6:00 pm Complimentary wine and cheese reception
7:00 pm Lecture

How Medicine (Mis)treats Cancer
With Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today as one was fifty years ago. Why has so little progress been made in diagnosing and treating cancer over the past few decades? How can physicians, researchers and patients advocate for more effective research and humane treatments? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Azra Raza, a world-class oncologist and author of The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Hear her deeply personal examination of cancer and learn how we can – and must – do better.

Azra Raza, MD, is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York. Previously, she was the Chief of Hematology Oncology and the Gladys Smith Martin Professor of Oncology at the University of Massachusetts. She is considered an international authority on pre-leukemia (MDS) and acute leukemia. Dr. Raza started collecting blood and marrow samples from her patients in 1984 and now her tissue bank, the largest and oldest in the country with more than 60,000 samples, is considered a unique national treasure.

Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is a physician, speaker, philanthropist, writer and founder of End Well, an end of life conference committed to generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for the end of life experience. She is also the executive producer of Netflix’s Academy Award-nominated film, End Game and she funded the Academy Award-nominated film, Extremis.

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