PROGRAM

FRIDAY,
October 11
American University of Beirut
Hostler Center

7:30AM 8:30AM Registration Opens    
  8:30AM 8:45AM   Welcome & Introduction  
Symposium Keynote 8:45AM 9:45AM

PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Genes And The Microenvironment: The Two Faces Of Breast Cancer
     

Status of Breast Cancer Prevention... from around the world

Session Chair:Tam Donnelly, PhD, University of Calgary-Qatar, Qatar
Co-Chair:

  9:45AM 12:30AM

 

20 minutse each with 5 minutes for Q&A

Status on Breast Cancer Prevention from Around the World
     

Nagi El-Saghir

MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  
      Marissa Fazzino

MD, National Cancer Program (PRONACCAN), Uruguay

Obesity and Breast Cancer

Symposium Lunch

Susan Bulkeley Butler Leadership Excellence Lecture

 12:30PM 2:00PM TBD    
     

From Risk to Tumor... transition Mechanisms

Chair: TBD
Co-Chair: Arafat Tfaily, MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Open Forum 2:00PM 3:00PM

 

Panel of Experts
"Molecular markers to define breast cancer risk"

  
Session Keynote 3:00PM 3:45PM Valerie Weaver

PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA

Tissue Tension and Risk to Malignancy
Speaker 3:45PM 4:15PM TBD    
Break 4:15PM 4:35PM     Coffee Break
Abstract Presentation 4:35PM 5:05PM

selected from the abstracts submitted

    
Speaker 5:05PM 5:35PM Victoria Seewaldt

MD, Duke University, USA

Strategies to identify environmental and nutritional modifiers of breast cancer risk: from the bench to the community and back

Poster Session

 6:30PM 9:00PM

Poster Session Reception with Welcome Buffet

SATURDAY
October 12
American University of Beirut
Hostler Center

8:00AM 8:30AM Registration continues    
Welcome 8:30AM 8:35AM Lebanese Officials    
Symposium Keynote 8:35AM 9:30AM TBD    
     

The Molecular Bases of Nutritional Influence on Breast Cancer Prevention

Chair:
Co-Chair: Nahla Houalla, MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Session Keynote 9:45AM 10:30AM TBD

 

  
Speaker 10:30AM 11:00AM TBD    
Break 11:00AM 11:15AM     Coffee Break
Speaker 11:15AM 11:45AM Rihab Nasr

PhD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Can microRNA signature predict early onset breast cancer in the Lebanese population?
Speaker 11:45AM 12:15PM Anna Wu

PhD, University of Southern California, USA

  
Lunch 12:15PM 2:00PM Everyone on their own, optional visit of AUB campus

Catherine Peachey Lectures
(graduate and postgraduate trainees)

 2:00PM 3:00PM


     

Epigenetic Memory and Breast Cancer Risk

Chair:
Co-Chair:
Session Keynote 3:00PM 3:40PM TBD  

 
Speaker 3:40PM 4:10PM TBD    
Open Forum 4:10PM 5:10PM

 

Panel of Experts
"How to better study epigenome-lifestyle interaction"

  
break 5:10PM 5:30PM    

Coffee Break

     

Behavior and Breast Cancer Risk

Chair:
Speaker 5:30PM 6:00PM

Martine Bellanger

PhD, French School of Public Health (EHESP), France

 
Abstract Presentation 6:00PM 6:30PM

selected from the abstracts submitted

    
Speaker 6:30PM 7:00PM TBD    

Symposium Party

 7:30PM  

 

SUNDAY
October 13
American University of Beirut
Hostler Center

8:30AM 9:00AM Registration continues    
     

Gene-environment Interactions that Impact Policies

Chair: Graciela Sabini, MD, National Control Plan, Ministry of Health, Uruguay
Co-Chair: Haya Hamade MD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Session Keynote 9:00AM 9:30AM TBD    
Speaker 9:30AM 10:15AM TBD    
break 10:15AM 10:30AM    

Coffee Break

Abstract Presentation 10:30AM 11:00AM

selected from the abstracts submitted

    
Speaker 11:00AM 11:30AM TBD    
Farewell (box lunches) 11:30AM 12:30PM