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Pyrexar Day is April 11th, 2016, at this year's ICHO in New Orleans.  We have some last-minute updates to our speaker schedule.  We will be hosting a "working lunch" starting at 12:15p.  Looking forward to seeing you at the event.

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Pyrexar Day Event Calendar - April 11, 2016
8:30a - 9:00a Meet and Greet - Refreshments
9:00a - 9:15a Welcome to Pyrexar Day - Mark Falkowski, CEO
9:15a - 10:00a Hyperthermia: A maturing technology moving toward more focused heating - Gerard Van Rhoon, PhD., Erasmus Hospital, Netherlands
10:00a - 10:45a Exploration of BSD-2000 System Applied to Clinical Treatment of Tumors – Dr. Sun Jinghua, Associate Professor, 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University
10:45a - 11:30p Comprehensive Thermal Oncology Program at the University of Maryland: External, Interstitial, and Proton Thermal Therapy - Dr. Zeljko Vujaskovic, University of Maryland Medical Center
11:30p - 12:15p New Product Announcement & Presentation – Jason Ellsworth, VP Pyrexar Medical
12:30p – 1:15p Capacitive vs. Phased Array Hyperthermia - Paul Turner, CTO Pyrexar Medical
1:15p – 2:00p

Hyperthermia and Pancreatic Cancer; Adjunct to Radiation, Chemotherapy or Both - Dr. Curt Heese, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Philadelphia

2:00p – 2:45p

Using Chemotherapy plus Hyperthermia for Advanced Liver Cancer - Xiao Shaowen, Associate Chief Physician. Beijing University

2:45p – 3:30p Quality Assurance of MR-Guided Deep Regional Hyperthermia in Children with Cancer – Dr. Ruediger Wessalowski Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
3:30p – 4:15p Hyperthermia Adjunct to Chemotherapy Sarcoma Study - Dr. Rolf Issels, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
4:15p - 5:00p Hyperthermia with Proton Therapy: The thermoradiobiological basis and the early results from HYPROSAR study – Dr. Niloy Datta, Ksantonsspital Aarau
5:00p - 5:45p  Concepts For Future Deep Phased Array Systems - Paul Turner, CTO Pyrexar Medical
 6:00p  Pyrexar Award Presentation

This event is open to all Conference Attendees at no additional charge.  The event schedule above may change. For more information, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

EVENT LOCATION: Intercontinental Hotel New Orleans, 444 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA