Silfen University Forum 2017

February 28, 2017

At the Feb. 28, 2017, David and Lyn Silfen University Forum, Penn President Amy Gutmann hosted a conversation about cancer, “A Formidable Foe,” with a panel of distinguished guests, including former Vice President Joseph Biden; Carl June, director of the Translational Research Program at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center and a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine; Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society; Nancy Davidson, director of clinical research for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and president of the American Association for Cancer Research; and Kim Vernick, a Penn Medicine patient and pancreatic cancer survivor.

Penn Today news story.

See also President Gutmann’s Flickr gallery, Facebook page, and Instagram.