2010 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting Program Planning Underway

Planning has begun for the 2010 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting in Chicago, October 3-5. The 2010 Annual Meeting program committee, chaired by Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stanton L. Gerson, MD, is charged with identifying topics and speakers for this yearly assembly of approximately 275 senior leaders from the nation’s cancer centers. As in previous years, AACI will seek Continuing Medical Education accreditation for the program.

Other cancer center leaders joining Dr. Gerson on the program committee are: Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, Director, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute; Walter J. Curran, Jr, MD, FACR, Director Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University; David Michael Gosky, MBA, Director of Administration and Finance, Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky; Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, Director, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center; H. Kim Lyerly, MD, Director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center; Jennifer A. Pietenpol, PhD, Director, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Joy Soleiman, MPA, Clinical Administrator, Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson University; Barbara Duffy Stewart, MPH, Executive Director, Association of Amerian Cancer Institutes; Richard A. Van Etten, MD, PhD, Director, Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center; Janet L. Villarmia, MBA, Associate Director for Administration, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California; Jeff A. Walker, MBA, Executive Vice President, Roswell Park Cancer Institute; James K.V. Willson, MD, Director, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; and, Theodore J. Yank, MHA, Associate Director for Administration, The Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

Registration and a preliminary agenda will be available starting Monday, April 5.