Keynote speakers

International Organizing Committee

Dinesh Pendharkar, MD, PhD (India)

Vanessa Eaton (USA)

Kim Shevchenko (USA)

Kate Litvin (USA)

Miklos Simon, MD (USA)

Local Organizing Committee

Samvel Danielyan, MD, PhD

Seyran Kocharyan, PhD

Gevorg Tamamyan, MD

Davit Zohrabyan, MD

Liana Safaryan, MD

Lilit Harutyunyan, MD

Lilit Sargsyan, MD

Astghik Voskanyan, MD

Lusine Hakobyan, MD

Armen Avagyan, MD

Armen Mkhitaryan, MD, PhD

Nerses Karamyan, MD, PhD

Mher Kostanyan, MD, PhD

Artem Stepanyan, MD, PhD

Artur Avetisyan, MD, PhD

Narine Movsesyan, MD, PhD

Hovhannes Vardevanyan, MD

Tatul Saghatelyan, MD, PhD

Gayane Zakharyan, MD

Samvel Iskanyan, MD

Samvel Arakelyan, MD

Gevorg Asi lbekyan, MD

Hrachya Mkhitaryan, MD

Tigran Melikyan, BSc

Gohar Parsadanyan, PhD

Kima Ghulyan

Nvard Hovhannisyan, RN

Melanya Sahakyan, RN

Organizers

Supporters

2014 ASCO International MCMC Supporters

Supporter General Supporter

May 11, 2014

World Melanoma Day and Welcome Party

May 12, 2014

Training to Trainers /only with special invitations for this session/

May 13, 2014

Breast Cancer

Session Chair: Dr. Dinesh Pendharkar, MD, PhD

08:30 – 09:00 Registration 09:00 – 09:30 Welcome speeches

Mikayel Narimanyan, MD, PhD, DrSc Rector of Yerevan State Medical University Armen Ashotyan, MD, PhD Minister of Education and Science of Armenia Armen Muradyan, MD, PhD, DrSc Minister of Health of Armenia Samvel Danielyan, MD, PhD President of the Armenian Association of Hematology and Oncology Chairman of the Department of Oncology of YSMU Chief of the Clinic of Chemotherapy of “Muratsan” Hospital Complex Hayrapet Galstyan, MD, PhD, DrSc Director of National Cancer Center of Armenia Chairman of the Postgraduate Department of Oncology of YSMU

09:30 – 10:45 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Breast Cancer 10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 – 13:00 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Breast Cancer 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Afternoon Sessions

With medical oncologist – Dinesh Pendharkar, MD (Mumbai, India) With breast surgeon – Dhairyasheel Savant, MD (Mumbai, India) With Pathologist – Armen Mkhitaryan, MD, PhD (Yerevan, Armenia) With Palliative Care Specialist – Narine Movsesyan, MD, PhD (Yerevan, Armenia)

MCMC Breast Cancer team Medical Oncologists: Dinesh Pendharkar, MD, PhD; Davit Zohrabyan, MD; Liana Safaryan, MD Breast surgeons: Dhairyasheel Savant, MD; Artur Avetisyan, MD, PhD; Artem Stepanyan, MD, PhD; Mher Kostanyan, MD, PhD Pathologist: Armen Mkhitaryan, MD, PhD Radiation Oncologists: Nerses Karamyan, MD, PhD; Tatul Saghatelyan, MD Radiologist: Hovhannes Vardevanyan, MD Palliative Care Specialist: Narine Movsesyan, MD, PhD

May 14, 2014

Gastric, Colon and Rectal Cancer

Session Chair: Dr. Miklos Simon, MD

09:00 – 10:30 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Colon Cancer

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00– 12:30 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Rectal and Anal Cancer

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Gastric Cancer 14:30 – 16:00 Afternoon sessions

Pathology, molecular genetics

Armaz Mariamidze, MD, PhD (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Surgical Challenges

Khachatur Badalyan, MD, PhD (Moscow, Russia)

Sanjay Sharma, MD (Mumbai, India)

MCMC GI Cancer team Medical Oncologists: Miklos Simon, MD; Lilit Harutyunyan, MD; Armen Avagyan, MD GI surgeons: Khachatur Badalyan, MD, PhD; Sanjay Sharma, MD Gastroenterologist: Manik Gemilyan, MD, MPH Pathologist: Armaz Mariamidze, MD Radiation Oncologists: Nerses Karamyan, MD, PhD; Tatul Saghatelyan, MD Radiologist: Hovhannes Vardevanyan, MD Palliative Care Specialist: Narine Movsesyan, MD, PhD

May 15, 2014

Leukemia; Cancer Research, Career debates

Session Chair: Adult leukemias: Dr. Maro Ohanian, DO & Childhood Leukemias: Dr. Sima Jeha, MD

09:00 – 10:45 Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00

Multidisciplinary Cancer Management – Pathology, Cytogenetic studies and flow cytometry

12:00 – 12:10 Questions 12:10– 12:50

Childhood Leukemias

Sima Jeha, MD (Memphis, TN, USA)

12:50 – 13:00 Questions 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Award Ceremony 14:30 – 14:50 How to tell the bad news?

Mihran Nazaretyan, MD, PhD, DrSc., (Yerevan, Armenia) 14:50 – 15:00 Questions

Cancer Research

15:00 – 15:20 Why Cancer Research Can Be Attractive?

Raya Saab, MD, FAAP (Beirut, Lebanon)

15:20 – 15:30 Questions

15:30 – 15:50 Relations between variables. Don’t judge a book by its cover

Jakub Rzepka, MD, PhD (Warsaw, Poland)

15:50 – 16:00 Questions

Career Debates

16:00 – 16:20 Career in international health organizations and how can ASCO help

Vanessa Eaton (Alexandria, VA, USA)

16:20 – 16:30 Questions

16:30 – 16:50 Why to choose oncology as a profession?

Miklos Simon, MD (Portland, OR, USA) 16:50 – 17:00 Questions 17:00 – 17:30 Closing Remarks

MCMC Leukemia team

Hematologist/Oncologists: Maro Ohanian, DO; Astghik Voskanyan, MD; Lilit Sargsyan, MD; Lusine Hakobyan, MD

Pathologist: Armen Mkhitaryan, MD, PhD

Flow Cytometry: Aline Ayvazian, MD

Cytogeneticist: Anna Hovhannisyan, PhD

Radiation Oncologists: Nerses Karamyan, MD, PhD; Tatul Saghatelyan, MD

Radiologist: Hovhannes Vardevanyan, MD

Palliative Care Specialist: Narine Movsesyan, MD, PhD