Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: Is there a role for radiation therapy? Moderators: Howard A. Reber, MD, UCLA School of Medicine, Markus W. Buchler, MD, University of Heidelberg Presentors: Douglas B. Evans, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin John Neoptolemos, M.D. University of Liverpool

Laparoscopic Pancreatic Resection: Pearls for Open Pancreatic Resection Moderator: Keith Lillemoe, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine Presentor: Michael L. Kendrick, MD, Mayo School of Medicine, Rochester, MN

Clinical Trials in Pancreatology: An European and North American Perspective Moderator: Carlos Fernández del Castillo, MD The videos below require Internet Explorer to view. If you are running IE8 or 9, please use Compatibility Mode. William Traverso, MD Virginia Mason Medical Center Jakob Izbicki, MD University Hospital, Hamburg, Germany Keith Lillemoe, MD Indiana University School [...]

Check the Pancreas Club Past Meetings page for links to past final programs, abstracts, videos, and the 2011 Meeting Summary.

Dear Colleagues, The Pancreas Club Program Committee wishes to thank all of you who submitted an abstract for the 46th Annual Pancreas Club Meeting to be held in San Diego, CA on Friday & Saturday, May 18, 19 at the  Hyatt Regency Mission Bay.  We received a record number of abstracts this year and are [...]

Submission Deadline Extended: New deadline is December 31, 2011 We invite you to submit your best and most current work, either from your clinical or laboratory research. Oral presentations are scheduled for 10 minutes with 5 minutes allotted for discussion. There will again be short oral/poster presentations of 3 minutes with 2 minutes for discussion. [...]

Executive Administrator Maribeth Balon 310-437-0555 TEL 310-437-0585 FAX admin@PancreasClub.com Mailing Address Pancreas Club, Inc. 11300 W. Olympic Blvd Suite 600 Los Angeles, CA 90064

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is excited to announce that it will begin accepting applications for the 2012 research grants Program on September 1, 2011. Four grant mechanisms are offered. 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 [...]

Thanks were expressed to Mike Bouvet and the staff at UCSD for a fine meeting. Review of the evaluation comments indicated overwhelmingly that this meeting was a success and quality level of the presentations outstanding. The new professor rounds for abstracts were popular and will be expanded for 2009. For the first time CME was [...]

Because the number and quality of the abstracts has increased significantly over the past several years, the Advisory Committee is exploring Saturday for expansion into this day even though a vast majority of those surveyed said they wanted to keep it on Sunday – as it has been since 1971. The group also approved seeking [...]

Membership has steadily increased bringing the total number of active members to 304 including 16 honorary/retired and 45 residents. Dues for 2009 will remain the same.

On November 7, 2008, the symposium, organized by Bill Nealon, Pancreas Club Director, was entitled “Choice of Modalities & Principles in the Management of Pancreatic Pseudocysts”. Nealon and Dr. Michael Levy, Mayo Clinic presented the surgical and endoscopic perspectives. Drs. Warshaw, President-Elect of APA, and Nealon moderated this successful first joint symposium.

The Pancreas Club was invited to present a panel at the November 2008 American Pancreatic Association meeting. Bill Nealon will develop a panel presentation on behalf of the Club. Communications with the SSAT leadership resulted in a confirmation that SSAT now considers the Pancreas Club as a national society and thus the rules of DDW [...]

The Pancreas Club is pleased to announce two new awards beginning in 2009. The program committee will rate each oral presentation and the award recipients will be announced at the Sunday dinner event. In order to be eligible for two awards, the work must be authored primarily by a resident or fellow and the presentation [...]

For your academic needs, the Pancreas Club offers a free online calculator of the new standardized definition for postoperative pancreatic “fistula” (POPF) or “leak.” Also included is the calculator for delayed gastric emptying (DGE). After clinical testing with actual data the calculator uses a slightly modified definition of the definition published from the International Study [...]

The Life and Times of Allen Oldfather Whipple: The Missionary and the Surgeon By John M. Howard, M.D. Read a review by Nicholas J. Zyromski, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University.

The Pancreas Club Directors and the Advisory Committee met in Santa Fe in July to review the evaluations of the 2008 meeting, make plans for the 2009 meeting, review the results of the Membership Survey, and discuss the future programs of the Club. Attending the meeting were: Bill Traverso, Bill Nealon, Gerry Aranha, Mike Farnell, [...]