Weds, Feb 15 @ 3:30-5 pm CT via Zoom

This program is created for people diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The materials educate patients on the types of colorectal cancer, potential treatments and side effects, clinical trials, and the emotional concerns of a colorectal cancer diagnosis

ABOUT DR. NOELLE LOCONTE:

Dr. Noelle LoConte is a faculty member in the Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine. She leads the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Outreach, Cancer Control and Population Sciences division and its Data and Safety Monitoring Committee. She formerly served on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Prevention and Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committees.

Her many regional and national committee memberships include the Wisconsin Cancer Council Steering Committee; the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Gastrointestinal Cancer Core Committee; the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Treatment Guidelines Committee for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma; the Big 10 Cancer Research Consortium Gastrointestinal Cancer Committee; and the ASCO Primary Care Provider Engagement Work Group, CancerLinq Discovery Research and Publications Committee, and Alcohol Policy Workgroup (the latter of which she chairs). She is also a reviewer for over a dozen medical journals, and has received a John A. Hartford Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation Young Investigator Award and a Wisconsin Cancer Council Certificate of Appreciation Award.