Opening Session. Day 1 - 18th November.
Welcome! From here you can access useful information and resources from the European Cancer Organisation, its European Cancer Summit 2022, Member Societies, Patient Advocacy Groups and Community...
Welcome! From here you can access useful information and resources from the European Cancer Organisation, its European Cancer Summit 2022, Member Societies, Patient Advocacy Groups and Community 365.
European Cancer Organisation
Speakers
Isabel T. Rubio
Speaker
Isabel T. Rubio is the Co-Chair of the European Cancer Summit 2020, Board Member of the European... Isabel T. Rubio is the Co-Chair of the European Cancer Summit 2020, Board Member of the European Cancer Organisation, Prevention Network Co-Chair, Head of Breast Surgical Oncology at Clinica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, Spain and Professor of Surgery at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. She completed her Medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine in Salamanca, Spain, and become a Board-certified General Surgeon. She had additional training for two years as a Breast Surgical Oncology Fellow at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Cancer Center at Little Rock, USA and for one year at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA. She completed her PhD in 2000. She is the director of the Breast Surgery Fellowship program at her Institution. Dr. Rubio is active in many societies, founding member and past President of the Spanish Association of Breast Surgeons (AECIMA), EUSOMA President-Elect (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists), Chief, Public Affairs of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and member of the Outreach Committee of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO). She is the breast section editor of the Journal of Surgical Oncology, reviewer for The Breast, the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and Annals of Surgical Oncology. She obtained the European Board of Surgery Qualification in Breast Surgery and since 2015 is officer at the UEMS Breast Surgery Division and participates as an examiner in the EBSQ Examinations in Breast Surgery. Dr. Rubio is involved as part of the Steering and Executive Committees in several international, multicenter randomized trials. She has received grants to develop her research by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Health and other institutions. Dr. Rubio has published over 100 national and international peer review manuscripts and book chapters. She has presented her work in many of the main international meetings in breast cancer. Her interest is in sentinel lymph node biopsy, neoadjuvant treatments, surgical management of BRCA mutation carriers and the role of prognostic markers (genomic profiles, liquid biopsy). Also her interest is focused on the standardization of Breast cancer surgical training and Breast units.
Matti Aapro
Speaker
Immediate Past-President, European Cancer Organisation (ECO) Matti Aapro is member of the Board... Immediate Past-President, European Cancer Organisation (ECO) Matti Aapro is member of the Board of Directors of the Genolier Cancer Center, Genolier, Switzerland and Immediate Past-President of the European Cancer Organisation. He received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland and was a fellow at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He was the founding chair of the Medical and Radiation Therapy Department at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. Dr. Aapro is presently Executive Board member of the European School of Oncology (ESO). He leads the Sharing Progress in Cancer Care (SPCC) not-for-profit association. He serves the International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) as Executive Board Member. He is past-President of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). He is President of Honour of the French-speaking Society for Supportive Care (AFSOS), as well as Advisor to the Japanese Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (JASCC). He has been member of the Board of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and of the Board of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). Dr. Aapro chaired the scientific and organizing committees of UICC’s (International Union against Cancer) World Cancer Congress of 2008 in Geneva, and 2010 in Shenzhen (China). He is a member of the ESMO Faculty and chaired the ESMO 2018 Supportive/Palliative Care track. Dr. Aapro is Honorary Editor of Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, and editor of the Journal of Cancer Policy as well as Associate Editor for the geriatric section of the Oncologist. He is also founding editor of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology. He is past Associate Editor for Annals of Oncology, continuing on its editorial board, and member of several other editorial boards including CancerWorld. He has authored more than 350 publications and his major interests are new drug development, breast cancer, cancer in the elderly, and supportive care. Dr. Aapro is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Tampere (2013) and Honorary Member of the Russian Society for Clinical Oncology (RUSSCO)(2016). He has received the 2010 Acta Oncologica Award, the 2012 ASCO B.J. Kennedy prize and the MASCC Distinguished Services Award (2016).
Stefan Gijssels
Speaker
Stefan Gijssels is Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Digestive Cancers Europe,... Stefan Gijssels is Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Digestive Cancers Europe, the umbrella organisation of all digestive cancer patient associations in Europe (oesophageal, gastric, pancreatic, colon, rectum, liver and rare digestive cancers). The organisation represents more than 30 national associations. In this capacity, he is also member of the European Commission’s Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer (iPAAC), and of the European Reference Network of Rare Cancers (EURACAN). He is one of the founders and Board Member of the Patient Expert Center in Belgium. He is Co-Chair of the Patient Advisory Committee of the European Cancer Organisation, and a member of its Executive Committee. Stefan is a metastatic colon cancer survivor. Since 2016, he also works as an independent health policy advisor, publicist, facilitator and moderator, working for public health authorities, patient organisations and industry. Until 2016, he was Vice President Communication & Public Affairs at Janssen Europe, Middle East & Africa. In the 90s he was director and general manager at Burson-Marsteller, Vice-President at Weber-Shandwick, Public Affairs Manager at McDonald’s, and Project Manager at the Institute of the Enterprise, a Belgian policy think tank. He started his career as an English teacher in Morocco. He has a a master’s degree in Literature and Philosophy from Leuven University, Belgium.