Participants

Kat Arney, PhD Founder and Chief Creative Officer, First Create the Media

Anna Barker, PhD, FAACR Chief Strategy Officer, Ellison Medical Institute, Former Principal Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute, Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Professor, Complex Adaptive Systems, Arizona State University

Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Hazem H. Chehabi, MD President, Medical Director, Nuclear Medicine Physician, Newport Diagnostic Center

Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-2) Chair of the Health Subcommittee on the House Energy and Commerce Committee

Cliff Hudis, MD, FACP, FASCO CEO of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Sanjay Juneja, MD Social & News Media Personality (@TheOncDoc). Blood & Cancer Specialist. Podcast Host.

Sean Khozin, MD, MPH CEO, Roundtable on Cancer and Project Data Sphere

Edward S. Kim, MD, MBA, FACP, FASCO Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope Orange County; Vice Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope National Medical Center

Shannon La Cava, PsyD Clinical psychologist and the Center Director of the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology

Kate Pickert Journalist, professor and author of Radical: The Science, Culture and History of Breast Cancer in America

Peter WT Pisters, MD, MHCM President, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Elaine Schattner, MD, MA Physician, cancer survivor and author of "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer." Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine

Eric Stahlberg, PhD Former Director, Cancer Data Science Initiatives (CDSI) for Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR)

Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD President, City of Hope Los Angeles and City of Hope National Medical Center

Richard A. Van Etten, MD, PhD Director of the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Andrew C. Von Eschenbach, MD Former Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration and Director of the National Cancer Institute

Schedule

Wednesday, January 15

5:00 PMReception

6:00 PMDinner and Program

7:30 PMPresentation of the Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach Award to Dr. Monica Bertagnolli

Thursday, January 16

9:15 AMOpening Remarks

9:30 AMSession: The Complexity of Cancer Care Today

Dr. Anna Barker
Dr. Marcel van den Brink
Dr. Richard Van Etten
Dr. Peter WT Pisters, moderator

President Nixon’s National Cancer Act of 1971 catalyzed the revolution in oncology and molecular medicine that made the development of innovative sophisticated therapies possible. These advances are complex, multidisciplinary and challenging to communicate to patients. This panel will discuss both sides of the issues: the complexity of establishing an understanding of various options for treatment, and then the complexity of establishing an understanding of treatment options.

10:45 AMSession: Medicine, Cancer and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Sean Khozin
Dr. Eric Stahlberg
Dr. Cliff Hudis, moderator

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already impacting and influencing the ways we live and work and think. Implemented in an ethical and scientifically rigorous manner, its application to medicine in general, and oncology in particular, will advance our understanding of cancer and improve care and outcomes for cancer patients. This session will assess the present and consider the future of AI as it relates to medical care.

12:00 PMLunch with Keynote Remarks

U.S. Congressman Brett Guthrie

1:15 PMSession: The Crisis of Trust in Health Institutions Today

Dr. Hazem H. Chehabi
Dr. Sanjay Juneja
Dr. Edward S. Kim, moderator

One of the most significant challenges we face today is the society-wide crisis of confidence and loss of trust in the authority of institutions. Where medicine is concerned, despite the great advances in treatment and care, there has been a loss of trust in both the messenger and the message.

This session will address the root causes of this problem. Discussion will range from physicians not having enough time to establish relationships of trust with patients, to the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising that transforms patients into customers.

2:30 PMSession: New Ways –and Means– of Communicating About Cancer

Dr. Kat Arney
Dr. Shannon La Cava
Dr. Elaine Schattner
Prof. Kate Pickert, moderator

The advent and surging popularity of podcast, social media, and self-published articles online have become primary mediums for people seeking information about cancer, cancer diagnoses and treatments, and medicine in general.

This panel will explore how such new and reimagined methods of communicating can play a part in reestablishing trust in medical institutions, that is required to educate patients and motivate their compliance with care.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE 2025 CONFERENCE SPONSORS


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Silver Sponsor

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For sponsorship opportunities or questions, please contact Kiara Ramos at [email protected] or 714.364.1176.

2025 Steering Committee
William Li, MD
Marlene Malek, RN
James V. Mazzo
Peter WT Pisters, MD
Ellen Sigal, PhD
Marcel van den Brink, MD
Richard Van Etten, MD
Andrew von Eschenbach, MD

Honorary Host Committee
Hon. Jake Auchincloss 
Hon. Angie Craig
Hon. Brian Fitzpatrick
Hon. John Garamendi
Hon. Brett Guthrie
Hon. French Hill
Hon. David P. Joyce
Hon. Young Kim 
Hon. Angus S. King, Jr. 
Hon. Carol D. Miller
Hon Greg Murphy, MD 
Hon. John Rose
Hon. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
Hon. Brad Schneider 
Hon. Debbie Wasserman Schultz 
Hon. Joe Wilson

Learn more about the Nixon National Cancer Conference and view previous conferences here.


Location Information

  • Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
  • 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA, 92886 US
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