Guest Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Arndt Vogel
Clinician Scientist, full professor
Longo Family Chair in Liver Cancer Research
Toronto General Hospital
Princess Margarete Cancer Center
Prof. Vogel is a clinician scientist at the rank of a full professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is appointed as the Longo Family Chair in Liver Cancer Research and is leading a multi-pronged research program in basic and clinical science at the Toronto General Hospital and the Princess Margarete Cancer Center. Before joining UNH, he worked as senior consultant at Hannover Medical School for more than 20 years and still holds a research position there.
Prof. Vogel’s scientific focus is the translational and clinical research in gastrointestinal cancer. Since 2004, he is leading a translational research group interested in the pathogenesis of hepatobiliary cancers and in precision medicine. Arndt Vogel is a clinical investigator in oncology since 2006 and has served as principal investigator on numerous clinical trials. He is author or co-author of more than 330 articles published in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Cancer Cell, and Gastroenterology among others.
Prof. Vogel is member of societies including ESMO, ASCO, and EASL. He is member and chairman of Hepatobiliary Cancer Study Group of the AIO, a collaborative group in clinical oncology in Germany. Within ESMO, he is member of the ESMO Guidelines Steering Committee. He has responsibilities in the establishment of the national guideline and is the coordinator of the ESMO clinical practice guideline on the management of hepatocellular carcinoma and biliary tract cancer.
Planning Committee
Usmaan Hameed MD FRCSC
Chair, Planning Committee 2025
Surgical Oncology and Minimally Invasive Surgery
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Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Charles Cho MSc MD FRCPC
Radiation Oncologist
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Professor, Department of Radiology
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Suneil Khanna MD FRCPC
Medical Oncologist
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Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Christina Kim RN(EC), MN
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Paul Lau M.D, FRCPC
Medical Oncologist
Division Head Hematology and Oncology
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Adjunt Lecturer, Department of Medicine
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Mark Pasetka BSc BScPharm PharmD CES RPh
Oncology Pharmacy Clinical Practice Lead
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Pharmacy Residency Coordinator (Year I)
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy
Sheron Perera MD PhD FRCPC
Staff Medical Oncologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Melanie Tsang MD MSc FRCSC (she/her)
Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and General Surgical Oncology
St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Elaine Yeung MD FRCPC
Gastroenterologist
Lecturer, University of Toronto
Chief of Staff, Scarborough Health Network