Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:


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Dr. Juergens’ clinical expertise is in lung and esophageal cancer. She chairs the Lung Disease Site Team at the Juravinski Cancer Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the Head of the Department of Clinical Trials at the Juravinski Cancer Centre. She is a member of the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute.
Her research focus has been in developmental therapeutics with a concentration on Phase I and II clinical trials. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Cancer Trials Group Investigational New Drug Committee. She has published her work in prominent journals including such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Discovery. She has been a principal investigator on numerous clinical trials assessing immune based therapy in lung cancer as well as esophagogastric cancer. She has been using PD-1 inhibitors since their initial phase I trials. She is a highly sought teacher in the field of immunotherapy and has been an invited speaker across the world.
He is a past chairman of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Breast Cancer Group and the EORTC Executive Committee, the chairman of the Central and East European Oncology Group, past chairman of the American Society of Clinical Oncology International Affairs Committee and a past president of the Polish Oncological Society. He is a member of the Academia Europea, European Academy of Cancer Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Art and Sciences. He served in the executive boards of the European Society for Radiation Oncology and the European Society for Medical Oncology.
He has authored or co-authored over 800 full articles, books and book chapters in these fields, as well as 11 patents or patent applications. He is the recipient of a number of Polish and International scientific awards including Polish Prime Minister’s scientific award, President of Vienna Foundation Award for Innovative Cancer Research, Joseph W. Cullen Prevention/Early Detection Award of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.
Prof. Jassem has been involved with nationwide public health initiatives, such as authoring the Polish anti-tobacco legislation to limit smoking in public places (introduced by Parliament in 2010), the development of IASLC Declaration (2019) and the coordination of Cancer Control Strategy for Poland 2015–2024.
Professor Cho has won numerous awards in recognition of his excellence in research and medical education. For the past 13 years, he has been invited as a speaker for many international conferences on lung cancer. Currently, he sits on 25 steering committees and advisory boards both regionally and internationally.
Professor Cho’s scientific interests appertain to development of novel therapeutic options for the treatment of resistance to targeted therapy and immunotherapy. He has been a principal investigator in more than 100 global clinical trials with novel targeted agents and immunotherapies in lung cancer and has led many nationwide multicenter trials in thoracic malignancies.
An accomplished researcher with over 200 publications in renowned journals such as Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology and New England Journal of Medicine, Professor Cho is also actively involved as a reviewer of a number of medical journals. Since 2013, he was appointed as an Associate Editor of Lung Cancer.
With a career in lung cancer research spanning almost 30 years, his current research interests focus primarily on immunotherapy, genomic analysis (and high-throughput technologies) to drive lung cancer patients into specific targeted agents, and biomarkers for targeted treatment of bronchial cancers. Alongside this, he regularly co-directs clinical trials investigating thoracic tumors to develop a long-term clinical research strategy based on molecular screening with a particular focus on BRAF NSCLC.
David Planchard has been involved in over 100 Phase I-III trials and has published more than 150 articles in internationally renowned, peer-reviewed journals. He also coordinated the drafting of the latest European recommendations on the management of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (ESMO guidelines) and is a member of the French-language Respiratory Society (SPLF), the French Intergroup of Thoracic Oncology (IFCT), ESMO, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).