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  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    8:30am – 9:00am ET
    James Ewing Featured Lecture: Bench to Bedside Translation Through Team Science
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Invited Lecturer: Funda Meric Berstam – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Feature LectureCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Immunotherapy for Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
    Location: C105-C106
    Moderator: Christina L. Roland, MD MS – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    SarcomaCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Next Generation Sequencing in Hepatobiliary Cancers 
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Jen Jen Yeh, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Moderator: Rohit Chandwani, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Medical College
    HPBCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Optimizing Cancer Surgery: Updates in Technical Aspects and Documentation of Common Surgical Oncology Operations
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Matthew H.G Katz, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Cross DisciplineCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    9:30am – 10:30am ET
    The Evolution of Sequence of Treatment and Axillary Management in Early-stage Breast Cancer
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Laura Dominici, MD – Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital; Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Moderator: Astrid Botty van den Bruele, MD – Duke University Medical Center
    BreastCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    10:35am – 11:20am ET
    Melanoma Great Debate: Targeted versus Complete Nodal Dissection following Neoadjuvant Therapy for Melanoma: Is it Time to Push Forward or Hold off on Continued De-escalation of Surgery?
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Marc D. Moncrieff, MD FRCS(Plast.) – Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
    MelanomaCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Endocrine/Head & Neck Parallel Session
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Tracy S. Wang, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Moderator: Elizabeth G. Grubbs, MD – MD Anderson Cancer Center
    CMEOral Abstracts
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Getting the Most out of ERAS Pathways for Patients Undergoing Gastric Cancer Surgery
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Evan S. Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO (he/him/his) – Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
    Moderator: Richelle Williams, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland Medical Center
    Upper GICME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Sarcoma Parallel Session
    Location: C105-C106
    Moderator: Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Moderator: Kristy K. Broman, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    SarcomaCMEOral Abstracts
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    11:20am – 12:05pm ET
    Breast Great Debates in Surgical Oncology - Does Breast-conserving Surgery with Radiotherapy offer Better Survival than Mastectomy in Early-stage Breast Cancer?
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Kandace P. McGuire, MD – Virginia Commonwealth University Health
    BreastCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    1:15pm – 1:45pm ET
    American Cancer Society/SSO Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lecture: Enhancing the Quality of Cancer Care
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Invited Lecturer: Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS (she/her/hers) – American College of Surgeons
    Feature LectureCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    1:55pm – 3:25pm ET
    Melanoma Parallel Session
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Moderator: Elizabeth J. Lilley, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    MelanomaCMEOral Abstracts
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
    Cancer Risk, Screening, and Treatment in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Lesly A. Dossett, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    DEICME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
    HPB Parallel Session 1
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Syed A. Ahmad, MD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
    Moderator: Laleh Melstrom, MD – Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
    HPBCMEOral Abstracts
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
    PSM Parallel Session
    Location: C105-C106
    Moderator: Oliver Eng, MD (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Moderator: Martin Goodman, MD – Tufts Medical Center, Boston MA
    PSMCMEOral Abstracts
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    3:35pm – 4:20pm ET
    HPB Great Debate: Chasing Intraoperative Margins During Pancreatoduodenectomy – Always or Never?
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Julie Hallet, MD MSc FRCSC FSSO (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto
    HPBCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    3:55pm – 4:40pm ET
    Endocrine Great Debate: Molecular Testing and Extent of Surgery in Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancer
    Location: C108
    Moderator: Cord Sturgeon, MD, MS (he/him/his) – Northwestern University
    EndocrineCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
    PeerView Early Breast Cancer Symposium
    Location: C108
    Chair: Laura Dominici, MD – Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital; Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Presenter: Albert Henry Diehl, III, MD, FACS – Atlanta Breast Care
    Presenter: Jane L. Meisel, MD – Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine
    BreastCME
  • Thursday, Mar 21st
    7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
    PeerView Melanoma Symposium
    Location: C110
    Presenter: Jennifer Wargo – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Presenter: Charlotte E. Ariyan, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Presenter: Hussein A. Tawbi, MD, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    MelanomaCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    8:45am – 9:15am ET
    John Wayne Clinical Research Lecture: Targeting the Cell Cycle Machinery in Cancer-from Bench to the Clinic and Back
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Invited Lecturer: Khandan Keyomarsi – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Feature LectureCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    9:45am – 10:15am ET
    SSO Presidential Address: Empowering Surgeons: A Call for Leadership, Mentorship, and Collaboration in the Field of Surgical Oncology
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Invited Lecturer: Kelly K. Hunt, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    Feature LectureCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    10:30am – 11:15am ET
    PSM Great Debate: Prophylactic CRS/HIPEC in High-risk T4 Colorectal Cancer
    Location: C105-C106
    Moderator: Fabian M. Johnston, MD, MHS – Division of Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
    PSMCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Breast Parallel Session 1
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Meeghan A. Lautner, MD, MSc, FACS (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery
    BreastCMEOral Abstracts
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Colorectal Parallel Session
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Christina E. Bailey, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Mihir M. Shah, MD, FACS, FSSO (he/him/his) – Department of Surgery, Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA
    ColorectalCMEOral Abstracts
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Upper GI Parallel Session
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Joseph Kim, MD – Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky
    Moderator: Tania Arora, MD, FACS, FSSO – Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
    Upper GICMEOral Abstracts
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    1:00pm – 2:30pm ET
    Plenary Session 1
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Kelly K. Hunt, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    Moderator: Callisia Clarke, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin
    CMEOral Abstracts
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    2:30pm – 4:00pm ET
    Plenary Session 2
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FACS (he/him/his) – The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Cristina Ferrone, MD (she/her/hers) – Cedars-Sinai
    CMEOral Abstracts
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    4:00pm – 4:45pm ET
    Sarcoma Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Should be Standard Practice for High-Risk Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
    Location: C105-C106
    Moderator: Valerie Grignol, MD – The Ohio State University
    SarcomaCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Hot Topics - Practice Changing Studies in Immuno-Oncology
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Ajay V. Maker, MD – University of California, San Francisco
    Immuno-OncologyCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Management of MEN1 Tumors
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Paxton V. Dickson, MD – Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
    Moderator: Lauren Krumeich, MD MS – University of Michigan
    EndocrineCME
  • Friday, Mar 22nd
    4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Unanswered Questions in Melanoma in 2023
    Location: Georgia Ballroom
    Moderator: Christina V. Angeles, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan
    Moderator: Genevieve M. Boland, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
    MelanomaCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    8:00am – 9:30am ET
    Breast Parallel Session 2
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Richard J. Bleicher, MD – Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
    Moderator: Marissa M. Howard-McNatt, MD – Wake Forest Baptist Health
    BreastCMEOral Abstracts
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    8:00am – 9:30am ET
    HPB Parallel Session 2
    Location: C105-106
    Moderator: Carrie Luu, MD – The University of Arizona - Tucson
    Moderator: Jashodeep Datta, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Surgery, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
    HPBCMEOral Abstracts
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    8:00am – 9:30am ET
    Quality & Disparities Parallel Session
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Oluwadamilola M. Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, FACS (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Cristina O'Donoghue, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Rush University Medical Center
    QualityDisparities in Surgical Oncologic CareCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    9:45am – 10:30am ET
    UGI Great Debate: Should we use FLOT or CROSS for Neoadjuvant Therapy for Patients with Resectable Gastro-esophageal Junction Adenocarcinomas?
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Natalie Coburn, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS (she/her/hers) – Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute
    Upper GICME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    9:45am – 10:45am ET
    Controversies in Management of Colorectal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Alexandra Gangi, M.D. – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Moderator: Jeremiah L. Deneve, DO (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    PSMCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    9:45am – 10:45am ET
    Technical Quality in Cancer Surgery
    Location: C105-106
    Moderator: Haejin In, MD, MPH, MBA (she/her/hers) – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
    Moderator: Nabil Wasif, MD, MPH – Mayo Clinic in Arizona
    QualityCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    10:30am – 11:15am ET
    Colorectal Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Colon Cancer
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Mariam F. Eskander, MD, MPH – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
    ColorectalCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    10:55am – 11:55am ET
    Training the Future Cancer Surgeon: Whether, Why, and How to Propagate the Specialty of Surgical Oncology Globally
    Location: C105-106
    Moderator: Alessandro Gronchi, MD, FSSO – Sarcoma Service, Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
    Moderator: Aaron Saunders, MD, MAS, FACS, FSSO (he/him/his) – Summit Cancer Center
    InternationalCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    11:00am – 12:30pm ET
    SSO Top-Rated Video Abstracts
    Location: C101
    Moderator: Callisia Clarke, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Video AbstractCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    11:20am – 12:20pm ET
    Management of Mid-Rectal Cancer
    Location: C102
    Moderator: Seth I. Felder, MD – H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
    ColorectalCME
  • Saturday, Mar 23rd
    11:40am – 12:40pm ET
    How SSO Can Help You Optimize Your Practice
    Location: C110
    Moderator: Kristen Massimino, MD (she/her/hers) – Providence Cancer Institute
    Moderator: Magesh Sundaram, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – UM Capital Region Cancer Center
    Community Practice SurgeonsCME