In the News
2011
Feb 23-26 American Venous Forum, 23rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Symposium: Changing Concepts in Lymphedema. Dr. Rockson to speak on ‘Lymphatic Disease: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?’
March 6 Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Rockson to lecture on ‘The Molecular Basics of Lymphatic Development and Disease’
April 10 The Avon Foundation, New York, NY. Dr. Rockson to speak on ‘Meeting the Unmet Needs in Lymphedema Diagnosis and Management’
April 30 American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Dr. Rockson to conduct a symposium on Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer-related Lymphedema
May 4 Dr. Rockson invited as a Visiting Professor to the Division of Lymphatic Biology, Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX
June 16 International Lymphoedema Framework Conference, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Rockson invited to present on ‘International Patient Registry and Biorepository for Lymphatic Disease.
June 18 International Lymphoedema Framework Conference, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Rockson invited to present an overview of ‘Biocompression in Lymphedema Management’
July 29 Scheduled publication date for LYMPHEDEMA A Concise Compendium of Theory and Practice, BB Lee, J Bergan, SG Rockson, Editors (http://www.springer.com/medicine/surgery/book/978-0-85729-566-8)
September 15 Prague, Czech Republic, Dr. Rockson invited to serve on the UIP Consensus for Primary Lymphedema
September 21-25 The 23rd International Congress of Lymphology, Malmö, Sweden. Dr. Rockson invited to present on the topic ‘New Frontiers in Lymphatic Research’
October 13 Naples, Italy, Dr Rockson invited to speak on lymphatic disease Hemodyn 2011: The Vasculab Conference
October 15 San Francisco, CA Seventh Annual Oncology Congress, Dr. Rockson invited to speak on 'The Biology of Lymphedema'
November 3 Dr. Rockson will be presenting in Washington, DC to Congressional Staffers in support of the bill before the House of Representatives, entitled The Lymphedema Treatment Act (http://lymphedematreatmentact.org/join-us-in-dc-2011-lymphedema-lobby-days/)
December 12 Today, Dr. Rockson launched the Stanford Breast Cancer Lymphedema Registry: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/december/lymphedema.html . Patients interested in enrolling can log into the Stanford National Breast Cancer Lymphedema Registry website at: http://breastcancer-lymphedema.stanford.edu. For more information, patients can call (650) 723-1396 or email lymphatic@stanfordmed.org.
2012
March 14 Las Vegas, NV. 22nd Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference. Dr. Rockson invited to speak on 'Newest Concepts on Lymphedema'
March 3 Dr. Rockson is an invited speaker at the Lymphatic Research Symposium with an Emphasis on Lymphedema and Cancer.
March 4-9 Dr. Rockson is an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Lymphatic Function and Disease, in Ventura California. He will be speaking on 'Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Lymphedema: Translation from the Animal Model'
June 28-30 Dr. Rockson has been invited to speak at the International Lymphoedema Framework conference in Montpellier, France
November 9 Dr. Rockson is an invited keynote speaker for the 'Lymphatic Function and the Immune Response to Microbial or Viral Infection Workshop', sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
November, 2012 Dr. Rockson was selected as one of 5 recipients of the inaugural Innovation Fund Award program of the Stanford Cancer Institute. His research is entitled 'Placebo-Controlled Therapeutic Trial for the Prevention of Lymphedema in High Risk Breast Cancer Patients'.