NEW! CDC Cancer Partners Summit Final Program (PDF)
NEW! UICC World Cancer Congress Preliminary Program
General Information for Attendees
ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER AT THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER
Registration
The Registration Desk is located at East Registration on the first level of the Washington Convention Center. Attendees will receive their name badges and conference materials at the Desk.
Registration hours are as follows:
| Saturday, July 8 | 8:00 a.m. 9:00 p.m. |
| Sunday, July 9 | 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. |
| Monday, July 10 | 7:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, July 11 | 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m |
| Wednesday, July 12 | 7:30 a.m. 8:00 p.m |
| Thursday, July 13 | 7:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m |
Summit Venues
All Summit sessions are being held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel, 999 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, D.C., (202) 898-9000. The hotel is located on the south side of Mount Vernon Square across from the Washington Convention Center. Sessions are being held on the hotels Ballroom Level. The Grand Ballroom, situated in the middle of the Ballroom Level, is the site of the plenary sessions and the closing plenary luncheon.
The Washington Convention Center is the venue for the Summit Reception, which takes place on Wednesday, July 12, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Convention Center is a new, state-of-the-art facility covering six city blocks. The main entrance is located at 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW (on the north side of Mount Vernon Square across from the Renaissance Hotel).
Transportation
There are two Metrorail (subway) stations within walking distance of the Washington Convention Center and the Renaissance Hotel. The Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center station, accessible via Green or Yellow line trains, is located just outside the northeast corner of the convention center at the intersection of 7th and M streets. The Gallery Place/Chinatown station, accessible via the Green, Red, or Yellow lines, has two entrances located a few blocks south of the hotel, at the intersections of 9th and G streets and 7th and H streets.
Unique Opportunity
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively involved in both the UICC World Cancer Congress 2006, scheduled for July 8-12, 2006, and the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH), scheduled for July 12-15, 2006.
CDC is cosponsoring the UICC World Cancer Congress 2006 (WCC), and is collaborating with UICC to plan one of WCC's five content tracks (Public Health, Prevention and Education). As a result of this unique opportunity, CDC will also be developing sessions for the WCC Public Health Track, inviting domestic cancer control programs to submit abstracts and posters for the WCC, and hosting its first ever Cancer Partners Summit in conjunction with the 2006 Conferences. In lieu of CDC's biennial Cancer Conference, the Cancer Partners Summit will convene from July 12-13, 2006, immediately following the close of the UICC World Cancer Congress. Attending both the Summit and the World Cancer Congress will afford participants the unique opportunity to learn about the latest scientific findings in cancer prevention and control, to interact with domestic and international counterparts, and to gain new insights on how to build partnerships through innovative and effective collaboration.
Who Should Attend
CDC cordially invites its domestic cancer prevention and control grantees and partners to attend both the UICC World Cancer Congress and the Cancer Partners Summit from July 8-13, 2006. Registration for the Summit is included in the World Cancer Congress registration fee, allowing participants to take full advantage of the information and opportunities offered by both events.
Together, these events will provide an environment to exchange ideas and create partnerships with the world's leading cancer and tobacco control communities. CDC encourages those involved in public or private cancer prevention and control programming and policy making at the national, state, or local levels in the United States to attend this unprecedented multi-conference event in the nation's capital.
Summit Planning
The Cancer Partners Summit is being planned for July 12-13, 2006, to enable participants to concurrently attend WCC or WCTOH. The Summit is being organized by CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the center's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, other CDC offices, and a planning committee representing more than 30 academic institutions, advocacy groups, associations, foundations, government agencies, health care providers, professional groups, and public health programs-organizations that are prominently and intimately involved in cancer prevention and control efforts throughout the United States.
Summit Focus
The theme of the 2006 Summit is Empowering Partners for Effective Integration: Charting a New Generation of Cancer Control Partnerships.
Building on scientific presentations offered at the World Cancer Congress' Public Health, Prevention and Education track, CDC's Cancer Partner Summit will showcase partnerships, and provide opportunities for interactive discussions focusing on the future needs for continuing to activate and strengthen collaboration among cancer control initiatives. Sessions will cover a broad range of US cancer control programming, including
- Developing new comprehensive, collaborative programs and leveraging existing ones
- Using data to plan, identify needs, and evaluate outcomes
- Building cancer control partnerships: Education, training, interventions, outcomes, and cost-efficiency
- Integrating tobacco control with public health cancer control efforts
- Promoting community-based research best practices
- Establishing and improving collaborations at national/federal, state, and local levels to solve cancer control problems
CDC Summit At-a-Glance
CDC is actively supporting and participating in the development of scientific program offerings at the UICC World Cancer Congress, specifically sessions offered through the Public Health, Prevention and Education Track. CDC is also serving as the accrediting agency for continuing education credits for the Congress, and highly suggests supplementing Summit sessions with those of the Public Health, Prevention and Education Track, to gain a holistic understanding of the public health role in cancer prevention and control research, programming, and collaboration.
CDC Program Directors Business Meeting
The program directors for CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program will hold a half-day business meeting at the close of the Cancer Partners Summit on Thursday afternoon, July 13, 2006.
Abstracts
Abstract submissions and presentations will not be included as part of the CDC Cancer Partners Summit. However CDC encourages registrants to submit abstracts for the CDC-sponsored Public Health, Prevention and Education Track of the World Cancer Congress, in addition to other tracks of both the World Cancer Congress and World Conference on Tobacco OR Health. To submit abstracts for the UICC World Cancer Congress click here. To submit abstracts to the World Conference on Tobacco OR Health click here.
Summit Sponsorship
Interested businesses and organizations are invited to join CDC in sponsoring the 2006 Cancer Partners Summit. For further information on sponsorship benefits and opportunities, click on the streaming video link below.
CDC is the federal government's lead agency for protecting the health and safety of the American people at home and abroad. Through research, program support, and educational activities, CDC develops and implements prevention and control measures to make people safer and healthier.
CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control conducts, supports, and promotes efforts to prevent cancer and to increase the early detection of cancer. The division works with partners in the governmental, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance effective cancer prevention and control practices nationwide.
