Crown Plaza, Rohini24th - 26th
February 2023Theme
Curing Cancer in Children and Adolescents - A Journey of Excellence
About
RGCON 2023
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The 21st Annual RGCON is being organised by the Paediatric Haematology Oncology Department-RGCI&RC from February 24th to 26th 2023 at Crown Plaza-New Delhi, India.
The theme of the current conference is “Curing Cancer in Children and Adolescents- A Journey of Excellence”.
RGCON 2023 will witness interesting and intriguing sessions with excellent academic content given by distinguished national and international experts. It will focus on topics with practical implications for Paediatric – onco-surgeons, Radiation oncologist, paediatric oncologist , general paediatrician or clinicians , scientists, nurses and allied health professionals involved in cancer care .
The scientific programme will be an academic marathon and shall focus on covering the latest developments in paediatric oncology, from basic to clinical studies/trials. The programme will be a mix of plenary sessions, seminars, Data presentations from India and SAARC countries and western world. Other highlights shall be, meet the expert sessions, oral and poster presentations and PG quiz for fellow trainees.
It will be a promising academic treat involving an overwhelming rush of presentations, workshops, conversations, and a platform form potential meet-ups to engage with colleagues from across the globe striving towards a world free of childhood cancer.
We would like to invite and encourage all healthcare professionals involved in work on cancer in children, adolescents and young adults to join us at the upcoming RGCON 2023 and to contribute to its high scientific quality.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference and making it a huge success.
For more details, please email – RGCON2023@gmail.com
Organizing committee
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Organizing Chairperson Dr Gauri Kapoor
Organizing Secretary Dr Shalini Mishra
Organizing Secretary Dr Sandeep Jain
Organizing Secretary Dr Payal Malhotra
Organizing Co-Secretary Dr Jaskaran Singh Sethi
Faculty
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY
Dr. Rob Pieters
MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer
(Princess Maxima Centre for Pediatric Oncology)
Professor of Pediatric Oncology
(University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Kathy P Jones
President of SIOP
Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
(University College London)
Dr. Meenakshi Devidas
PhD, MBA
Member, St Jude Faculty
Director, Global Analytics
Dr. Julia Challinor
(RN, PhD, MS in Med anthropology)
Secretory General of SIOP
Dr. Scott Howard
MD, MSc
Professor
The University of Tennesse Health Science Centre
(Memphis, Tennesse)
PDG chez Resonance
Dr. Vinod K Prasad
MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Member of The Duke Cancer Institute
(Durham, United States)
Dr. Gordan Thomas
Professor & Head
Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Transplant Surgery
Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Dr. Martin McCabe
MB BChir, PhD, FRCPCH
Clinical Senior Lecturer Pediatric
Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology
University of Manchester UK
Dr. Uma H. Athale
MD, Professor Pediatrics
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University, Canada
Dr. Vaskar Saha
MD, FRCP, FRCPath, PhD
Director Tata Translational Cancer Research
Center, Kolkata
Professor Pediatric Oncology
University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Victor M. Santana
MD, Director Global Pediatric Medicine
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis. Tennessee, United States
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Limitations:
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Case reports and small institutional series of limited added scientific value are not encouraged.
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