The POE Lunch & Learn series is required for all POE students. All St. Jude personnel are most welcome to attend. Attendees are to bring their own lunch. The location will vary, but will be announced in St. Jude Today.
Day |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 6/1/2026 | Victor Santana, MD | St. Jude: Past, Present, and Future |
| Tuesday | 6/2/2026 | Brittany Cowfer, MD | Pediatric Leukemia |
| Wednesday | 6/3/2026 | Yen-Chun Liu, MD, PhD | The Laboratory Diagnosis of Pediatric Leukemias |
| Thursday | 6/4/2026 | Todd Tillmanns, MD, FACOG, West Cancer Center & Research Institute | Adult Oncology |
| Friday | 6/5/2026 | Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA | Biostatistics |
| Monday | 6/8/2026 | Julie Severson, PhD, JD | Responsible Conduct of Research |
| Tuesday | 6/9/2026 | Grabriela Maron Alfaro, MD | Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research |
| Wednesday | 6/10/2026 | Matt Ehrhardt, MD, MS | Pediatric Lymphomas |
| Thursday | 6/11/2026 | St. Jude Panelists | St. Jude Career Paths |
| Friday | 6/12/2026 | Beth Stewart, MD | Pediatric Body Tumors |
| Monday | 6/15/2026 | Andrew Davidoff, MD | Pediatric Surgical Oncology |
| Tuesday | 6/16/2026 | St. Jude Graduate School Deans | The St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences |
| Wednesday | 6/17/2026 | Judestock | No Lunch & Learn |
| Thursday | 6/18/2026 | Brent Orr, MD, PhD | The Role of the Surgical Pathologist in Pediatric Cancer Diagnosis |
| Friday | 6/19/2026 | St. Jude Holiday | No Lunch & Learn |
| Monday | 6/22/2026 | Michael Frett, MD | Anesthesia and Pain Management in Pediatric Oncology |
| Tuesday | 6/23/2026 | Zachary Abramson, MD, DMD | Diagnostic Imaging in Pediatric Oncology |
| Wednesday | 6/24/2026 | Brooke Bernhardt, PharmD | Chemotherapy in Pediatric Oncology |
| Thursday | 6/25/2026 | Open Date | TBA |
| Friday | 6/26/2026 | St. Jude Panelists | St. Jude Career Paths |
| Monday | 6/29/2026 | Gerard Zambetti, PhD | The p53 Tumor Suppressor Signaling Pathway and Cancer |
| Tuesday | 6/30/2026 | Paulina Velasquez, MD, and Swati Naik, MBBS | Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy |
| Wednesday | 7/1/2026 | Jinghui Zhang, PhD | Computational Biology in Cancer Research |
| Thursday | 7/2/2026 | Carmen Perez, MD, PhD | Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Oncology |
| Friday | 7/3/2026 | St. Jude Holiday | No Lunch & Learn |
| Monday | 7/6/2026 | Kendra Parris, PhD | Psychology in Pediatric Oncology |
| Tuesday | 7/7/2026 | Jun J. Yang, PhD | Pharmacogenomics and its Importance in Precision Medicine |
| Wednesday | 7/8/2026 | Andrew Smith, MD, PhD | AI in Cancer Imaging |
| Thursday | 7/9/2026 | Kim Nichols, MD | Cancer Predisposition |
| Friday | 7/10/2026 | Deena Levine, MD | Integrating Palliative Care into Pediatric Oncology Practice |
| Monday | 7/13/2026 | Stephanie Dixon, MD | Late Effects in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The Cost of Cure |
| Tuesday | 7/14/2026 | Hana Hakim, MD | Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Oncology |
| Wednesday | 7/15/2026 | Aditya Gaur, MD | Understanding HIV through History: Locally and Globally |
| Thursday | 7/16/2026 | Alejandro Gutierrez, MD | Understanding and overcoming drug resistance in cancer |
| Friday | 7/17/2026 | Open Date | Open Date |
| Monday | 7/20/2026 | Alexis Leonard, MD | Sickle Cell Disease |
| Tuesday | 7/21/2026 | Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Worldwide: the St. Jude Contribution |
| Wednesday | 7/22/2026 | James Downing, MD | Blueprint Presentation |
| Thursday | 7/23/2026 | Chattopadhyay; Curtright; Delgado | POE project reports |
| Friday | 7/24/2026 | Go; Milhon; Stevens | POE project reports |
| Monday | 7/27/2026 | Gao; Hillenberg; Kosir | POE project reports |
| Tuesday | 7/28/2026 | Johnson; Opfermann; Palmer; Smith, Austin | POE project reports |
| Wednesday | 7/29/2026 | Aflaki; Korotkin; Mysore; Rascher | POE project reports |
| Thursday | 7/30/2026 | Gray; Kemraj; Singh | POE project reports |
| Friday | 7/31/2026 | Eskander; Naveed; Zhu | POE project reports |
| Monday | 8/3/2026 | Open Date | POE project reports |
| Tuesday | 8/4/2026 | Open Date | POE project reports |
| Wednesday | 8/5/2026 | Mojumdar; Yang; Zaruba | POE project reports |
| Thursday | 8/6/2026 | Jackson; Kalodimos; Skerchak | POE project reports |
| Friday | 8/7/2026 | Open Date | POE project reports |
| Monday | 8/10/2026 | Chang; Hendricks; Nolen | POE project reports |
| Tuesday | 8/11/2026 | Arigo; Mills; Shabu | POE project reports |
| Wednesday | 8/12/2026 | Gomatam; Lawrence; Qin | POE project reports |
| Thursday | 8/13/2026 | Casteel; Gordon; Smith, Amelia | POE project reports |
| Friday | 8/14/2026 | Open Date | POE project reports |