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                                                             e-Oncology

                                                                                                                 A bi-latelar Italy-UK Workshop

                                                                                                                       Monday 27 October 2008

                                                                                 Italian Cultural Institute
                                                                     39 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8NX

                                                                                         Organized by:

                                                                              Italian Embassy in London
                                                                 Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano, Italy
                                                       Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

                                                                         Co-organized and sponsored by:

                                                                         Alleanza contro il Cancro, Italy
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                                                                 Programme



9:00   Welcome address                      H.E. Giancarlo Aragona (Italian Ambassador)

9:10   Keynote speeches                      Professor Umberto Veronesi (IEO - Italy)
                                                                                      “The on-line communication of science is an ethical need”                                                                    

                                                          Professor Sir Muir Gray (NHS):  
                                                          "Risorgimento, Rinascimento"




                                                             Cooperative Data Management:
                                       Distributed generation, authoring and widespread sharing of data

                                                         Chair: Professor Abdul Roudsari (City University of London)

9:50   Professor Gordon McVie (IEO - Italy) “e-Cancer Medical Science”

10:10 Dr David Brewster (Scottish Cancer Registry) “ICT experience in the Scottish cancer registry”

10:30 Professor Michael Thick (NHS Connecting for Health) “Connecting for Health systems and the quality  agenda”

10:50 Dr Jem Rashbass (ECRIC, Cambridge) "Analysis of the patient pathway - lesson from the UKcancer screening program and cancer registries"


                                                                      11:10 Coffee break



11:30 Dr Steve Harris (Oxford Computing Lab) “The CancerGrid Metadata Registry Toolset - Data sharing and multilingual collaborations”

11:50 Dott Fulvio Barbarito (Lombardia Infomatica, Italy) “The Rete Oncologica Lombarda”

12:10 Dr Beatrice Delfrate (ARS Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy) “e-Oncology experience of the Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia”

12:30 Professor Iain Buchan (Univ. of Manchester) "Extending cancer intelligence through a federation of locally-useful e-Labs"


12:50 Ms Abi Ajose-Adeogun (NCRI - UK) “The NCRI Informatics Initiative: Enabling Data Sharing in Cancer Research”


                                                                         13:10 Lunch


                                                    Process Modelling in Diagnosis and Treatment

                                                                                        Chair: Dr Andrew Renehan (University of Manchester)


14:10 Dott Stefano Michelini (IEO - Italy) “Managing the HICT services at an oncological research hospital”

14:30 Prof Francesco Pinciroli (Politecnico Milano and City Univ. London) “Cases of UML-based Process Modelling in Oncology”


                                                   Governmental Cooperating Policies: definition,implementation and monitoring

                                               Chair: Professor Francesco Pinciroli (Politecnico Milano)


14:50 Prof. Claudio Lombardo and Dr Jane Cope (IST Genova - Alleanza contro il Cancro - Italy and NCRI –UK)
         “Towards coordinating cancer research in Europe”

15:10 Professor Richard Sullivan (King's College, London) “Public and Social Policy of e-Oncology”

15:30 Dott Marco Pierotti (INT - Milano - Alleanza contro il Cancro - Italy) “Networking: a solution to the challenge of personalized therapies  in oncology”


                                                                     Patients and ICT

15:50 Prof Giorgio Cruciani (Osp. Umberto I, Lugo, Italy) “From chemotherapy errors to computerized prescription in an oncologic network”

16:10 Professor Richard I Kitney (Imperial College, London) “A Web-Based Information System for Oncology”

16:30 Prof. Eugenio Paci (AIRTUM, Italy – Alleanza contro il Cancro - Italy) “Cancer networks. New challenges for cancer registries in the surveillance of population-based cancer care”

16:50 Closing remarks                 

                                         Thank you for your attendance

Further contacts:

Professor Gordon McVie – IEO, Milano, Italy

gordon.mcvie@ieo.it

Professor Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

francesco.pinciroli@polimi.it

Professor Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Italian Embassy in London

scientifico.amblondra@esteri.it