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  • With Dr. Brian Druker at Powell Bookstore

    Powell Book Store 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beavertonh, OR, United States

    Introduction by Dr. Brian Druker, Director of OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research, and Professor of Medicine.  

  • Azra Raza on the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

    Asia Society Houston 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston, TX, United States

    We have lost the war on cancer, according to professor of medicine and director of Columbia University's Myeldysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Center Azra Raza. Each year, $150 billion is spent treating cancer, yet — a few innovations notwithstanding — a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most […]

  • Book talk at Annual Meeting of AAAS

    Washington State Convention Center 705 Pike St, Seattle, WA, United States

    Why has so little progress been made in diagnosing and treating cancer over the past few decades and how can physicians, researchers, and patients advocate for more effective research and humane treatments? With The First Cell: And the Human Cost of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, Dr. Raza develops a new paradigm for the treatment of […]

  • Azra Raza : Book Reading and Discussion with Seema Singhal

    South Asia Institute 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

      Azra Raza will be reading selected excerpts from her book The First Cell And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last in conversation with Seema Singhal. There will be an open discussion followed by book signing

    Free

  • Science Salon with Claudia Dreifus

    Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong professor of medicine and the director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. A world-class oncologist, she has cared for thousands of cancer patients. Yet in her highly acclaimed new book, The First Cell, she asks why so little progress has been made in diagnosing and treating cancer over the […]

    $35

  • The C Word: Writing About Cancer Using Scholarship and Empathy

    Ace Hotel Pittsburg 120 S Whitfield St, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

    Dr. Azra Raza has dedicated her life to studying cancer, and to making the unbearable easier to bear. In The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, Raza gives a searing account of the current state of cancer and its impacts on real people, including herself. She describes how she bore […]

  • Q & A with Dr. Azra Raza: A moderated discussion about writing

    Beauty Shoppe Arsenal Motors 3700 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

    Join Dr. Azra Raza, author of The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, in an intimate setting to explore the use of narrative in her work.B

  • A conversation with Dr. Azra Raza

    Foley & Lardner LLP, Washington Harbor 3000 K St NW, Washington, DC 20007, DC, United States

    Cosponsored by: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons MIT Club of Washington DC. Host: John Donvan is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and debate moderator whose bestselling book, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He serves as host of the Intelligence Squared US, a debate series dedicated […]

    $10 – $20

  • Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine

    Li Ka Shing Center (Berg Hall) 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, United States

    Stanford, California • September 9th – 10th, 2023 An exploration of the future of healthcare.