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Visiting Speakers Program in Oncology - "Chemotherapy Use in Elderly; What Key Points to Know" by Dr. Hans Wildiers & "How We Implement CGA" by Ms. Cindy Kenis

Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00to13:00
Jewish General Hospital - Room E711, Jewish General Hospital - Room E711, 3755 Côte Ste Catherine Road, Montreal, CA

Hans Wildiers started medical studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1989 and graduated magna cum laude in 1996. After clinical training he became an F.W.O.-aspirant (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen) and obtained a PhD certificate on September 2003 for which he received the Amgen award 2004 of the Belgian Society of Medical Oncology (BSMO) and the Pfizer educational grant KULeuven 2004. The research concerned the topic of blood vessels and tumor uptake of anticancer drugs. He became specialist in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology on March 2004 and is since then staff member at the department of medical oncology in the University Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven. He is specifically active in the field of breast cancer and geriatric oncology. Since July 2003, he is the belgian national representative of SIOG, the international society of geriatric oncology, and is board member of several task forces within SIOG (breast cancer in the elderly, chemotherapy in the elderly, renal function and chemotherapy). He is also board member of the Belgian Society of Medical Oncology (BSMO) since 2007. Since November 2006, he is secretary of the task force cancer in the elderly of the European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC).

Cindy Kenis is a geriatric oncology nurse working at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium. She graduated as a registered nurse at the Catholic College of Higher Education of Leuven in 2002. In 2005 she finished her Masters in Nursing Science at the Catholic University of Leuven, and in 2007 she finished her Academic Teacher Education. This year she has also become a member of the 1st Masterclass in Oncology Nursing in Malta. She has several years of working experience in the field of Geriatric Oncology.

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