Professors on bikes raise awareness of breast cancer

Be here when the surgeons and researchers Mikael Hartman and Philip Iau arrive in Stockholm, after a 20,000 km motorcycle journey that took them across 17 countries. They started the journey at their workplace at the National University of Singapore, and after three months, they are finally reaching their destination – Karolinska Institutet!

Come and listen as they talk about their experience of “The Long Ride”, raising breast cancer awareness and meeting breast cancer survivors.

Date and time: 18 June 2014, 10.30 am 
Reception at the entrance of Karolinska Institutet, Solna Campus 

Time for the seminar: 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
Venue: Atrium, Nobels väg 12 B, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

PROGRAMME

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Jan Carlstedt-Duke, professor and chair of the Karolinska Institutet international strategy group

BREAST CANCER RISK AND PROGNOSIS
Kamila Czene, professor in cancer epidemiology
Per Hall, professor in radiation epidemiology

DRAMATIC INCREASE OF BREAST CANCER IN ASIA
Mikael Hartman, associate professor, National University of Singapore, senior
consultant, Breast and Trauma Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore

PHILANTHROPY POLICIES IN SINGAPORE VS. SWEDEN
Jan Carlstedt-Duke

THE LONG RIDE: HOW DID IT GO?
Mikael Hartman and Philip Iau, associate professor, National University of Singapore, senior consultant
and head of the Division of General Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore

Follow the bikers on social media
Webb: http://longridess.com
Facebook: facebook.com/LongRideSS
Twitter: @LongRideSS
Instagram: @longridess

If you have any questions, please contact: 
Mikael Hartman, mikael_hartman@nuhs.edu.sg
Philip Iau, philip_iau@nuhs.edu.sg

Karolinska Institutet Press Office, +46 8 524 860 77, pressinfo@ki.se