2010 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：美国癌症研究所协会（AACI）致力于促进国家领先的学术和独立的癌症中心的共同利益，这些中心通过癌症研究，治疗，患者护理，预防，教育和社区外展的全面和多学科计划，专注于根除癌症。 年会召集了AACI癌症中心的领导人-中心主任和行政管理人员-与国家癌症研究和倡导组织，行业和政府卫生机构的领导人分享最佳实践并为共同的挑战制定解决方案。 以AACI为代表的NCI指定的癌症中心是推进NCI议程的主要平台。这次会议为NCI提供了一个独特的机会，以利用其在国家癌症中心的大量投资，是唯一的场所，可供中央科学和业务问题公开讨论的关键领导人的国家杰出的成员癌症中心。 该计划的教育目标是为负责在全国癌症中心网络内进行癌症患者及其家属的研究，培训和护理的成员中心提供支持和教育。通过与所有主要利益相关者的合作，AACI/CCAF年会致力于保持全国领先的癌症中心向前发展，做出发现，并提供无与伦比的癌症护理模式。 从工作台到床边，癌症中心领导人的这一独特的观众将使用他们在会议上收到的工具和信息，在各自的癌症机构实施最佳实践解决方案，以应对共同的挑战。 公共卫生相关性：AACI/CCAF年会是一个内容驱动的会议，为癌症中心的医生、科学家和其他高级领导人提供了一个研究问题的机会，这些问题将优化实验室发现向临床应用的转化。 会议还允许交流和讨论新的科学知识，这将有助于为患者和高危人群开发新的治疗方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) is dedicated to promoting the common interests of the nation's leading academic and free-standing cancer centers that are focused on the eradication of cancer through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary program of cancer research, treatment, patient care, prevention, education, and community outreach. The annual meeting convenes leaders of AACI cancer centers - center directors and executive-level administrators -with leaders of national cancer research and advocacy organizations, industry, and government health agencies to share best practices and devise solutions to shared challenges. The NCI-designated cancer centers, represented by AACI, comprise the major platform for advancing NCI's agenda. This meeting offers a unique opportunity for NCI to leverage its substantial investment in the nation's cancer centers and is the only venue available for central scientific and operational issues to be openly discussed by the key leadership of the nation's preeminent member cancer centers. The program's educational objectives are to provide support and education for the member centers responsible for conducting the research, training, and care of cancer patients and their families within the national network of cancer centers. Through collaboration with all key stakeholders the AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting strives to keep the nation's leading cancer centers moving forward, making discoveries, and delivering an unsurpassed model of cancer care. From bench to bedside, this unique audience of cancer center leaders will use the tools and information that they receive at the meeting to implement best practice solutions to shared challenges at their respective cancer institutions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting is a content-driven conference providing physicians, scientists, and other senior leaders at cancer centers the opportunity to examine issues that will optimize the translation of bench side discoveries to clinical application. The conference also allows for the exchange and discussion of new scientific knowledge that will contribute to the development of novel therapeutic approaches for patients and populations at risk.