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An Interview with Dr. Angel Qin: “From Leukemia to ALK+ NSCLC: Finding a New Way to Overcome Drug Resistance”
Editors Note: This interview is by Juhi Kunde, Director of Patient Gateways and Science Marketing at LUNGevity and was orginally posted on their web site on March 5, 2024. Dr. Angel Qin, MD, medical oncologist at the University of Michigan and one of the recipients of our ALK Positive Lung Cancer Research Awards. ALK Positive,…
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An Interview with Dr. Alice Shaw at ALKtALK, Feb. 2022
Dr. Alice Shaw, MD, PhD, Boston, MA Global Head of Translational Clinical Oncology at Novartis Attending physician, Center for Thoracic Cancers at Massachussets General Hospital Associate Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School Transcript of ALKtALK, February 6, 2022 Introduction I am from Maryland originally. Then, after high school, I came up here to Boston,…
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Dr. Ou at ALKtALK
Dr. Ignatius Sai-Hong Ou – Professor in Hematology-Oncology, Medical Oncology University of California, Irvine Editor-in-Chief of Lung Cancer: Targets and Therapy Associate Editor of Journal of Thoracic Oncology Question: We want to know a little about you. What brought you to study ALK? I was just a young aimless attending (MD) in 2007. I was…
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Dr. Vincent Lam at ALKtALK
Director, Esophageal Cancer Research Program, Assistant Professor of Oncology Expertise: Esophageal Cancer & Lung cancer Dr Lam: I am so excited to join your conversation tonight on a Sunday evening. I’m scrolling through five pages of people on the zoom call. It’s just amazing to see how committed and engaged you all are. That’s a…
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Dr. Benjamin Levy & NPC Rasheda Persinger join ALKtALK
BENJAMIN PHILLIP LEVY, MD, Clinical Director of Medical Oncology Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital Associate Professor of Oncology RASHEDA PERSINGER, Nurse Practitioner Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital Deborah Kimmel, a patient since January 2018, gave an introduction. “Dr. Levy is one of the leading Thoracic…
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Dr. Justin Gainor & Dr. Aaron Hata join ALKtALK
Dr. Justin Gainor, MD Director of Center for Thoracic Cancers & Director of Targeted Immunotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School “It’s great to be here tonight. It’s so nice to see so many familiar faces on the call. Being one of the recipients for the ALK Positive…
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Dr. Mark Awad & Dr. Roberto Chiarle join ALKtALK
Mark Awad, MD, PhD Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology Treatment Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School I hope everyone is safe, warm, and healthy tonight. I am the Clinical Director of Thoracic Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. I did Medical School at John’s Hopkins, medical residency at Mass General, and…
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Dr. Jessica Lin and Dr. Ibiayi Dagogo-Jack join ALKtALK
Dr. Jessica Lin Attending physician, Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Instructor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dr. Lin: I first began interested in oncology in my undergraduate years. I started out as a biochemist, but I met a mentor who was a pediatric oncologist who also worked in basic research. He really inspired me and made me…
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Dr. Christine Lovly joins ALKtALK
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to Marc Rosenzweig for creating and scheduling the ALKtALK programs. Alice Chou graciously committed her time to transcribe thisALKtALK with Dr. Lovly so that it would be available here for other ALK patients. Thank you so much Alice Chou for your hard work and generosity!! . . and a big…
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Dr. Ross Camidge joins ALKtALK
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to Marc Rosenzweig for creating and scheduling the ALKtALK programs. Alice Chou graciously committed her time to transcribe the January ALKtALK with Dr. Camidge so that it would be available here on our blog for other ALK patients.. Thank you so much Alice Chou for your hard work and generosity!!…
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Dr. Alice Shaw joins ALKtALK
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to Marc Rosenzweig for creating and scheduling the ALKtALK programs. Alice Chou graciously committed her time to transcribe the January ALKtALK with Dr. Shaw so that it would be available here for other ALK patients.. Thank you so much Alice Chou for your hard work and generosity!! . . and…
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ALK-positive lung cancer and Covid-19 Update
Written 7.1.20 We’ve been living with COVID-19 for six months now and we know so much more, not only about this virus, but how it affects people living with lung cancer. ALK POSITIVE SUPPORT GROUP Members Host COVID-19 Q&A with DR. Lam In the beginning of June, our amazing members, Amanda Nerstad and Chel Gorombol,…