March 3, 2006 - First anual MMIG Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Goals of the MCC Multi-center Interest Group (MMIG)
* Promote communication and collaborative studies on MCC
* Enhance access to patient data and specimens
* Expand evidence-based care for MCC
Who we are
* physicians
* surgeons
* pathologists
* virologists
* scientists
* medical students
120 members are based in many institutions and countries
(Centers with established, multi-disciplinary MCC treatment programs are in BOLD)
United States:
- Auburndale, MA, Private Practice
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
- Boston University Medical Center, Boston MA
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
- Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA
- Charleston, SC, Private Practice
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland CA
- Columbia University Medical Center, New York NY
- Cornell/Weill Medical Center, New York NY
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
- Emory University, Atlanta GA
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia PA
- Group Health Cooperative, Seattle WA
- Harvard Medical School/Massachussetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston MA
- Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia PA
- Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore MD
- Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Oakland CA
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- Lahey Medical Center, Burlington MA
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY
- Moffitt Cancer Center/University of South Florida, Tampa FL
- Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago IL
- Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland OR
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo NY
- Salina, KS, Private Practice
- Sarah Cannon Research Inst/Tennessee Oncology, Nashville, TN
- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle WA
- St. Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis MO
- Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto CA
- University of Alabama, Birmingham AL
- University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
- University of California San Francisco Med Center, San Francisco CA
- University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City IA
- University of Massachusettes, Worchester MA
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
- University of Minnesota, Minnesota MN
- University of Rochester/Wilmot Cancer Center, Rochester NY
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas TX
- University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN
International:
- Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
- Julius Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Osaka City University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Saga University Medical School, Saga, Japan
- Sydney Melanoma Unit, Sydney, Australia
- Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia, S America
- University Hospital of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- University of Versailles, Paris, France
- Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Click to download summaries of MMIG meetings
MMIG 2011 in New Orleans, LA
MMIG 2010 in Miami, FL
MMIG 2009 in San Francisco, CA
MMIG 2008 in San Antonio, TX
MMIG 2007 in Washington, DC
Photos of group members (click to enlarge)
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Drs. Natalia Jaimes (Medillin, Colombia, South America) with Bianca Lemos (Atlanta, GA) and Paul Nghiem (Seattle, WA) |
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Drs. Richard Wang (Dallas, TX) amd Clark Otley (Rochester, MN) |
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Drs. Rachael Clark (Boston, MA) and Arthur Sober (Boston, MA) |
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MMIG meeting, New Orleans 2011 |
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Drs. Dan Coit and Klaus Busam (NY City) with Siegrid Yu (San Francisco) |
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Dr. Clark Otley (Rochester, MN) |
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Drs. Jeremy Bordeaux (Cleveland, OH) & Chris Bichakjian (Ann Arbor, MI) |
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Drs. Linda Wang (Boston, MA) & Martina Ulrich (Berlin, Germany) |
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Dr. Paul Nghiem (Seattle, WA) |
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Dr. Jerry Marsden (Birmingham, UK) |
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Dr. Siegrid Yu (San Francisco) |
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Dr. Bonnie Balzer (Los Angeles) |
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Drs. Linda Wang (Boston), Paul Nghiem (Seattle) & Martina Ulrich (Berlin) |
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MMIG meeting 2009 (San Francisco)
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| The March 2010 MMIG Meeting in Miami Beach provided the chance for a happy reunion for Drs Natalia Jaimes (Medellin, Colombia South America), Pablo Fernandez-Penas (sydney, Australia) and Paul Nghiem (Seattle, WA) |
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Dr. Patrick Moore (University of Pittsburgh) updated the MMIG group members in Miami Beach March 2010) with his group's latest findings on the role of the Merkel cell polyomavirus in Merkel cell carcinoma. |
We would like to thank the American Cancer Society and the Jerry Wachter Fund for a grant to make this educational effort possible.
 
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