ECCLU - Educational Cancer Convention Lugano

CME accreditation
Application for CME accreditation has been submitted to ACOE and UEMS for EACCME, and to the Italian Ministry of Health for Italian CME.
The Convention has achieved CME accreditation approval by ACOE, which means that the programme has been recognised a high quality value both from a scientific and didactic point of view.
A request for European endorsement of ACOE accreditation has been submitted to the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) clearing house, the EACCME. ACOE has recommended that the event be granted 18 European CME credits.
Furthermore, ECCLU is an ESMO-Supported meeting and has been granted 19 ESMO-MORA category 1 points. 

The European School of Oncology is pleased to announce that ECCLU, the Educational Cancer Convention, will be held in collaboration with the European Society for Medical Oncology in Lugano, Switzerland, from 2 to 4 July 2009.

The programme design has been lead by young oncologists to best meet the educational needs and interests of young oncologists, providing knowledge in the areas where new and important information has become available.

The aim of the Convention is to offer an update on what matters in a concise and efficient manner, offering  a refresh meeting to all those who have an established education in oncology. The Convention will also offer the opportunity to understand how knowledge should be applied in practice with the example of clinical cases brought by the participants.

SESSION'S FORMAT
Key-activity_note lectures
Topics which can and need to be presentedin a well structured way
Highlights
Topics which are new and need to be discussed
Controversies
Topics which the oncology community is debating on
Roundtable
Topics that require to be approached by more perspectives
Abstracts
Submitted by the participants, will be limited to case presentations to be discussed in the format of poster presentations. The best cases will be included in the plenary sessions to discussed with the faculty and participants.

ORGANISING SECRETARIAT

ESO Bellinzona Office
Ospedale Regionale Bellinzona e Valli
6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Tel:  +41 91 811 8050 
Fax: +41 91 811 8051

ESO Head Office
Via del Bollo, 4
20123 Milan, Italy
Tel:  +39 02 8546 451 
Fax: +39 02 8546 4545

Programme and organisation
Chatrina Melcher - ESO Bellinzona    cmelcher@eso.net
Abstracts and programme
Dolores Knupfer - ESO Bellinzona     dknupfer@eso.net
Registration
Elena Ferrerio - ESO Milan               registration@eso.net

VENUE
Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland
Lugano is reachable by plane via Zurich (45-minute flight or 2,5-hour train) or from Milano Malpensa airport (2-hour drive, shuttle service).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ESO is grateful to the City of Lugano for their interest and support to the organisation of ECCLU, to ESMO and FAC for their co-operation and support of travel grants.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 
The official language of the course will be English. No simultaneous translation will be provided.

ABSTRACT BOOK
Supplement of Annals of Oncology will contain abstracts of the invited lectures and those proposed by the participants and accepted for oral presentation, poster presentation or print only.

TRAVEL GRANTS
A limited number of travel grants are assigned on a competitive basis from among participants from middle-low income countries who have had an abstract accepted for oral or poster presentation. The CV should be submitted at the same time as the abstract indicating the amount requested for travel. Successful applicants are granted accommodation and refund of actual travel costs at the end of the Convention.

INSURANCE
The organisers bear no responsibility for untoward events in relation with the participation in the Convention. Participants are advised to take out their own personal and travel insurance coverage.

ESTIVAL JASS LUGANO, 2-4 July
Open air and totally free!
More information at www.estivaljazz.ch

HOW TO REACH LUGANO
Lugano is extremely easy to reach with several means of public transportation (the railroad, the regional Lugano-Airport) and also by means of private transport.
More information at www.lugano-tourism.ch
Airplane: Lugano-Agno Airport, situated at 6 km from the city, is an ideal point of arrival.
Train: The Lugano railroad station offers you fast and easy connections to all of the most important destinations.
Car: Lugano is served by the motorway axis that directly connects northern Europe to the Mediterranean.
Airport-shuttle
Lugano (Switzerland): The shuttle bus service guarantees regular connections between the airport and the center of Lugano from 08.00 to 18.30 (from 10.00 to 18.30 Saturday and Sunday), scheduled to match the arrival and departure of air traffic. Federal Railways Station - Airport If request the shuttle bus stopped at the hotels.  Please visit the website to view the rates: www.shuttle-bus.com
Milan-Malpensa (Italy):  Please visit the websites to obtain the time-schedule and rates, and to book your transfer. www.malpensaexpress.ch or www.starbus.ch

Amiconi Consulting can also assist you to arrange transportation to and from the Swiss airports of Lugano and Zürich and the Italian airports of Milan (Malpensa, Linate) and Bergamo (Orio alSerio - low cost airfares from Europe) and help you with touring possibilities before, during, and after the Congress.

FACULTY

M. Aapro, IMO Clinique de Genolier, FMH Oncologie-Hématologie, Genolier, CH
S. Aebi, University Hospital Bern – Inselspital, Bern, CH
A. Awada, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, CH
D. Berthold, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, CH
F. Cardoso, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, BE
F. Cavalli, Oncology Institute of Southern, Switzerland, Bellinzona, CH
A. Cervantes, Hospital Clinico Universitario, Valencia, ES
A. Colombo, A.O. Ospedale di Lecco, Lecco, IT
N. Colombo, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, IT
T. Davidson, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
S. Di Cosimo, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital,  Barcelona, ES
A. Eniu, Cancer Institute "I. Chiricuta", Cluj-Napoca, RO
G. Freilich, The Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
M. Garassino, Ospedale Fate Bene Fratelli, Milano, IT
D. Galié-Wunder, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, CH
W. Gatzemeier, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milano, IT
L. Gianni, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milano, IT
J. Gligorov, CancerEst APHP Tenon, Department, Paris, FR
M. Gospodarowicz, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
F. C. Hamdy, University of Oxford - John Ratcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
I. Judson, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
C.H. Köhne, Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, DE
L. Licitra, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milano, IT
S. Loi, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels BE
R. Miralbell, Hopital Cantonal Université de Genève, Genève, CH
P. Pasanisi, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milano, IT
A. Pasic, Institute of Oncology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, BA
N. Pavlidis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
F.A. Peccatori, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, IT
R. Popescu, Hirslanden Klinik Aarau, Aarau, CH
J.A. Schalken, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NL
C. Sessa, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, CH
R. Stahel, University Hospital Zürich, Zurich, CH
J. Vermorken, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, BE

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