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Please Note: All times are listed in Eastern Time.
Wednesday-Friday, October 4-6, 2023
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal - Quebec
Tuesday October 3
10:00am - 8:00pm EDT | Guidelines Working Meetings
4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT | Pharma Commercial Meeting
5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT | Pharma Science/Education Meeting
Wednesay October 4
SYMPOSIUM DAY 1
6:00am - 8:00am EDT | Exhibitor Move-In
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Breakfast
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Officers Briefing Meeting
8:00am - 10:00am EDT | Guidelines Working Meetings
8:00am - 10:00am EDT | Allied Health Workshop
Moderator: Yee Lan Wong, PA-C, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: Models for pharmacist collaboration with prescribers: reducing errors and ensuring access to treatment
Speaker: Katelyn R. Sommerer, PharmD, MS, BCOP, Moffitt Cancer Center
Topic: Approaches for improving mental health in NET patients living with chronic illness
Speaker: TBD
Topic: Multifactorial causes of diarrhea and weight loss in NET population and strategies for management
Speaker: TBD
8:00am - 10:00am EDT | Career Development Workshop: Building For Success
Moderator: Mintallah Haider, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center
Topic: : Building a NET Program; How do you get resources
Speaker: Jennifer R. Eads, Penn Medicine
Topic: Accessing Big Data; How to answer questions using big data sets
Speaker: Michael O'Rorke, PhD, University of Iowa College of Public Health
Topic: Who and How to Hire: Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Speaker: Douglas B. Evans, MD, Chair, Medical College of Wisconsin
10:05am - 10:20am EDT | Offical Symposium Opening, Welcome and Announcements, Land Acknowledgement- J. Bart Rose, MD, MAS, FACS, Symposium Planning Chair introduced by Pamela Kunz, MD, NANETS President
10:20am - 11:05am EDT | Keynote
Co-Moderator: J. Bart Rose, MD, MAS, FACS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Co-Moderator: Pamela Kunz, MD, Yale Cancer Center
Topic: Keynote Presentation
Morag Park, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill; Director, Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre
11:10am - 12:15pm EDT | NANETS/ Society of Interventional Oncology Joint Symposium (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR, Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: Grade evolution: implications for serial biopsy to guide management
Speaker: Daniel DePietro, MD, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Molecular determinants of efficacy of liver-directed therapies
Speaker: Erica S. Alexander, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Topic: Does tumor behavior affect the choice of Liver-directed therapy?
Speaker: Michael C. Soulen, MD, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Does regional PRRT have a future?
Speaker: Marnix Lam, MD, PhD, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
11:10am - 12:15pm EDT | NANETS/ Society of Surgical Oncology Joint Symposium: Cutting Edge Surgery (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Julie Hallet, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Topic: Resection of G3 NETS
Speaker: James Howe, MD, University of Iowa
Topic: Improving access to NET care to underserved communities
Speaker: Mary A. Maluccio, MD, Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Science Center – New Orleans
Topic: Perioperative octreotide therapy
Speaker: Rodney F. Pommier MD, FACS, Oregon Health & Science University
Topic: Treatment of peritoneal disease
Speaker: Alexandra Gangi, MD, Cedars-Sinai
12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT | NETworking Lunch: Breaking the Ice
1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT | NANETS/ CommNets Joint Symposium : NET Management in Canada, Unique Considerations
Moderator: Sharlene Gill, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, FRCPC, BC Cancer Agency
Topic: Introduction to care of NETs in Canadian Public Health Care
Speaker: Tim Asmis, MD, University of Ottawa
Topic: NETs care in the community in Canada
Speaker: Radhika Yelamanchili, MD, McMaster University
Topic: NET Clinical Trials in Canada
Speaker: Chris O’Callaghan, DVM, MSc, PhD, Queen’s University
Topic: Structure of CommNETs research and patient partnership in research
Speaker: Rachel Goodwin, MD, FRCPC, University of Ottawa
Speaker: Jacqueline Herman, President, CNETS Canada
3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT | PM Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT | NET Session 1: Modeling NETs (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Daniel Halperin, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Topic: Zebrafish Models
Speaker: Ilaria Marinoni, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland
Topic: PDX
Speaker: Mark J. Truty, MD, MS, Mayo Clinic
Topic: Embryo Model
Speaker: Iacovos Michael, PhD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT | NANETS/Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Joint Symposium: Post-PRRT Setting: From Restaging to Re-Treatment (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Thomas Hope, MD, University of California San Francisco
Topic: Post-PRRT Imaging: Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment
Speaker: Gabriela Spilberg, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Post-PRRT Treatment Options
Speaker: David Zhen, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Topic: Re-PRRT Options (Including Alpha): Benefits and Risks
Speaker: Gabriel Fine, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine
Topic: Post-PRRT Patient Experience and Communication
Speaker: Josh Mailman, MBA, President, NorCal CarciNET
5:15pm - 7:30pm EDT | Speed NETworking | Welcome to Montreal Reception
Thursday October 5
SYMPOSIUM DAY 2
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Exhibit Hall Open
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Breakfast & Posters
8:00am - 9:00am EDT | NET Session 2: Merkel Cell Carcinoma (Concurrent Session)
Topic: Workup and Surgical Management
Speaker: Carolyn Nessim, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Topic: Systemic treatment, discuss biomarkers as part of talk
Speaker: Nikhil Khushalani, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center
Topic: Radiotherapeutic Options
Speaker: Mehran Yusuf, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
8:00am - 9:00am EDT | Future Directions: Ongoing / Upcoming Trials (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Topic: Adjuvant Chemo for High Risk PNETS
Speaker: Heloisa Soares, MD, PhD, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health
Topic: NET PRRT Retreatment
Speaker: Aman Chauhan, MD, Sylvester Cancer Center University of Miami
Topic: Teleheart Trial
Speaker: Cezar A. Iliescu, MD, FACC, FSCAI, MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:05am - 10:10am EDT | Featured Abstracts 1
Featured Top Rated Oral Presentations
Moderator: Simron Singh, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Odette Cancer Center at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
10:10am - 10:40am EDT | AM Break
10:40am - 11:50am EDT | NET Session 3: Guidelines Highlight
Moderator: Renuka Iyer, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Topic: Rectal Guideline
Speaker: Hagen F. Kennecke, M.D., MHA, FRCP, Providence Cancer Institute
Topic: Duodenal Guideline
Speaker: Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO, Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: Personalized Therapy Guideline
Speaker: Jonathan Loree, MD, MS, FRCPC, University of British Columbia
12:00pm - 1:10pm EDT | Annual Meeting and Luncheon
1:15pm - 2:20pm EDT | Featured Abstracts 2
Featured Top Rated Oral Presentations
Moderator: Po H. Ear, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
2:25pm - 3:30pm EDT | NET Tumor Board
Moderator: Ghassan El-Haddad, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center
Case Presenter: Frédéric Mercier, MD, MSc, FRCSC, CHUM
Case Presenter: Paola Jiménez Vásquez, MD, MSC, Center for Research and Treatment in Cancer Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo FCTIC
Panelist: Gaby E. Gabriel, MD, University of Kentucky
Panelist: Gad Abikhzer, MDCM, FRCPC, ABNM, McGill University
Panelist: Susanne G. Warner, MD, Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Panelist: Daniel Rayson, MD, FRCPC, FACP, Dalhousie University & Nova Scotia Health
Panelist: Tiffany Valone, PA-C, Moffitt Cancer Center
3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT | PM Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT | NET Session 4: Translational Science
Moderator: Robert Ramirez, DO, FACP, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Topic: Functional Imaging
Speaker: Mariam Aboian, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Clinical implementation of PanNET biomarkers
Speaker: Aatur Singhi, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Topic: Molecular drivers of racial disparate outcomes in NETs
Speaker: J. Bart Rose, MD, MAS, FACS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT | Poster Tours
6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT | Poster Reception
Friday October 6
SYMPOSIUM DAY 3
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Poster Hall Open
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Exhibit Hall Open
7:00am - 8:00am EDT | Breakfast & NETworking
7:15 am - 8:00am EDT | Patient Leader Meeting
8:00am - 9:00am EDT | NET Session 5: Surgery (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: Herbert Chen, MD, FACS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Topic: Surgical debulking and symptom control - improved survival: how good is the data really?
Speaker: Heather Stuart, BSc MSc, MD, FRCSC, FACS, University of British Columbia
Topic: Technical aspects of liver debulking, operative risks and outcomes
Speaker: Calvin Law, MD, MPH, FRCSC, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Topic: When to resect the primary tumor in metastatic NETs?
Speaker: Jess E. Maxwell, MD, MBA, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Topic: Cytoreduction and systemic therapies for NETs: how to combine and when?
Speaker: Nikolaos Trikalinos, MD, Washington University
8:00am - 9:00am EDT | NET Session 6: Carcinoid Heart Management (Concurrent Session)
Moderator: S. Allen Luis, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
Topic: Diagnosis and Medical Management
Speaker: Angela Kosec, NP, Mayo Clinic
Topic: Carcinoid Heart Pathogenesis
Speaker: Belinda H. McCully, PhD, Western University of Health Sciences
Topic: Interventional management of carcinoid heart including surgery
Speaker: Castigliano M. Bhamidipati, DO, PhD, MSc, FACS, Oregon Health & Science University
9:05am - 10:05am EDT | The Great Debate
Moderator: Aaron R. Sasson, MD, Stony Brook Medicine
Topic: PRO: right hemicolectomy for 'high risk' 1-2cm appendiceal NET
Speaker: Eric K. Nakakura, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Topic: CON: right hemicolectomy for 'high risk' 1-2cm appendiceal NET
Speaker: Cédric Nesti, MD, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Topic: PRRT 2nd line well differentiated pNET
Speaker: Jonathan R. Strosberg, MD, Moffitt Cancer Center
Topic: cap/tem 2nd line pNET
Speaker: Emily K. Bergsland, MD, University of California San Francisco
10:05am - 10:30am EDT | Break
10:30am - 11:15am EDT | Cutting Edge Research
Moderator: Christopher Heaphy, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine
Speaker: Xavier M. Keutgen, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center
Speaker: Bianca Mostert, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
11:20am - 12:25pm EDT | Featured Abstracts 3
Featured Top Rated Oral Presentations
Moderator: Beatriz Raquel Tendler, MD, UConn Health
12:30pm - 1:20pm EDT | Women in NETs Luncheon OR Mingling Boxed Lunch
Topic: Negotiation 101: How to grow the pie and get your fair share
Speaker: Anees B. Chagpar, MD, MSc, MPH, MA, MBA, FRCS(C), FACS, Yale University School of Medicine
1:35pm - 2:35pm EDT | NET Session 7: Patient Centered Care
Moderator: Greta Macaire, MA, RD, CSO, University of California San Francisco
Topic: Frailty in geriatric assessments
Speaker: Efrat Dotan, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Topic: Potential for Novel Application of Existing Pharmacotherapies to Treat Refractory Diarrhea from Serotonin Excess in Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumor
Speaker: Paul Lindenfeld, MD, University of California San Francisco
Topic: Topic: Shared decision making for the Patient and Medical team
Speaker: Simon D., CNETS Board Member
2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT | NET Year in Review
Moderator: Jaydira Del Rivero, MD, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Thorvardur (Thor) R. Halfdanarson, MD
Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic
3:15pm - 3:35pm EDT | Awards
3:35pm - 3:45pm EDT | Closing Remarks- Pamela Kunz, MD, NANETS President
Program is subject to change.