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| July 8, 2010 |
| Dr. Mack Roach Giving James Keller Lectureship on July 13 |
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Dr. Mack Roach III, MD, FACR, has been selected to give the 2nd Annual James W. Keller, MD Lectureship on July 13, 2010 at Winship Cancer Institute (Room C5012). Dr. Roach will lecture at 5 pm on the topic of “Controversies in the Management of Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer” with a reception to follow at 6 pm. Dr. Roach is recognized as a major authority on the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at University of California at San Francisco. He is also a Professor of Urology at University of California at San Francisco. He served as lead author for the 1996, 2000 and 2006 editions of the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria Guidelines for defining how men in this country should be simulated and treated with radiotherapy. He also served on the NCI Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Working Group to define criteria for defining the use of this new technology. He helped co-author the 2001 prostate cancer screening guidelines put forth by the American Cancer Society. He is best known for the recently completed prospective randomized RTOG trial that demonstrated the value of pelvic nodal radiotherapy for patients with high risk prostate cancer. Dr. Roach also has ties to the Atlanta area by receiving his BS degree in Physics from Morehouse College in 1975.
The James W. Keller, MD, Lectureship was started in 2009 by Emory University’s Department of Radiation Oncology with Dr. Jeff Michalski, MD, providing the inaugural lecture. The lectureship is open to the public and provides timely topics on clinical areas of radiation oncology. Dr. Keller spent over 25 years at Emory as both a Hematologist and Radiation Oncologist. Dr. Keller graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee with both bachelor and master’s degrees and then attended medical school at Marquette. He then went on to Johns Hopkins Hospital for his internship and residency in Internal Medicine followed by a Fellowship in Hematology at Washington University in St. Louis. Following a two year stint in the USAF at Kessler Medical Center, he initiated his career at Emory as a hematologist- medical oncologist in the Department of Medicine in 1972. In 1985 after a lot of soul searching, he traveled to the University of Rochester, NY to enter their training program in Radiation Oncology which he completed there and then stayed on as a faculty member until 1992 when he returned to Emory. Everyone who has ever met Dr. Keller knows that his passion is patient care. While he has been an excellent academician and teacher, his patients always came first. Jim is also an extremely ethical person who put his talents to work as Director of the Emory University School of Medicine Investigational Review Board (IRB) for ten years. Winship Cancer Institute and the Department of Radiation Oncology are excited to present the 2nd Annual Keller Lectureship on July 13, 2010.
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