The Committees

Organizing Committee

Harley Eisman, MD, Chair

Co-Founder, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Foundation, Montréal, QC, Canada

William Foulkes, MBBS, PhD, Scientific Programme Director

Director, Program in Cancer Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

Laura Hayes, Public Conference Programme Director

McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

Scientific Programme Committee

William Foulkes, MBBS, PhD

Director, Program in Cancer Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada (Chair)

Lawrence Brody, PhD

National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Tuya Pal, MD

Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Laura Palma, MSc, CGC, CCGC

McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada

Mark Robson, MD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Marc Tischkowitz, MD, PhD

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Clare Turnbull, MD, PhD, MFPH

Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK



Abstract Review Committee:

Patricia N. Tonin, PhD

The Research Institute of the MUHC, Montréal, QC, Canada (Chair)

Blaise Clarke, MD

University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Lesa Dawson, MD

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Yann Joly, PhD

McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

Raymond Kim, MD, PhD

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeanna McCuaig, PhD

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Kelly Metcalfe, RN, PhD

Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

Marjanka Schmidt, PhD

Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, and Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Kasmintan (Intan) Schrader, MBBS, PhD

BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Britta Weigelt, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA



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