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Leadership with a Global Vision for Oncology

Driving innovation, policy, and clinical excellence in cancer prevention and treatment across borders.

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Dr. Charles M Balch

President

Past-President, Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), Past-Executive Vice-President and CEO, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); President, International Sentinel Node Society; Past-President, Association of Academic Surgeons; Emeritus (Founding) Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Surgical Oncology

United States

Dr. Dennis Lam 林順潮

Secretary-General

Deputy of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Legislative Councilor of Hong Kong, Chairman of Health Hope Pharma (Focus on Oral Anti-Cancer Drug), Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

China • Hong Kong

Dr. Gerhardt (Gert) Attard

Council Member

Professor of Medical Oncology, Endowed Chair in Urological Cancer Research, and Director of Cancer Institute, University College London. Past Honorary Medical Oncology Consultant, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust UK

United Kingdom

Dr. Paul A. Bunn

Vice-President

Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, James Dudley Chair of Cancer Research, and Past (Founding) Director, Anschultz Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Colorado. Past-President American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Past Past-President and Past CEO, International Association for Study of Lung Cancer (IASLAC)

United States

Dr. Alexander Eggermont

Vice-President

Professor of Immunotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht and Chief Scientific Officer, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Uthrecht; President, European Academy of Cancer Sciences, Past-Chair, European Organization for Cancer Research and Treatment (EORTC); Past-Chair, European CanCer Organization (ECCO)

Netherlands

Dr. Jie He 赫捷

Vice-President

President of the Cancer Hospital at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Director of the National Cancer Center of China; Boardf of Directors International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus

China

Dr. Yuko Kitagawa

Vice-President

Professor of and Chair, Department of Surgery and Vice-President, Past-Director of Cancer Center, Keio University Director-General, Chair, Editor-in-Chief, Gastric Cancer; Chair, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Gastrointestinal Surgery; Past-President, Japanese Surgical Society; Past-Chair, Board of Directors, Japanese Society of Clinical Oncology; Past-President, Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Surgery; Chair, Japan Esophageal Oncology Group; Past-President, International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus; Past-President, International Sentinel Node Society

Japan

Dr. Isabel T. Rubio

Council Member

Professor of Surgery and Head, Breast Surgical Oncology, University of Navarra. President, European Society of Surgical Oncology; President-Elect, European Cancer Organization (ECO) and Co-Chair, Cancer Prevention, Screening, and Early Detection Network; Past-President, European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists.

Spain

Dr. Soon Thye Lim

Vice-President

Chief Executive Officer; National Cancer Centre Singapore; Past-President Singapore Society of Oncology; Council Member, Singapore Cancer Society; Co-Founder, Asian Lymphoma Study Group

Singapore

Dr. Ning Liao 廖寧

Director

Director of the Breast Dept at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital; Member of the International Council of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO); Member of the International Council of the International Sentinel Node Society (ISNS)

China

Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel

Scientific Director (Western)

Professor and Director, Division of Precision Prevention, University of Kansas Comprehensive Cancer Center; Past-Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Past-Chief, Division of Clinical Cancer Genomics, City of Hope National Medical Center

United States

Dr. Rui-Hua Xu 徐瑞華

Scientific Director (Asia)

President of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; Member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Director of State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Chairman of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO); Vice-chairman of China Anti-cancer Association (CACA)

China

Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass

Advisor

Director, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization. ; Katy Winckworth-Prejsnar (USA), Director, Global Program, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)

France

Katy Winckworth-Prejsnar, MPH

Advisor

Director, Global Program, National Comprehensive Cancer Network

United States

Dr. Eduardo Cazap

Council Member

Past President, International Union Against Cancer (UICC); Emeritus Professor, Latin American School of Oncology; Past- President (Founding), Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM)

Argentina

Dr. Bernard Esquivel

Council Member

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, GenXys Presccribing Sytems (PGX), Vancouver BC; Founding Member, Pharmacogenomics Research Network, Founding President, Personized Medicine Latin American Association

Canada

Dr. Xianqun Fan 范先群

Council Member

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dean, Medicine School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; President, Chinese Society of Ocular Oncology, President, Chinese Society of Retinoblastoma

China

Dr. Ashraf Zaghloul

Advisor Board

Professor and Past Chair, Department of Surgical Oncology, Past-Director, National Cancer Institute of Egypt; Past Chair, Board of Directors, Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt Cairo Egypt; Past-President, Egyptian Society of Surgical Oncology.

Egypt

Dr. Louis Chow 周永昌

Council Member

Executive Director of the Organization for Oncology and Translational Research Hong Kong; Medical Director of the Comprehensive Centre for Breast Diseases at the UNIMED Medical Institute Hong Kong; Past Honorary Clinical Professor of the Clinical Trials Centre at The University of Hong Kong

China • Hong Kong

Dr. Edward Liu 廖少輝

Council Member

Chief Medical Director of C-MER Medical Oncology Center, Hong Kong-registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner

China • Hong Kong

Dr. Hector Martinez Said

Council Member

Professor and Chief, Department of Surgery, National Cancer Institute of Mexico (INCan). Past President, Mexican Oncology Society; Past (Founding) President, Latin American Societies of Surgical Oncology

Mexico

Dr. John Niederhuber

Council Member

Past-Director, Past-Chief Operating Officer, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC; Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network, Johns Hopkins University ; Past Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Stanford University; Past-Director, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center; Past-Executive Vice -President/CEO of Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Virginia; Past-President, Society of Surgical Oncology; Past-President, Association of American Cancer Institutes; Past-Chair, American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer

United States

Dr. Joaquim Abreu

Advisory Board

Chair of Surgical Oncology Department, Head of Breast Clinic Instituto Português Oncologia Porto FG

Portugal

Dr. Oscar Arrieta

Advisory Board

Director, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico (INCan) Head of Thoracic Medical Oncology and Personalized Medicine Laboratory (INCan), Past-President, International Association for Study of Lung Cancer (IASLAC)

Mexico

Dr. Ricardo Audisio

Advisory Board

Professor of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Goteborg. Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Surgical Oncology. Past-President, British Association of Surgical Oncology; Past-President, European Society of Surgical Oncology; Past-President International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Past Member Board of Directors, European Cancer Organization (ECCO); Past Honorary Professor and Consultant Surgical Oncologist, University of Liverpool, UK, Past Deputy Director, Department of Surgery, European Institute of Oncology.

Sweden

Dr. Geerard Beets

Advisory Board

Professor of Surgical Oncology, Chief of Colorectal Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center; President, European Society of Surgical Oncology

Netherlands

Dr. Dégi László Csaba

Advisory Board

Professor, Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, President of the European Cancer Organisation (ECO), Founder and President of the Romanian Association for Services and Communication in Oncology (APSCO)

Romania

Dr. Felipe J Fernandez Coimbra

Advisory Board

Director Department of Abdominal Surgery,t A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo; Past- President, Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (SBCO) Past-President, Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (HPBA); Director International Relationships, Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology

Brazil

Dr. Giuseppe Curigliano

Advisory Board

ESMO President-Elect, Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Milan, Chief of the Division of Early Drug Development, European Institute of Oncology

Italy

Dr. Jorge Gallardo Escobar

Advisory Board

Director Cancer Institute, Catholic University of Chile

Chile

Dr. Judy E. Garber

Advisory Board

Chief, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School , Past-President, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Scientific Director, Breast Cancer Research Foundation

United States

Dr. Michael Gnant

Advisory Board

Professor of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, President, Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group

Austria

Dr. Stephen Grobmyer, MD

Advisory Board

Institute Chief of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi's Cancer Institute

UAE

Dr. Alessandro Gronchi

Advisory Board

Director of Surgery, Chair of Sarcoma Services, National Tumor Institute of Milano; Past President, Italian Society of Surgical Oncology; Past-President Connective Tissue Oncology Society; Associate Editor, Annal of Surgical Oncology

Italy

Dr. Mutla Hayran

Advisory Board

Director, Hacettepe University Cancer Institute, Head, Department of Preventive Oncology, Head, Department of Preventive Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine

Turkey

Dr. Volker Heinemann

Advisory Board

Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor of Medical Oncology, Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich; President, Bavarian Cancer Society; Chair Working Group of Medical Oncology, German Cancer Society; Co-Editor Section of GI Oncology, European Journal of Cancer.

Germany

Dr. Arman Kackarian

Advisory Board

Medical Director, National Cancer Institute of Ukraine

Ukraine

Dr. Allison W. Kurian

Advisory Board

Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health, Associate Chief for Academic Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine, Director, Stanford Women’s Health Clinical Cancer Genetics Program, Co-Leader, Population Sciences Program, Stanford Cancer Institute, Chair, Germline Testing Expert Panel, ASCO

United States

Dr. Ronald MK Lam

Advisory Board

Director of Health, Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR Government; Member, Medical Council of Hong Kong

China • Hong Kong

Dr. William Sanchez Maldonado

Advisory Board

Chair, Department of Surgery, Military Hospital of Colombia, Santiago; Past-President, Colombian Society of Surgery, Governor, Colombia Chapter of American College of Surgeons

Colombia

Dr. Masaki Mori

Advisory Board

Vice President, Tokai University, and Dean, Tokai University School of Medicine Vice-President, Japanese Cancer Association Vice-President, Japanese Association of Medical Sciences Committee member of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Past-Chairman of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University Past-President, Japan Surgical Society and Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery Past Board of Director, Japanese Society of Clinical Oncology, and Japanese Society for Cancer Metastasis

Japan

Dr. Miriam Mutebi

Advisory Board

Past President, African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), Chairperson for the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology, Board of Directors UICC; Co-Founder and President, Pan-African Women’s Association of Surgeons; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital

Kenya

Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

Advisory Board

Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Professor of Human Genetics Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Associate Dean for Global Health, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Director of Cancer Risk Clinic, University of Chicago Hospitals Member, National Cancer Advisory Board. National Cancer Institute, NIH

United States

Dr. Groesbeck P. Parham

Advisory Board

Honorary Consultant, University Teaching Hospital of Zambia; Professor of Gynecology Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Senior Clinical Expert for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, World Health Organization.

Zambia

Dr. C. S. Pramesh

Advisory Board

Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Director, Tata Memorial Hospital; Convener for the National Cancer Grid of India; Member, UICC Board of Directors

India

Subramanyeshwar Rao Thammineedi

Advisory Board

Medical Director & Chief Surgical Oncologist, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute

India

Dr. Piotr Rutkowski

Advisor Board

Professor of Surgical Oncology and Head, Department of Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma and Melanoma, Director for National Oncological Strategy and Clinical Trials, National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland; President, Polish Oncological Society; President, Council of Medical Research Agency, Ministry of Health Poland.

Poland

Dr. Mansoor Saleh

Advisory Board

Founding Director Aga Khan University Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine and Pathology; Founding Chair, Department of Hematology and Oncology

Kenya

Dr. Raymond Sawaya

Advisory Board

Professor of Surgery and Dean of the School of Medicine, American University of Beirut; Past Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; Past-President, American Radium Society.

Lebanon

Dr. John Thompson

Advisory Board

Emeritus Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology; Past Executive Director of the Melanoma Institute of Australia; Past-President International Sentinel Node Society; Past-Chair of the Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trial Group

Australia

Dr. Gerald Tumusiime

Advisory Board

Dean, Uganda Christian University School of Medicine; Professor of Surgery, Mengo Teaching Hospital

Uganda

Dr. Carlos Vallejos

Advisory Board

Professor of Medicine, University of Peru Former Minister of Health, Peru; Past Director, Peruvian National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases INEN) ; Past-President, Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM); Founding President, Peruvian Society of Medical Oncology; Past Vice-President of Executive Committee, World Health Organization; Distinguished Alumnus Award UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Peru

Dr. David Whiteman

Advisory Board

Deputy Director and Distinguished Scientist – Cancer Control, Queensland Medical Research Institute, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Australia

Dr. King-David Trena Yawe

Advisory Board

Professor and Chair of Surgery, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Nigeria; President, Society of Oncology and Cancer Research of Nigeria (SOCRON), Past-President, West African College of Surgeons

Nigeria

Dr. Nayef Al Zahrani Alzahrani

Advisory Board

Department of Surgery, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia

Dr. Odysseas Zoras

Advisory Board

Director, Department of Surgical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospitals, Athens Greece. Past Minister of Higher EducaAon, Government of Greece; Professor and Past-Head of Department Surgical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion and Dean of the Medical School, University of Crete, Former Rector of the University of Crete, Past-President, Hellenic Society of Surgical Oncology

Greece

Dr. Victor Ho-fun Lee 李浩勳

Council Member

Chairman and Clinical Professor of the Department of Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong

China • Hong Kong

Dr. Adda Bounedjar

Advisory Board

President of the Algerian Society of Training and Research in Oncology (SAFRO); President of the Arab Medical Association Against Cancer (AMAAC)

Algeria

Josh Leachman

ISOPT Chief Operating Officer

United States

Andy Sutton

Tech Executive and Founder

United Kingdom

Eddy Henry

ISOPT Chief Marketing Officer

United States

Daniel Barbara

ISOPT Chief Technology Officer

United States

Donna Sollenberger

ISOPT Chief Executive Officer

United States

Marsha Hyslop, R.N., MBA

Chief Strategy Officer

United States