On Thursday, May 14 at 8PM ET, the Meso Foundation will interview Drs. Evan Alley and Charles Simone of Penn Medicine during a new installment of the Meet the Mesothelioma Experts live teleconference series. The interview will be led by the Meso Foundation’s executive director and expert mesothelioma nurse practitioner Mary Hesdorffer.
This session, titled Focus on Mesothelioma Centers of Excellence: Penn Medicine, is the second installment in a series of interviews highlighting mesothelioma centers of excellence.
The session will be available live on Thursday, May 14 at 8PM ET by dialing into the conference call. The session is available at no charge, but those interested in participating must RSVP ahead of time in order to receive the call-in number. Please RSVP at curemeso.org/experts.
Drs. Alley and Simone are the co-directors of the Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Program. Dr. Alley is a medical oncologist and is the leading investigator in the PD-1 inhibitor trial that has recently made big news in mesothelioma. Read more about the trial here.
Dr. Simone treats patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma with photon and proton radiation therapy and photodynamic therapy (PDT). He is a National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense funded investigator who performs clinical and translational research investigating the novel use of proton therapy and PDT as definitive therapy and as part of multi-modality therapy for mesothelioma.
To RSVP to this session and learn more about the Meet the Mesothelioma Experts series, visit curemeso.org/experts.
