McGill University experts to present at World Cancer Congress

The following list includes some of the McGill University experts who will be attending or presenting at the World Cancer Congress (WCC), the largest gathering of international leaders in the field of cancer, taking place in Montreal from August 27 to 30, 2012.

The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and the congress hosts, McGill University, Université de Montréal and the Fondation québécoise du cancer, will bring together leading cancer specialists with the aim of finding solutions to reduce the impact of cancer on communities around the world and keeping the disease at the forefront of the global health agenda.

Cancer epidemiology
Dr. Eduardo Franco
James McGill Professor, Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine
Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
Interim Chair, Department of Oncology
Member, Local-Host Committee, WCC
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Cancer therapeutics, personalized medicine
Dr. Gerald Batist
Director, McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre
Associate Member, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Director, Segal Cancer Centre; Director, Dept. of Oncology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital
McGill Nutrition and Food Sciences Centre
Languages: English or French

Health services and evaluation: the elderly and cancer
Dr. Howard Bergman
Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine and Oncology
Dr. Joseph Kaufmann Professor of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University
Languages: English and French

Cancer organization, program planning and screening
Dr. Antoine Loutfi
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital
Languages: English and French

Cancer treatment, decision-making among the elderly, patient's experience, influence of age and gender on the decision-making process
Fay J. Strohschein
Doctoral candidate, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine
Nursing clinical consultant, Jewish General Hospital
Languages: English