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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">MD/PhD Grand Rounds</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Date: 2/12/2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Time: 5:00 – 6:00p *buffet dinner ready by 4:30</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Location: Setnor 3509/10</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Please take a few moments for post-presentation feedback (recorded anonymously). Submit your feedback using the link below by
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: yellow;"><b>EOD 2/16.</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Jon:
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><u><a href="https://redcap.upstate.edu/surveys/?s=LT3RM8RHLNKDD7YC" title="Original URL:
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Click to follow link." data-outlook-id="9cec118f-8359-47f0-ac57-b6120cebcb55" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://redcap.upstate.edu/surveys/?s=LT3RM8RHLNKDD7YC</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This is a
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: yellow;"><b>requirement</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> for all MD/PhD students
and those who are registered for MDPH602. Again, everyone should <b>elaborate on their feedback by using the comment section at the end</b>. Thank-you for your participation! </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Message from Jon:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hi MD/PhD folks,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hope everyone is having a great start to the week!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">For this week’s grand rounds, we’ll continue discussing cancer diagnosis and treatment with a phase III clinical trial report on neoadjuvant checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in
lung cancer (attached). I’ll be focusing my presentation on clinical trial design and endpoint selection.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Looking forward to the discussion
</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">😊</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Warm regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Jon Chung</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Best,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Andrea</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">ndrea Cifonelli (she, her, hers)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coordinator of Combined Programs and Special Initiatives</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">MD-PhD Program Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">PREP-Up and SURF Program Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Postdoctoral Affairs Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">College of Graduate Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Weiskotten Hall 3118</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:cifonela@upstate.edu" data-outlook-id="d3032be8-910f-41e4-98a0-605f2181342f" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">cifonela@upstate.edu</a></span></p>
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