Towards implementation: momentum for lung cancer screening in the EU

Virtual round table: 27 September 2022 15:00–16:15 CEST

The Lung Cancer Policy Network are pleased to announce further speakers for the upcoming virtual round table ‘Towards implementation: momentum for lung cancer screening in the EU’.

There is still time to register for this free event, taking place on 27 September 2022, 15:00–16:15 CEST.

We are delighted to announce the following sessions and confirmed speakers:

The importance of an EU recommendation for lung cancer screening

 Brian Ward, Director of Advocacy and European Affairs, European Respiratory Society

Key considerations for optimising screening implementation

Aoife McNamara, Irish Cancer Society and Global Lung Cancer Coalition representative (Ireland)

•       Prof. David Baldwin, Network member and Honorary Professor of Medicine and Consultant Physician at the University of Nottingham (UK).

•       Dr. Hilary Robbins, Epidemiologist with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (France)

Showcasing successful screening implementation across the EU

 Ebba Hallersjö-Hult, Network member and Head of the Innovation Milieu Vision Zero Cancer (Sweden) 

Prof. Witold Ryzman, Network member and Professor and Chief Surgeon at the Medical University of Gdańsk (Poland)

Prof. Ugo Pastorino, Director, Thoracic Surgery Division, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy