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Home / News / Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer

Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer

In collaboration with the UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Diseases

February 1, 2023

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Held in collaboration with the UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Diseases at the Luskin Conference Center
March 11, 2023
8:30 am – 3:00 pm

Schedule

8:30 am – 9:00 am Check-in
9:00 am – 9:20 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lisa Manheim, Executive Director
Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Agi Hirshberg, Founder & CEO
Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
O. Joe Hines, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
9:20 am – 9:45 am Turning Down the Volume on Worry: Managing Cancer
Related Anxiety
Jenny Tran, PhD
The Simms Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology
9:45 am – 9:55 am  Q & A
9:55 am – 10:20 am Dietary Management Post-Diagnosis
Shelby Yaceczko, MS, RDN-AP, CNSC
University of California, Los Angeles
10:20 am – 10:30 am Q & A
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break
10:45 am – 11:15 am Pancreatic Cysts: Diagnosing and Treatment in 2023
V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS
University of California, Los Angeles
11:15 am – 11:25 am Q & A
11:25 am – 11:50 am Integrative East-West Medicine to Optimize Health &
Wellness
KaKit P. Hui, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
11:50 am – 12:00 pm Q & A
12:00 pm – 12:10 pm Survivor Photo
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:25 pm Should I Participate in a Clinical Trial?
Randall Brand, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
1:25 pm – 1:35 pm Q & A
1:35 pm – 2:00 pm Palliative Care – It’s Not Hospice!
Sandra H. Sacks, MD, MEd
University of California, Los Angeles
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm Q & A
2:10 pm – 3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Perspectives from Survivors and Caregivers
Moderator: J. Randolph Hecht, MD
University of California, Los Angeles

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