Public forum on “breast health” to feature panel of leading breast cancer experts
A public forum on “What Everyone Should Know About Breast Health” opens at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Omni Hotel in Jacksonville.
Women and men concerned about breast cancer, including those with a family history or personal encounter with the disease, will have special interest in this three-hour program. The event is an opportunity to hear updates from leading medical experts and to ask questions. It is free of charge.
Guest panelists will include Patricia Steeg, chief of the Women’s Cancer Center at the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading research funding agency.
Moderating the panel of breast cancer specialists will be University of Florida physician-surgeon Edward M. Copeland III, who chairs the UF College of Medicine’s department of surgery and is editor-in-chief of the newly published international Year Book of Surgery; and Susan Braun, chief executive officer of the nationally known Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Dallas, Texas.
Panelists will include:
Dr. Troy Guthrie Jr., professor of medicine and chief of the division of hematology/oncology at UF’s College of Medicine
Dr. Henry I. Lynch, professor and chairman of the department of preventative medicine at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.
Dr. Shahla Masood, professor and associate chair of the UF College of Medicine’s department of pathology and director of the Breast Health Center at the UF Health Science Center/Jacksonville
Dr. Nancy Mendenhall, professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology at UF’s College of Medicine
Dr. Mitchell Schnall, chief of the division of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
The public forum is a prelude to the UF-sponsored 6th Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease to be held Feb. 16-18 at Amelia Island. The conference will bring together close to 250 breast cancer specialists from throughout the United States and Canada to share updates on breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention.