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For the past decade and more, Harvey and Donna Sorkin have made an extraordinary personal commitment to the future of cancer care.  Their investment has led to the "first wave" of anti-angiogenic cancer therapies for children, and to the seeding of new laboratories led by pediatric surgical cancer investigators--former Sorkin Fellows--across the United States.

 

 

 

 Location

Tower 103 Conference Room

Morgan Stanley

Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian


Schedule of Events

12:30 PM

Welcome and Introduction

 Jessica J. Kandel, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery in the Institute for Cancer Genetics

 12:40 PM

Presentations and Discussion

 Moderated by Dr. Kandel and Dr. Darrell Yamashiro,

Co-Directors, Pediatric Tumor Biology Laboratory

 1:40 PM

 Summation 

Presentation of the Sorkin Plaque

 Charles Stolar, MD

Rudolph Schullinger Professor and Chair

Division of Pediatric Surgery

 1:50  PM

Lunch

3:00 PM

Fellows’ reunion and working presentations (Santulli conference room)

 

Sponsored by the Division of Pediatric Surgery

Columbia University    

 

Abstracts will be published online

 

 

 Invited Speakers


Past Sorkin Fellows

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Eugene Kim, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Sorkin Fellow 1999-2001

MDM2: A Novel Angiogenic Target in Neuroblastoma”

 

Samuel Soffer, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Sorkin Fellow 1999-2001

“New use of an established agent: rapamycin and Ewing sarcoma"

 

Jason Frischer, M.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine

Sorkin Fellow 2001-2003

‘From Riches to Rags: Funding Situation for Young Surgical Scientists”

 

Akiko Yokoi

Senior Surgeon, Kobe Children’s Hospital,

Kobe, Japan

Sorkin Fellow 2001-2002

“Delayed treatment of neuroblastoma in Japan

 

Angela Kadenhe-Chiweshe, M.D.

Senior Pediatric Surgery Fellow, Columbia University

Sorkin Fellow 2001-2003

“Resistance to Therapy and the Molecules between Tumor Cells”

   

   

And it's not just about cancer...

    


Tamara N. New, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University

“Angiogenesis in Sickle Cell Anemia”

   

 

 

2008 Sorkin Fellows

 

Jason Fisher

Senior Surgical Resident

“New mechanisms of metastasis”

 

MJ Haley

Senior Research Fellow, Pediatric Tumor Biology Lab

“Changes in the balance of vascular growth factors can promote metastasis”

 

Alejandro Ruiz

Senior Research Fellow, Pediatric Tumor Biology Lab

“Intestinal stress and chemotherapy”

 

Visiting Fellow

 

Aaron Lipskar, MD, Soffer Lab

“Cyclooxygenase-2 mediates the anti-angiogenic effect of rapamycin on Ewing’s sarcoma”