GAP 2015 Conference Program

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GAP 2015 Conference – April 14 – 16, 2015
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
R. Lee Clark Building, 11th Floor
Hickey Auditorium and Conference Rooms 1- 8, R11.1100
1515 Holcombe Blvd.
Houston, Texas, 77030
“Eliminating Cancer through Global Partnerships”
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 AM
Welcome Remarks (Hickey Auditorium)
Ronald DePinho, MD, President
MOON SHOT UPDATES
8:40 – 9:00 AM
Women’s cancers: triple negative breast and ovarian
Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Systems Biology
Mien-Chie Hung, PhD, Chair and Professor, Molecular and Cellular
Oncology
Anil Sood, MD, Professor, Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive
Medicine
9:00 – 9:20 AM
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Michael Keating, MD, Professor, Leukemia
William Plunkett, PhD, Professor, Experimental Therapeutics
9:20 – 9:40 AM
Lung cancer
John Heymach, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Thoracic/Head and Neck
Medical Oncology
Stephen Swisher, MD, Chair and Professor, Thoracic and Cardiovascular
Surgery
9:40 – 10:00 AM
Melanoma
Jeffrey Gershenwald, MD, Professor, Surgical Oncology
Michael Davies, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Melanoma Medical
Oncology
10:00 – 10:20 AM
Prostate cancer
Christopher Logothetis, MD, Chair and Professor, Genitourinary Medical
Oncology
Timothy Thompson, PhD, Professor, Genitourinary Medical Oncology –
Research
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10:20 – 10:40 AM
Acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, Professor, Leukemia
Hagop Kantarjian, MD, Chair and Professor, Leukemia
10:40 – 11:00 AM
NEW - PROPOSED MOON SHOTS
Giulio Draetta, MD, PhD, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Andrew Futreal, PhD, Professor, Genomic Medicine
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
DIVISION HIGHLIGHTS
Anesthesiology & Critical Care
11:30 – 11:40 AM
Enhanced Recovery After Cancer Surgery
Thomas Aloia, MD, Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology
Vijaya Gottumukkala, MD, Professor, Anesthesiology & PeriOperative
Medicine
Breast Imaging
11:40 – 11:50 AM
Molecular Breast Imaging
Beatriz E. Adrada, MD, Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology
11:50 – 12:00 PM
Optoacoustic Imaging
Basak E. Dogan, MD, Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology
Mohammed Eghtedari, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Diagnostic
Radiology
12:00 – 12:10 PM
Advanced Imaging of Intrathoracic Malignancies: A Multidisciplinary
Approach
Brett Carter, MD, Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology
Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
12:10 – 12:20 PM
The Changing Burden of Hepatitis C Virus infection in the United
States: Model Based Predictions
Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Services Research
12:20 – 12:30 PM
A Unified Test of Linkage Analysis and Rare-Variant Association for
Analysis of Pedigree Sequence Data
Chad Huff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
12:30 – 12:40 PM
Prequit fMRI responses to Pleasant Cues and Cigarette-Related Cues
Predict Smoking Cessation Outcomes
Paul Cinciripini, PhD, Professor, Behavioral Sciences
Francesco Versace, PhD, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science
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DIVISION HIGHLIGHTS (Continued)
Cancer Systems Imaging
12:40 – 12:50 PM
Chemical Reaction-Induced Multi-molecular Polarization (CRIMP)
Pratip Bhattacharya, PhD, Associate Professor, Cancer Systems Imaging
12:50 – 1:00 PM
1:00 – 2:00 PM
LUNCH AND PRESENTATION (Hickey Auditorium)
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Talk title to be determined
Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, Provost and Executive Vice President
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Albert Einstein Hospital, AC Camargo Cancer Hospital, Barretos Cancer
Hospital (Brazilian Sister Institutions) - GAP 2016 Presentation
Internal Medicine
2:00 – 2:10 PM
Onco-Cardiology: A New Frontier / The Role of Topoisomerase in the
Development of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiotoxicity
Edward Yeh, MD, Professor and Chair, Cardiology
2:10 – 2:20 PM
Prevention of Pneumonia in Oncology Patients by Targeting Toll-like
Receptors
Burton F. Dickey, MD, Chair Pulmonary Medicine
Scott Evans, MD, Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine
2:20 – 2:30 PM
Advances in the Management of Metastatic Thyroid Cancer – A
Paradigm Shift
Steven I. Sherman, MD, Professor and Chair, Endocrine Neoplasia and
HD
Pediatrics
2:30 – 2:40 PM
Adoptive Immunotherapy with Ex Vivo Expanded NK Cells for
Leukemia, Solid Tumors, and Brain Tumors
Dean A. Lee, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics – Patient Care
2:40 – 2:50 PM
Developing New Therapeutic Agents for Pediatric Cancer
Cindy L. Schwartz, MD, MPH, Deputy Head, Professor, Pediatrics –
Patient Care
2:50 – 3:00 PM
Delivery of Chemotherapy into the Fourth Ventricle of the Brain: A
Novel Therapeutic Approach for Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumors
David Sandberg, MD, Clinical Specialist, Neurosurgery
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DIVISION HIGHLIGHTS (Continued)
Radiation Oncology
3:00 – 3:10 PM
Proton Therapy
Steven J, Frank, MD, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
3:10 – 3:20 PM
MRI Directed Radiation Therapy
Clifton Fuller, MD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology
3:20 – 3:30 PM
Stereotactic Radiation (SBRT)
Joe Y. Chang, MD, PhD, Professor, Radiation Oncology
Surgery
3:30 – 3:40 PM
Minimally Invasive and New Technology on Oncologic Surgery
(MINTOS)
Surena Matin, MD, Professor, Urology
George Chang, MD, Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology
3:40 – 3:50 PM
Sinonasal and Skull Base Surgery: Progress, Challenges, and Future
Directions
Ehab Hanna, MD, Professor, Head and Neck Surgery
3:50 – 4:20 PM
Coffee Break
SESSIONS (90 minutes)
4:20 – 5:50 PM
Session/Workshop 1 - Breast Cancer
Debasish Tripathy, MD, Professor & Chair, Breast Medical Oncology,
Henry Gomez Moreno, MD, Medical Oncology, INEN (Lima, Peru)
Rodolfo Gomez, MD, Medical Oncology, IDC Las Americas (Medellin,
Colombia)
4:20 -5:50 PM
Session/Workshop 2 - The Critical Role of Prospective Cohorts in
Advancement of Personalized Medicine
Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair, Epidemiology
Mario Fernandez, MD, Urology, Clinica Alemana (Santiago, Chile)
4:20 – 5:50 PM
Session/Workshop 3 - Gastrointestinal Cancers
Robert Wolff, MD, Professor & Chair, Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
Hyun Cheol Chung, MD, PhD, Professor, Medical Oncology, Yonsei
Cancer Center (Seoul, Korea)
Ingemar Ernberg, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, KI Cancer Network,
Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden)
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4:20 – 5:50 PM
Session/Workshop 4 - Genomic Marker-guided Medicine Initiative –
GEMINI Project
John Heymach, MD, Professor & Chair, Thoracic Head & Neck/Medical
Oncology
Ricardo Santos, MD, Thoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein Hospital (Sao
Paulo, Brazil)
7:00 – 9:30 PM
Welcome Address and Reception
Ronald DePinho, MD, President,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hotel ZaZa – Phantom Ballroom
5701 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005
713-526-1991 telephone
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Registration, Breakfast and Poster Session
PLENARY SESSION (Hickey Auditorium)
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Transforming Cancer Care Delivery Through Cutting Edge Technology
Lynda Chin, MD, Professor and Chair, Genomic Medicine
9:00 – 9:20 AM
IBM – Cognitive Computing
9:20 – 9:40 AM
PWC – Data Interchange
9:40 – 10:00 AM
AT&T - Mobility
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Q&A
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Session/Workshop 5 - Genitourinary Cancers
Christopher Logothetis, MD, Professor & Chair, Genitourinary Medical
Oncology
Dingwei Ye, MD, Urology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
(Shanghai, China)
Maria Nirvana Formiga, MD, Medical Oncology, AC Camargo Cancer
Center Sao Paulo, Brazil)
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Session/Workshop 6 – Genomic Medicine
Andrew Futreal, PhD, Professor, Genomic Medicine
Maciej Wiznerowicz, MD, Greater Poland Cancer Center
Gideon Rechavi, MD, Head, Sheba Cancer Center, Sheba Medical Center
(Tel Hashomer, Israel)
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11:00 – 12:30 PM
Session/Workshop 7 – GAP Network Partnerships for Global Health:
Promoting Global Health through Education & Training
Ernest Hawk, MD, Division Head, Cancer Prevention & Population
Sciences
Edward Trimble, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Global Health, National
Cancer Institute (NCI)
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Session/Workshop 8
12:30 – 1:30 PM
LUNCH AND PRESENTATION (Hickey Auditorium)
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Princess Nikky
Co-Founder Forum of African First Ladies/Spouses Against Cervical,
Breast and Prostate Cancer
Founder Princess Nikky Breast Cancer Foundation, Nigeria
Her Excellency Madame Margaret Kenyatta
First Lady of the Republic of Kenya &
In-coming Chairperson, Forum of African First Ladies/spouses Against
Cervical, Breast & Prostate Cancer
Her Excellency Madame Lordina Dramani Mahama
First Lady of Republic of Ghana &
Member, Forum of African First Ladies/spouses Against Cervical, Breast
& Prostate Cancer
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Strategy for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Edward L. Trimble, MD, Director, Center for Global Health, National
Cancer Institute (NCI)
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Session/Workshop 9 – Gynecologic Cancers
Larissa Meyer, MD, Assistant Professor, Gynecologic Oncology &
Reproductive Medicine
Jose Humberto Fregnani, MD, PhD, Research Director, Barretos Cancer
Hospital (Barretos, Brazil)
Rene Pareja, MD, Gynecology, IDC Las Americas (Medellin, Colombia)
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Session/Workshop 10 – Head & Neck Cancers
Ehab Y. Hanna, MD, Professor, Head & Neck Surgery
Andre Lopes Cavalho, MD, PhD, Head & Neck Surgery, Director of
Research Institute, Barretos Cancer Hospital (Barretos Brazil)
Anil D’Cruz, MD, Head & Neck Surgery, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital
(Mumbai, India)
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1:30 – 3:00 PM
Session/Workshop 11 – Health Services Research
Sharon Giordano, MD, MPH, Professor & Chair, Health Services
Research
Chun-Ru Chien, MD, China Medical University Hospital (Taiwan)
Niwat Boonyuan, MD, Director, Wattanosoth Cancer Hospital, Bangkok
Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand)
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Session/Workshop 12 – Operative Consortia Groups (New Vice
Provost)
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Session/Workshop 13 – Hemato-Oncology
Hagop Kantarjian, MD, Professor & Chair, Leukemia
Nelson Hamerschlak, MD, PhD, Hematology-Oncology, Albert Einstein
Hospital (Brazil)
Alejandro Majlis, MD, Hemato-Oncology, Clinica Alemana (Chile)
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Session/Workshop 14 – Hepatobiliary Oncology: Current Controversies
and Future Challenges
Thomas Aloia, MD, Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology
Shailesh Shrikhande, MD, Professor, GI & Hepato-Biliary & Pancreatic
Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital (Mumbai, India)
Minshan Chen, MD, Chair, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University
Cancer Center (Guangzhou, China)
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Session/Workshop 15 - Supportive and Palliative Care
David Hui, MD, Assistant Professor, Palliative Care Medicine
Carlos Pavia, MD, Barretos Cancer Hospital (Barretos, Brazil)
Omar Shamieh, MD, King Hussein Cancer Center (Aman, Jordan)
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Session/Workshop 16 – Immunotherapy
Cassian Yee, MD, PhD, Professor, Melanoma Medical Oncology
Rienk Offringa, MD, Immunotherapy, German Cancer Center – DKFZ
(Heidelberg, Germany)
Kalle Malmberg, MD, Radium Hospital (Olso, Norway)
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Buses return to hotel/Free evening
Thursday, April 16, 2015
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Registration, Breakfast and Poster Session
PLENARY SESSION (Hickey Auditorium)
8:30 – 9:30 AM
DNA Damage, Checkpoint Signaling and Therapeutic Opportunities
Helen Piwnica-Worms, PhD, Vice Provost, Science
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9:30 – 11:00 AM
Session/Workshop 17 – Institute of Personalized Cancer Therapy
(IPCT)
John Mendelsohn, MD, Director, IPCT, Past President
Gunnar Saeter, MD, PhD, Head, Institute for Cancer Research, Olso
University Hospital (Oslo, Norway)
Vladimir Lazar, MD, PhD, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of WIN
Consortium, Head, Integrated Biology Platform, Institute Gustave Roussy
(Villejuif, France)
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Session/Workshop 18 – Viral Infections in Immunocompromised
Cancer Patients
Roy F. Chemaly, MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases
Nelson Hamerschlak, MD, PhD, Chief, Hematology-oncology, Albert
Einstein Hospital (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Surapol Issaragrilsil, MD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand)
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Session/Workshop 19 – Integrative Oncology
Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, Professor, General Oncology – Research
Zhiqiang Meng, MD, PhD, Chair, Integrative Oncology, Professor,
Medical Oncology & Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fudan University
Cancer Center (Shanghai, China)
Paulo Tarso de Lima, MD, Albert Einstein Hospital (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Session Workshop 20 - Patient Centered Perioperative Care to Improve
Oncologic Outcomes
Vijaya Gottumukkala, MD, Professor, Anesthesiology & PeriOperative
Medicine
Henrik Hehlet, MD, PhD, Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
Bernhard Riedel, MB.ChB. FCA. MBA. PhD, Director, Department of
Anaesthetics, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne, Australia)
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 PM
Session/Workshop 21 – Advances in Image-guided Therapy for
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Michael Wallace, MD, Professor& Chair, Interventional Radiology,
Donald Schomer, MD, Chair, Diagnostic Radiology, Banner MD
Anderson Cancer Center (Gilbert, Arizona)
Wentao Li, MD, PhD, Professor, Interventional Radiology, Fudan
University Shanghai Cancer Center (Shanghai, China)
11:30 – 1:00 PM
Session/Workshop 22 – Oncologic Critical Care: Going Global
Kristen J. Price, MD, Professor& Chair, Critical Care
Cristina Prata Amendola, MD, Head, Intensive Care Unit, Barretos
Cancer Hospital (Barretos, Brazil)
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Chanchai Sittipunt, MD, Associate Professor, Pulmonary Critical Care
Medicine, Chulalongkom Univeristy (Bangkok, Thailand)
11:30 – 1:00 PM
Session/Workshop 23 – Sarcoma: Moving Towards Target/Pathway
Driver Therapy for Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Shreyaskumar Patel, MD, Professor, Sarcoma Medical Oncology
Piotr Rutkowski, MD, PhD, Head, Soft Tissue/Bone Sarcoma &
Melanoma, Maria Sklodowska-Curie (Warsaw, Poland)
Jilong Yang, MD, PhD, Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Tianjin Medical
University Cancer Hospital & Institute (Tianjin, China)
11:30 – 1:00 PM
Session/Workshop 24 – Sister Institution Network Fund (SINF)
Oliver Bogler, PhD, Sr. VP Academic Affairs, VP GAP
Otmar D. Weistler, MD, Director, German Cancer Center (Heidelberg,
Germany)
Chao-Nan (Miles) Qian, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice President, Sun
Yat-sen University Cancer Center (Guangzhou, China)
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Session/Workshop 25 – Theranostics: Combining Imaging and Therapy
for Cancer Patients
Homer Macapinlac, MD, Professor & Chair, Nuclear Medicine
Andreas Kjaer, MD, PhD, MBA, Professor & Chief Physician, Nuclear
Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Eduardo Lima, MD, PhD, Head, Nuclear Medicine, AC Camargo Cancer
Hospital (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Session/Workshop 26 – Training the next Generation of Outstanding
Clinicians: Innovations in Oncology Education
Diane Bodurka, MD, Professor, Gynecologic Oncology & Reproductive
Medicine, VP, Medical Education
Professor Jimmy Vulenik, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health
Sciences, Stellenbosch University (Capetown, South Africa)
Xishan Hao, MD, PhD, President and Professor of Surgical Oncology,
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute (Tianjin, China)
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Session/Workshop 27 – Tumor Microenvironment
Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair, Cancer Biology
Arne Ostman, PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Sonia Melo, PhD, IPATIMUB (Porto, Portugal)
3:30 PM
Conference Ends/Return to Hotel
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