PRE-REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED. 
SPACE IS AVAILABLE FOR ONSITE REGISTRATION SATURDAY MORNING
AT 7:00 AM. 
Please print and complete the registration form by clicking the button below to speed up your onsite registration.

Guest Speaker: 

Herb Zeh, MD

“Robotic Whipple Procedure”

Director of the
Pancreatic Center

Surgical Oncologist

University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center

REGISTRATION

Late Registration
(after 2/6/12) - Add $25
Physicians - $99
PA - $49
NP - $49
RN & Allied Health - $49

FACULTY

John Preskitt, MD
PROGRAM CHAIR
Surgical Oncologist
Surgical Oncology Specialists
Baylor Charles A Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas

Carlos Becerra, MD
Medical Oncologist
Texas Oncology
Baylor Charles A Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas

C. Richard Boland, MD
Gastroenterologist
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, Texas

J. Steven Burdick, MD, FACP
Gastroenterologist
Texas Digestive Health Consultants
Dallas, Texas

Scott Celinski, MD
Surgical Oncologist
Surgical Oncology Specialists
Baylor Charles A Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas

Greg dePrisco, MD
Diagnostic Radiologist
American Radiology Assoc. PA
Baylor Charles A Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas

A. David McCollum, MD
Medical Oncologist
Texas Oncology
Baylor Charles A Sammons Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas

Herbert Zeh, MD
Surgical Oncologist / Co-Director
UPMC Pancreatic Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

CONTINUING
EDUCATION CREDIT

PHYSICIAN

The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 4.75 hours of Category 1 Credit for completing this program.

NURSE PRACTITIONER

AANP accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Nurse practitioners may receive a maximum of 4.75 hours of Category 1 Credit for completing this program.

NURSING

The Camenae Group, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This activity meets Type I criteria for mandatory continuing education requirements toward relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas.

This activity provides 4.75 contact hours.

PARKING INFORMATION

Parking for this event is located at the Baylor Sammons Cancer Center in the garage underneath the building - the entrance to the garage is at the rear of the center.  Please click here for a map to the parking facility. 

OVERVIEW

The 2012 Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference provides a forum for the assessment and increase of competency in diagnosis, treatment and management of gastrointestinal cancers.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This conference is specifically designed for physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners interested in the prevention, screening, evaluation, and management of gastrointestinal cancers, including gastroenterologists, surgeons, medical, surgical and radiation oncologists, radiologists and pathologists.

VENUE

Sammons Cancer Center
3410 Worth Street
Dallas, TX 75246

Free parking is available in the Sammons underground lot.  CLICK HERE for a facility map.

OBJECTIVES

• Analyze the current robotic technology available.

• Compare outcomes - open vs. robotic pancreas surgery.

• Identify different cystic lesions found in the pancreas.

• Characterize role of EUS in evaluation of pancreatic cysts.

• Interpret results of cyst fluid analysis.

• Identify different surgical approaches to esophageal cancer.

• Discuss advantages and disadvantages of different surgical approaches.

• Describe results of the MAGIC trial of perioperative chemotherapy.

• Delineate the indications for perioperative chemotherapy in gastric cancer.

• Define borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.

• Discuss the importance of margin negative resection.

• Discuss the utility of vascular resection in pancreas cancer.

• Identify patients at risk for germline genetic mutations contributing to cancer formation.

• Identify common genetic mutations in cancer.

• Summarize screening strategies based on genetic mutations.

• Identify patients who will benefit from adjuvant therapy.

• Delineate current clinical trials for adjuvant therapy.

PROGRAM AGENDA