Date: 
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Location: 
Residency Tower Trivandrum


7.30pm to 8.15pm     Management and Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer in Canada: Insights from a Population-Based Cancer Registry ..DrChristopher Booth MD FRCPC   ,Associate                                                Professor, Queen's University , Ontario Canada

8.15pm to 9.45 pm   Lymphnode harvest in Colorectal Cancer and Its Implications.     Dr.Joseph Del Paggio  , Queen's University , Ontario Canada

8.45pm to  9pm        Onco Quiz 


Short CV  Christopher Booth MD FRCPC Biography

Dr. Booth studied medicine at Queen’s University and did postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology at the University of Toronto. He subsequently spent two years as a research fellow with the NCI-Canada Clinical Trials Group at Queen’s University. Dr. Booth is currently a Medical Oncologist and Associate Professor at Queen’s University. In 2014 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Cancer Care. In his clinical practice he provides care to patients with gastrointestinal and genitourinary cancers. Dr. Booth has an active program in population-based cancer care and outcomes research. The focus of his research program is to evaluate the effectiveness of new therapies in the general population and the quality of care delivered to patients in routine clinical practice. His research is supported by a number of grants from external funding agencies and he has published more than 80 scientific articles. He is currently on sabbatical at the Regional Cancer Centre in Trivandrum where he and RCC colleagues are developing a collaborative program in cancer health services research