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Keynote Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Christoph Adami, PHD
Michigan State University
DISCOVERING THE SIGNAL WITHIN THE NOISE: WHERE ARE THE DISEASE BIOMARKERS?
Monday, May 7, 5 - 7pm/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Dr. Lothar Lilge, PHD
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, Canada
"Personalize treatment planning for Photodynamic and Photothermal therapies; Implementations of rapid Monte Carlo simulations and linearized optimization algorithms"
Tuesday, May 8, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Dr. Amy Lee, PHD
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Health and Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential"
Wednesday, May 9, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Rochelle (Shelley) Buffenstein, PHD
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"The Unusual Biology of the Longest Lived Rodent, the Naked Mole-rat"
Thursday, May 10, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
35th Annual Society for Thermal Medicine Meeting
Westin La Paloma Resort, Tucson, Arizona / May 7th – 10th, 2018
Dear Friends and Supporters of STM,
On behalf of the STM Governing Council and meeting Planning Committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to join us for our 35th Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the beautiful Westin La Paloma Resort, May 7-10, 2018.
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine will provide an arena for presentations of latest data, concepts, and breakthroughs in our ever-expanding understanding of thermal medicine in the context of engineering, physics, materials science, and biology.
Keynote and Plenary speakers will highlight the extensive connections between physics, information science, biology, imaging, and the thermal state. International thought leaders will lead breakout sessions on:
- Information as a biologic force
- Stress responses and implications for therapy
- Biology of stress
- Immunology/immunotherapy in thermal settings
- Infectious diseases
- Optical imaging and dose measurement
- Nanoparticle design and usage
- Nanoparticle hyperthermia
- Nature’s nanoparticles: exosomes and microvesicles
- Nanothermometry
- Combination therapies with hyperthermia
- Clinical trials in cancer and other diseases
...and many more!
We look forward to seeing you in Tucson!
Sincerely,
Michael Graner, PhD
2018 Program Chair
President-Elect, Society for Thermal Medicine
Thank you to our Sponsors!
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2018 Program Chair
Michael Graner, PhD
2018 STM Program Chair,
STM President-Elect,
University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
Aurora, CO
Email: Michael.Graner@ucdenver.edu
Program Chair: Michael Graner, PhD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery
Corporate Relations & Fundraising Chair: Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, University of Maryland
Randy Burd, PhD, The University of Arizona Cancer Center
Erik Cressman, MD, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chris Diederich, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Steven Fiering, PhD, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Robert Griffin, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Dieter Haemmerich, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Mark Hurwitz, MD, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
Robert Ivkov, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology
Samir Jenkins, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Nicole Levi-Polyachenko, PhD, Wake Forest University
Elizabeth Repasky, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Jason Stafford, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Paul Stauffer, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University
Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic
Christopher Lapine, STM Business Manager, Allen Press, Inc.