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Speaker’s Biographies
worked at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida (US). After obtaining her PhD in 2014, she is currently enjoying her
residency in surgery. Next to the clinical challenges, geriatric oncology care and research remain one of her main interests.
Speaker Abstract(s): S71
Antonio Vigano
McGill University Health Centre
,
Oncology
,
Montreal
,
Canada
In 2002, Dr. Vigano joined the Supportive and Palliative Care Division at McGill as Assistant Professor. He is now
Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. He has been practicing
palliative care medicine for over 20 years both in Europe and in Canada. In 2005, he received both the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator and Fonds de la Recherche en Sante (FRSQ) Chercheur-
Boursier Clinicien Career Awards. Through a Canadian Foundation for Innovation award, he founded the McGill
Nutrition and Performance Laboratory
(www.mnupal.mcgill.ca). His most recent activities are aimed at improving
the classification, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of wasting and/or debilitating syndromes such as cachexia,
sarcopenia, and lymphedema, primarily in patients suffering from cancer and/or frailty. His current research interests
at MNUPAL include: validation of tools for assessing nutrition and performance in advanced cancer patients, definition
of relationships between molecular, nutritional, and functional correlates of cancer cachexia, diagnosis and treatment
of male hypogonadism in advanced cancer, prediction and prevention of surgical risks in elderly cancer patients, and
evaluation of body composition in lymphedema.
Speaker Abstract(s): S72
Ulrich Wedding
Jena University Hospital, Palliative Care, Jena, Germany
Ulrich Wedding, MD and PhD, is Consultant for Haematology, Oncology, Palliative Care, and Geriatric Medicine at the
University Hospital in Jena, Germany. He is head of the department of palliative care. He is an active clinical researcher.
His clinical interests include cancer in the elderly, supportive and palliative care. He has authored or coauthored numerous
articles, book chapters, and monographs with a focus on aspects of cancer treatment in elderly patients and palliative
care. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology, and reviewer for several peer-reviewed
journals. He is member of various scientific organizations including SIOG. He is past-chairman of the Task Force Cancer
in the Elderly of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and current chairman of the
Arbeitsgruppe Geriatrische Onkologie of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie of the German Cancer Society.
He served as chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 10
th
International Meeting of the SIOG in Berlin in 2009.
Speaker Abstract(s): S73
Tanya Wildes
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Division of Oncology, St. Louis, USA
Dr. Wildes is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology at Washington University in St Louis,
Missouri, USA. She graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in 2002. She completed residency in
Internal Medicine and fellowships in Hematology/Oncology and Geriatrics, all at Washington University. She currently
serves as the Chair of the Science and Education Committee of SIOG. Her research focuses on geriatric assessment in
older adults with multiple myeloma.
Speaker Abstract(s): S74
Hans Wildiers
Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Hans Wildiers is a medical oncologist dedicated to breast cancer research and geriatric oncology. He is staff member at
the department of medical oncology in the University Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven, Belgium since 2004. He coordinates
the Leuven multidisciplinary breast centre since 2015. He has been coordinator of several academic studies in the field of
breast cancer and geriatric oncology, and author of more than 170 peer reviewed papers in 13 years. He has been active
as Belgian national representative and executive board member of SIOG, the international society of geriatric oncology,
as board member of the Belgian Society of Medical Oncology (BSMO), the Belgian Journal of Medical Oncology (BJMO),
and of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology. From 2009 till 2015, he has chaired the elderly task force cancer of the elderly
of the European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC).
Annie Young
University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
AnnieisProfessorofNursingatWarwickMedicalSchool,workingclinicallyinUniversityHospitalsCoventryandWarwickshire.
Her research portfolio encompasses the management of thrombosis in cancer patients, symptomatic care including prevention
of chemotherapy-associated alopecia and nausea and vomiting. Rehabilitation for cancer patients and new technologies for