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Speaker’s Biographies
International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG), is editorial board member of “The Journal of Geriatric Oncology” and
is founder and chairman of the Austrian association “Aid in elderly cancer patients” (Verein Senioren-Krebshilfe). In
addition RS is a member of the Scientific Working Groups on Hematology and Ageing of EHA and ASH.
RS is author of numerous scientific publications including more than 95 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Speaker Abstract(s): S60, S61
Kazuo Tamura
General Medical Research Center, General Medical Research Center, Fukuoka City, Japan
Dr. Tamura was graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University in 1974. He finished medical internship
and residency at Elmhurst General Hospital, NY in 1978 and medical oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Memorial
institute in 1980. He had worked as a medical oncologist and a chief of Internal Medicine at Miyazaki Prefectural
Hospital till 1997. Then he moved to Fukuoka University as a professor of Medicine (Division of Medical Oncology,
Hematology and Infectious Diseases). He served as a president of the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology from 2010
to 2014. Now he is a president of Japanese Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. His major interest is cancer drug
development and supportive care in cancer. He has published many scientific papers and recent works are related to
chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and geriatric assessment for the elderly with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Speaker Abstract(s): S63
William Tew
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service, New York,
USA
William Tew, MD, is an Associate Attending Physician and Clinical Director of the Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service
at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York. He completed a biomedical engineering program
at Boston University, medical school at the University of Rochester, internal medicine residency at Bellevue/NYU and
medical oncology fellowship at MSKCC. As a medical oncologist, he cares for women with gynecologic cancer and is
an active investigator of new therapeutics for women with ovarian cancer. In addition, Dr. Tew has a clinical research
program focused on improving the care of older adults with cancer by developing geriatric assessment tools, interventions
and age-specific therapeutic trials. He received a NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Grant (2011) and is an active
member of the Cancer and Aging Research Group. He is an active member of ASCO, Gynecology Oncology Group (GOG
Task Force for the Elderly). the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG Scientific Program 2016), and the
NCCN (Senior Adult Guidelines). He serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology.
Speaker Abstract(s): S68
Clémence Thébaut
Limoges University (Lecturer Senior)/Dauphine University (Associate researcher), Paris, France
Clémence Thébaut worked for eight years for the French National Autority for Health (HAS) in the Health economics
and Public health department. She is now Lecturer Senior at Limoges University and Associate researcher at Dauphine
University. She is specifically working on ethical issues raised by health economic assessement.
Speaker Abstract(s): S62
Janice Tsang
The speaker biography has not been received at the time of publication.
Speaker Abstract(s): S69
Giampaolo Ugolini
University of Bologna, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, Bologna, Italy
Dr. Giampaolo Ugolini is Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Bologna. He was a research fellow at
Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard University), clinical and research fellow at Rhode Island Hospital (Brown
Medical School). His main clinical interest is surgery of the alimentary tract for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.
He is collaborating to several research activities on colorectal cancer and on geriatric oncology with SIOG surgical
taskforce.
Speaker Abstract(s): S70
Willemien van de Water
Surgery, Leiderdorp/ Leiden, Netherlands
After medical school, Willemien van de Water studied breast cancer in the elderly, as part of a collaboration between the
departments of surgery and geriatrics at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands). Among others, she