Welcome to Plenary Session.

I'm Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor with University of California, San Francisco.

I'm a practicing he-mong doctor, and my interests are medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And that's what you're going to get on Plenary Session.

This is season four, hashtag zero COVID.

It's zero COVID because we're not going to talk about COVID.

We're back, oncology, medicine, health policy.

We've got a lot in store for you.

But first, a plug.

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And with that, let's start the show. I'm back in Plenary Sessioned, real-life edition. I'm

outside in the beautiful California summer, and I'm joined by Dr. Allen Vinoch. Professor Vinoch is,

he'll need no introduction to this audience. He is an expert in GI malignancies in colorectal cancer.

He's a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he's been on the faculty for, let's just say, a while now, Dr. Vinook. You've

been on the faculty for a while. You did your fellowship there, and you joined the faculty

thereafter. Yes, I've been on faculty since 1988, which is a lot of years, and did my

fellowship here as well.

And, I mean, I think listeners of this podcast will know you well. And so there's so much

I want to cover with you. So let me just start, pick up in the beginning. Okay. So, you know,

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