Montclair Breast Center's June 5 Symposium on Genetic Breast Cancer and Women at High Risk

On Saturday, June 5th, 2010, seventy women all concerned about their families’ risk of breast and ovarian cancer, gathered for the 1st Annual Genetic Breast and Ovarian Cancer Symposium, sponsored by Montclair Breast Center.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Poynor, a well known and highly regarded Gynecologic Oncologist who trained at Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Sloan-Kettering, spoke about the importance of genetic testing in women with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancer. A dynamic speaker, she discussed the importance of knowing the risks involved with testing positive for BRCA 1 & 2 and taking preventative action.

The panel of speakers included Breast Surgeons and Breast Imagers from Montclair Breast Center as well as eye-opening talks on complementary nutrition and psychological issues.

An emotional and very personal journey was shared by a Montclair Breast Center patient with the BRCA 2 mutation. And lastly, Alice Gottschall gave the audience information from FORCE, Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, the national organization whose mission is to educate and support women with genetic breast cancer.

View comments by participants and videotaped interviews with the presenters.

Montclair Breast Center Doctors and Staff on the Go

Donna Gunther, NP attended the Clinical Osteoporosis 2010: An International Society for Clinical Densitometry-National Osteoporosis Foundation Symposium on March 9-13, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Nancy Elliott attended the 27th Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference on March 3-6, 2010, in Miami Beach. Pictured at right: Dr. Elliott (right) with her medical school classmate Dr. Lisa Esserman.

Dr. Marcie Hertz, and nurses Moira Davis, RN and Donna Gunther, NP will be attending the American Society of Breast Disease 34th Annual Symposium on April 16-17, 2010, in NYC.

Liz Feliciano, MRI Supervisor, attended the 2010 Breast Seminar Series, Detection and Diagnosis of Early Breast Cancer Using the Multimodality Approach, on May 5-7 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Holwitt spoke on "Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Risk Reduction: Exercise Makes a Difference" at Aspen East, 122 Watchung Avenue, Montclair, on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Dr. Dana Holwitt spoke on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange.

Dr. Nancy Elliott attended the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium conference October 1-4, 2009, in Chicago, IL.

Montclair Breast Center doctors and staff traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado April 26-29, 2009 to attend the Society of Breast Imaging's 9th Postgraduate Course Colorado Conference.

Below, left: Dr. Nancy Elliott attended the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Diagnosis and Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), September 22-24, 2009, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Below, right: (right to left): Dr. Rose Heller-Savoy, Kristy Kouvel, Dr. Melissa Lee, and Sandra Klank, Sandra Klank, RT Mammogram Technologist.

Montclair Breast Center staff (left to right) Rose Gennerelli, Financial Services, Carol Notaro, office manager, and Ebonie Miller, front desk, attended the National Consortium of Breast Centers 2009 Conference in March.

Dana Holwitt, MD, a Breast Surgeon at Montclair Breast Center, was invited to speak at Gilda's Club of North Jersey on National Mammography Day and in honor of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, 2008.