THE MEDICAL PRESENTATIONS FROM OUR 2019 CONFERENCE CAN NOW BE VIEWED and downloaded!!

 

8:30 am - 9:00 am

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

9:00 am - 9:20 am

WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Teresa Tiano & Katy Kosyachkova
Co-Founders

9:20 am - 9:45 am

 

9:45 am - 10:10 am

10:10am - 10:35 am 

my stomach cancer journey: a physician-patient experience

Dr. Terence Lee, MD PHD FRCPC
Keynote Speaker, Patient currently in treatment
Q&A

nutrition and stomach cancer: making meals that work

Denise Gabrielson, MSc RD, Registered Dietitian, St. Michael’s Hospital & Alaa El Danab, MSc.A., RD, Registered Dietitian, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Q&A

I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN

George Hall, 5-time cancer survivor, Lynch Patient
Q&A 

10:35 am - 11:00 am

 


11:00 am - 11:20am

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

what outcomes are important in research? how patients and healthcare professionals can be partners in research

Dr. Bilal Alkhaffaf, MBChB, FRCS, Surgical Oncologist & Research Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom


Q&A

pANEL DISCUSSION

BREAK

11:35AM - 12:00PM

 

 
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm

THE ROLE OF HIPEC IN GASTRIC CANCER TREATMENT

Dr. Trevor Hamilton, MD MSc FRCSC FACS
Surgical Oncologist, Vancouver General Hospital

Q&A

stomach cancer: one caregiver’s journey

Anita Shenoy, Caregiver

Q&A

navigating the labyrinths and mazes - finding our spiritual way during illness

Maureen Weaver, Spiritual Care Provider, University Health Network

Q&A

PANEL DISCUSSION

12:25 pm - 12:50 pm

 

12:50 pm - 1:10 pm

1:10 pm - 2:00 pm

LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:05 pm

IN MEMORIAM - SPECIAL PRESENTATION

SUPPORTING OUR PATIENTS - iron gut

Dr. Christine Brezden-Masley, MD PhD FRCPC
Medical Oncologist, Sinai Health System

Q&A

2:05 PM - 2:30PM

2:30 pm - 2:55 pm

 

coping with gastric cancer

Emily Barca, MSW, RSW & Joanne Siu,MSW, RSW, Oncology Social Workers, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Q&A

against all odds: surviving stave iv stomach cancer

Melani Flockhart Vincelli, 10-year Stage IV Survivor

Q&A

2:55 pm - 3:20 pm

 

PANEL DISCUSSION

3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

CLOSING STATEMENTS & special awareness day ceremony

Teresa Tiano & Katy Kosyachkova

 

3:40 pm - 4:00 pm