December 11, 2007 - Cancer Survivorship Research: A Dialogue with Advocates, Survivors, and Caregivers

Featuring Dr. Julia Rowland, Director, NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship.

November 8, 2007 - From Bench to Bedside: Research at NCI-Frederick, Maryland

Featuring Dr. Craig W. Reynolds, Associate Director, NCI-Frederick, and Director, Office of Scientific Operations.

October 31, 2007 - Cancer Risk Reduction: A Report From the President's Cancer Panel (PCP)

Featuring Dr. Margaret Kripke, senior program officer from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Mr. Matt Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

September 12, 2007 - Annual Update for the Advocacy Community from NCI Director

Featuring Dr. John E. Niederhuber, Director, National Cancer Institute; and Mr. Doug Ulman, Chair, NCI Director's' Consumer Liaison Group.

June 5, 2007 - NCI Cancer Centers Program

Featuring Dr. Linda Weiss, Chief, Cancer Centers Branch; Ms. Francine Huckaby, Program Director, MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Mr. Buddy Leo, founding member, Patient Advocacy and Survivorship Committee, Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center

May 17, 2007 - NCI's Intramural Clinical Trials Program: A National Resource for Patients

Featuring Dr. Lee J. Helman, Scientific Director for Clinical Research, Center for Cancer Research; and Mr. Manny Hamelburg, Co-founder and former Executive Director, Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Coalition.

April 24, 2007 - Resources for Understanding Cancer Risk

Feature Ms. Felicia Solomon, Public Health Advisor, Office of Education and Special Initiatives; and Dr. Mitchell Gail, Chief, Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

March 7, 2007 - How the Patient Navigator Program Helps Cancer Patients

Featuring Dr. Roland Garcia, Program Director, Patient Navigator Research Program (PNRP), NCI Center to Reduce Health Disparities; Dr. Beth Calhoun, Co-principal Investigator for the Patient Navigator Research Program in Chicago; and Ms. Phyllis Ferguson-Collum, Patient Navigator Social Worker, American Cancer Society.

February 20, 2007 - The NCI Bypass Budget & Strategic Plan: The Importance of Science Planning

Featuring Ms. Cherie Nichols, Director, Office of Science Planning and Assessment; and Ms. Liz Thompson, Director of Research and Scientific Affairs, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

December 5, 2006 - Cancer Chemoprevention: A Discussion of Benefits and Risks

Featuring Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens, Medical Oncologist and Program Director of the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention; Dr. Larry Wickerham, Associate Chairman of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP); Dr. Victor Vogel, Director of Magee Women's Breast Cancer Program at the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Howard Parnes, Chief of the Prostate and Urologic Cancer, NCI Division of Cancer Prevention; Ms. Ann Marie Gugger, Participant Advisory Board of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP); Mr. Julius Jones, Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) patient advocate and SELECT National Patient Advisory Board (NPAB); and Dr. Leslie Ford, Associate Clinical Director of the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention.

November 7, 2006 - What Advocates Should Know About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Featuring Dr. Jeff White, Director, NCI Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM); and  Ms. Martha Powell, patient advocate.

October 31, 2006 - The Impact of Nanotechnology Research on Cancer Patients

Featuring Dr. Piotr Grodzinski, Director, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer; Mr. Travis Earles, Nanotechnology Project Manager, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer; and Mr. Wayland Eppard, patient advocate.

September 19, 2006 - Update for the Advocacy Community from NCI Director Dr. John Niederhuber

Featuring NCI Director, Dr. John Niederhuber, Mr. Doug Ulman, chair of the NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group; and CARRA member, and DCLG Vice-Chair, Dr. Beverly Laird

September 13, 2006 - TCGA to Study Lung, Ovarian, and Brain Tumors

Featuring Dr. Francis Collins, NHGRI Director, Dr. Anna Barker, NCI Deputy Director, Dr. Carolyn Compton, Director of the Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research; and Dr. Beverly Laird, Vice-Chair of the NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group

June 29, 2006 - Translating Cancer Discovery into Improved Health Outcomes
NCI's Office of Education and Special Initiatives

Featuring Ms. Lenora Johnson, Director of the Office of Education and Special Initiatives; Ms. Rose Mary Padberg, Chief, Cancer Education Branch, Office of Education and Special Initiatives; Ms. Sona Thakkar, Senior Public Health Educator, Office of Education and Special Initiatives; and advocate: Mr. Sanford Jeames, Patient Education Coordinator, Division of Urology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

May 17, 2006 - Why caBIG is Important to Advocates

Featuring Kenneth H. Buetow, Ph.D., Associate Director for Bioinformatics and Information Technology and Chief, Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research; and Greg Bielawski, caBIG^TM Patient Advocate and Member, NCI Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities

April 27, 2006 - Tissue Banking: An Introduction to the Issues Surrounding Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research

Featuring Carolyn Compton, MD, Ph.D. Director of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research; and Paula Kim, NCI Board of Scientific Advisors Member/Advocate

March 16, 2006 - A Role for Advocates in NCI’s Work: The CARRA Program or Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities

Featuring Olivia Bartlett, Ph.D., Chief, Research Programs Review Branch, NCI Division of Extramural Activities; Louise Cunningham, Public Health Educator, NCI Office of Education and Special Initiatives; James L. Omel, M.D., Educator, International Myeloma Foundation and Member, NCI’s CARRA Program; and Jane Jacobs, CARRA Program Development Manager, NCI Office of Liaison Activities

February 28, 2006 - What Advocates Should Know about the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN)

Featuring Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director of the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN); and Mr. Bruce Mabrito, Director of the Central Proposal Office for the Southwest Research Network and active patient/advocate

February 14, 2006 - New Federal Health Initiative to Improve Cancer Therapy

Featuring Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Janet Woodcock, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Operations, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and Anna D. Barker, Ph.D., Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute

Teleconference Transcript [Microsoft Word, 61kb]

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December 16, 2005 - Clinical Trials at NCI: The New Clinical Research Center at NIH - Patients are Our Partners and Our Heroes

Featuring Dr. John Gallin, Director, NIH Clinical Center; Ms. Dottie Cirelli, Clinical Center Patient Recruitment Coordinator; and Ms. Susan Lowell Butler, Clinical Center Patient and Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities (CARRA) member

November 9, 2005 - Why Advocates Should Care About Animal Models in Cancer Research: Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium (MMHCC)

Featuring Dr. Cheryl Marks, Director, NCI's MMHCC Program; Ms. Paula Kim, MMHCC Advocate; and Ms. Kathy Walters, JD, MMHCC Advocate.

October 19, 2005 - Why Statistics Matter for Advocates: Follow Up from the April, 2005 SEER Advocacy Conference

Featuring Dr. Brenda Edwards, Associate Director, NCI Surveillance Research Program, Ms. Janice Marie Barlow, M.S.N, Advocate; and Mr. Craig Lustig, Children's Cause for Cancer Advocacy

September 19, 2005 - Eliminating Suffering and Death Due to Cancer by 2015: The Future of Cancer Research

Featuring Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, Director, National Cancer Institute, Mr. Doug Ulman, Chair, NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG), and Col. (Ret.) Jim Williams, DCLG Member.

This teleconference is available in its entirety for download. You may also download a transcript.

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