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Total Credits: 1.25 including 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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R. Michael Tuttle - (Research Funding)
Julie Ann Sosa - Exelisis; Eli Lilly; Lilly (Research Funding); Novo Nordisk; Astra Zeneca; Eli Lilly (Consultant)
Matt Ringel - Nothing to disclose
Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS is the Leon Goldman MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine and affiliated faculty for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr Sosa came to UCSF in 2018 from Duke. Her clinical interest is in endocrine surgery, with a focus in thyroid cancer. She is an NIH-funded investigator and author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, 2 books, and 57 book chapters, largely focused on outcomes research, health care delivery, hyperparathyroidism, and thyroid cancer, with a focus on clinical trials. Dr Sosa is Treasurer of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) and serves on the Board of Directors/Executive Council of the ATA and International Thyroid Oncology Group, as well as practice guidelines committees for the ATA, NCCN, and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons; for the ATA, she is chairing the committee responsible for writing the next iteration of differentiated thyroid cancer guidelines. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Surgery and is an editor of Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice. She has mentored more than 90 students, residents, and fellows, for which she was recognized with the Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Lectureship Award from the ATA. Dr Sosa was born in Montreal and raised in upstate New York. She received her AB at Princeton, MA at Oxford, and MD at Johns Hopkins, where she completed the Halsted residency and a fellowship.
Matthew Ringel, MD is a professor and director of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at The Ohio State University, where he also serves as co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the OSUCCC – James and holds the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Hormonology. Dr. Ringel focuses his research on molecular mechanisms involved in thyroid cancer invasion and metastasis, with an active interest in new drug testing for thyroid cancer therapy. Among his current research activities is serving as principal investigator (PI) for a National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant-funded study of the “Role of P21-Activated Kinases in Thyroid Cancer.” Dr. Ringel and colleagues have identified a potentially important pathway (p21 activated kinase, or PAK) downstream of the BRAF gene that may be involved in the progression of papillary thyroid cancer, which is incurable when metastatic and progressive. His team hopes to determine the relevance of the PAK pathway in vivo, clarify the mechanism by which it is activated and test novel compounds that block PAK activation with a goal of determining whether PAK is a viable therapeutic target. Dr. Ringel has also served as PI for a multimillion-dollar, NCI-funded program project grant (PPG) to study “Genetic and Signaling Pathways in Epithelial Thyroid Cancer” and for an NCI-funded Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant to help improve the lives of patients with thyroid cancer. Both grants entailed several interactive projects and multiple investigators at Ohio State and other academic institutions.
Decoding Thyroid Cancer: Unraveling the Impact of Epigenetics on Development, Tumor Microenvironment, and Immune Response
Original Program Date: 10/31/2024 |