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Inaugural Joint Irish Cancer Society & Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences & Oncology, Beaumont Hospital Adult Gliomas - Best Practice in Treatment and Care Conference for Health Care Professionals On Friday 13th October 2006 At Number 6, Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
10.00 - 10.05 Opening Address Mr. John McCormack, Chief Executive, Irish Cancer Society
Session I Chairperson: Dr. Michael Farrell, Consultant Neuropathologist, Beaumont Hospital
10.05 – 10.35 Adult Gliomas – Classification (with emphasis on pathologic and radiologic correlation) Dr. Catherine Keohane, Neuropathology Department, Cork Univeristy Hospital
10.35 – 11.05 Key Molecular Events in Glioma, Origin, Growth and Progression. Dr. Paul Mischel, Department of Pathology [Neuropathology], University of California, Los Angeles Medical Centre, Los Angeles 11.05 – 11.30 COFFEE Session II Chairperson: Professor John Armstrong, Chairperson, Irish Cancer Society 11.30 – 12.00 The Adult Patient with High Grade Glioma – an Overview of the Treatment Mr. Donacha O'Brien MD FRCSI, Consultant Neurosurgeon , Beauumont Hopsital, Dublin 9 12.00 – 12.30 Radiotherapy Options for High Grade Gliomas Professor Roy Rampling, Professor of Neuro-Oncology, Beatson Oncology Centre, Western Infirmary, Glasgow 12.30 – 13.00 Recent Advances in the Management of Patients with High Grade Glioma. Dr. TF Cloughesy, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles 13.00 – 13.30 Palliative Care in Patients with High Grade Glioma Dr. Regina McQuillan, Palliative Medicine Consultant, St. Francis Hospice, Raheny/Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 13.30 – 14.15 LUNCH Session III Chairperson: Professor Ciaran Bolger, Professor of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
14.15 – 14.45 Clinical, Imaging and Pathologic Overview of Low Grade Glioma in Adults. Drs. Michael Farrell, Neuropathologist & Paul Brennan Neuroradiologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 14.45 – 15.15 Randomised Clinical Trials in Low Grade Glioma. Dr. Clare Faul, Radiation Oncologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 15.15 – 15.45 Chemotherapy for Low Grade Glioma including Oligodendroglioma Dr. Liam Grogan, Clinical Oncologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 15.45 – 16.15 Advances in Brain Mapping and Intra-Operative Imaging have resulted in Improved Survival of Patients with Low Grade Glioma Dr. PJ Kelly. Department of Neurosurgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York 16.15 – 16.30 The Patient Experience Patient (to be selected)
16.30 – 16.40 CLOSING REMARKS ______For further information or to book a place, please contact Emma Barry on (01) 2310 518 or email: [email protected]