All about neurology: Upcoming conferences led by Roger Packer, M.D.
Roger Packer, M.D., senior vice president of the Center for Neurosciences and Behavioral Medicine at Children’s National Hospital, will speak at a series of symposiums in the next couple of months.
Most recently, he presented on pediatric brain tumor trials at a webinar hosted by the American Brain Tumor Association titled “Clinical Trials – Paving the Way Forward.” In case you missed it, you can watch it here.
For details on more upcoming presentations, see below:
On Friday, May 14, Dr. Packer will speak at the Cure Search for Children’s Cancer’s ‘Blurred Lines: Therapeutic vs. Research-only Biopsies,’ a session highlighting technologies, including liquid biopsies and single-cell sequencing, that have the potential to allow researchers to collect more data while decreasing the amount of tissue needed from solid tumor biopsies.
On Friday, May 28, he will give a virtual keynote address at the Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology during their “Pediatric oncology, hematology and immunology in 21st century: From research to clinical practice” online presentation. Dr. Packer will co-chair the session on central nervous system tumors and present on “CNS tumors: Major advances in neuro-oncology in last 10 years.”
And at the 50th Golden Anniversary Meeting of the Child Neurology Society, taking place September 29 to October 2, Dr. Packer will lead a symposium on new therapies for childhood medulloblastoma — the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Here, he will receive a recognition during the society’s annual gala honoring the “Founders of Child Neurology,” for his contribution in a new book in which Dr. Packer has a chapter outlining the history of child neurologists in the field of pediatric neuro-oncology.
