Previous Meetings
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2020 MEETINGS
January 23, 2020
Speaker: Frankis Almaguel, MD, PhD,
Director, Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics Program, Loma Linda Cancer Center, Loma Linda, CA
Topic: Personalized Prostate Cancer Interventions (Theranostics)
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February 27, 2020
Speaker: Dr Tanya Dorff
Topic: Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer
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July 23, 2020
Speaker: Dr Harsolia
Topic: Overview of Different Types of Radiation Treatment and Cyber Knife for Prostate Cancer
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August 27, 2020
Speaker: Dr Rossi
Topic: The Benefits of Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer
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September 24, 2020
Speaker: Dr Robert Allen Auerbach & Dr Calais
Topic: Using Gallium 68 Positron Emission Tomography Scanning to Locate Advanced Prostate Cancers
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October 22, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Robert Pugach
Topic: The Evolution of Minimally Invasive Advanced High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for the Treatment of Prostate Cancers
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November 19, 2020
Speaker: Dr Charles Metzger
Topic: Management of Rising PSA After Primary Treatment
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December, 2020
NO MEETING
2018 MEETINGS
January 28, 2018
Speaker: Richard Lam, MD
Director Clinical Research Prostate Oncology Specialists
Topic: Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer
February 22, 2018
Speaker: Mitchell Kamrava, MD
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March 22, 2018
Speaker: Fabio Almeida, MD
Phoenix Molecular Imaging, YMRC Cancer Center PET/CT
Topic: Imaging in Prostate Cancer
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April 26, 2018
Speaker: Mark Scholz, MD
Prostate Oncology Specialists
Topic: Five Stages of Prostate Cancer
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May 24, 2018
Speaker: Thomas K. Lee, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Univ. Irvine School of Medicine
Topic: Understanding the details in your pathology report: Biopsy vs. Radical Prostatectomy
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June 28, 2018
Speaker: Robert Pugach, MD
Medical Director Western State HIFU
Topic: Focal and Whole Gland HIFU - The Gold Standard for Low-Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer
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July 26, 2018
Speaker: Tanya Dorff, MD
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August 23, 2018
Speaker: Jane Shellhouse
Certified Nutritionist, Diet Nutrition Support, Placentia, CA
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September 27, 2018
Speaker: David Krasne, MD
Pacific Neuroscience Institute, Pathologist
Topic: Pathology of Prostate Cancer in 2018
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October 25, 2018
Speaker: Leonard A. Farber, MD
City Hope, St. Joseph Health/St. Jude Medical Center
Topic: Advances in radiation therapy for prostate cancer: SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy)
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November 15, 2018
Speaker: Dong Won Kim, MD, PhD
Kaiser
Topic: Pro/Cons in Deploying IMRT, SBRT and Seeds in Prostate Cancer
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December 2018
No meeting
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2019 MEETINGS
January 24, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Albert Chang
Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Surgical Services and Brachytherapy Service Chief for the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topic: Treatment of Prostate Cancer using Combination Therapies including Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy
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February 28, 2019
Speaker: Richard Lam, MD
Prostate Oncology Specialists, Marina Del Rey, CA
Topic: Low Risk, Intermediate Risk, High Risk Stages, Metastatic Disease, Immunotherapy, Treatment Options, Q & A
March 28 , 2019
Speaker: Martin Allen-Auerbach, MD
UCLA Associate Professor David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Hospital
Speaker: Jeremie Calais, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor UCLA, Ahmanson Translational Imaging Division of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Topic: Using Gallium 68 Positron Emission Tomography Scanning to Locate Advanced Prostate Cancers
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April 25, 2019
Speaker: Charles K. Metzger, MD
Urology Specialist, 41 years, Glendora, CA, retired
Topic: Sequencing Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer
May 23, 2019
Speaker: Bernadette Greenwood BSc, PG Cert, RT (R) (MR) (ARRT)
Clinical Instructor, University of California, Riverside, Chief Research Officer, Prostate Cancer Information Group/ Desert Medical Imaging, Indian Wells, CA
Topic: Image-Based Prostate Cancer (PCa) Management., an update. Evolution of prostate MRI, MRI guided biopsy, & tissue base. Jenelle mix. Additionally, new Radionuclides & Serum Blood Tests for CirculatingTumor Cells (CTC)
June 27, 2019
Speaker: Robert G. Pugach, MD
Medical Director - Western States HIFU and Pacific Coast Urology Medical Ctr, Los Alamitos & Huntington Beach, CA
Topic: The Evolution of Minimally Invasive Advanced High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for the Treatment of Prostate Cancers
July 25, 2019
Speaker: Hari P. Sawkar, MD
Boston Scientific and St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA
Topic: Life After Prostate Cancer (Impotence, incontinence)
August 22, 2019
Speaker: Gary Leach, MD
Director (Retired) Tower Urology Center, Cedars / Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
Topic: Quality of Life Issues After Prostate Cancer (Impotence, incontinence)
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September 26, 2019
No speaker
October 24, 2019
Speaker: Ashok J. Kar, MD
Founder of the Robotic Surgery Program, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Orange, CA
Topic: Changing Paradigm in the Management of Prostate Cancer
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November 21, 2019
Speaker: ​Jane Shellhouse
Certified Nutritionist, Diet Nutrition Support, Placentia, CA
Topic: How Food, Alcohol, Beverages, Attitude and Stress Contribute to the Development of Prostate Cancer
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December 2019
No meeting
2017 MEETINGS
April 27, 2017
Speaker: Arnold I. Chin, MD, PhD
Urologist and Assistant Professor UCLA
Topic: Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
October 26, 2017
Speaker: Donald B. Fuller, MD
Genesis Healthcare
Topic: Treating Prostate Cancer with Radiation Therapy with emphasis on IMRT (including Calypso), or Cyber Knife
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August 24, 2017
Speaker: Heather C. Lamb
Manager Onc. Business Development, NeoGenomics Laboratories ,Inc.
Topic: Liquid Biopsy and its Role in Today's Cancer Treatments
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January 26, 2017
Speaker: Carl Rossi, MD
Scripps