Dr. Arti Hurria is a geriatrician and oncologist, focusing on care of the older patient with cancer. She completed a geriatric fellowship in the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program, followed by a hematology-oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). She subsequently joined the faculty at MSKCC, where she served as co-Principal Investigator on the institutional NIH P20 grant “Development of an Aging and Cancer Center at MSKCC.” In the fall of 2006, Dr. Hurria joined the City of Hope as Director of the Cancer and Aging Research Program. Dr. Hurria is a recipient of the Paul Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research (K23 AG026749-01) and American Society of Clinical Oncology-Association of Specialty Professors-Junior Development Award in Geriatric Oncology. She is chair of the NCCN Senior Adult Oncology Panel, Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology, and vice co-chair of the Alliance Cancer in the Elderly Committee. Dr. Hurria serves as PI on a U13 grant in collaboration with the NIA and NCI to identify and develop research methodology that will lead evidence based recommendations to improve clinical care for older adults with cancer. She also serves as PI on an R01 funded grant evaluating clinical and biological predictors of chemotherapy toxicity in older adults with breast cancer. These grants are executed in collaboration with members from the Cancer and Aging Research Group, which Dr. Hurria founded and leads.

Etienne GC Brain, MD PhD, has been working since 1998 as a medical oncologist at the Hôpital René Huguenin (Saint-Cloud, France), which is now part of the academic centre Institut Curie. He obtained both his MD and PhD from University Paris V René Descartes, the latter after leading works in preclinical and clinical pharmacology on alkylating agents and liver metabolism in Boston (Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston University) and Saint Cloud (Centre René Huguenin). He was the Deputy Director for Research at Centre René Huguenin from 2008-2009, until the merge with Institut Curie happened in 2010. This latter has made the “multisites institution” Institut Curie one of the largest hospital dedicated to cancer management in Europe, with special focus on breast cancer (~ 3,000 new cases yearly), employing 2,000 care-givers and 1,000 researchers. Etienne Brain is currently in charge of the settlement of the new Department of Clinical Research of Institut Curie in Saint-Cloud. He is the chairman of the committee for the evaluation of clinical research of the Institut Curie.

Riccardo A. Audisio trained in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute, Milan. In 1994 he was deputy director of the Department of General Surgery at the European Institute of Oncology. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 to become Consultant Surgical Oncologist and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Surgical Oncology, Elsevier Publisher. Author of numerous scientific articles, book chapters and editor of book projects he is guest reviewer for 37 peer-reviewed international journals. Prof. Audisio’s clinical research focuses on Breast Cancer and Geriatric Oncology; President of SIOG, he also chairs the Surgical Task Force and enjoys organising international courses and meetings on these topics.