#1
29th February 2016, 05:24 PM
| |||
| |||
NBCC Leadership Summit
Can you tell me in detail about the 2016 Advocate Leadership Summit Program as me and my friends want to participate or join it?
|
#2
29th February 2016, 05:28 PM
| |||
| |||
Re: NBCC Leadership Summit
The 2016 Advocate Leadership Summit builds on the considerable strengths of leaders and visionaries who are working at every level to achieve Breast Cancer Deadline 2020. 2016 Program Details Day 1: Saturday, April 30, 2016 Preconference Program 10:30am – 12:30pm Lobby Day Briefing 1:00pm – 3:00pm Project LEAD® Workshop 3:30pm 2016 Opening of Advocate Leadership Summit: 25 Years of Breast Cancer Advocacy 3:45 pm The Power of Social Movements: Lessons for Staying Relevant and Focused Speakers: Elisabeth Griffin, Jeff Levi Moderator: TBD 5:30pm Leadership Summit Group Photograph Day 2 Program: Sunday, May 1, 2016 8:00am Artemis Insider Briefing Speakers: Yaniv Erlich, Pat Haugen, H. Kim Lyerly, MD, FACS, 9:30am After 25 years, what do we really know about preventing breast cancer? Speakers: Leslie Bernstein, PhD, Michele Holmes, MD, PhD, Barry Kramer, MD, MPH, Wanda Lucas, 10:45am Break 11:15am Networking Session 12:00pm 25th Year Commemoration Luncheon: 25 Years of doing the Impossible Moderator: TBD 1:45pm Plenary: After 25 years, what do we really know about preventing metastasis? Speakers: Frank J. Calzone,PhD, Cyrus Ghajar, PhD, Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, PhD, Pat Steeg, Moderator: TBD 3:15 – 3:30pm Break 3:30pm Advanced Seminars • Data Privacy • Vaccine Development: A Primer • Precision Medicine in 2016 • Using the Immune System to Keep Tumor Cells Silent • More to Come 5:00pm Advocate/ Speaker Meet up 6:30pm Special Event Day 3 Program: Monday May 2, 2016 8:15am Plenary: Breast Cancer is Political: Mobilizing the 2016 Political Climate Speakers: TBD Moderator: TBD 9:30am – 9:45am Break 9:45am Skill Building Workshops 11:15am Advocate/Speaker Meet Up 1:00pm – 2:30pm Luncheon Lessons From the Beginning Speakers: Susan Hester, Susan Love; Fran Visco 2:45pm Breast Cancer Deadline 2020© Convention 4:30pm State Delegation Meetings 7:00pm – 9:00pm Reception/Dance party Day 4 Program: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Annual Lobby Day 7:00am – 8:15am Luggage Drop-Off 7:00am - 8:00am Lobby Day Briefing 7:00am – 8:00am Buses Depart for Capitol Hill 9:00am - 4:30pm Congressional Visits NBCC Leadership Summit 2016 Program Details As of February 2, 2016: Day 1: Saturday, April 30, 2016 Preconference Program 10:30am – 12:30pm Lobby Day Briefing Learn about NBCC’s 2016 Legislative and Public Policy Priorities and the key role they play in the Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® strategic plan for knowing how to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020. Hear the strategy we’ll implement to advance the priorities on Tuesday May 3rd Capitol Hill Lobby Day. 1:00pm – 3:00pm Project LEAD® Workshop 3:30pm 2016 Opening of Advocate Leadership Summit: 25 Years of Breast Cancer Advocacy NBCC’s President Fran Visco will assess the impact of two and a half decades of mission-focused advocacy and how we will meet the Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®. 3:45 pm The Power of Social Movements: Lessons for Staying Relevant and Focused After 25 years of incredible advocacy, the breast cancer movement has made its mark on the world. But we have not reached our goal, so now more than ever the breast cancer movement needs staying power. What makes some social movements endure, while others do not? Can social movements lift each other up instead of competing for resources? What creates that tipping point, when a nation embraces the goals of the movement? Leaders and scholars of social movements will share their insights and strategize how the breast cancer advocacy movement can accelerate toward our goal. Speakers: Elisabeth Griffin, Author and Historian; Byllye Avery, Activist and Founder of Black Women's Health Imperative; Jeff Levi, Professor of Health Management & Policy George Washington University Moderator: TBD 5:30pm Leadership Summit Group Photograph Day 2 Program: Sunday, May 1, 2016 8:00am Artemis Insider Briefing Get the latest on NBCC’s advocate led, innovative, mission driven Artemis Project®-- which is developing a breast cancer vaccine and exploring tumor dormancy as a fundamental approach for preventing metastasis. Speakers: Yaniv Erlich, New York Genome Center and Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Columbia University; Pat Haugen, NBCC advocate; H. Kim Lyerly, MD, FACS, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center 9:30am After 25 years, what do we really know about preventing breast cancer? Speakers: Leslie Bernstein, PhD, City of Hope; Michele Holmes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician with Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Barry Kramer, MD, MPH,Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute; Wanda Lucas, NBCC Advocate Our ultimate goal is to prevent breast cancer development altogether, to avoid not only the mortality from the disease, but also the mortality and morbidity from treatments for the disease. 25 years has brought us a much deeper understanding of hormone exposures, immunology, genomics, the molecular basis of tumor genesis – but in totality, what does it all mean? 10:45am Break 11:15am Networking Session 12:00pm 25th Year Commemoration Luncheon: 25 Years of doing the Impossible Moderator: TBD 1:45pm Plenary: After 25 years, what do we really know about preventing metastasis? Ninety percent of people who die from breast cancer die from metastatic disease. How and why do breast cancer cells emerge from the breast, enter the bloodstream, and migrate to a distant site? After 25 years of research what do we really know? What are the triggers that cause a primary breast cell to become metastatic? Most importantly, what do we know about this process and the immune system that will enable us to prevent metastasis? Speakers: Frank J. Calzone,PhD, Vice President of Discovery Research for REMD Biotherapeutics. He is also a member of the UCLA Translational Oncology Research Laboratory (TORL); Cyrus Ghajar, PhD, Laboratory for the Study of Metastatic Microenvironments (LSM2) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor at the McNair Medical Institute, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine; Pat Steeg, Deputy Chief, Women’s Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute Moderator: TBD 3:15 – 3:30pm Break 3:30pm Advanced Seminars • Data Privacy • Vaccine Development: A Primer • Precision Medicine in 2016 • Using the Immune System to Keep Tumor Cells Silent • More to Come 5:00pm Advocate/ Speaker Meet up Advocate Leaders and Summit Presenters join for an informal dialogue in a relaxed setting. Delve into the topics most important to you, hone in on details from plenary presentations, explore thorny research dilemmas and engage in stimulating and insightful discussions with experts from all areas of breast cancer research and advocacy. 6:30pm Special Event Day 3 Program: Monday May 2, 2016 8:15am Plenary: Breast Cancer is Political: Mobilizing the 2016 Political Climate Speakers: TBD Moderator: TBD 9:30am – 9:45am Break 9:45am Skill Building Workshops 11:15am Advocate/Speaker Meet Up Advocate Leaders and Summit Presenters join for an informal dialogue in a relaxed setting. Delve into the topics most important to you, hone in on details from plenary presentations, explore thorny research dilemmas and engage in stimulating and insightful discussions with experts from all areas of breast cancer research and advocacy. 1:00pm – 2:30pm Luncheon Lessons From the Beginning Speakers: Susan Hester, founder of the Mautner Project; Susan Love, president of the Susan Love, MD, Breast Cancer Foundation; Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition 2:45pm Breast Cancer Deadline 2020© Convention 4:30pm State Delegation Meetings 7:00pm – 9:00pm Reception/Dance party Day 4 Program: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Annual Lobby Day 7:00am – 8:15am Luggage Drop-Off 7:00am - 8:00am Lobby Day Briefing Attend this briefing to receive the appropriate information on NBCC’s legislative priorities and lobbying strategies to most effectively lobby your Member of Congress. 7:00am – 8:00am Buses Depart for Capitol Hill 9:00am - 4:30pm Congressional Visits Capitol Hill NBCC advocates meet with Members of Congress! |
|