Newswise — 20 years after Chernobyl, the worst peace-time nuclear disaster in history, a large number of exposed immigrants from the Ukraine, Belarus and Russia now live in the USA. The rate of thyroid cancer among this group is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decade. Approximately 100,000 immigrants from these affected areas live in Metro New York City.
At this continuing education conference, US physicians (and journalists) can learn about radiation-induced thyroid cancer " its epidemiology, its unique pathophysiology and a "best practices" model for treatment and long-term management. The remarkable faculty includes, for the first time in the USA, a number of leading international specialists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, who have hands-on experience with the disaster's aftermath, as well top medical experts in endocrinology and oncology from the USA's foremost teaching institutions.
The conference, "Living With Radiation: Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer after the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident," will be held at the United Nations in New York City on Thursday, April 20, 2006 from 10 am to 6pm. It is jointly sponsored by The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) and the World Information Transfer, Inc (WITI). Course directors are: Daniel Igor Branovan, MD (NYEEI); Christine K. Durbak, MD (WITI); Bernard D. Goldstein, MD (University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health).
Faculty include: Prof. Larissa Baleva (Russia); Prof. Volodymyr Bebeshko (Ukraine); Prof. Yuriy Demidchik (Belarus); James A. Fagin, MD (Univ. of Cincinnati, OH); Jan Geliebter, PhD (New York Medical College, NY); Virginia A. LiVolsi, MD (Univ. of Pennsylvania, PA); Prof. Vladimir Maltsev (Ukraine); Prof. Olga Oleinikova (Belarus); Mark S. Persky, MD (Beth Israel Medical Center,NY); Gregory W. Randolph, MD (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston); Matthew D. Ringel, MD (Ohio State University, OH); Prof. Alexander Rumyantsev (Russia); Simon Schantz, MD (Beth NYEEI, NY); Ashok R. Shaha, MD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY); Prof. Mykola Tronko (Ukraine); Prof. Anatoliy Tsib (Russia); Michael Tuttle, MD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY) and Samuel A. Wells, MD (Duke Univeristy Medical Center, NC).
Full conference brochure available at http://www.nyee.com.
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