Yan Leyfman: Celebrating MedNews Week Team’s Presentation at World Cancer Congress 2024

Yan Leyfman shared a post by Viviana Cortiana, Student at Alma Mater Studiorum – Universiy of Bologna, on LinkedIn, adding the following:

“Proud of the MedNews Week team for their amazing presentation at this esteemed international forum! A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Lidia Schapira for your pioneering work—it’s always a pleasure to learn from you.”

Quoting Viviana Cortiana’s post:

“We are excited to be at the World Cancer Congress 2024 in Geneva presenting our work, an event organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). We’re grateful to have the chance to highlight the importance of cancer survivorship.

Special thanks to Lidia Schapira from Stanford University School of Medicine, whose Keynote at MedNews Week inspired us.

Thank you, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), for having considered our work for a presentation!

Thank you to Lidia Schapira for sharing your contributions to defining the concept of cancer survivorship and pioneering the field. It has been a pleasure learning from you, and we hope to have you again soon!

A special thanks also to The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) for your support and for making our participation in this event possible.

Congratulations to our Team: Rabab Hunaid Abbas, Soumiya Nadar, Jade Gambill, Gayathri Pramil Menon, and our Mentors Yan Leyfman and Chandler Park. It is a pleasure and an honor working with you all!”

Source: Yan Leyfman/LinkedIn and Viviana Cortiana/LinkedIn

Yan Leyfman MD, is the Co founder and executive director of MedNews Week.  He is also the Medical correspondent at OncLive. He is also the Executive Committee Member at Music Beats Cancer. He is a Clinical Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research interests include oncology, Immunooncology, Cellular Therapy, and Immunotherapy.