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Basic Science Lecture: From Treating Illness to Maintaining Wellness: The Era of Implantable Intelligence

May 2, 2026


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106th Annual Meeting, McCormick Place Lakeside Center | Chicago, IL, USA
McCormick Place Lakeside Center, Plenary, Hall D2
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Azra Raza

Speaker

Azra Raza, MD, is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the Edward P. Evans Foundation MDS Center at Columbia University. A practicing oncologist she also directs a cancer research lab, is the recipient of three serial endowed chairs, and an honorary PhD. Raza has collected >60,000 longitudinally drawn blood and marrow samples from thousands of preleukemia and acute leukemia patients. Describing her groundbreaking ideas in her bestselling book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last, Raza is devoted to shifting the healthcare focus from treatment to early detection and prevention.

Specialties: Congenital, Multi-Specialty, Thoracic