Global Health Catalyst Summit
@ UPenn
With funding support from the USA National Institutes of Health
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Schedule for GHC Summit @ at University of Pennsylvania on November 11, 2021
Subject to Change
8:00: am Welcome
GHC Summit at UPenn Opens
Dr. Stephen Avery (PI and Director Global Health Catalyst summit @ UPENN)
Chair, UPenn Department of Radiation Oncology, James Metz M.D.
Director of UPenn Center for Global Health, Glen Gaulton Ph.D.
8:30 am: Session 1: Global Health in Radiation Oncology (Global Health Catalysts)
Moderator (Prof Saiful Huq)
8:30 am The Global Oncology University (Prof Twalib Ngoma: Vice Chancellor GO-U)
8:55 Radiation Knowledge – Saiful Huq
9:20 Developing Lancet Oncology commission by Wil Ngwa
9:45 am HEART consortium – Stephen Avery
10:10 am Global Access to Cancer Care Foundation – Kenneth Merrell (Mayo Clinic)
11:00 am: Session 2: Global Health in Radiation Oncology (Virtual Education)
(Moderator: William Levin (UPenn))
11:00 am VR Healthcare @ HP – Daniel Colling (Global Lead)
11:15 am Virtual education tools for Radiotherapy - Taoran Li
11:30 am Virtual education tools for Brachytherapy - Neil Taunk
12:00 am Collaboration Panel Discussion
1:30 PM Session 3: Global Health in Radiation Oncology (Emerging Technologies)
(Moderator: Kevin Teo (UPenn))
1:30 pm Radiotherapy Assistant: Auto Segmentation: Laurence Court
1:45 pm Machine Learning/AI: Susan Sotardi
2:00 pm RapidPlan - Jaclyn Marcel
2:15 pm Halcyon – Chris Kennedy
2:30 pm Collaboration Panel Discussion
3:30 pm Session 4: Global Health in Radiation Oncology (Clinical)
(Moderator: Ernest Okonkwo)
3:30 pm: Hilfe für Ghana – Ghanahilfe e.V.) Building hospitals by Detmer Hasselmann,
3:45 PM: Solar Powered Radiotherapy by Dipl Engineer Holger Wirtz, CTO radiation-oncology, head of medical physics; Radiooncology-Center Lake of Constance, Singen, Germany)
4:00 PM: Association of Radiation and Clinical Oncologist of Nigeria – Dr Amaka Lasebekan, Director of Oncology at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu;
4:15 pm: Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Research to increase access to cancer care: Dr Joseph Adedayo; Founder, The Dorcas Cancer Foundation; Research Program Director, NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center, Lagos University Teaching Hospital
4:30 PM: Cancer Care in Jordan – Lubna Hammoudeh (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
4:45 PM Collaboration Q and A
Some 2021 GHC Summit UPENN Speakers
Regularly updated
Dr Stephen Avery
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology.
Dr James Metz M.D
Chair, UPenn Department of Radiation Oncology
Tonya Steiner
Executive Director, Global Access to Cancer Care Foundation
Dr Saiful Huq
Professor and Chair of AAPM Board of Directors
Dr Laurence Court
Associate Professor. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dr Twalib Ngoma
Professor and Vice Chancellor of Glbal Oncology University
Dr Taoran Li
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr Neil Taunk
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr William P. Levin
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Dr Susan Sotardi
Program director for RADAID International's Ethiopia program
Dr Charlotte Moser
Chief Scientific Officer, NanoCan Therapeutics Corporation
Dr Ahmed Elzawawy
Professor and Chair of the GHC win-win initiative
Dr Amaka Lasebikan
President of the Association of Radiation and Clinical Oncologists in Nigeria; Director of Oncology at the University of Nigeria Teaching hospital (UNTH).
Dr Kennth Merrell
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr Adedayo Joseph
Founder, The Dorcas Cancer Foundation; Research Program Director, NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center, Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Dr Ahmed Nobeh
Radiation Knowledge