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Mayo Clinic: The past, the Present and the Future | Rafael Fonseca (US), Stephen Ansell (US), Tanios Bekaii-Saab (US) -Session moderated by Panos Savvides (US)

Mayo Clinic: The past, the Present and the Future | Rafael Fonseca (US), Stephen Ansell (US), Tanios Bekaii-Saab (US) -Session moderated by Panos Savvides (US)
30.06.2023 - 16.12

Special Session about the Past, the Present and the Future of Mayo Clinic.

(Mayo Clinic & University of Athens: Hematology & Oncology Course)

Goodmorning, Kalimera.

Welcome to this special introductory session on Mayo Clinic.

We are proud that Mayo Clinic has been ranked the No1 hospital in the nation for the seventh consecutive year in US News and World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Hospitals’ rankings. This honor underscores the incredible commitment of the MAYO staff to deliver the highest standard of care to our patients each and every day, as Dr. Gianrico Farrugia Mayo Clinic’s president and CEO said.

We set up this session with the goal to share with you the story of  MAYO clinic, a place that has been called  “the place for hope when there is no hope.‘

3 senior leaders of the MAYO Clinic will share with us their insights on the past, the present and the future of the MAYO Clinic.

The first presentation will be delivered by Dr. Tanios Bekaii-Saab, who has a specific focus in gastrointestinal cancers.

He serves as the leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center.  He is also the medical director of the Cancer Clinical Research Office as well as the Vice Chair and Section Chief for Medical Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Additionally, he serves as the consortium chair for the ACCRU research Network.

The next presentation will be delivered by Dr.  Stephen Ansell, who serves as the chairman of the division of Hematology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and is an international authority on B-cell malignancies,

The third and last presentation will be delivered by Dr. Rafael Fonseca, who is the director for Innovation and Transformational Relationships at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Arizona and an international authority on myeloma and related conditions.

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