Course Direction
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DIRECTOR
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...N. Duchesne, M.D. |
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Course Faculty
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DIAGNOSTIC
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| ...S. Harms, M.D. |
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| ...P. Sebag, M.D. |
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| ...T. Stavros, M.D. |
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| ...N. Wadden, M.D. |
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ONCOLOGY
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| ...J. Ragaz, M.D. |
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RADIO-ONCOLOGY
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...R. Kuske, M.D. |
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SURGERY
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...P. Israel, M.D. |
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| N. Otaky, MD |
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| S. Meterissian, MD |
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PATHOLOGY
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M. Lagios, M.D. |
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TECHNOLOGY
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T. Onedamdy, t.r. |
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"Many
thanks for one of the very best breast meetings I have seen! The
favorable chemistry amongst the speakers and organizers was evident
throughout, and I believe it was obvious to all participants that they
were having a genuine good time."
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R.K., radiation oncologist
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NATHALIE
DUCHESNE, MD
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| Dr. Nathalie Duchesne has been working in breast imaging and intervention since 1996, and is currently Director of Breast Imaging and Intervention at the the Ville Marie Medical Imaging Center and the Ville Marie Women's Health Center. Nathalie received her Medical Doctorate in 1990 and her Diagnostic Radiology postgraduate degree in 1995, both from University Laval, Quebec City. She has performed rotations in university hospitals both in Australia and The Netherlands, and worked on a fellowship program in interventional MRI and bone tumors at Harvard University. The latter was completed in breast imaging at the Universite de Montreal. She also holds a B.Sc. degree in Biology. Dr. Duchesne's main clinical and research interests include breast biopsy tool development, the application of MR imaging to diagnosis and intervention as well as new types of breast imaging and cancer detection. She is a pioneer in vacuum-assisted breast biopsy, having done many world and Canadian premieres for various devices. She is an internationally known speaker having given numerous national and international conferences, with a track record of publications in the areas of breast imaging and intervention. She has lectured in the Breast Imaging and Intervention Series (2001-2003). She is a member of various international scientific societies, and has received many awards from her peers, such as the Young Radiologist Investigator Award of the Year for 2005 by the Canadian Association of Radiologists. Dr. Nathalie Duchesne is the founder and Director of The Breast Course. |
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STEVE
HARMS, MD
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...USA |
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Dr. Steven E. Harms, is professor, Department of Radiology, at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, medical director, Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc., and staff radiologist at the Breast Center of Northwest Arkansas. Dr. Harms received his medical and undergraduate degrees from the University of Arkansas.A fellow in the American College of Radiology and the Society of Magnetic Resonance, Dr. Harms is board certified in radiology. In addition to winning four annual awards for breast cancer research from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Dr. Harms was also named Scientist of the Year by the foundation in 1998. In 1996, Dr. Harms was named one of the top 10 physicians in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex by D Magazine and is a recipient of the William Beaumont Award from the American Medical Association. Steve is a reviewer for several medical publications and serves on the editorial board for MR: The Quarterly Magazine of Magnetic Resonance and the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, among others. He has authored nearly 200 scientific papers, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles, as well as 38 book chapters and two books: Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles and Clinical Applications and Breast MRI: Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. He holds seven patents in the area of magnetic resonance imaging. In addition to the Radiological Society of North America, Dr. Harms is a member of the American College of Radiology, the American Medical Association, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Society of Breast Imaging, Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. It is his second time lecturing at The Breast Course. |
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PHILIPPE
SEBAG, MD
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Dr Philippe Sebag
is a
gradutate of the Universite Aix/Marseille (M.D.), of the Universite de
Liege (radiodiagnostic) and of Strasbourg University, where he got a
fellowship in breast diseases. He has worked in the area of breast
diseases since 1992. He has been involved in stereotaxic macrobiopsies
since 1999, and ultrasound guided macrobiopsies since 2000. |
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TOM
STAVROS, MD
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 ...USA |
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Dr. Stavros has been
the chief of Ultrasound and
non-invasive vascular services with Radiology Imaging Associates,
Medical Imaging of Colorado, and Swedish Medical Center since 1979.
Tom has been involved in mammography since joining RIA in 1976, and has been actively involved in the development of high-frequency hand-held breast ultrasound since 1981. He lectures extensively domestically and internationally on breast ultrasound and has recently completing a textbook on breast ultrasound. He is a reviewer for several radiology journals. Dr. Stavros is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, a fellow of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology, where he was the Baker Professor in 1999. He has been a lecturer at The Breast Course since 2006. |
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NANCY
WADDEN, MD
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| Nancy Wadden is the Medical Director of the Breast Screening Program for Newfoundland and Labrador and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dr. Wadden graduated from Memorial University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Biochemistry and was awarded the Birks Gold Medal for contributions to student affairs. She graduated from Memorial University School of Medicine in 1984 and went on to an internship at Toronto General Hospital. In 1989 she completed residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Toronto and then a one year fellowship training in Breast and Body Imaging at Toronto General Hospital. While a staff radiologist at the Toronto Hospital and a faculty member of the University of Toronto, Dr. Wadden received several teaching excellence awards. In 1996 she coauthored an award winning educational CD ROM entitled "Fundamentals of Breast Imaging". From 1995 to 2001, she served as chair of the Mammography Accreditation Program for the Canadian Association of Radiologists. During this time, the number of accredited mammography units in Canada increased significantly. Dr. Wadden continues to serve as a member of the Mammography Accreditation Committee and remains the chief clinical image reviewer. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Radiologists. Dr. Wadden has organized numerous Breast Imaging Courses in Canada and has delivered several hundred invited lectures in North America and around the world. She continues to be involved with The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Initiative, and The Working Group of the Canadian Mammography Quality Standards. She also serves on several other provincial and national committees dealing with Diagnostic Imaging, Radiation Safety, Breast Screening and Breast Cancer. |
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JOSEPH
RAGAZ, MD
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Dr Joseph Ragaz, FRCP,
is Professor of Medicine and
Oncology at the McGill University Health Center, one of the largest
teaching medical institutions in Quebec. He graduated from the
Westminster
Medical School, London, UK, did
Internal Medicine at McGill University, Montréal, and Oncology
Program at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. Subsequently, he
spent 27 years (1977 - 2003) as a senior Medical
Oncologist at the Vancouver’s’ British Columbia Cancer Control Agency,
where he became internationally recognized as a breast cancer
researcher.
Joseph's contributions include the start of Neoadjuvant Breast cancer initiatives in North America (1978 -1990); start of Medical adrenalectomy with Aromatase inhibitors in BC & Canada (1978 - 1983); and completion of the first randomized trial of radiation in Breast cancer (1984 – 2005). He was a part of the inititial BCCA team starting in North America the Breast Cancer research with Tissue microarrays (2000-2003) and was a collaborator in multiple BC and Canadian Breast cancer Clinical research projects. Dr Ragaz is a lifelong contributor towards BC Cancer Agency Community Oncology Program, and initiator of the Cance community program in Quebec. He is a senior committee member and contributor towards the Oxford-based Early Breast Cancer Trialist’s Collaborative Group (EBCTCG). Dr Ragaz has been lecturing at The Breast Course since its first edition in 2005 and now acts as its Activity Director. |
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ROBERT
KUSKE, MD
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| Dr. Robert Kuske holds a B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He did his Internship in Medicine at the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati and his Residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, finishing in 1984. Robert held numerous academic appointments in the Washington University School of Medicine, St-Louis, MO, the Department of Radiology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI before becoming a Clinical Professor, at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Phoenix, AZ. His hospital appointments were equally numerous, in St-Louis, MO, New Orleans and Baton Rouge,LA, in many Wisconsin hospitals and more recently as an Attending Radiation Oncologist at the Banner Baywood, Banner Desert, Phoenix Baptist, St-Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Metropolitan Phoenix, AZ. Dr Kuske's awards, appointments, offices held, review boards are too numerous to list here. He has well over 70 peer-reviewed publicatons on the topic of breast radiation oncology, has lectured extensively on the topic and participated in numerous research grants over the last two decades. He has been lecturing at The Breast Course since its first edition in 2005. |
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PHILIP
ISRAEL, MD
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...USA |
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Philip Z. Israel is currently Director of The Breast Center, in
Marietta, Georgia, and Assistant
Professor of Surgery at the University of Tennessee. Phil is a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his General Surgery residency at the Emory University Hospital. He has since worked in the United States Air Force as a Surgeon at the Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas, in private practice for a number of years, and finally professes at The Breast Center since 1986. He has published, presented, and instructed on breast surgery extensively in the United States and beyond. Dr Israel is a Fellow or member of more than 10 professional organisations related to breast care and/or surgery, such as the National Ultrasound Faculty and the National Stereotactic Faculty of the ACOS and the Stereotactic Credentialing Committee of the ACR. He serves on numerous Boards of Directors, including the MAG Mutual Insurance Co, and was Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Breast Surgeons between 1998-2002. He has been lecturing at The Breast Course since its first edition in 2005. |
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NAIM
OTAKY, MD
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| Dr Naim Otaky is a breast surgeon at Ville Marie
Breast Health Center in Montreal, Canada. He graduated from McGill
University Medical School in Montreal in 1998. He completed his
surgical residency, also at McGill, in 2003 and is a fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. The vast majority of his work is
devoted to breast cancer diagnosis and surgery. Working in a busy interdisciplinary breast clinic in Montreal, Naim takes care of reading and interpreting his patients’ mammograms, performing targeted breast ultrasound and performing biopsies under image guidance. He is a strong advocate for pre-op MRI and per-op ultrasound as essential tools in optimizing surgical outcomes. His practice exemplifies a new era of breast surgeons playing a key role in the preoperative evaluation and multimodality diagnostic work up of their patients in addition to performing surgery. It will be his first year as part of TBC faculty. |
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MICHAEL
LAGIOS, MD
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He and his colleagues at a small community hospital in San Francisco, pioneered breast conservation therapy for duct carcinoma in situ, developed nuclear grading as a basic method of classification of the disease and perfected methods of tissue processing for mammographically directed biopsies. Having gained considerable weight after his third Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon, he has eschewed a professional career in that discipline and presently is Medical Director of the Breast Cancer Consultation Service in Tiburon, California. Dr. Lagios holds an appointment as clinical associate professor in Pathology at Stanford University, and is a Fellow from the California Academy of Sciences. Dr Lagios has been lecturing at The Breast Course since its first edition in 2005. |
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SARKIS
METERISSIAN, MD
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Dr Sarkis Meterissian is Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology at McGill University. He is the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education and Professional Affairs as well as Director of the Cedars Breast Clinic of the McGill University Health Center. Dr. Meterissian is a graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and completed his surgical training at McGill University. He then completed a 2-year surgical oncology research fellowship at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston before completing a two-year clinical fellowship at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Meterissian returned to his alma mater in 1994 as an academic surgical oncologist. His major clinical areas of interest are breast cancer, melanoma, sarcoma and rectal cancer. His research has centered around the pathogenesis of liver metastases as well as the identification of stromal markers of prognosis in breast cancer using microarray technology. Most recently his research has been in the area of surgical education more specifically in the assessment of clinical reasoning in surgical trainees. He has received external funding from the CIHR, the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation as well as the Association for Surgical Education. He served 4 years as the Co-Director of the Cancer Research Axis of the McGill University Health Center. He was named as Outstanding Teacher in 2007 by the Association for Surgical Education. He has served as a member of the Clinical Trials Grant Panel of the NCIC and is presently on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Clinical Oncology. He was Program Director of the McGill University Surgical Oncology Program from 1997-2001 and Program Director of the General Surgery Program from 2001-2007. He is presently President of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Meterissian has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 abstracts and presentations nationally and internationally. It will be the first time that Dr Meterissian lectures at The Breast Course. |
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TANJA
ONEDAMDY, t.r.
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Ms.
Onedamdy received her radiology technologist diploma from the Ecole
cantonale vaudoise (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 1998 with a
specialization in MRI and CT. She has since further specialized in
breast imaging, through numerous continuing education courses.
Accredited via the Quebec Order of Technologist, she acts as well on
the Order's Professional Inspection Comittee.
Tanja has worked at the Centre d'Imagerie diagnostique (Lausanne, Suisse), the Jewish General Hospital (Montreal, Canada), the Westmount Square Medical Imaging Center (Montreal, Canada) and is now chief-technologist at the Ville Marie MRI Center (Montreal, Canada). Mrs Onedamdy will be joining us at The Breast Course for the first time. |
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