Speaker Profile
M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor; Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst.
Biography
Heather A. Parsons, MD, MPH is a Physician at DanaFarber Cancer Institute, an Associate Physician at the Brigham and Womens Hospital, an Associate Member of the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a clinical translational investigator with a focus on developing novel diagnostics for patients with breast cancer. Dr. Parsons specific research interest is in how genomicsbased biomarkers and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) tumorderived DNA found in the plasma can be used in caring for breast cancer patients. She has led studies in both metastatic and early stage disease investigating the use of ctDNA as a biomarker in breast cancer. Dr. Parsons research is currently supported by the NCI, by the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Gateway Foundation for Cancer Research.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Laura J. van 't Veer, UCSF
- PMWC 2024 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
Luminary Honorees: Helmy Eltoukhy & AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health - Utilities of Liquid Biopsy in Biomarker Testing
- Laura Vent Veer, UCSF - Status Quo of Clinical Liquid Biopsy
Chair: Helmy Eltoukhy, Guardant Health
- Sadakatsu Ikeda, Tokyo Medical University
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Bruna Pellini, Moffitt Cancer Center
- Sanjay Popat, The Royal Marsden - Liquid Biopsy for Health Monitoring and Disease Prevention (PANEL)
Chair: Anne-Renee Hartman, Adela Bio
- AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Mary Pat Lancelotta, Adaptive Bio - Liquid Biopsy in Early Cancer Detection (PANEL)
Chair: Tom Beer, Exact Sciences
- Wendy Rubinstein, Cancer Screening Research Network (CSRN) - Keynote: Pioneering Liquid Nucleic acids Tumor Fragments in Health and Diseases
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins - New Approaches in Liquid Biopsy (PANEL)
Chair: Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
- Dan Laudau, NY Genome Center
- Daniel De Carvalho, University of Toronto - Global Implications: A scalable Liquid Biopsy for HPV-related Cervical Cancer (PANEL)
Chair: Debra Fraser-Howze, D. Fraser Associates
- Belinda Nedjai, Wolfson Institute of Population Health
- Elisabeth Adams, Aquarius Population Health Limited - PMWC Showcase
- Sandrine Miller-Montgomery, Micronoma
