Committees
Organising Committee
Chair: Dr. Eduardo Cazap - UICC President and 2012 UICC World Cancer Congress President
Dr. Michel Gélinas - President 2012 Host Committee
Dr. Mary Gospodarowicz - UICC President-elect 2012-2014
Prof. David Hill - UICC Immediate past-president and 2012 Co-Chair of Programme Committee
Ms. Jessica Hill - Chair of 2012 Canada-Wide Advisory Council
Mr. Doug Pyle - Senior Director, International Affairs - American Society of Clinical Oncology
Prof. David Kerr - Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology – Oxford University
Dr. Alejandro Mohar - General Director – National Institute of Oncology, Mexico
Mr. Andreas Ullrich - Medical Officer for Cancer Control, World Health Organization
Ex officio:
Mr. Cary Adams – CEO, UICC
Ms. Jessica Mathieu – Congress & Events Manager, UICC
Mr. Mathieu Pouret - Congress & Events Coordinator, UICC
Ms. Jen Makin - Congress Programme Coordinator, UICC
Programme Committee
Co-Chair: Dr. Heather Bryant - Vice-President, Cancer Control, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Co-Chair: Prof. David Hill - UICC Immediate past-president and UICC Board Member
Track 1 - Prevention and early detection (including tobacco control)
Dr. Eduardo Franco - James McGill Professor, Departments of Oncology and Epidemiology; Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology; Interim Chair, Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Mr. Terry Slevin - Education and Research Director, Cancer Council Western Australia
Track 2 - Cancer care and survivorship
Prof. Sanchia Aranda - Director of Cancer Services and Information at the NSW Cancer Institute and UICC Board Member
Dr. Alfred Neugut - Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University, Associate Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia, and Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital
Track 3 - Palliation and pain control
Dr. James Francis Cleary - Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Physician Palliative Care Program, UW Health; Director, Pain and Policy Studies Group, WHO Collaborating Center for Pain Policy and Palliative Care; Special Advisor for Non-Communicable Diseases, UW Global Health Institute.
Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell - Executive Director, African Palliative Care Association
Track 4 - Systems in cancer control
Prof. Ian Olver - CEO, Cancer Council Australia
Prof. Tezer Kutluk - UICC Board Member and President of Turkish Association for Cancer Research and Control
Host Committee
President: Dr. Michel Gélinas – President and Co-Founder, Quebec Cancer Foundation
Mrs. Suzanne Lebreux - CEO, Quebec Cancer Foundation
Mr. Pierre Yves Gagnon – Operations Director, Quebec Cancer Foundation
Dr. Eduardo Franco – Professor and Interim Chair, McGill Department of Oncology
Dr. Carolyn R. Freeman - Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics, McGill University – Head of Radiation Oncology, McGill University Health Center
Dr. Jean-Paul Bahary – Radio Oncologist, University of Montreal Hospital Center
Dr. Gerald Batist – Professor of Oncology, Minda de Gunzburg - Director McGill Centre for Translational Research - Director, Segal Cancer Center
Dr. Heather Bryant – Vice-President, Cancer Control - Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Dr. Mary Gospodarowicz – Medical Director, Cancer Program, Chief, Radiation Medecine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, UICC President-Elect
Ms. Jessica Hill – Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Dr. Trang Hoang - Professor, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal
Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson – Director, FRSQ Cancer Research Network – Professor, Department of Medicine, Montreal University - Scientific Director, Montreal Cancer Institute, Head Oncology Axis, CHUM Research Centre
Dr. Luis Souhami – Professor Department of Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, McGill University – Associate Director of Radiation Oncology, McGill University Health Center
Dr. Diane Provencher – Gynecologist Oncologist , CHUM - Professor of the Department of Obstetric Gynecology, Montreal University - Past President of the Canadian Gynecology Oncology Society
Dr. Philip Branton – Gilman Cheney Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Oncology and Goodman Cancer Centre, McGill University
Dr. Antoine Loufti – Director, Cancer Control Quebec, Quebec Ministry of Health
Canada-Wide-Advisory Council
in collaboration with the Host Committee
Chair: Jessica Hill - CEO Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
Dr. Tom Hack - President, Canadian Association of Psychology Oncology (St. Boniface, Manitoba) Professor and Researcher
Ms. Debbie McLeod - Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology
Dr. Laurette Geldenhuys - Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, Professor at Dalhousie University and Researcher
Ms. Heather Logan - Executive Director, Canadian Association for Provincial Cancer Agencies (Toronto, Ontario)
Mr. Barry Stein - President, Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada
Ms. Marjorie Morrison - Executive Director, Canadian Cancer Action Network (Toronto)
Mr. Matthew Parliament - Director, Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology
Dr. Mary Gospodarowicz - President, Ontario Cancer Institute (Medical Director, Cancer Program, Chief Radiation Medecine Program)
Ms. Kimberly Elmslie – Director General, Center dor Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Ms. Dawne Rennie - Public Health Agency of Canada Chronic Disease Management Division Cancer Coordination Unit
Mr. Peter Goodhand – CEO, Canadian Cancer Society
Ms. Paul Lapierre - VP Public Affairs and Cancer Control at Canadian Cancer Society
Mr. Paul Sinclair – Executive Director, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
Ms. Suzanne Dubois – Executive Director for Québec, Canadian Cancer Society
Ms. Heather Chappell - Director, Cancer Control Policy, Canadian Cancer Society
Ms. Jennifer Wiernikowski - President, Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (Vancouver)
Dr. Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer - President of the National Cancer Institute of Canada
Ms. Anne McFarlane - Executive Director, Western Canada Hospitals
Mr. Hugh MacLeod - CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Ms. Sharon Baxter - Executive Director, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (Ottawa)
Dr. Morag Park - Scientific Director - Canadian Institute of Health Research
Mr. Mario Chevrette - McGill Research Institute
Ms. Vina Alexopoulou - President, Capital Health Nova Scotia
Dr. Kara Laing - Eastern Health Executive office (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Mr. Peter McGhee - President, Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
Dr. Maura Ricketts - Director, Public Health Agency of Canada
Ms. Greta Cummings - President, International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (Alberta)
Dr. Horacio J. Patrocinio - Medical Physics Unit McGill University
Mr. Paul Grundy - Alberta Health Services Cancer Control
