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
• Group Health Cooperative, Seattle WA
  
• Harvard Medical School, 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 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 2007 in Washington, DC

MMIG 2008 in San Antonio, TX

MMIG 2009 in San Francisco, CA

Photos of group members (click to enlarge)

Drs. Dan Coit, Klaus Busam & Siegrid Yu		Dr. Clark Otley
Drs. Jeremy Bordeaux & Chris Bichakjian		Drs. Linda Wang & Martina Ulrich
Dr. Paul Nghiem		Dr. Jerry Marsden
Dr. Siegrid Yu		Dr. Bonnie Balzer
Drs. Linda Wang, Paul Nghiem & Martina Ulrich		MMIG meeting 2009

We would like to thank the American Cancer Society and the Jerry Wachter Fund for a grant to make this educational effort possible.