Programme  Titles  Presenters  Topics  Meeting Gets Underway!   Event Coordinator Meeting 3:00 - 6:30 pm  Registration Table Open Registration Desk 1:00 - 2:30 pm  Meeting of the IJH Editorial Board Portland Room 3:00 - 5:00 PM  Meeting of Society Officers and Councilors Eugene Room 6:00 pm  Presidential Welcome Salon E 6:10 PM  George M. Hahn Award Presentation Salon E 6:20 pm  William C. Dewey Award Presentation Salon E 6:30 pm  Opening Lecture by Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD: New Insights into the Biologic Impact of Thermal Therapy: Lessons from Prospective Thermal Dosimetry Trials Salon E 7:15 - 9:30 pm  Welcome Reception Mount Hood Room   Saturday April 14 7:00 - 8:30  Breakfast Salon F 7:00 - 11:00 am  Registration Table Open Registration Desk 7:30 - 8:15 am  Refresher Course: Investigating Nanoparticle Mediated Thermal Therapy with MRI Salon A-C   Refresher Course: Computation Tools in the Service of Cryosurgery Salon E 8:30 - 9:15 am  Keynote Address by Franco Orsi, MD: The Growth and Development of HIFU Salon E 9:15 - 9:30 am  Coffee Salon F 9:30 - 10:45 am  Presidential Symposium: What's on the Horizon for Thermal Medicine Salon E 10:45 - 12:15 pm  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy? Salons A-C   Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning Salon E 12:30 - 2:00 pm  Attendees on Their Own for Lunch 12:30 - 2:00  New Investigator Luncheon Salon D 1:00 - 5:00   Registration Table Open Registration Table 2:00 - 5:00 pm  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials Salon E 6:00 - 8:00 pm  Poster Presentations and Reception Salon F   Sunday April 15 7:00 - 8:30  Breakfast Salon F 7:00 - 11:00  Registration Table Open Registration Table 7:30 - 8:15 am  Refresher Course: Understanding the Immunological Principles of New Immunotherapies and the Rationale for Combining Them with Radiation and Thermal Therapies Salons A-C   Refresher Course: Introduction to Bioheat Transfer and Thermotherapeutic Outcome Prediction Salon E 8:30 - 9:15 am  Keynote Address by Ralph Weichselbaum, MD: Radiation and Immunology: Beneficial or Dangerous Liaisons Salon E 9:15 - 9:30 am  Coffee Salon F 9:30 - 10:45 am  Immune Regulation by HSPs and Thermal Stress Salon E 11:00 - 12:30 pm  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation Salons A-C   Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress Salon E 12:30 - 2:00 pm  Attendees on Their Own for Lunch 1:00 - 5:00  Registration Table Open Registration Table 2:00 - 3:30 pm  Clinical Trials Update Salons A-C   Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation Salon E   Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization Mount Hood Room 3:30 - 4:45 pm  Advances in Devices Salons A-C   Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy Salon E 4:45 - 5:00 pm  Coffee Salon F 5:00 - 5:30 pm  Rosemary Wong, PhD - Update on the 2011/2012 NIH/NCI Grant Initiatives Salon E 5:45 - 6:45 pm  J. Eugene Robinson Award & Lecture Salon E 7:15 pm  Robinson Dinner at McCormick & Schmick's McCormick & Schmick's   Monday April 16 7:00 - 8:30  Breakfast Salon F 7:00 - 11:00  Registration Table Open Registration Table 7:30 - 8:15 am  Refresher Course: Laser Thermal Therapy Salons A-C   Refresher Course: Vascular Function and Tumor Microenvironment Influence on Thermal Medicine Salon E 8:30 - 9:30 am  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients Salon E 9:30 - 10:15 am  Keynote Address by Steven Jacques, PhD: The Use of Biomedical Optics and Medical Lasers as it Relates to the Treatment of Cancer and Cancer Biology Salon E 10:15 - 10:30 am  Coffee Salon F 10:30 - 12:00 pm  Nanoparticles and Other New Directions in Thermal Therapy Salon E 12:00 - 2:00 pm  STM Business Meeting and Luncheon Salon E 1:00 - 4:00  Registration Table Open Registration Table 2:00 - 3:30 pm  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine Salons A-C   Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation Salon E 4:00 pm  Meeting Officially Closes 4:15 - 6:00 pm  Governing Council Planning Session Eugene Room     Powered by Oxford Abstracts Abstract & paper management for your conference http://www.oxfordabstracts.com