Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Cancer Treatment Update 2018

This annual update will provide attendees with comprehensive overview of treatment advances for cancer patients featuring a faculty of experts from MSK. By attending this symposium, participants will understand the advances in cancer treatment involving multiple areas medical specialties. The target audience includes physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers from diverse specialties that provide care for cancer patients.

35th Annual National Corporate Medical Associates Meeting

Similar to last year, we are incorporating the 35th Annual National Corporate Medical Associates Meeting into this course and expanding the audience to include community providers, MSK Direct members, and MSK employees interested in learning about new treatment advancements for cancer patients. Registration details will be emailed to all NCMA and MSK Direct members. If you did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]

NEW! Live Simulcast Available

We are pleased to offer a live simulcast for the Cancer Treatment Update 2018, available for attendees unable to attend this course in person. CME and ABIM MOC credit will still be offered for the live simulcast and active participation is required throughout the course. We do hope you will attend in person but understand that can sometimes be a challenge so we are happy to offer the live simulcast as an option. Register for the live simulcast.

1. Understand advances in cancer treatment involving multiple areas medical specialties

NCMA & MSK Direct Members

Registration details for this event will be emailed to all NCMA and MSK Direct Members. If you did not receive an email, please contact [email protected].

Other Invitees

Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshment breaks. Please contact us at least one week prior to the course if you have any special dietary needs.

• 30% Discounted Rate for MSK Alumni and MSK Alliance Members - MSK offers a discounted rate to all MSK Alumni and MSK Alliance members to attend a CME course. Please contact [email protected] for more information or a promotion code.
• MSK Staff Registration - Registration is complimentary for MSK staff. However, you must complete course registration to attend this course. 

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel your participation in this course, your registration fee, less a $75 administrative fee, will be refunded when email notification is received by the MSK Office of Continuing Medical Education (MSK CME) at least 7 days prior to the first day of the course ([email protected]).

Cancellations or no-shows after this date are not eligible for a refund. MSK CME reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event we must cancel or postpone this course, we will refund the registration fee in full, but are not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees incurred by airline/travel/lodging agencies. At any time, you may substitute another registrant in your place after contacting MSK CME with the relevant information.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

If you’ll be traveling to MSK from out of town, we recommend that you plan your overnight stays as soon as possible. To make the planning a little easier, we’ve negotiated special rates and amenities for patients, families, and caregivers at select hotels in Manhattan.

The Bentley

500 East 62nd Street
(at York Avenue)
New York, NY 10065

Reservations: 855-779-0220 | www.bentleyhotelnyc.com

This Upper East Side hotel is located four blocks from Memorial Sloan Kettering’s main campus facilities. It has 197 guestrooms and suites, all featuring complimentary wireless Internet access and complimentary fitness center access. The hotel also has a rooftop bar and restaurant as well as a Lobby Bar and Café. To make a reservation, please request the Memorial Sloan Kettering rate.

The Kimberly Hotel
 
145 East 50th Street
(Between Lexington and Third Avenues)
New York, NY 10022

Reservations: (800) 683-0400 | www.kimberlyhotel.com

A newly renovated luxury hotel and 2013 winner of best in the business class by Conde Nast and best in VIP services by Expedia, the Kimberly Hotel is located in the heart of midtown, two short blocks from the shuttle to Memorial Sloan Kettering’s facilities. Known for impeccable service, attention to detail, oversize guest rooms, and suites with balconies — some with living rooms offering sofa beds with Simmons mattresses — the hotel is equipped with wet bars, microwaves, luxury amenities, elevated electronics available upon request, and a famous rooftop lounge, called Upstairs, that’s open year-round for a full American breakfast and late-night dining.  Visit their famous American-fusion Opera House, Noir, and receive 20 percent off on menu items and two complimentary drinks per stay (open for lunch, dinner, and late-night dining).

Courtyard New York Manhattan/Midtown East
 
866 Third Avenue
(Between 52nd and 53rd Streets)
New York, NY 10022

Reservations: (800) 321-2211 | website  

This recently renovated hotel is located in the same building as our Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion at 160 East 53rd Street. Memorial Sloan Kettering offers shuttle service from the Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion to our main campus at 1275 York Avenue, running every 20 minutes, Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 6:20 pm. The hotel offers some of the largest rooms in New York City, beginning at 420 square feet, with complimentary Internet access and refrigerators in every room. The restaurant, Table 866 serves a variety of refreshing breakfast options and drinks with Starbucks® coffee. The hotel is steps from subway transportation.

For additional hotels in the area with negotiated special rates, please visit: www.mskcc.org/accommodations

MSK Course Director

Stephen R. Veach, MD
Attending Physician
Thoracic Oncology Service
Department of Medicine

MSK Course Faculty

Vance Broach, MD
Assistant Attending
Gynecology Service
Department of Surgery

Robert Daly, MD, MBA
Assistant Attending
Thoracic Oncology Service
Department of Medicine

Monica N. Fornier, MD
Associate Attending
Breast Medicine Service
Department of Mediciny

Samuel A. Funt, MD
Assistant Attending
Genitourinary Oncology Service
Department of Medicine

Mini Kamboj, MD
Director, Infection Control Program
Assistant Attending
Infectious Diseases Service
Department of Medicine

Andrew Kung, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Mario E. Lacouture, MD
Member, Memorial Hospital
Director, Oncodermatology Program
Dermatology Service
Department of Medicine

Ilya Laufer, MD
Director of the Minimally Invasive 
Spine Tumor Surgery Program
Associate Attending
Department of Neurosurgery

Simon Mantha, MD, MPH
Associate Attending
Hematology Service
Department of Medicine

Christian J. Nelson, PhD
Chief, Psychiatry Service
Counseling Center

Craig S. Sauter, MD
Assistant Attending
Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Division of Hematologic Oncology
Department of Medicine

Heiko Schöder, MD, MBA
Deputy Chief, Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service
Department of Radiology

Faculty Disclosures (All Faculty)

Friday, June 15, 2018