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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • 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) РUniversit̩ de Montr̩al

    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