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The Mentorship Lectures – February 2022

The EURO-CHOLANGIO-NET Cost Action CA18122, the European Cholangiocarcinoma Network (ENSCCA) and The International Cholangiocarcinoma Research Network (ICRN) join forces to support the career development of junior scientists in the field of liver diseases.

They are proud to announce the third mentorship lecture entitled:

HOW TO NAVIGATE A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

planned for:

February 11th 2022 at 3.30 pm CET – 9.30 am EST

Our guest speaker will be RACHNA SHROFF and JILL KOSHIOL in conversation with Andres Garcia Sampedro and Pedro Rodrigues– EURO-CHOLANGIO-NET Junior Investigators.

To register: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qCM0y6z9RPC6hMkPwt5Mog

 About the speaker

Dr. Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS, joined the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine
– Tucson in April 2018 as an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of
Hematology and Oncology, and chief of the Section of GI Medical Oncology at the UA Cancer
Center. She was previously an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she specialized in pancreatic and biliary cancers.
While on faculty, she helped build one of the largest clinical and research programs in biliary
tract malignancies in the country.
Full Bio: www.deptmedicine.arizona.edu/profile/rachna-shroff-md


Dr. Jill Koshiol received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School in 2005 and subsequently joined the National Cancer Institute. She is a Senior
Investigator in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Prevention. Her research program is focused on the etiology of hepatobiliary
cancers, especially biliary tract cancers. Recently she has worked on sex-related factors in the
pathogenesis of cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer.
Full bio: www.dceg.cancer.gov/about/staff-directory/koshiol-jill