Mar 22, 2019
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8:00am - 9:00am
Rounds
CWER
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Title: "Exposing the Dark Matter of Pediatric PTC: Molecular Insights into a Distinct Clinical Disease"
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Wasserman, Staff Physician (Endocrinology), SickKids; Assistant Professor (Paediatrics), University of Toronto
Host: Dr. Jackie James
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will:
- Recognize clinical distinctions between papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting in childhood vs. adulthood
- Be familiar with differing diagnostic test characteristics when applied to these two populations
- Appreciate emerging molecular data that characterize unique features of pediatric thyroid carcinoma, and understand how it is being applied to treatment