As Co-Chairs of the Childhood Cancer Caucus, we write to invite you to the 7th Annual Childhood Cancer Summit: "Kids Are Unique: How We Are Facing These Challenges on the Quest for Cures" that will be on Friday, September 23, 2015 at 9:00 am in the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) North Orientation Theatre. This year we are pleased to welcome Greg Simon, the Executive Director of the Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, in the Office of the Vice President of the United States. Other speakers are as follows:
Welcoming Remarks
Representative Michael McCaul
Texas 10th Congressional District
Representative Chris Van Hollen
Maryland 8th Congressional District
Keynote Speech
Greg Simon
Cancer Moonshot Task Force
Panel 1: National Cancer Insitute Research on Pediatric Cancer and Drug Innovation
Dr. Douglas Lowy
Acting Director, National Cancer Institute
Remarks on Survivorship
Representative Jackie Speier
California 14th Congressional District
Panel 2: The Children Speak: Unique needs of Children who have Survived Cancer
Luke Gidden
Texas
Sydni Jankowski
Maryland
Dr. Gregory Aune
Childhood Cancer Survivor / University Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
Panel 3: Policies Related to Childhood Cancer
Amy Jensen Cunniffe
Ernst & Young / Parent of Childhood Cancer
The Summit is open to the public and will begin promptly at 9:00 am. For directions to the North Orientation Theatre, please click here.
We hope you will join the Caucus for this exceptional event. For more information please contact Ziky Ababiya (Rep. Van Hollen's office) at (202) 225-5341 or ziky.ababiya@mail.house.gov or Thomas Rice (Rep. McCaul's office) at (202) 225-2401 or thomas.rice@mail.house.gov
Sincerely,
Chris Van Hollen Michael McCaul
Member of Congress Member of Congress
You are invited to the 7th Annual Childhood Cancer Summit: "Kids Are Unique: How We Are Facing These Challenges on the Quest for Cures". This year we are pleased to welcome Greg Simon, Executive Director of the Cancer Moonshot Taskforce in the Office of the Vice President as our keynote speaker. The Summit is open to the public.
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