2026 Penny Taylor Oration

Name: 2026 Penny Taylor Oration
Start: 2026-02-19T10:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-02-19T10:00:00+11:00
Location: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Level 7, Lecture Theatre B,

About

Please join us for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre’s 2026 Penny Taylor Oration – a community forum that aims to build understanding, awareness and action on ovarian cancer.

Thursday 19th February 2026 at 10:00am, Peter Mac, Level 7, Lecture Theatre B (and online).

This will be a hybrid event held at Peter Mac while also being live streamed with online registration available for those unable to attend in-person.

Oration from 10am – 11am, followed by morning tea for our onsite attendees.

About the Penny Taylor Oration

Penny Taylor was a respected health economist and humanitarian who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2013.

Ms Taylor died on 27 March 2014, aged 48. In her memory, Penny's mother, Mrs Wendy Taylor, is supporting ovarian cancer research and awareness through the Penny Taylor Oration.

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lan Coffman, M.D., Ph.D.

Laboratory Head, Magee-Womens Research Institute;
Associate Professor, Hematology-Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA

Dr. Lan Coffman is a physician scientist specializing in studying the stromal microenvironment of ovarian cancer. She obtained her MD and PhD at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and performed her residency in Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology fellowship and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Coffman maintains an active clinical practice treating women with gynaecologic cancer and leads a translational laboratory studying the mechanism of tumour to stromal interactions in ovarian cancer initiation, metastasis and therapy resistance. Dr. Coffman has been continually funded through the NIH, DOD and foundations including the ACS, OCRA and Tina's wish. The ultimate goal of her research is to translate novel laboratory findings into powerful therapeutic approaches for the prevention and treatment of ovarian cancer.