2011 NBCC Conference Program - National Breast Cancer Coalition

Center for NBCC Advocacy TrainingAdvocacy Development • Education and Training • Leadership in ActionThe Center for NBCC Advocacy Training offers premier, intensivetraining in the science of breast cancer to prepare breast canceractivists to work effectivly to achieve Breast Cancer Deadline2020® in the mission to eradicate breast cancer!Beginner or seasoned advocate, there are training programs foreveryone! Our highlights include:Project LEAD® Series• Project LEAD Introductory Workshop• Project LEAD Institute• Quality Care Project LEAD• Clinical Trials Project LEAD• International Project LEADPublic Policy, Advanced Science& Continuing Education• Team Leader Training• Emerging Leader Program• Advanced Topics at Scientific Conferences• LEADcasts• LEADgrads Online• Beyond Borders Breast Cancer ProgramNBCC’s organizational mandate is to train and develop a strong,knowledgeable, nationwide network of breast cancer advocates.Sign up for a course today to develop your advocacy skills, receiveeducation and training and take your advocacy into action.Visit the Center for NBCC Advocacy Training booth in the RegencyFoyer to learn how to get involved. Apply for the Project LEADInstitute taking place July 17 – 22, 2011! Deadline is May 20!PlenaryAll Plenary Sessions will take place in the Regency BallroomSaturday, April 30What’s New in Breast Cancer?3:45pm – 5:15pmHear the perspectives of the major stakeholders in research,industry, public policy and advocacy on advances in breastcancer in recent years.Moderator: Abigail Trafford, Former Health Editor, TheWashington PostPanelists: Frank Calzone, PhD, Amgen Inc.; Susan Love,MD, MBA, FACS, The Dr. Susan Love Foundation; Joy Simha,Young Survival Coalition; Danny Welch, PhD, University ofKansas Cancer CenterSunday, May 1Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®:How Will We Make It Happen?8:15am – 9:00amA discussion on the motivation and strategic plan of actionfor implementing NBCC’s Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®:An End to Breast Cancer by January 1, 2020.Speaker: Frances Visco, JD, President, NBCCThe War on Cancer Failed.How Will Breast Cancer Deadline2020® Succeed?9:00am – 10:30amA controversial session that will examine questions such as:What have been the barriers to ending breast cancer? Whyhas breast cancer been so difficult to study? Will BreastCancer Deadline 2020® succeed where other initiativeshave failed?Moderator: Merrill Goozner, MS, The Fiscal TimesPanelists: Sharon Begley, Journalist; Shirley Brown, MS,JD, Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivor’s Support Group;William Redd, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; DennisSlamon, MD, PhD, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive CancerCenterSunday, May 1 (continued...)Changing the Conversation andthe Outcomes: Models of Innovation3:45pm – 5:15pmAn examination of innovation, how new ideas are bornand how impossible projects succeed in fields outside of cancer.Hear from innovation theorists, future-oriented science experts,and others on how to challenge the status quo and succeed.Moderator: Gary Schwitzer, HealthNewsReview.orgPanelists: Paul Davies, PhD, Arizona State University; JonMogford, PhD, DARPA Defense Sciences Office; Laura Nikolaides,MS, Director of Research and Quality Care, NBCCMonday, May 2Getting the Conversation Started:Prevention and Metastasis8:15am – 10:00amIn order to achieve Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®, NBCCis focusing resources and attention on: understanding howto prevent the disease from developing and understandingthe causes and prevention of metastasis. What is the status ofresearch in these domains? What needs to change to accelerateprogress? What is happening to create change?Moderator: Sandra Millon Underwood, RN, PhD, University ofWisconsin-MilwaukeePanelists: Leslie Bernstein, PhD, City of Hope; Julia Brody, PhD,Silent Spring Institute; Patricia Haugen, NBCC South DakotaField Coordinator; Peter P. Lee, MD, Stanford University; PatriciaSteeg, PhD, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes ofHealthChanging the Conversationon Breast Cancer Public Policy10:15am – 11:45amCurrently, there is a perceived lack of bipartisan conversationin Washington and across the country on important nationalissues such as health care. Is this lack of bipartisanship real, andif so, what factors have led us to this point? What can be doneto change this situation and move forward toward innovativesolutions to the problems facing our nation?Moderator: Shannon Brownlee, MS, New America FoundationPanelists: Michele Rakoff, CABCO; Dotty Lynch, Lynch Research;Gail Wilensky, PhD, Project HOPE; Maria Echaveste, JD, NVG, LLC