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Speakers / Topics / Schedule

Friday, October 26, 2007

7:30am - Registration & Breakfast
8:00am - 12:00pm – CME Breakouts
12:00pm – Luncheon Keynote [ Watch ]
1:30pm – 6:30pm – CME Breakouts

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Time TBA - Cocktail Reception and Recognition Dinner

Edward T.H. Yeh, MD
Chairman, Department of Cardiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Treating Heart Disease In Cancer Patients"

    (36min)

Phillip Orlander, MD
Division of Endocrinology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
"Diabetes and Vascular Disease.  What are We Doing About it?"

    (40 min)

Joe Fournet
Owner/Creative Director, Ideas & MORE [ Read his NHF presentation ]
and Dave Scallan
Business Development, The Ammerman Experience
“Dealing with today’s changing media”

    (45min)

Richard Materson, MD
Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Religion and Health (IRH). The Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas
"Is There Room For Spirituality in Medicine"

    (41min)

Thomas Sartwelle, JD
Partner, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P.
“Lawyers, Liars, And Malpractice Litigation: How To Keep From Getting Sued”

    (48 min)

Peter D. de Ipolyi, MD
Partner in the Stehlin & de Ipolyi Oncology Clinic and Associate Scientific Director of the CHRISTUS Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research
“Breast Conservation Surgery for Breast Cancer”

    (25min)

David Nilasena, MD
Chief Medical Officer Region VI, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
"Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative"

    (40 min)

Joan Bull, MD
“Thermochemotherapy to Treat Pancreas, Gastric, Lung and Neuroendocrine Cancer”

    (40 min)

Christie Ballantyne, MD
Chief, Section of Antherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
“Lipids”

    (40 min)

John L. Jefferies, MD
Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas
“Cardiomyopathies”

Lois Ramondetta, MD,
Associate Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Associate Professor and Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center
“Cervical Cancer Treatments and Prevention”

K. Lance Gould, MD,
Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished University Chair in Cardiology at the University of Texas System
“Nuclear Cardiology”

Amin G. Mery, MD,
Allergy and Asthma Associates, Houston, Texas
“An update on Pediatric and Adult Asthma”

Andrew Hamilton, MD,
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Division of Cardiology
“Echo Cardiography and Non-invasive Imaging of the Heart and Blood Vessels.”

Richard Evans, MD,
President, Texas Cancer Center
“Breast - sparing surgery - Is radiation always needed?”

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