Thank you to everyone who participated in our 10th GIST Day of Learning. There were 43 people including attendees and speakers, with people joining us from New Brunswick, Quebec, Nunavut, British Columbia, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and many parts of Ontario.
Ottawa Event and Conference Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
Speakers
To view or download the speakers’ presentations, please click the link to the left of the title page of the presentation
The Biology of GIST: What Every Patient Needs to Know
David Josephy, Ph.D.
President,
GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada
https://liferaftgroup.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/David-Josephy-The-Biology-of-GIST.pdf
Your GIST Journey – A Round-Table Discussion
Hazel McLeod
Director,
GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada
Medical Management of GIST
Amirrtha Srikanthan, M.D.
Medical Oncologist,
The Ottawa Cancer Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
https://liferaftgroup.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Dr.-Srikanthan-Medical-Management-of-GIST.pdf
Surgical Management of GIST
Carolyn Nessim, M.D.
Surgical Oncologist,
The Ottawa Cancer Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
https://liferaftgroup.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Dr.-Nessim-Surgical-Management-of-GIST.pdf
Interventional Radiology Approaches to Treat Recurrent GIST
DaeHee Kim, M.D.
Interventional Radiologist,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Presentation Slides are not available
SideEQ – Personalized Side Effects Management
Pete Knox
Senior Director, Research,
The Life Raft Group (USA), Wayne, New Jersey
Introducing the Second Edition of the GIST Patient Handbook
Laetitia Tam
Director,
GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada
Avapritinib Program Update for the GIST Patient and Caregiver Community
Maria Roche, NP
Senior Medical Director, Clinical Development, Blueprint Medicines, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://tallen.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1258425&tp_key=002af4dc08
This link will take you to a webinar presented by Maria Roche in August 2019, in which Ms. Roche discusses many of the same slides she presented at the Ottawa GIST Day of Learning.
This webinar will begin about one and a half minutes after you enter the event. You can scoll through the webinar using the slide-bar.
Questions? or for more information, please contact
Malcolm Sutherland
malcolm.sutherland@liferaftgroup.ca
855-574-4478
We gratefully acknowledge our GIST Day of Learning sponsors
