2017 Ruesch Center Symposium – Agenda
GI Cancers 2017: Year In Review
Thursday, November 30, 2017 | Maggiano’s Little Italy, Chevy Chase
6:00PM – 6:20PM
Dinner & Registration
6:20PM – 6:30PM
Opening Remarks
Co-Chair: John Marshall, MD
Director, The Ruesch Center for the Cure of GI Cancers
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University
Co-Chair: Kashif A. Firozvi, MD
Medical Oncologist, Maryland Oncology/Hematology
6:30PM – 7:00PM
Diagnosis & Management of Lynch Syndrome & Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Henry T. Lynch, MD, MS, FACP, FAACR
Director, Creighton’s Hereditary Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine
7:00PM – 7:30PM
Immunotherapy In Upper GI Cancers
Sunnie Kim, MD
GI Oncologist, Assistant Professor, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University
7:30PM – 8:00PM
Updates in Pancreatic Cancer
Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD
Director, Phase I Clinical Trials Program, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chief Medical Officer, Perthera
8:00PM – 8:10PM
Break
8:10PM – 8:30PM
Management of Early Severe, 5FU & Xeloda Toxicity
David J. Perry, MD
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical Director, Clinical Research, at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
8:30PM – 9:00PM
Updates in Colorectal Cancers
Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP
Associate Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal (GI) Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:00PM – 9:30PM
Updates on Functional Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors and Impact on treatment
Giuseppe Esposito, MD, MBA
Professor of Radiology, Chief, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Co-Regional Director, Nuclear Medicine Services; Medstar Medical Group – Radiology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Jonathan R. Strosberg, MD
Section Head, Neuroendocrine Division, Moffitt Cancer Center; Chair of the Gastrointestinal Department Research, Moffitt Cancer Center; Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Oncologic Sciences
Innovations in GI Cancer
Friday, December 1, 2017 | Georgetown University Hotel & Conference Center
9:00AM – 9:30PM
Breakfast/Registration
9:30AM – 9:40AM
Opening Remarks
John Marshall, MD
See title above
9:40AM – 11:30AM
Innovations in Local Therapies
Co-Chair: Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS
Chief, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital; Surgeon in Chief, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director, MedStar Georgetown Surgical Outcomes Research Center
Co-Chair: Nadim G. Haddad, MD
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Co-Chair: Lynt Johnson, MD, MBA
Robert J. Coffey Professor & Chairman, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Co-Chair: Keith Unger, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
9:40AM – 9:55AM
Emerging Technologies in Cholangiocarcinoma
Nadim G. Haddad, MD
See title above
9:55AM – 10:10AM
Advances in Surgery for Pancreas Cancer: Exapanding Opportunites for Resection
Lynt Johnson, MD, MBA
See title above
10:10AM – 10:25AM
Irreversible Electroporation (IRE)
Govindarajan Narayanan, MD
Chairman of Vascular/Interventional Radiology, Director, Vascular/Interventional Radiology Fellowship Program, Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Miami
10:25AM – 10:40AM
Protons: The Future of Radiation Therapy for Gastrointestinal Cancers
Keith Unger, MD
See title above
10:40AM – 10:55AM
Molecular Imaging of Gastrointestinal Tumors
Giuseppe Esposito, MD, MBA
See title above
10:55AM – 11:30AM
Discussant
Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS, FRCSEd (Hon)
Senior Consultant, International and Regional Clinical Relations, Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare; Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital; W. Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
11:30AM – 12:30PM
Innovations in Systemic Therapies- Immunotherapy
Co-Chair: John Marshall, MD
See title above
Co-Chair: Jill P. Smith, MD, FACP
Division of Gastroenterology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
11:30AM – 11:40AM
How to Make Immunotherapy Work in Colorectal Cancer
James L. Gulley M.D., PhD., FACP
Chief, Genitourinary Malignancies Branch; Director, Medical Oncology Service, CCR, NCI, NIH
11:40AM – 11:50AM
Combination Immune Therapy Clinical Trials for Hepatobiliary Cancer
Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
11:50AM – 12:00PM
Novel Cea T-Cell Bispecific Antibody
Neil H. Segal, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
12:00PM – 12:30PM
Schafer Memorial Lecture Discussant
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Chief, Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute
12:30PM – 1:15PM
Lunch
1:15PM – 2:15PM
Innovations in Systemic Therapies- Precision Medicine
Co-Chair: John Marshall, MD
See title above
Co-Chair: Jill P. Smith, MD
See title above
1:15PM – 1:25PM
LY3214996, A Novel ERK1/2 Inhibitor with Anti- Tumor Activities in Cancer Models with Mark Pathway Alterations
Ramon V. Tiu, MD
Medical Advisor-Early Phase Oncology , Eli Lilly and Company
1:25PM – 1:35PM
Innovation and Hope in Targeting RAS and BRAF in CRC
Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP
See title above
1:35PM – 1:45PM
Combination CDK4/6 and MTOR Inhibition in Chemorefractory Mestastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Benjamin Weinberg, MD
GI Medical Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University
1:45PM – 2:15PM
Discussant
Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS
Leader, National RAS Initiative; David A. Wood Distinguished Professor of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
2:15PM – 2:25PM
Break
2:25PM – 3:20PM
Innovations in Systemic Therapies- Other Therapies
Co-Chair: John Marshall, MD
See title above
Co-Chair: Jill P. Smith, MD
See title above
2:25PM – 2:35PM
Targeting Pancreatic Cancer with Novel Nanotechnology
Jill P. Smith, MD
See title above
2:35PM – 2:45PM
177-LU-Dotatate: And Emerging Treatment for NETS
Jonathan R. Strosberg, MD
See title above
2:45PM – 3:15PM
Closing Presentation
Michael Robertson
Patient
3:15PM – 3:30PM
Closing Remarks
John Marshall, MD
See title above
The Society of Nucleaer Medicine & Molecular Imaging Present: Advances in Nuclear Imaging & Therapy for Neuroendocrine Tumors
Friday, December 1, 2017 | Georgetown University Hotel & Conference Center
1:15PM – 1:30PM
Opening Remarks
Giuseppe Esposito, MD, MBA
Professor of Radiology, Chief, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Co-Regional Director, Nuclear Medicine Services; MedStar Medical Group – Radiology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Virginia Pappas, CAE
CEO, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
1:30PM – 2:00PM
Peptide Receptor Radiotherapy for Neuroendocrine Tumors
Jonathan R. Strosberg, MD
Section Head, Neuroendocrine Division, Moffitt Cancer Center
Chair of the Gastrointestinal Department Research, Moffitt Cancer Center; Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Oncologic Sciences
2:00PM – 2:30PM
Liver-Directed Therapies for Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Alexander Kim, MD
Vascular and Interventional Radiology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
2:30PM – 3:00PM
Precision Surgery for GI & Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Electron Kebebew, MD, FACS
Chief, Endocrine Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute
3:00PM – 3:30PM
Molecular Imaging of GEP-NET
Corina Millo, MD
PET Department, NIH Clinical Center
Patient Symposium
Saturday, December 2, 2017 | Georgetown University Hotel & Conference Center
8:30AM – 9:20AM
Breakfast/Registration
9:20AM – 9:30AM
Opening Remarks
John Marshall, MD
See title above
9:30AM – 10:30AM
Patient-Centered Communication in Cancer Care
Moderator: Julie Fleshman, JD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD
See title above
Alice Beers RN, BSN, OCN
Oncology Nurse Navigator, MedStar Georgetown Cancer Network
Jennifer Bires, LICSW, OSW-C
Executive Director, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Tanya Konidaris
Patient
10:30AM – 10:40AM
Break
10:40AM – 11:40AM
Disease Specific Breakouts
Colorectal Cancer
John Marshall, MD
See title above
Daniel G. Haller MD, FACP, FRCP
Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Abramson Cancer Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Pancreatic Cancer
Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD
See title above
Lynt Johnson, MD, MBA
See title above
Liver Cancer
Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD
See title above
G. Emmett Lynskey, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Upper GI Cancers
Sunnie Kim, MD
See title above
Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS
See title above
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Giuseppe Esposito, MD, MBA
See title above
Alexander Kim, MD
See title above
Vitaly Kantorovich, MD
Staff Physician, Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Nan Fuhrman
Patient
11:40AM – 11:50AM
Break
11:50AM – 12:35PM
Topical Breakouts
Cancer Drug Discovery & Development
Moderator: John Marshall, MD
See title above
Daniel G. Haller MD, FACP, FRCP
See title above
Stefan Scherer, MD, PhD
Vice President, Head Early Development, Strategy and Innovation, Novartis
Nutrition
Rachel Wong, RD, CSO, LD
Oncology Dietitian, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Diagnosis and Management of Hereditary GI Cancers
Henry T. Lynch, MD, MS, FACP, FAACR
See title above
Young Adults with GI Cancers
Moderator: Jeffrey A. Toretsky, MD
Professor, Departments of Oncology and Pediatrics, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Janet L. Hadley, LCPC
Program Director, Hope Connections for Cancer Support
Kim Newcomer
Never Too Young Manager, Colorectal Cancer Alliance
Christina Leehr
Patient
Relaxation Techniques
Larry Bricker, MEd, Reiki Master
Mind/Body Instructor, Hope Connections for Cancer Support
12:35PM – 1:00PM
Lunch & Netwokring
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Living Well with A GI Cancer
Moderator: Martha Raymond, MA, CPN
Executive Director, Michael’s Mission; Founder, The Raymond Foundation
Jenna Weatherson, MSN, AGNP, RN, OCN
GI Oncology Nurse Practitioner, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Julia Rowland, PhD
Former Director, NCI Office of Cancer Survivorship; Senior Strategic Advisor, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Michelle Antonio-Martin
Patient