New Jersey blood cancers conference open to the public

If you're in or around the New Jersey area on September 26, 2009 and want to hear what some of the nation's top lymphoma experts have to say, and maybe even corner one or two of them to get answers to some of your pressing questions, check out the Hematological Malignancies Conference at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ.

The conference, which is geared towards health professionals and is co-hosted by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, is open to the public. If you're interested in checking it out, contact David Marisol at 201-996-2515 or [email protected].

Time, date, location

Time: 8 am to 2:30 pm
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Location: The Hekemian Conference Center Auditorium, Hackensack University Medical Center, 30 Prospect Ave., Hackensack, New Jersey.

Featured speakers

Andre Goy, M.D. - Deputy Director, John Theurer Cancer Center, Chief, Division of Lymphoma; Director, Cancer Research
Wyndham Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. - National Cancer Institute, Chief, Lymphoma Therapeutics, Metabolic Branch, Center for Cancer Research
Carol Portlock, M.D. - Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine, Attending Physician of Lymphoma
Rafael Fonseca, M.D. - Mayo Clinic, Professor of Medicine, Deputy Director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Robert J. Soiffer, M.D. - Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief Division of Blood Centers