Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., F.A.C.S., senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the UAB School of Medicine, will deliver the annual S. Rexford Kennamer Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Montgomery Regional Medical Campus of the UAB School of Medicine. Vickers will present “Strategies and Current Management of a Lethal Tumor: Pancreatic Cancer” at the lecture on Thursday, Feb. 23 at the Capital City Club in Montgomery.
A member of the Institute of Medicine, Vickers is a world-renowned surgeon, pancreatic cancer researcher and pioneer in health disparities research .His major research interests include gene therapy as an application in the treatment of pancreatobiliary tumors, the role of growth factors and receptors in the oncogenesis of pancreatic cancer, the implications of FAS expressions and Tamoxifen in the growth and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma, assessment of clinical outcomes in the surgical treatment of pancreatobiliary tumors and the role of death receptors in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Established in 1978, the Kennamer Distinguished Lecture series bring nationally recognized leaders in healthcare to Montgomery to interact with the medical, business and political community and discuss their views on important issues in medicine. The lecture series was endowed through the generosity of the late S. Rexford Kennamer, M.D.—a Montgomery native and cardiologist—to ensure the series continued for the benefit of future generations of physicians Montgomery and the River Region.
Past speakers at Kennamer Distinguished Lectures include Paul A. Offit, M.D., renowned virologist and co-inventor of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine; Edward Partridge, M.D., director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Ardis Hoven, M.D., an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist and past president of the American Medical Association.