Mentorship Networking Event
Date/Time: Friday June 28 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Les Beffrois, Floor 4
Delegates are invited to sign up for 30-minute appointments with mentors.
All Appointments have been assigned. If we have been able to confirm an appointment for you, we will send you an email confirmation in the days before the meeting.
Meet Our Mentors
Scheduled 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Fred Ashbury, Editor-in-Chief, Supportive Care in Cancer
Profession: Clinical Research
Connect With Me On: research, writing/publishing
Sebastiano Mercadante, MD
Profession: Director Main Regional Center for Supportive/Palliative Care, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo
Connect With Me On: research, symptom control, pain, supportive and palliative care
Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO
Profession: Professor of Medicine and Winterhof Professor of Breast Oncology
Connect With Me On: identification and management of emerging toxicities, application of clinical guidelines, best use of emerging agents
Camilla Zimmermann, MD, PhD
Profession: Palliative Care Physician
Connect With Me On: palliative care research
Alex Chan, Pharm.D., MPH, FCCP, FISOPP, BCPS, BCOP, Aph
Profession: Pharmacist/Researcher
Connect With Me On: academia/research, antiemetics, immuno-oncology, neurological complications, neutropenia infection & myelosuppression, survivorship
Tateaki Naito, MD, PhD
Profession: Director of the Cancer Supportive Care Center and a chief physician of the Division of Thoracic Oncology at Shizuoka Cancer Center, Japan
Connect With Me On: nutrition & cachexia, thoracic oncology
Mitsue Saito, MD
Profession: Surgical Oncologist majored in Breast Cancer
Connect With Me On: women in leadership (especially in Asia), starting a supportive care affiliate in Asia and/or balancing work and private life as a female oncology professional
Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH
Profession: Breast Medical Oncologist
Connect With Me On: identification and management of emerging toxicities, application of clinical guidelines, women in leadership
Akhila Reddy, MD
Profession: Professor, Palliative Medicine
Connect With Me On: opioids, cancer pain management research, outpatient palliative care, telemedicine.
Nikolaos Tsoukalas, MD
Profession: Medical Oncologist
Connect With Me On: medical oncology, multidisciplinary approach in oncology, holistic/integrative oncology, hemostasis and cancer associated thrombosis, thromboprophylaxis, education, new treatments and new toxicities in oncology
Scheduled 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Niharika Dixit, MD
Profession: Medical Oncologist
Connect With Me On: education, cancer survivorship, cancer care equity, and care delivery
Tateaki Naito, MD, PhD
Profession: Director of the Cancer Supportive Care Center and a chief physician of the Division of Thoracic Oncology at Shizuoka Cancer Center, Japan
Connect With Me On: nutrition & cachexia, thoracic oncology
Mitsue Saito, MD
Profession: Surgical Oncologist majored in Breast Cancer
Connect With Me On: women in leadership (especially in Asia), starting a supportive care affiliate in Asia and/or balancing work and private life as a female oncology professional
Prof Michael Jefford, MD
Profession: Medical oncologist
Connect With Me On: survivorship, psychosocial, research
Larissa Nekhlyudov
Profession: Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, practicing internist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Clinical Director, Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
Connect With Me On: anything survivorship, writing and publishing, career advice
Anna Ugalde
Profession: Academic
Connect With Me On: research, methodology, interventions, psychosocial, survivorship
Amber Kleckner, PhD
Profession: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Connect With Me On: nutrition interventions, fatigue
Akhila Reddy, MD
Profession: Professor, Palliative Medicine
Connect With Me On: opioids, cancer pain management research, outpatient palliative care, telemedicine.
Scheduled 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Larissa Nekhlyudov
Profession: Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, practicing internist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Clinical Director, Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
Connect With Me On: anything survivorship, writing and publishing, career advice
Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis MD, PhD
Profession: Geriatric Oncologist
Connect With Me On: cancer and aging and global oncology research