Breast diseases:
detection, intervention
and therapy
Speakers
Course Direction
Activity and Scientific Director : Dr Nathalie Duchesne
Course Faculty
Diagnostic and interventional radiology : Dr Nathalie Duchesne, Dr Terese Kaske, Dr Janice Sung, Dr Robin Wilson
Geneticist : Dr Deborah Armstrong
Oncology : Dr Deborah Armstrong
Pathology : Dr Michael Lagios, Dr Sarah Pinder
Radio-Oncology :
No person.
Surgery : Dr Arnie Purushotham
Scientific Committee
Scientific Committee : Dr Simon Duchesne, Dr Nathalie Duchesne, Dr Michael Lagios, Dr Robin Wilson
Dr Nathalie Duchesne
Dr. Nathalie Duchesne has been working in breast imaging and intervention since 1996, and is now Head of Breast Imaging Division at Imagix Medical Network in Montreal as well as Breast radiologist at Hopital du Saint-Sacrement in Quebec city. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and at Universite Laval in Quebec City.
Nathalie received her Medical Doctorate in 1990 and her Diagnostic Radiology postgraduate degree in 1995, both from University Laval, Quebec City. She has performed rotations in university hospitals both in Australia and The Netherlands, and worked on a fellowship program in interventional MRI and bone tumors at Harvard University. The latter was completed in breast imaging at the Universite de Montreal. She also holds a B.Sc. degree in Biology.
Dr. Duchesne's main clinical and research interests include breast biopsy tool development, minimally-invasive therapy, as well as new types of breast imaging and cancer detection. She is a pioneer in vacuum-assisted breast biopsy, having done many world and Canadian premieres for various devices. She is an internationally known speaker having given numerous national and international conferences, with a track record of publications in the areas of breast imaging and intervention. She has lectured in the Breast Imaging and Intervention Series (2001-2003). She is a member of various international scientific societies, and has received many awards from her peers, such as the Young Radiologist Investigator Award of the Year for 2005 by the Canadian Association of Radiologists, and, more recently, the 2008 Personality of the Year in Radiology from the Société Canadienne-Française de Radiologie / Association des Radiologistes du Québec for her personality, scientific contribution, and humanitarian work.
Finally, Dr. Nathalie Duchesne is the founder and Director of The Breast Practices, organizing the now world famous interdisciplinary The Breast Course and The Breast Days. Through these courses, more than 1500 physicians from 53 countries have received teaching, contributing to the improvement of breast and women's health worldwide.
Dr Terese Kaske
Dr. Terese I. Kaske has been a Breast Imaging Specialist Radiologist with Radiology Imaging Associates and the Invision/Sally Jobe Breast Network in Denver, CO since 1998. She assumed the position of Medical Director of the Sally Jobe Breast Centre in 2003 until June of 2009. The Invision/ Sally Jobe network is an outpatient imaging network that provides high level breast care, including digital mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MRI and interventional breast procedures.
Prior to receiving her medical degree from the University of CO School of Medicine, Dr. Kaske was the chief technologist of the ultrasound department and directed the Ultrasound Technologists training program at the University of CO Health Sciences Center in Denver CO from 1980 – 1987.
Dr. Kaske has lectured widely on breast diagnosis and contributed to multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and is currently co-authoring a chapter on breast intervention. Also, she was a coinvestigator of the recently concluded ACRIN 6666 breast ultrasound screening study; this trial evaluated high risk patients with ultrasound and mammography.
Dr. Kaske works closely with her professional and technical colleagues. She runs the weekly breast case conference that is educational and provides follow up and coordination of breast care for patients in the Invision/Sally Jobe network.
Dr. Kaske is a regular lecturer at both our The Breast Course and The Breast Days events.
Dr Janice Sung
Dr Janice Sung specializes in breast and body imaging. Her clinical work in breast imaging involves the use of mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and minimally invasive interventional breast procedures, such as stereotactic and ultrasound-guided core biopsies.
It will be Dr. Sung's first time to lecture at The Breast Course.
Dr Robin Wilson
Dr Robin Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. He has been a Consultant Radiologist with a special interest in breast imaging since 1988.
After 13 years as the Director of the Nottingham Breast Institute he has recently moved to work in London and is now based at The Royal Marsden Hospital. He has a particular interest in breast screening and breast diagnosis, including ultrasound and image guided breast biopsy.
He is the editor and contributing author of current UK and European breast guidelines on breast screening, breast unit accreditation and breast MRI. In the UK he is currently Chairman of the Breast Screening Radiology Coordinating Committee and a member of the Department of Health Breast Screening Advisory Committee. He is a past president and current member of the faculty of the International Breast Ultrasound School (IBUS). From September 2010 will be the President of the European Society of Breast Specialists (EUSOMA).
Dr Wilson has a wide experience of teaching, having published more than 100 papers on breast imaging and delivered over 200 lectures at breast course and international scientific meetings over the past ten years.
Dr Wilson has been a lecturer at The Breast Course since 2005.
Dr Deborah Armstrong
Dr. Armstrong is an associate professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and an associate professor in gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Armstrong also directs the Johns Hopkins Breast and Ovarian Screening Service, a genetic counseling service that focuses on identifying patients at risk for cancer and examination of new strategies for cancer screening and prevention.
Dr. Armstrong works primarily in the area of women’s malignancies, with a particular emphasis on breast cancer, ovarian cancer and other gynecologic malignancies, and the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer. Dr. Armstrong’s clinical focus is on the development of new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of breast cancer and gynecologic malignancies. Particular areas of interest are intraperitoneal therapy, targeted biologic therapy and immunologic approaches to cancer treatment.
The recipient of many training and research awards, Dr. Armstrong has lectured locally, nationally and internationally. She is active in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, serving on the Medical Oncology, Developmental Therapeutics and Phase I GOG committees and as chair of several clinical trials through this group.
Dr. Armstrong received her bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from the University of California at Berkeley then attended the George Washington University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. degree with distinction then completed training in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and served as chief medical resident. She then received fellowship training in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins.
It will be her third time lecturing at The Breast Course.
Dr Michael Lagios
Dr. Michael D. Lagios, a San Francisco native, attended the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) and University of California Medical Center, San Francisco (M.D., 1965). His early interests included comparative endocrinology and icthyology (26 citations) but he became interested in breast cancer following his discharge from the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
He and his colleagues at a small community hospital in San Francisco, pioneered breast conservation therapy for duct carcinoma in situ, developed nuclear grading as a basic method of classification of the disease and perfected methods of tissue processing for mammographically directed biopsies.
Having gained considerable weight after his third Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon, he has eschewed a professional career in that discipline and presently is Medical Director of the Breast Cancer Consultation Service in Tiburon, California. Dr. Lagios holds an appointment as clinical associate professor in Pathology at Stanford University, and is a Fellow from the California Academy of Sciences.
Dr Lagios has been lecturing at The Breast Course since its first edition in 2005.
Dr Sarah Pinder
Sarah E Pinder is Professor of Breast Pathology at Kings College London and Lead Consultant Breast Pathologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. She serves on the NHS Breast Screening Programme Pathology Co-ordinating Committee and Chairs the NHS Breast Screening Programme Pathology Research Committee, is a member of the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) Breast Reference Group and the Sloane Project (UK National DCIS audit) Steering Group. Her research interests are focused on breast cancer diagnosis and prediction of prognosis, with a particular interest in precursor lesions. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles, over 50 invited reviews/papers, and over 40 chapters on breast diseases.
It will be Dr Pinder's first time lecturing at The Breast Course.
Dr Arnie Purushotham
Dr Arnie Purushotham is Professor of Breast Cancer at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He is also Director of the Integrated Cancer Centre (Guy’s & St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundations Trusts and King’s College London).
Dr Purushotham was previously Director of Breast Services in Addenbrooke’s NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge and prior to that Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon with the University of Glasgow and Western Infirmary.
His principle research interests are in the pathophysiology of lymphoedema, sentinel lymph node biopsy, molecular profiling of tumours to predict resistance and response to therapy and mammary cancer stem cell biology.
Dr Purushotham is a regular lecturer at The Breast Course.
Dr Simon Duchesne
Dr Simon Duchesne is a Researcher at the Centre de Recherche Université Laval - Robert Giffard in Québec City, and Adjunct Professor and Research Co-Director at the Radiology Department of Université Laval.
Simon is the founder of the Medical Data, Information and Knowledge (MEDICS) Laboratory, dedicated to the development of groundbreaking analysis techniques for computer aid to diagnosis in neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr Duchesne is one of The Breast Course founders, where he acts as scientific coordinator.