Keynote

Dr. Miriam Mutebi is a Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. She is also the incoming President of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), Chairperson of the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology (KESHO), and part of the Board of Directors at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). She is the co-founder of the Pan African Women’s Association of Surgeons (PAWAS -www.africanwomensurgeons.org) and is part of the Kenya Association of Women Surgeons.

She did her general surgery residency at Aga Khan University and proceeded to do a two-year fellowship in Breast Surgical Oncology, which included a year in plastics and reconstruction at the University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa followed by a Mammadi Soudavar International Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. She then worked for 2 years as a Graduate Surgical Oncology Research Fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, and also completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Systems Research at the Weill Cornell University, New York, with a focus towards understanding the barriers to the diagnosis and treatment, for women with cancers in Africa, thus designing interventions to mitigate these barriers.

Dr. Mutebi is an avid supporter of the education and support for women, especially in surgery and she aims to provide mentorship for women in surgery and to improve women’s health and surgical care in Africa.

Prof. Anne Greist, M.D., is co-founder and co-medical director of the Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center, Inc. She is a board-certified hematologist-oncologist and received her MBBS in 1977 from the University of London and Associate of King’s College and completed her medicine internship at the Kings College Hospital Health District in London in 1977. She was a Family Practice resident at St. Joseph’s Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, and then an Internal Medicine resident at Indiana University Medical Center. She completed her fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at Indiana University, and a fellowship in medical oncology and Clinical Pharmacology, at the Lilly Clinic at Wishard Memorial Hospital, in Indianapolis.

From 1986 to 1993 she was an Assistant Professor for the Department of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Section, at Indiana University, where from 1993 to 1998 she was a Clinical Associate Professor. Prof. Greist continues with Indiana University as an Associate Professor, Part-Time, of Clinical Medicine. In July 1998, she opened the Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center (IHTC). Prof. Greist serves as a member of the IHTC Board of Directors as well as a member of the International Cancer Institute Advisory Board.

Prof. Pendharkar is an accomplished medical oncologist based in India. He has an experience spanning 35 years as a cancer specialist. His areas of expertise include General Oncology, leukemias, hematological malignancies, Breast cancer, and Management of Hand-Foot Syndrome. He finished his Ph.D. in Oncology from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow. Currently, he is the Director – of Sarvodaya Cancer Institute, Faridabad, and the Head of the Department of Cancer Chemotherapy at the Asian Institute of Oncology.

He is also a Visiting Professor at RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain. Prof. Pendharkar was formerly the Associate Editor Indian Journal of Medical and Pediatric Oncology and is a member of the Indian Society of Oncology and American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a former President of the Indian Society of Oncology and the former Chair of the International Affairs Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In the past, he had been president of the Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric Oncology, Jt. Secretary Indian Society of Oncology and Associate Editor Indian Journal of Medical and Pediatric Oncology. Prof. Dinesh is currently the Chairperson of the International Cancer Institute Board of Advisors.