NIDDK and the NCI are co-sponsoring a 2 day workshop on June 12-13, 2013 to be held here on the NIH campus on the topic of Pancreatitis-Diabetes-Pancreatic Cancer. We have a faculty of 25 experts including several surgeons who will help us explore the relationships between chronic pancreatitis, diabetes, and pancreatic cancer. Included in the session topics are a discussion of the appropriate strategy to guide follow-up or resection in high-risk patients, and the criteria for making this decision.

A link to the workshop is http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/News/Calendar/PDPC2013.htm. The workshop is free to attendees, and the program and registration information is found on the link above.

Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy – Ready For Primetime?

Moderators: Horacio Asbun and L. William Traverso

1. The Answer is in the Outcomes. L. William Traverso, Boise (5 min)
2. Changing Outcomes with the Learning Curve. Are Better Outcomes Possible than the Open Procedure? Michael Kendrick, Rochester (10 min)
3. Pros and Cons of MIS – Has the Technology Matured To Be A New Standard? To Provide Better Outcomes? Horacio Asbun, Jacksonville (10 min)
4. An Almost Unbiased View from 30,000 Feet – Mark Talamini, San Diego (10 min)

Please click here to view the How I Do It Session Video from the 2012 Meeting:  http://pancreasclub.com/2012-how-i-do-it-session/

Over $4 Million in Research Funding will be Awarded

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is excited to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2013 research grants program. Over $4 million in research funding will be awarded. Five grant mechanisms are offered, including the new Research Acceleration Network Grant, which is a one-to-three year grant of $1 million.

Funding is available for postdoctoral/clinical research fellows as well as for independent junior and senior researchers. The proposed research must be directly relevant to pancreatic cancer.  More information about the grants program, including eligibility criteria and application procedures and deadlines, is available at www.pancan.org/2013grants

Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle seeks a Pancreas Cancer Research Fellow to join the Pancreatic Center of Excellence, an established center within the Digestive Disease Institute.

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Please click here to view the 2012 46th Annual Pancreas Club meeting final program.