2018 Meeting Menu
Keynote Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Christoph Adami, PHD
Michigan State University
DISCOVERING THE SIGNAL WITHIN THE NOISE: WHERE ARE THE DISEASE BIOMARKERS?
Monday, May 7, 5 - 7pm/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Dr. Lothar Lilge, PHD
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, Canada
"Personalize treatment planning for Photodynamic and Photothermal therapies; Implementations of rapid Monte Carlo simulations and linearized optimization algorithms"
Tuesday, May 8, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Dr. Amy Lee, PHD
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Health and Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential"
Wednesday, May 9, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
PLENARY SPEAKER
Rochelle (Shelley) Buffenstein, PHD
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"The Unusual Biology of the Longest Lived Rodent, the Naked Mole-rat"
Thursday, May 10, 8 - 9 am/ CANYON I, III
35th Annual Society for Thermal Medicine Meeting
Westin La Paloma Resort, Tucson, Arizona / May 7th – 10th, 2018
Dear Friends and Supporters of STM,
On behalf of the STM Governing Council and meeting Planning Committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to join us for our 35th Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the beautiful Westin La Paloma Resort, May 7-10, 2018.
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine will provide an arena for presentations of latest data, concepts, and breakthroughs in our ever-expanding understanding of thermal medicine in the context of engineering, physics, materials science, and biology.
Keynote and Plenary speakers will highlight the extensive connections between physics, information science, biology, imaging, and the thermal state. International thought leaders will lead breakout sessions on:
- Information as a biologic force
- Stress responses and implications for therapy
- Biology of stress
- Immunology/immunotherapy in thermal settings
- Infectious diseases
- Optical imaging and dose measurement
- Nanoparticle design and usage
- Nanoparticle hyperthermia
- Nature’s nanoparticles: exosomes and microvesicles
- Nanothermometry
- Combination therapies with hyperthermia
- Clinical trials in cancer and other diseases
...and many more!
We look forward to seeing you in Tucson!
Sincerely,
Michael Graner, PhD
2018 Program Chair
President-Elect, Society for Thermal Medicine
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Platinum Level
Gold Level
Silver Level
Bronze Level
NITA Award Sponsors
Friends Level
Supporting Level Sponsors
2018 Program Chair
Michael Graner, PhD
2018 STM Program Chair,
STM President-Elect,
University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
Aurora, CO
Email: Michael.Graner@ucdenver.edu
Planning Committee
Program Chair: Michael Graner, PhD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery
Corporate Relations & Fundraising Chair: Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD, University of Maryland
Randy Burd, PhD, The University of Arizona Cancer Center
Erik Cressman, MD, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chris Diederich, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Steven Fiering, PhD, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Robert Griffin, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Dieter Haemmerich, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Mark Hurwitz, MD, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
Robert Ivkov, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology
Samir Jenkins, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Nicole Levi-Polyachenko, PhD, Wake Forest University
Elizabeth Repasky, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Jason Stafford, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Paul Stauffer, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University
Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic
Christopher Lapine, STM Business Manager, Allen Press, Inc.
2018 STM New Investigator Travel Awards
We are pleased to announce that The Society for Thermal Medicine, with funding from The Journal of Clinical Medicine and MDPI journals diseases and medicines is providing travel grants to 10 New Investigators to encourage participation at the 2018 STM annual meeting.
Awardees will receive a $500 travel grant and registration to the meeting.
Travel Awards recipients are based upon a competitive evaluation of their submitted abstracts and New Investigator Award applications.
About our NITA Sponsors
Diseases (ISSN 2079-9721) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on human diseases and conditions, is published by MDPI online quarterly. The scope is broad, we have published papers related to “Rare Syndrome, Oncology, Rheumatology, Hematology Gastroenterology, Infectious Disease, Immunology, Cardiology Public Health, Neurosciences, Obstetrics & Gynecology “, etc.
More details refer to http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diseases.
On behalf of our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino, we welcome you to contribute.
There has been an explosion of gene and target based research and therapeutics in the multitude of fields that compose clinical medicine. The Journal of Clinical Medicine’s (JCM;ISSN2077-0383; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm) staff and editorial board are dedicated to providing cutting edge, timely, and peer-reviewed articles covering the diverse subspecialties of clinical medicine. The journal publishes concise, innovative, and exciting research articles as well as clinically significant articles and reviews that are pertinent to the myriad of disciplines within medicine. The articles published are relevant to both primary care physicians and specialists. The journal’s full-texts are archived in PubMed Central, and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and PubMed. Please consider submitting your manuscripts for publication to our journal and check us out on-line!
Medicines (ISSN 2305-6320, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicines) is an open access journal of evidence-based classical, complementary and integrative medicine published quarterly online by MDPI with a median APT (article publishing time from submission to publication) of 46.5 days. The journal’s full-texts are archived in PubMed Central. We invite investigators and researchers to submit original research articles as well as review articles associated with medicine. We are particularly interested in articles dealing with eastern/oriental medicine and its possible contributions to western medicine—and vice versa. Participants from STM 2018 conference could enjoy 20% discount if they would like to publish a full paper in Medicines.