Tom Farmer, long time board member and advocate for prostate cancer, receives the 2010 Charles Austin Award from Hall Swaim, MPCC president.

Cheryl Bartlett, director of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, delivers greetings from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Panelists for the Opening Plenary included from left to right, Martin Sanda, MD, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Glenn Bubley, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Neil Rofsky, MD, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Clair Beard, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and MaryEllen Taplin, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Charles Austin Award winners Bill Whitmore (2007) and Charlie Austin (2006) with MPCC board member emeritus Manny Hamelburg

New presenters at the 2010 Symposium: Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, JD, Healthcare for All, and Jason R. Gee, MD, Lahey Clinic.

Matthew R. Smith, MD, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, delivers the closing keynote address.

Charlie Austin, Dalton Skerritt, Dr. Jacques Carter and Mark Kennedy led the “Late to Care” panel discussion at the Symposium.