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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, March 20, 2024
  • 7:00am – 4:00pm ET
    SSO 2024 Robotics Pre-Meeting- Advanced Robotic Surgery Workshop in Complex HPB/UGI

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Melissa Hogg, MD MS (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Herbert J. Zeh, III, MD – Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Patricio M. Polanco, MD – Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Brian A. Boone, MD, FACS – Department of Surgery, West Virginia University

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Naruhiko Ikoma, MD, MS – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Matthew R. Porembka, MD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Laleh Melstrom, MD – Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Ana Gleisner, MD, PhD – University of Colorado

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Hop S. Tran-Cao, M.D. (he/him/his) – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Alice C. Wei, MD, MS, FRCSC (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: Amer H. Zureikat, MD – Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    Pre-Meeting Presenter: David A. Kooby, MD, FACS (he/him/his) – Winship Cancer Institute, Division of Surgical Oncology, Emory University

  • 7:00am – 5:30pm ET
    Registration
  • 9:00am – 3:00pm ET
    SSO 2024: SSO Women in Cancer Surgery Leadership Summit
  • 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
    SSO 2024 Research Pre-Meeting: Grant Writing Workshop and NIH-Style Mock Study Section
  • 2:00pm – 4:00pm ET
    Career Catalyst Mentorship Program
  • 4:15pm – 5:45pm ET
    SSO Joint Committee Conference
  • 5:45pm – 6:45pm ET
    SSO 2024 Welcome Reception
  • Thursday, March 21, 2024
  • 6:00am – 7:00am ET
    Women in Cancer Surgery Sunrise Walk
  • 6:45am – 8:00am ET
    New Member & Member Appreciation Breakfast (Invite Only)
  • 7:00am – 8:00am ET
    Germline BRCA Mutation Testing in Breast Cancer to Help Inform Clinical Decisions
  • 7:00am – 8:00am ET
    Industry Forum Breakfast: Merck: An Adjuvant Treatment Option for Certain Patients with Melanoma after Complete Resection
  • 7:00am – 8:00am ET
    Morning Welcome Coffee & Tea
  • 7:00am – 6:00pm ET
    Registration
  • 8:15am – 8:30am ET
    SSO 2024 Welcome
  • 8:30am – 9:00am ET
    James Ewing Featured Lecture: Bench to Bedside Translation Through Team Science
  • 9:00am – 10:15am ET
    HUB Refreshment Break
  • 9:00am – 5:15pm ET
    SSO HUB
  • 9:30am – 10:00am ET
    Colorectal Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Glen C. Balch, MD – Emory University School of Medicine

    Poster Session Moderator: James P. De Andrade, MD – University of Iowa

    Colorectal

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 9:30am – 10:00am ET
    Endocrine/Head & Neck Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Nancy D. Perrier, MD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Poster Session Moderator: Geeta Lal, MD, MSc, FACS (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa

    Endocrine/Head and Neck

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Immunotherapy for Soft-Tissue Sarcoma

    Moderator: Christina L. Roland, MD MS – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Sarcoma

    CME

  • 9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Next Generation Sequencing in Hepatobiliary Cancers 

    Moderator: Jen Jen Yeh, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Moderator: Rohit Chandwani, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weill Cornell Medical College

    HPB

    CME

  • 9:30am – 10:30am ET
    Optimizing Cancer Surgery: Updates in Technical Aspects and Documentation of Common Surgical Oncology Operations

    Moderator: Mediget Teshome, MD (she/her/hers) – UCLA

    Moderator: Matthew H.G Katz, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Cross Discipline

    CME

  • 9:30am – 10:30am ET
    The Evolution of Sequence of Treatment and Axillary Management in Early-stage Breast Cancer

    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

    Breast

    CME

  • 9:45am – 10:15am ET
    Beyond HIPEC: Novel Delivery Methods for Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

    HUB Moderator: Ugwuji N. Maduekwe, MD MPH – Medical College of Wisconsin

    PSM

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 9:45am – 10:15am ET
    Melanoma SLN is Positive, Now What? Debate: Surveillance vs. Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Stage 3a/b Melanoma

    HUB Moderator: Michael D. Alvarado, MD (he/him/his) – UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Immuno-Oncology

    HUB

    non-CME

  • 9:45am – 10:15am ET
    Oncogenic Drivers of Thyroid Cancer and Targeted Therapies

    HUB Moderator: Sarah B. Fisher, MD – MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Endocrine

    HUB

    non-CME

  • 10:00am – 10:30am ET
    Melanoma Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Joal D. Beane, MD – The Ohio State University

    Poster Session Moderator: Camille Stewart, MD, FSSO, FACS (she/her/hers) – CommonSpirit Health, St. Anthony Hospital

    Melanoma

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 10:00am – 11:00am ET
    The Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery Part II: Solutions and Policies for Delivering Safe, Affordable and Timely Cancer Surgery

    Breakout Moderator: Chandrakanth Are, MD, MBA, FSSO, FRCS, FACS – University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Breakout Moderator: Ali Landman, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Lancet Oncology

    International

    non-CME

  • 10:15am – 10:35am ET
    Industry Spotlight Presented by Natera: Tumor-Informed Residual Disease (MRD) Testing to Guide Perioperative Decisions in Solid Tumors
  • 10:30am – 11:00am ET
    PSM Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Travis E. Grotz, MD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

    Poster Session Moderator: Donnele Daley, MD – University of Michigan

    PSM

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 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?

    Moderator: Marc D. Moncrieff, MD FRCS(Plast.) – Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

    Melanoma

    CME

  • 10:45am – 11:15am ET
    Workforce Diversification in Surgical Oncology
  • 10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Endocrine/Head & Neck Parallel Session

    Moderator: Tracy S. Wang, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Moderator: Elizabeth G. Grubbs, MD – MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Endocrine/Head and Neck

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Getting the Most out of ERAS Pathways for Patients Undergoing Gastric Cancer Surgery

    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 GI

    CME

  • 10:45am – 11:45am ET
    Sarcoma Parallel Session

    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

    Sarcoma

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 11:00am – 12:00pm ET
    Setting Yourself Up for Success: Your First Job and How To Get Promoted

    HUB Moderator: Christopher P. Childers, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – MD Anderson Cancer Center

    HUB Moderator: Linda Qu, MD – Michigan State University

    Fellows

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 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?

    Moderator: Kandace P. McGuire, MD – Virginia Commonwealth University Health

    Breast

    CME

  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
    Lunch
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
    Resident Meet & Greet with Breast Fellowship Programs
  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
    Surgeons Leading Outside of the OR: Leading a Major Academic Cancer Center
  • 12:15pm – 12:35pm ET
    Industry Spotlight Presented by Pacira: Getting to NOPAIN: Enhancing outcomes with advanced pain management techniques to allow for migration to the hospital outpatient setting
  • 12:30pm – 1:00pm ET
    Safely Developing Your HPB Practice: Lessons from Early Career Surgeons in Both Academic and Community-Based Programs

    HUB Moderator: Chee-Chee Stucky, MD – Mayo Clinic Arizona

    HPB

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 12:30pm – 1:00pm ET
    The Role of ctDNA and Next Generation Sequencing in Sarcoma Treatment

    HUB Moderator: Neha Goel, MD, MPH – Dewitt Daughtry Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL

    Sarcoma

    non.CME

    HUB

  • 1:15pm – 1:45pm ET
    American Cancer Society/SSO Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Featured Lecture: Enhancing the Quality of Cancer Care
  • 1:55pm – 3:25pm ET
    Melanoma Parallel Session

    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

    Melanoma

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 2:00pm – 2:30pm ET
    Breast Cancer in Special Populations: Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer and Male Breast Cancer

    HUB Moderator: Jennifer K. Plichta, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Duke University School of Medicine

    Breast

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
    Cancer Risk, Screening, and Treatment in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations

    Moderator: Lesly A. Dossett, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

    DEI

    CME

  • 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
    Surgeons Leading Outside of the OR: Creating Your Leadership Path in Cancer Research
  • 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
    HPB Parallel Session 1

    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

    HPB

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
    PSM Parallel Session
  • 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
    Resident Program- “So, You Want to be a Surgical Oncologist”

    Breakout Moderator: Callisia Clarke, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

  • 2:15pm – 2:45pm ET
    Incorporating Palliative Care Across the Cancer Spectrum
  • 2:15pm – 2:45pm ET
    Malignant Colon Polyp (pT1Nx) Management Following Endoscopic Excision

    HUB Moderator: Maheswari Senthil, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

    Colorectal

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 2:40pm – 3:00pm ET
    Industry Spotlight Presented by Elucent: EnVision: Tailored Precision for Every Patient, Every Time.
  • 2:45pm – 3:45pm ET
    HUB Coffee Break
  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    SSO and DEI Surgical Specialty Societies

    HUB Moderator: Lisa Newman, MD MPH – Cornell University

    DEI

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    Upper GI Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Michael E. Egger, MD, MPH – University of Louisville

    Poster Session Moderator: Miral S. Grandhi, MD – Division of Surgical Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey - Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

    Upper GI

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 3:35pm – 4:20pm ET
    HPB Great Debate: Chasing Intraoperative Margins During Pancreatoduodenectomy – Always or Never?

    Moderator: Julie Hallet, MD MSc FRCSC FSSO (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto

    HPB

    CME

  • 3:35pm – 4:50pm ET
    Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical and Young Investigator Research Grant Presentations

    Moderator: Christina V. Angeles, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan

  • 3:45pm – 4:15pm ET
    Breast Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Laura H. Rosenberger, MD MS (she/her/hers) – Duke University

    Poster Session Moderator: Makesha V. Miggins, MD (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Breast

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 3:45pm – 4:15pm ET
    Meet the Experts - Surgery for Pancreas Cancer
  • 3:45pm – 4:45pm ET
    Global Partner Poster Session

    Moderator: Gabrielle H. van Ramshorst, MD, PhD, FEBS, FECSM, FSSO – Ghent University Hospital

    Moderator: Ashley M. Holder, MD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  • 3:55pm – 4:40pm ET
    Endocrine Great Debate: Molecular Testing and Extent of Surgery in Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancer

    Moderator: Cord Sturgeon, MD, MS (he/him/his) – Northwestern University

    Endocrine

    CME

  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm ET
    Hot Topics in Melanoma

    HUB Moderator: Michael C. Lowe, MD, MA – Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University

    Melanoma

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm ET
    Novel Therapies for UGI Cancers

    HUB Moderator: Brian A. Boone, MD, FACS – Department of Surgery, West Virginia University

    Upper GI

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm ET
    The Role of Neoadjuvant Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Infiltrating Breast Cancer and DCIS

    HUB Moderator: Farin Amersi, MD (she/her/hers) – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Immuno-Oncology

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:30pm – 5:15pm ET
    HUB Happy Hour
  • 5:15pm – 7:00pm ET
    Surgical Oncology Bowl
  • 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
    Unraveling the Complex Choices in Early Breast Cancer: A Roadmap to Informed Multidisciplinary Decisions About Assessment and Treatment
  • 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
    New Chapters in the Immunotherapy Story for Melanoma: Collaborative Care and Next Steps With Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Friday, March 22, 2024
  • 6:30am – 8:15am ET
    Women in Cancer Surgery Breakfast (Ticketed Event)
  • 7:00am – 5:00pm ET
    Registration
  • 7:45am – 8:45am ET
    Morning Welcome Coffee & Tea
  • 8:45am – 9:15am ET
    John Wayne Clinical Research Lecture: Targeting the Cell Cycle Machinery in Cancer-from Bench to the Clinic and Back
  • 9:15am – 9:30am ET
    Charles M. Balch Distinguished Service Award
  • 9:30am – 9:45am ET
    2024 Clinical Investigator and Young Investigator Awards
  • 9:45am – 10:15am ET
    SSO Presidential Address: Empowering Surgeons: A Call for Leadership, Mentorship, and Collaboration in the Field of Surgical Oncology
  • 10:00am – 11:00am ET
    HUB Refreshment Break
  • 10:00am – 5:30pm ET
    SSO HUB
  • 10:30am – 11:00am ET
    Sarcoma Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: Andrew P. Loehrer, MD – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

    Poster Session Moderator: Heather G. Lyu, MD, MBI – Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Sarcoma

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 10:30am – 11:00am ET
    Sustainable Systems for Surgical Oncology; Balancing the Health of the Population and the Planet

    HUB Moderator: Rebecca C. Auer, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS (she/her/hers) – Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    International

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 10:30am – 11:00am ET
    Technical Approaches to Adrenalectomy

    HUB Moderator: Heather Wachtel, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Endocrine

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 10:30am – 11:15am ET
    PSM Great Debate: Prophylactic CRS/HIPEC in High-risk T4 Colorectal Cancer

    Moderator: Fabian M. Johnston, MD, MHS – Division of Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

    PSM

    CME

  • 10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Breast Parallel Session 1

    Moderator: Meeghan A. Lautner, MD, MSc, FACS (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery

    Moderator: Kathie Ann Joseph, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – NYU

    Breast

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Colorectal Parallel Session

    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

    Colorectal

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 10:30am – 12:00pm ET
    Upper GI Parallel Session

    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 GI

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 10:45am – 11:30am ET
    Seeing Cancer in a Different Light: Human Trials of Intraoperative Molecular Imaging in Surgical Oncology

    HUB Moderator: Michael Bouvet, MD – Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego

    Cross Discipline

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 11:00am – 11:30am ET
    Melanoma Poster Presentation 2

    Melanoma

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 11:00am – 11:30am ET
    Melanoma Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Sonia Cohen, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Poster Session Moderator: Franz Smith, MD MAcM MAS FACS (he/him/his) – Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center RWJ Barabas Health

  • 11:15am – 11:35am ET
    Industry Spotlight Presented by SpringWorks: Presentation on OGSIVEO (nirogacestat), the first and only FDA-approved therapy for adult patients with progressing desmoid tumors who require systemic treatment.
  • 11:30am – 12:00pm ET
    How should we use ctDNA to Treat Patients with Advanced Colon and Pancreatic Cancer?

    HUB Moderator: Simon Turcotte, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Université de Montréal

    Immuno-Oncology

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 11:30am – 12:00pm ET
    HPB Poster Presentations 1

    Poster Session Moderator: William R. Burns, MD – Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery

    Poster Session Moderator: Ryan M. Thomas, MD – University of Florida

    HPB

    non-CME

    Poster

  • 11:30am – 12:00pm ET
    The Not So Great Debate: Should All Sarcoma Care be Regionalized to Sarcoma Centers?

    HUB Moderator: Carolyn Nessim, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS (she/her/hers) – The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    Sarcoma

    HUB

  • 11:30am – 1:00pm ET
    HUB Lunch
  • 11:30am – 1:00pm ET
    Networking Lunch
  • 12:00pm – 12:30pm ET
    Managing Complications from Advanced Gastric Cancer

    HUB Moderator: Sam C. Wang, MD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Upper GI

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
    Resident Meet & Greet with CGSO Fellowship Programs
  • 12:15pm – 12:45pm ET
    Career Navigation for the Community Surgical Oncologist - Recruitment and Retention

    HUB Moderator: Kristen Massimino, MD (she/her/hers) – Providence Cancer Institute

    Cross Discipline

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 12:15pm – 12:45pm ET
    Expert Perspectives: Assessing Residual Tumor Burden After Neoadjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer
  • 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET
    Plenary Session 1

    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

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 1:15pm – 1:45pm ET
    Operating in the Radiated Pelvis: Pitfalls and Solutions

    HUB Moderator: J. Joshua Smith, MD, PhD, FACS – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Colorectal

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 1:15pm – 1:45pm ET
    Systemic Chemotherapy for Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma: Who should be Treated and When?

    HUB Moderator: Scott K. Sherman, MD (he/him/his) – University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

    PSM

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 1:15pm – 1:45pm ET
    Upper GI Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Jess E. Maxwell, MD, MBA (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Poster Session Moderator: Joe Spencer Liles, MD – University of South Alabama

    Upper GI

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 1:30pm – 1:50pm ET
    Industry Patient Spotlight Presented by SpringWorks: Hear from a Desmoid Tumor Patient Speaker
  • 1:45pm – 2:15pm ET
    HPB Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Sandra DiBrito, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Albany Medical College

    Moderator: John Mansour, MD – University of Texas Southwestern

    HPB

    non-CME

    Poster

  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm ET
    HUB Refreshment Break
  • 2:30pm – 4:00pm ET
    Plenary Session 2
  • 2:45pm – 3:05pm ET
    Industry Spotlight Presented by Replimune: The Role of Oncolytic Immunotherapy in Oncology: Focus on Melanoma
  • 2:45pm – 3:15pm ET
    Ergonomics
  • 2:45pm – 3:15pm ET
    Sarcoma Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Jessica A. Cintolo-Gonzalez, MD – Department of Surgery, University of Vemont

    Poster Session Moderator: Jeffrey Sussman, MD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Surgery

    Sarcoma

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    Controversies in Non-melanoma Skin Cancers

    HUB Moderator: Tawnya L. Bowles, MD (she/her/hers) – Intermountain Health

    Melanoma

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    Disparities Poster Presentations

    Poster Session Moderator: George Molina, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

    Poster Session Moderator: Haejin In, MD, MPH, MBA (she/her/hers) – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    Disparities in Surgical Oncologic Care

    non-CME

    Poster

  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    Endocrine/Head & Neck Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Anthony D. Yang, MD, MS – Indiana University School of Medicine

    Poster Session Moderator: Tina W.F Yen, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Endocrine/Head and Neck

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 3:15pm – 3:45pm ET
    Promising Bispecific Antibodies and Adoptive Cell Therapies for GI/HPB Cancers

    HUB Moderator: Ajay V. Maker, MD – University of California, San Francisco

    Immuno-Oncology

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 3:45pm – 4:15pm ET
    Contralateral Breast Cancer (CBC) and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM)

    HUB Moderator: Christine Laronga, MD (she/her/hers) – Lee Moffitt

    Breast

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:00pm – 4:45pm ET
    Sarcoma Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Should be Standard Practice for High-Risk Retroperitoneal Sarcomas

    Moderator: Valerie Grignol, MD – The Ohio State University

    Sarcoma

    CME

  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Hot Topics - Practice Changing Studies in Immuno-Oncology

    Moderator: Ajay V. Maker, MD – University of California, San Francisco

    Immuno-Oncology

    CME

  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Management of MEN1 Tumors

    Moderator: Paxton V. Dickson, MD – Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

    Moderator: Lauren Krumeich, MD MS – University of Michigan

    Endocrine

    CME

  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Surgeons Leading Outside of the OR: C-Suite Leadership Opportunities in Community-Based/Hybrid Hospital Systems
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Unanswered Questions in Melanoma in 2023

    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

    Melanoma

    CME

  • 4:15pm – 4:45pm ET
    Disaggregating Race/Ethnicity in Cancer Research

    HUB Moderator: Lisa Newman, MD MPH – Cornell University

    DEI

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:15pm – 4:45pm ET
    Think Tank: Trials in Motion for Colorectal Liver Mets

    HUB Moderator: Tim Newhook, MD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    HPB

    non-CME

    HUB

  • 4:30pm – 5:30pm ET
    HUB Ice Cream Social
  • 5:00pm – 5:30pm ET
    SSO Annual Business Meeting
  • 5:15pm – 6:15pm ET
    A New Treatment Option: Adjuvant Nivolumab Following Complete Resection for Stage IIB/C Melanoma
  • 7:00pm – 9:30pm ET
    Raising for Research
  • Saturday, March 23, 2024
  • 7:00am – 12:30pm ET
    Registration
  • 7:30am – 8:30am ET
    Morning Welcome Coffee & Tea
  • 8:00am – 9:30am ET
    Breast Parallel Session 2

    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

    Breast

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 8:00am – 9:30am ET
    HPB Parallel Session 2

    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

    HPB

    CME

    Oral Abstracts

  • 8:00am – 9:30am ET
    Quality & Disparities Parallel Session

    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

    Quality

    Disparities in Surgical Oncologic Care

    CME

  • 8:15am – 8:45am ET
    Colorectal Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Brian K. Bednarski, MD, MEHP (he/him/his) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Poster Session Moderator: Heather L. Yeo, MD, MHS, MBA, MS – NYP - Weill Cornell Medicine

    Colorectal

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 9:00am – 9:30am ET
    PSM Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Melanie Ongchin, MD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    Poster Session Moderator: Anthony M. Villano, MD (he/him/his) – Fox Chase Cancer Center

    PSM

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 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?

    Moderator: Natalie Coburn, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS (she/her/hers) – Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute

    Upper GI

    CME

  • 9:45am – 10:45am ET
    Controversies in Management of Colorectal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

    Moderator: Alexandra Gangi, M.D. – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Moderator: Jeremiah L. Deneve, DO (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    PSM

    CME

  • 9:45am – 10:45am ET
    Technical Quality in Cancer Surgery

    Moderator: Haejin In, MD, MPH, MBA (she/her/hers) – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    Moderator: Nabil Wasif, MD, MPH – Mayo Clinic in Arizona

    Quality

    CME

  • 10:00am – 10:30am ET
    Breast Poster Presentations 2

    Poster Session Moderator: Philip Spanheimer, MD (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina

    Poster Session Moderator: Olga Kantor, MD (she/her/hers) – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Breast

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 10:30am – 11:00am ET
    Meet the Expert: Impactful and Practice Changing Trials in Melanoma Management
  • 10:30am – 11:15am ET
    Colorectal Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Colon Cancer

    Moderator: Mariam F. Eskander, MD, MPH – Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    Colorectal

    CME

  • 10:30am – 11:30am ET
    Coffee Break
  • 10:55am – 11:55am ET
    Training the Future Cancer Surgeon: Whether, Why, and How to Propagate the Specialty of Surgical Oncology Globally

    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

    International

    CME

  • 11:00am – 12:30pm ET
    SSO Top Rated Video Abstracts
  • 11:00am – 12:30pm ET
    SSO Top-Rated Video Abstracts

    Moderator: Callisia Clarke, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Video Abstract

    CME

  • 11:10am – 11:40am ET
    Quality Poster Presentations

    Poster Session Moderator: Adrienne Cobb, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Poster Session Moderator: Natasha Rueth, MD (she/her/hers) – Memorial Healthcare

    Quality

    non-CME

    Posters

  • 11:20am – 12:20pm ET
    Management of Mid-Rectal Cancer

    Moderator: Seth I. Felder, MD – H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

    Colorectal

    CME

  • 11:40am – 12:40pm ET
    How SSO Can Help You Optimize Your Practice

    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 Surgeons

    CME

  • 12:30pm – 2:30pm ET
    Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Session