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San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium
Friday, October 20, 2023
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
Join us at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country to learn about innovative insights and advances in liver cancer research and treatment.
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About
About This Event
Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio invites you to join us for the San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium on October 20-21, 2023, at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country. Take the opportunity to learn about new insights and advances in important areas of research and treatment. This meeting provides an invaluable opportunity to interact and network with colleagues in the field of liver cancer.
This two-day symposium will offer stimulating talks and interactive panel discussions that aim to foster collaborations and further advance the field of liver cancer. This meeting will cover the epidemiology of liver cancer, as well as pre-clinical, translational and clinical advances in treating this disease, including survivorship and liver cancer in pediatric patients. The liver cancer community and interested physicians, researchers and providers are encouraged to attend.
Topics include:
- Controversies in transplantation.
- Development of community liver cancer programs.
- Personalized programs for non-viral versus viral hepatitis/cirrhosis.
- Overview of the current therapeutic landscape for hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Shifting paradigms in locoregional treatments: Surgical approaches, interventional radiology, transplant.
Why you should attend:
- Improve your knowledge of the clinical treatment of liver cancer.
- Get a comprehensive update on the most current and important scientific, clinical and translational aspects of liver cancer.
- Listen in and take part in stimulating discussions between clinicians and researchers.
- Meet renowned liver cancer experts speaking at this conference.
- CME, MOC and CNE credits.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
This activity is approved for 25.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Undergraduate, graduate/predoctoral, and postdoctoral students and fellows are invited to submit an abstract for the San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium by Sept.15. See below for abstract instructions.
HOTEL: Nestled among the rolling hills of San Antonio, Texas, this resort-style hotel features exceptional amenities, including gourmet restaurants and is close to popular attractions, including the Alamo. Guests can experience modern living while staying at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country.
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Agenda
Agenda
Friday, October 20, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:50 AM
Friday Registration, Breakfast and Exhibits
7:50 AM - 8:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, Sukeshi Arora, MD
UT Health San Antonio
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Pre-clinical Session 1 HCC
Co-Moderators: Christi Walter, PhD, LuZhe Sun, PhD
UT Health San Antonio
8:01 AM - 8:15 AM
NASH
Juli Bai, PhD
UT Health San Antonio
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Alcohol-induced liver disease
Mengwei Zhang, MD, PhD
UT Health San Antonio
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Alcohol-induced HCC
Bin Gao, MD, PhD
NIH
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
TBA
Daohong Zhou, MD
UT Health San Antonio
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Genetic risk allele, NASH
Xin Wei Wang, PhD, NIH/NCI
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Pre-clinical Session 1 HCC Discussion
Christi Walter, PhD, LuZhe Sun, PhD, Juli Bai, PhD, Mengwei Zhang, MD, PhD, Bin Gao, MD, PhD, Daohong Zhou, MD, Xin Wei Wang, PhD
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Friday AM Exhibits and Break
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Epidemiology/Community
Moderators: TBA
10:01 AM - 10:15 AM
Bexar County
Golareh Agha, PhD
City of San Antonio
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
NIH
Anuradha S. Budhu, PhD, NIH
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Community experience
Lee Drinkard, MD, FACP, DHR Health
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Epidemiology/Community Discussion
Golareh Agha, PhD, City of SA, Anuradha S. Budhu, PhD, NIH
Lee Drinkard, MD, FACP, DHR Health
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Pediatrics
Moderator: Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD, Danielle Fritze, MD
UT Health San Antonio
11:01 AM - 11:15 AM
Pediatric HCC
Greg M. Tiao, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Fibrolamellar carcinoma
Sanford Simon, PhD, The Rockefeller University
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Pediatrics TBA
TBA
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Pediatrics Discussion
Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD, Danielle Fritze, MD, Greg M. Tiao, MD,
Sanford Simon, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Friday Lunch and Exhibits
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Oral abstract session
Moderators: TBA
1:01 PM - 1:10 PM
Oral abstract session Speaker 1
TBA
1:10 PM - 1:20 PM
Oral abstract session Speaker 2
TBA
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM
Oral abstract session Speaker 3
TBA
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Hepatology session
Moderator: Jan Petrasek, MD, Eugenia Tsai, MD, UT Health San Antonio
1:31 PM - 1:45 PM
Sex Disparities in HCC
Eugenia Tsai, MD, UT Health San Antonio
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Alcohol-associated cirrhosis and HCC
Thomas Cotter, MD, UT Southwestern
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
NAFLD/NASH and HCC
Jan Petrasek, MD, UT Health San Antonio
2:16 PM - 2:30 PM
Emerging NAFLD Treatments
Eric Lawitz, MD, UT Health San Antonio
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Hepatology Session Discussion
Jan Petrasek, MD, Eugenia Tsai, MD, Thomas Cotter, MD,
Jan Petrasek, MD Eric Lawitz, MD
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Friday PM Break & Exhibits
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Management of liver only mets from CRC
Moderators: Jean Nicolas Vauthey, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Alex Parikh, MD, Alicia Logue, MD, UT Health San Antonio
3:01 PM - 3:15 PM
HAIC
Colin Court, MD, UT Health San Antonio
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Surgery
Jean Nicolas Vauthey, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Medical oncology
Anna Capasso, MD, PhD, UT Austin Dell Medical School
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Clinical trials in mCRC to the liver
Sepideh Gholami, MD, Northwell Health
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Role for RT for colorectal metastases
Krishan Jethwa, MD, Mayo Clinic
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Management of liver only mets from CRC Sessions Discussion
Alex Parikh, MD, Alicia Logue, MD, Colin Court, MD, Jean Nicolas Vauthey, MD, Anna Capasso, MD, PhD, Sepideh Gholami, MD, Krishan Jethwa, MD
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Poster Reception
Saturday, Friday, October 21, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:50 AM
Saturday Registration, Breakfast and Exhibits
7:50 AM - 8:00 AM
Saturday Welcome and Introduction
Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, Sukeshi Arora, MD, UT Health San Antonio
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Cholangiocarcinoma (preclinical/clinical)
Moderators: Danielle Fritze, MD, UT Health San Antonio
8:01 AM - 8:15 AM
Shifting paradigms of systemic treatments for cholangiocarcinoma
Kyaw Aung, MD, PhD, UT Austin Dell Medical School
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Radiation
TBA
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Diagnostic advances
TBA
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Pre-clinical CCA
Tim Greten, MD, NIH
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Cholangiocarcinoma (preclinical/clinical) Session Discussion
Danielle Fritze, MD, Kyaw Aung, MD, PhD Tim Greten, MD, NIH
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Saturday AM Exhibits and Break
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
IR for liver tumors
Moderators: Jorge Lopera, MD, UT Health San Antonio
9:46 AM - 10:00 AM
Review of Y -90
Andrew Chesley, MD, UT Health San Antonio
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Nonconventional approaches and new therapies
Jorge Lopera, MD, UT Health San Antonio
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Ablation
John Walker, MD, PhD, UT Health San Antonio
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
LRT for liver metastases
Arthur Joseph, DO, UT Health San Antonio
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
IR for liver tumors Session Discussion
Jorge Lopera, MD Andrew Chesley, MD John Walker, MD, PhD, Arthur Joseph, DO
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Multidisciplinary care panel – models of multidisciplinary liver care
Moderators: Katherine Crow, PA-C, Sukeshi Arora, MD
UT Health San Antonio
11:01 AM - 11:10 AM
Marina Baretti, MD, John Hopkins Medicine
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
TBA
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Katherine Crow, PA-C, UT Health San Antonio
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Multidisciplinary care panel – models of multidisciplinary liver care Discussion
Katherine Crow, PA-C, Sukeshi Arora, MD, Marina Baretti, MD,
Adam Yopp, MD
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Saturday Lunch & Exhibits
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Updates in treatment of advanced HCC
Moderator: Sukeshi Arora, MD, Neil Newman, MD
UT Health San Antonio
12:46 PM - 1:00 PM
NEO/Adj/updates
Sukeshi Arora, MD, UT Health San Antonio
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Advanced
Cecilia Monge Bonilla, MD, MPH, FACP
NIH/NCI
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
SBRT
Neil Newman, MD, UT Health San Antonio
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Updates in treatment of advanced HCC Session Discussion
Sukeshi Arora, MD, Neil Newman, MD, Cecilia Monge Bonilla, MD, MPH, FACP
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Saturday PM Break and Exhibits
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Value Base Care in HCC
Moderators: Sherri Cervantez, MD, Mary Salazar, DNP
UT Health San Antonio
2:01 PM - 2:15 PM
HCC and Oncology Nurse Navigation Program Development
Mary Salazar, DNP, UT Health San Antonio
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
How community foundations support the patient and their families
Andrea Wilson Woods President, Founder of Blue Faery
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Advanced Care Planning & Caregiver Burden
Arpan Patel, MD, PhD, UCLA
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Survivorship, Decreasing Likelihood of Recurrence
Santhosshi Narayanan, MD, FACP, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Discussion
Sherri Cervantez, MD, Mary Salazar, DNP, Andrea Wilson Woods, Arpan Patel, MD, PhD, Santhosshi Narayanan, MD, FACP, Rebecca Leonard RN, BSN, Lupita Martinez, LMSW, MBA, OSW
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Closing Comments
Sukeshi Arora, MD, Francisco Cigarroa, MD
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Date and Time
Date and Time
- Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00AM
- to Saturday, October 21, 2023, 3:30PM
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Location
Location
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Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts
Submit an abstract!
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Abstract Submission:
Titles should be no more than 120 characters with spaces.
The size limit for the abstract (including title, body and tables) is 3400 characters. This does not include spaces.Abstract Categories:
- Cancer Disparities
- Diagnostics (including biomarkers and precision medicine)
- Patient-Reported Outcomes and Real-World Evidence
- Pediatrics
- Prevention and Screening
- Surgical management
- Survivorship
- Therapeutics (i.e., interventional, radiation and systemic)
- Translational Research
- Tumor Biology, Biomarkers, and Pathology
- Other
Abstract Instructions:
- Abstracts must include all authors and their institutions.
- Disclosure information for all authors must be included.
- Identify lead author with an asterisk
- Awards will be offered and the top 3 posters will get to present during the symposium on Friday, October 20, 2023.
- Up to 3 references are allowed, these should be cited numerically in the text and placed under “References Cited” with titles included.
- Abbreviations can be used as long they are defined at their first mention in the text. The author and institution list is not included in the character limit.
- The lead/main author listed on the abstract must be registered and present at the conference
- Accepted abstracts - Presenters will be notified by e-mail in September 2023.
- If accepted for a poster, presenters are responsible for the production and printing of their poster. Instructions for poster printing will be sent to accepted abstracts.
- All accepted posters will be able to be presented during the evening Poster Session on Friday, October 20, 2023.
Submit an abstract!
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
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Contact
Contact
If you have any questions, please send an email to UTHealthMTG@uthscsa.edu.
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Registration