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 Tom Stavros, Dr Robin Wilson
Geneticist :
No person.
Oncology :
No person.
Pathology : Dr Michael Lagios
Radio-Oncology :
No person.
Surgery :
No person.
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.
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, the application of MR imaging to diagnosis and intervention 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.
Dr. Nathalie Duchesne is the founder of The Breast Course.
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.
It will be her first time lecturing at The Breast Course.
Dr Tom Stavros
Dr. Stavros has been the chief of Ultrasound and non-invasive vascular services with Radiology Imaging Associates, Medical Imaging of Colorado, and Swedish Medical Center since 1979.
Tom has been involved in mammography since joining RIA in 1976, and has been actively involved in the development of high-frequency hand-held breast ultrasound since 1981. He lectures extensively domestically and internationally on breast ultrasound and has recently completing a textbook on breast ultrasound. He is a reviewer for several radiology journals.
Dr. Stavros is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, a fellow of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology, where he was the Baker Professor in 1999.
Dr Stavros has been a lecturer at The Breast Course since 2006.
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 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 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.