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Workshop on Cancer: Interdisciplinary Research in Modeling, Simulation and Surgery of tumors.

Organizing Committee: Barbara Bass, Thierry Colin and Marc Garbey

Location : Methodist Hospital, Mary Gibbs Jones Building, Brazos Assembly Hall, 2nd Floor

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       Note: Guests can ask the hotel concierge to arrange for transportation to and from the meeting on the Marriott hotel courtesy van.

Date : December 3rd - 4th, 2009

Abstract: The same way that it takes a multidisciplinary team, involving a surgeon, a radiologist, an oncologist etc... to manage a cancer disease, it takes a multidisciplinary model involving soft tissue mechanic, medical imaging and biology modeling to predict the dynamic of a tumor. Meanwhile surgeons and theoreticians have a difficult time to speak the same language and share experiences and knowledge.

The goal of this workshop is to encourage cross collaboration and focus on applications that will make the difference in clinical care.

This workshop will cover the following topics and more:

• Surgery Practice in Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Brain Cancer…
• Modeling tumor growth
• Medical Imaging of Tumor
• Drug Delivery
• Radio-Frequency and Cryogenic Ablation
• Modeling tumor growth
• Medical Robotic
• Biopsy
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Image-based simulations

Some of the best work presented at the workshop will be published in a special issue of an international journal.

Invited Speakers: (Click here for titles and abstracts)

• Tom Aloia (The Methodist Hospital)
• David S. Baskin (The Methodist Hospital)
• Barbara Lee Bass (The Methodist Hospital)
• Shanda H. Blackmon (The Methodist Hospital)
• E. Brian Butler (The Methodist Hospital)
• Thierry Colin (University Bordeaux 1 and INRIA)
• Christophe Collet (LSIIT University of Strasbourg )
• Frederic De Gournay (LMV, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin, CNRS)
• Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
• Marc Garbey (University of Houston)
• Frederic Gibou (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• John H. Miller  (Santa Fe Institute)
• Cecile M. Perrault (Institute of BioEngineering of Catalunya)
• Clair Poignard (INRIA)
• Olivier Saut (University Bordeaux 1 and INRIA)
• Shishir Shah (University of Houston)
• Bin S. Teh (The Methodist Hospital)
• David Thanoon (University of Houston)
• Roger Tran Son Tay (University of Florida)
• Nikolaos V. Tsekos (University of Houston)
• Ralph G. Zinner  (The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)

Contact information: garbey@cs.uh.edu

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