Agenda

8 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast (Theater room, lower level)

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

“Bridging Gaps: Multi-Level Strategies to Increase Lung Cancer Screening” 

Francesca Duncan M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level)

8:50 AM - 9:10 AM 

“Driving Early Detection through Mobile Lung Screening” 

MacKenzie (Church) White, MPH
Executive Director, End Lung Cancer Now
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center/IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level)

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

“DNA damage sensors as therapeutic targets for cancer treatment”

John Turchi, Ph.D.
Inaugural Executive Director, Tom and Julie Wood Center for Lung Cancer Research
Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Professor of Lung Cancer Research, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level) 

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

BREAK

9:45 AM - 9:55 AM

"Community Outreach & Engagement"

Katharine Head, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Director, PhD Graduate Program in Health Communications
IU School of Liberal Arts

(Theater room, lower level)

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Selected Oral Presentations (Post-Docs/Medical Fellows)
(10 min & 5 min Q&A) 

(Theater room, lower level)

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

BREAK

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cancer Research Day Poster Session 1

(Multipurpose Room 450 A, B, C / Lunch provided to attendees during poster session)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Cancer Research Day Poster Session 2

(Multipurpose Room 450 A, B, C / Lunch provided to attendees during poster session)

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Break and return to Theater Room (following poster session)

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Keynote Address

“Pharmacogenomics: How variable nicotine and nitrosamine metabolism alters smoking and lung cancer"

Rachel Tyndale, Ph.D.

Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics
Head, Pharmacogenetics, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Psychiatry
University of Toronto 

(Theater room, lower level)

3:10 PM - 4:10 PM

Selected Oral Presentations (Graduate students)
(10 min & 5 min Q&A) 

(Theater room, lower level)

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM

Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks
(Theater room, lower level)

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM

Closing Reception. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided.
(Lower level lounge area located outside Theatre room)