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

Schedule

7:00 - 7:30am POSTER SETUP
7:30 - 8:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND POSTER VIEWING
8:00am RETREAT COMMENCES
8:00 - 8:05am

Introductory Comments by Dr. Stephen M. Hahn
Henry K. Pancoast Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology, Co-Leader of the Radiation Biology and Imaging Program, Abramson Cancer Center
8:05 - 8:25am ABIGAIL BERMAN
"Prospective Study of Thoracic Reirradiation with Proton Beam Radiotherapy: Feasibility and Safety Analysis"
8:25 - 8:45am CHRISTINA TWYMAN
"A Pre-Clinical Model for Response and Resistance to RadVax, The Combination of Radiation and Anti-CTLA4"
8:45 - 9:05am SHEP SMITHLINE
"Modeling Thermal Effects in Antivascular Ultrasound Therapy"
9:05 - 9:25am MARCUS FAGER
"Improving the LETd Distribution in Proton Therapy for Prostate Tumors Using a Non-Distal-Edge Patching Technique"
9:25 - 9:35am COFFEE BREAK
9:35 - 9:55am J. NICK LUKENS
"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 - 10:15am SAM SWISHER-MCCLURE
"Risk of Fatal Cerebrovascular Accidents after External Beam Radiotherapy for Early Stage Glottic Larynx Cancer"
10:15 - 10:35am GITA SUNEJA
"Disparities in the Treatment and Outcomes of Lung Cancer among HIV-Infected Individuals"
10:35 - 10:55am SANJAY CHANDRASEKARAN
"Latest Update on CTC analyses at Penn Radiation Oncology"
10:55 - 11:05am COFFEE BREAK
11:05 - 11:25am ILDIKO CSIKI
"Sonic Hedgehod Signaling in Lung Cancer: Mechanisms of Activation and Potential Therapeutic Implications"
11:25 - 11:45am SHANNON GALLAGHER-COLOMBO
"Addition of Erlotinib to Photodynamic Therapy Improves Therapeutic Benefit through Multiple Mechanisms"
11:45 - 12:05pm DAVID GUTTMAN
"Inhibition of Hsp27 Potently Radiosensitizes Head and Neck Cancer by Inhibition of DNA Repair"
12:05 - 12:25pm LOVA SUN
"Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Imaging and Radiation Therapy of Brain Tumors"
12:25 - 1:30pm LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
1:30 - 2:40pm

KEYNOTE: "IMMUNOMODULATION IN CANCER THERAPY"
DR. CHANDAN GUHA
Professor and Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2:40 - 2:55pm RETREAT AWARDS
2:55 - 3:00pm

Closing Comments by Dr. Costas Koumenis
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
3:00pm

RETREAT ENDS

LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

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