Cancer Research Media Briefing

Cancer Research Media Briefing

NEW YORK, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Columbia University is hosting a media briefing on the future of cancer research in partnership with the producers of the upcoming PBS broadcast of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Columbia oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee.

The film is a three-part, six-hour major television event presented by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced and directed by Barak Goodman (JRN'86), in partnership with WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C. Based on Dr. Mukherjee's book, the film is one of the most comprehensive documentaries on a single disease ever made.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Columbia University in the City of New York

Rotunda, Low Memorial Library

West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Please RSVP to arrange for reserved seats.

TV/Radio/Photographers welcome with RSVP.

Live webcast: Program will be streamed at columbia.edu/cancer.

Follow on Twitter using the #CancerFilm hashtag

We will try to accommodate questions from members of the media watching via the webcast.

The conversation will include biomedical scientists--both in the film and at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center--whose discoveries change the way doctors treat cancers now and in the years ahead.

After an introduction, there will be approximately 45 minutes for discussion and media Q&A. The panelists will share information and address new diagnostic tools, innovative clinical trials, and collaborations across multiple institutions that are changing the future of cancer.

The event will include clips from the film and opportunities for journalists to speak with researchers across a range of cancer specialties.

Speakers include:


-- Ken Burns, executive producer
-- Barak Goodman, director and producer
-- Katie Couric, global news anchor for Yahoo! News and a co-founder of
Stand Up To Cancer
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee, Columbia oncology researcher, author
-- Kenneth Forde, endoscopy pioneer, Columbia Trustee

-- Thomas Maniatis, director of Columbia's university-wide Precision
Medicine Initiative and co-founder of the New York Genome Center
Panelists:


-- Stephen Emerson, director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at
Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian, and former
president of Haverford College (moderator)
-- Cory Abate-Shen, cancer diagnostics innovator, professor of pathology
and cell biology, Columbia
-- Andrew Kung, chief of pediatric oncology, NY-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley
Children's Hospital
-- William Nelson, vice chair, SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee and
Director, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
-- Dennis Slamon, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and SU2C Breast
Cancer Dream Team Leader
-- Gary Schwartz, leader of multicenter clinical research, Columbia
This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM). For more information, visit http://www.newswise.com.




SOURCE Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia University Medical Center

CONTACT: CONTACT/RSVP: Barbara Morgan, bmorgan@skdknick.com, 732-232-7759

Web Site: http://columbia.edu/cancer


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