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cd Department of Radiation Oncology 6th Annual Research Retreat Saturday, December 8, 2012

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Schedule

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7:00 - 7:30amPOSTER SETUP
7:30 - 8:00amCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND POSTER VIEWING
8:00amRETREAT COMMENCES
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Introductory Comments by Dr. Stephen M. Hahn
94 Henry K. Pancoast Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology, Co-Leader of the Radiation Biology and Imaging Program, Abramson Cancer Center

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8:05 - 8:25amABIGAIL BERMAN
7f "Prospective Study of Thoracic Reirradiation with Proton Beam Radiotherapy: Feasibility and Safety Analysis"
8:25 - 8:45amCHRISTINA TWYMAN
7c "A Pre-Clinical Model for Response and Resistance to RadVax, The Combination of Radiation and Anti-CTLA4"
8:45 - 9:05amSHEP SMITHLINE
50 "Modeling Thermal Effects in Antivascular Ultrasound Therapy"
9:05 - 9:25amMARCUS FAGER
85 "Improving the LETd Distribution in Proton Therapy for Prostate Tumors Using a Non-Distal-Edge Patching Technique"
9:25 - 9:35amCOFFEE BREAK
9:35 - 9:55amJ. NICK LUKENS
d6 "Late Consequential Surgical Bed Soft TIssue Necrosis in Advanced Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinomas (OP-SCC) Treated with Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) and Postoperative Radiation (PORT)"
9:55 - 10:15amSAM SWISHER-MCCLURE
83 "Risk of Fatal Cerebrovascular Accidents after External Beam Radiotherapy for Early Stage Glottic Larynx Cancer"
10:15 - 10:35amGITA SUNEJA
6c "Disparities in the Treatment and Outcomes of Lung Cancer among HIV-Infected Individuals"
10:35 - 10:55amSANJAY CHANDRASEKARAN
4d "Latest Update on CTC analyses at Penn Radiation Oncology"
10:55 - 11:05amCOFFEE BREAK
11:05 - 11:25amILDIKO CSIKI
7d "Sonic Hedgehod Signaling in Lung Cancer: Mechanisms of Activation and Potential Therapeutic Implications"
11:25 - 11:45amSHANNON GALLAGHER-COLOMBO
7b "Addition of Erlotinib to Photodynamic Therapy Improves Therapeutic Benefit through Multiple Mechanisms"
11:45 - 12:05pmDAVID GUTTMAN
72 "Inhibition of Hsp27 Potently Radiosensitizes Head and Neck Cancer by Inhibition of DNA Repair"
12:05 - 12:25pmLOVA SUN
62 "Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Imaging and Radiation Therapy of Brain Tumors"
12:25 - 1:30pmLUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
1:30 - 2:40pm 55

KEYNOTE: "IMMUNOMODULATION IN CANCER THERAPY"
2c DR. CHANDAN GUHA
5c Professor and Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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2:40 - 2:55pmRETREAT AWARDS
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Closing Comments by Dr. Costas Koumenis
b4 Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology, Director of the Research Division, Co-Leader of the Radiation Biology and Imaging Program, Abramson Cancer Center

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RETREAT ENDS

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LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

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  1. "An integrated method for reproducible, accurate image-guided steretactic cranial irradiation of brain tumors using the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP)"
    27 Brian Baumann
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    2. 5a
  2. "A new technology for fast two-dimensional detection of proton therapy beams"
    26 Derek Dolney
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    3. a5
  3. "Incidence and patterns of distant metastases for patients with early-stage breast cancer after breast conservation treatment: competing risks analysis"
    28 Abigail Berman
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    4. 7b
  4. "Phase I randomized trial of dietary flaxseed in non-small cell lung cancer patients receiving chemoradiation"
    28 Abigail Berman
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    5. 2c
  5. "New areal proton LET detector"
    25 Rulon Mayer
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  6. "Predicting outcomes in locally-advanced rectal cancer using pretreatment FDG-PET imaging"
    2e Anne Marie Fernandes
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  7. "Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Assessment with Cine-MRI in Patients with Left-sided Breast Cancer"
    2e Anne Marie Fernandes
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  8. "Predictive Factors for Mediastinal Nodal Failure in Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients Receiving Definitive Chemoradiation (CRT)"
    2e Anne Marie Fernandes
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    9. 8d
  9. "Incidental nodal irradiation in stage III lung cancer treated with involved field radiation: comparison between 3DCRT and IMRT"
    26 Sonal Sharma
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    10. 7f
  10. "Clinical Implications of Integrated PET-CT in Accurate Staging and Delineation of Tumor Volumes in Rectal Cancer"
    2a J. Taylor Whaley
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    11. 9d
  11. "A Novel Multileaf Collimator-based Photon-Proton Involved-Field Technique for Treatment of Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL) of the Neck and Mediastinum"
    2c Benjamin Goldsmith
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    12. 70
  12. "Measurement of dose enhancement from gold nanoparticles using gafchromic film with gelatin matrix"
    2a Samantha Mikaiel
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    13. 42
  13. "Gold-nanoparticle enhanced radiotherapy for sarcoma"
    33 Melissa Stangl/Surya Murty
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