sciences; Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health 

“Getting Under the Skin: Why Race (Alone) is Not a Cancer Risk Factor”

Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health

Moderator: Max Gomez, MD

CBS News Medical Correspondent

Additional panelist: Carmen De La Rosa

New York City Council Member 

Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Irving Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Oncology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons;Chief of Cancer Services at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Desirée A.H. Walker and Anne Marie Mercurio

Patient advocates, members of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Patient Advocacy Board and Community Advisory Board

Location: Vagelos Education Center, 104 Haven Ave, New York, NY 10032