Outsmarting Brain Tumors
A Conference on Brain Tumors for Patients, Families, and Caregivers
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Harvey Morse Auditorium
The multi-disciplinary faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery offers this comprehensive, one-day conference to bring participants up to date on the most recent advances and treatment of adult brain tumors.
The conference seeks to educate patients and their caregivers on the latest treatments and therapeutic discoveries for brain tumors as well as provide information about the aspects of living with the disease such as nutrition and exercise, navigating social services, support groups, end of life care and various other issues.
The presentations are available for download below.
To download the agenda, please click here.
AGENDA
| MORNING SESSION Harvey Morse Auditorium | ||
| 8:00am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30am | Welcome and Purpose | Keith L. Black,MD |
| 8:35am | Terms and Definitions | Ray M. Chu, MD |
| 8:50am | How to Select Your Health Care Team | Ray M. Chu, MD |
| 9:05am | What is Chemotherapy? | Jethro L. Hu, MD |
| 9:25am | What You Do You Need to Know About Radiation Therapy | Amin J. Mirhadi, MD |
| 9:45am | BREAK | |
| 10:00am | Surgical Decision Making: When is Re-operation Appropriate | Chirag G. Patil, MD |
| 10:20am | Understanding Clinical Trials | Jethro L. Hu, MD |
| 10:40am | Hope: What is New and Promising | Keith L. Black, MD |
| 11:20am | Long Term Survivors with Brain Cancer at Cedars-Sinai | Surasak Phuphanich, MD |
| 11:40am | How Can You Get Involved | Miriam Nuno, PhD |
| 12:00pm | Being the Messenger: News Delivery Survey | Doniel Drazin, MD |
| 12:10pm | LUNCH | |
| BREAKOUT SESSION A Harvey Morse Auditorium | ||
| 1:00pm | Through Our Eyes: Surviving Brain Tumors | Patient Presentation |
| 1:15pm | Navigating Social Services | Phuong Voong, LCSW |
| 1:30pm | Alternative Therapies: How Do I Know | Lucy Postolov, LAc |
| 1:45pm | Nutrition and Exercise | Alyssa Tennenbaum, RD, CDE |
| 2:00pm | Rehabilitation | Arash Asher, MD |
| 2:15pm | PANEL Q&A | |
| 2:30pm | BREAK | |
| 2:45pm | Support Groups | Veronica Porche, PsyD |
| 3:00pm | End of Life Care and Considerations | Parag Bharadwaj, MD |
| 3:15pm | Basics of Statistics: What Does that Data Mean? | Chirag G. Patil, MD |
| 3:30pm | How Does Tumor Board Work? | John S. Yu, MD |
| 3:45pm | How to Navigate the Internet and How to Validate the Information | Jethro L. Hu, MD |
| 4:00pm | PANEL Q&A | |
| 4:15pm | CLOSING AND ADJOURN |
