The Prostate Net® Leads The Way:Informed To Fight Medical Education Symposium for Patients and Healthcare Professionals.
2010 Symposium Series Program Information
Building on the success of The Prostate Net's October 2009 Prostate Cancer
Symposium The Prostate Net proposes to advance disease understanding and
management efforts by conducting a Regional Symposium Series consisting of
specific awareness/educational events, targeted to patients/spouses, public
health workers and healthcare professionals engaged in the care and
treatment of patients.
The launch of our 2010 Series will be on May 15th in conjunction with
Rutgers University School of Public Affairs and Administration. Associate
Dean Judith Kirchhoff (seen here) provides some rationale on the importance
of the program. Registrations are now being accepted!!
Regional Symposium Series - 2010 Sites / Dates - Register NOW!!
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Rutgers School of Public Administration and Affairs & University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ -
5/15/2010 - Review the agenda here and download the flyer here. |
| June |
Lombardi Minority Cancer Research Center - Georgetown University,
Washington, DC - 6/16/2010 - Review the agenda here and download the flyer here.
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| July |
 Clark Atlanta University - Center for Clinical Research & Therapeutic Development, Atlanta, GA - 7/17/2010 - Review the agenda here and download the flyer here. |
| August |
 University of Florida College of Medicine Dept. of Urology, Jacksonville, FL - 8/28/2010 - Review the agenda here and download the flyer here. |
| September |
 Northwestern University Medical Center - Prostate Cancer SPORE, Chicago, IL - 9/11/2010 - Review the agenda here and download the flyer here. |
| October |
The Prostate Net - NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, New York, NY - 10/2/2010 - Note: The official hotel for the Symposium is the Washington Square Hotel. Contact Ms. Keiko Mukai - 212.777.9515 - to obtain our special group (#21005) rate. |
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To register for any of the 2010 Symposia, click here
2009 Symposium Series Program Successful!
 | To view a summay of the October 6, 2009 Symposium Click Here. |
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To register for any of the 2010 Symposia, click here |
Hackensack, NJ; Thursday, October 14, 2009: Virgil H. Simons, Founder and President of The Prostate Net®, a national prostate cancer advocacy group, announced the organization's latest major initiative in the fight against prostate cancer successfully met its goal of delivering contemporary and emerging information on the care and treatment of patients with prostate cancer. A daylong, dual-track educational symposium targeting patients, caregivers and medical professionals took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at New York University, Kimmel Center for University Life in New York City.
Donald Coffey, PhD, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was featured as the event's Key Note speaker. Dr. Coffey, in his unique and entertaining style, delivered an inspirational presentation on the state of cancer treatment and development. A world-class faculty of prostate cancer specialists who presented and discussed contemporary information and issues confronting the disease also joined Dr. Coffey. "We believe our goal of offering a specific awareness and educational effort, targeted to both patients and professionals, within an unique dual-track environment was very successful in providing symposium participants access to those world-class health professionals, whose work form disease management policy and best standard of care," said Simons. "We are very pleased that this initiative provided access to information for both patients and professionals, not normally readily available, as to the best standards of care based on leading edge research and clinical practice."
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A series of interactive Audience Response System (ARS) questions were built into presentations, allowing symposium participants the opportunity to provide feedback on key issues raised during the event. The Prostate Net plans on incorporating these and future ARS questions into an unique format that will be used not only to provide valuable information to patients, but to also gather specific feedback on a series of "key" issues confronting prostate cancer patients. Data will be captured and form the basis of providing pertinent topics for future educational sessions and will be housed on their web site: www.theprostatenet.org.
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"We will provide a package of the 10/6 event program information to prostate cancer support group leaders, health service professionals and any other educational resource for consumers and patients to enable them to enhance the quality of their educational efforts" commented Virgil Simons.
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"This material, in conjunction with the online resources to be provided, will serve to improve the process of informed decision-making by communities, patients, survivors and their families and caregivers." AstraZeneca was the event's principal sponsor. Also supporting the event: Abbott, Amgen, GTx, Sanofi Aventis, Purdue, and Genentech.
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Following the October 6th model, The Prostate Net plans on convening a series of regional prostate cancer educational initiatives starting in 2010. Information on the 2010 program can be noted above.
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| To register for any of the 2010 Symposia, click here |
The Prostate Net Symposium Series is supported in part by Unrestricted
Educational Grants from:
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