Donald K. Buffmire Lecture - Conquering Childhood Cancer

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William Crist

Thursday, January 15, 2009
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

Extraordinary, life-saving advances in the treatment of childhood cancer have taken place in recent decades, says Dr. William Crist, the new vice president for health affairs at The University of Arizona and a noted pediatric cancer investigator.

The UA College of Medicine and the Flinn Foundation will host Crist, who was selected for this year's Donald K. Buffmire, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medicine. He will discuss "Conquering Childhood Cancer – A Paradigm for Translational Research."

Crist is among the scientists credited with dramatically improving our understanding of childhood leukemias and their treatments. He has served as director of pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham; director of pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis; chair of hematology and oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis; and chair of pediatric and adolescent medicine at the Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, Minn.


Audience: All, Large (101-500)

Where

Arizona Cancer Center
Room: Kiewit Auditorium