Hematology / Oncology

Location: Mt. Olympus

Session Co-Chairs: Nubar Boghossian, MD, Mihran Nazaretyan, PhD, Nerses Simon Tchekmedyian,
MD, FACP, Kalust Ucar, MD

13:30 Innovative Stem Cell Treatment Option in Armenia
Mihran Nazaretyan, PhD
13:45 Understanding Global Health and its Pitfalls
Mihran Nazaretyan, PhD
14:00 Evaluation of Efficacy of Imatinib in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Smbat Daghbashyan, MD, PhD
14:10 Non-governmental Organization Association of Health Care Executives (AHCE): Its Role and
Objectives
Smbat Daghbashyan, MD, PhD
14:20 Breast Cancer Updates with Latest Targeted Therapies, Immuno Therapies, Gene Expression
Studies and Circulating Tumor Cells
Nubar Boghossian, MD
14:40 Neural Stem Cell-Mediated Cancer Therapy: From Bench to Phase 1 Brain Tumor Trial
Margarita Gutova, MD
15:00 Question and Answer Session / Panel Discussion
15:10 Coffee Break
15:30 The Immune System and Cancer
Kalust Ucar, MD
15:50 Personalized Medicine in Hematology
Gayane Badalian, DFCI
16:05 Question and Answer Session / Panel Discussion