2017 Ruesch Center Symposium – Agenda

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

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

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

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