UAMS Breast Cancer Expert to Speak Jan. 14 in El Dorado
| EL DORADO – Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director of the Breast Cancer Program of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will speak at noon Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) – South Arkansas, 460 W. Oak St.
The program will be for medical professionals only. For additional information about the lecture, contact Carol Cobb at (870) 881-4415 or Erica Monday at (501) 686-7831.
Klimberg is a professor of surgery and pathology and director of the Division of Breast Surgical Oncology in the UAMS College of Medicine. She has received numerous teaching awards at UAMS, has authored more than 100 scientific publications, and has received federal funding in basic and clinical research. In 1997, Klimberg helped write the Arkansas Breast Cancer Act that now provides $4 million annually for breast cancer research and care for Arkansas citizens. In 2001, she was appointed to the national Breast Health Advisory Council of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Klimberg received her medical degree and completed a residency in general surgery and a clinical fellowship in oncology at the University of Florida. She also served a fellowship in disease of the breast at UAMS.