2021 Conference Schedule

Agenda is set in the Mountain Daylight Time Zone (MDT) 

7:30 amBreakfast
8:00 amWelcome and Conference Goals – Alana Welm, PhD & Josh Newby
8:20 amPatient Advocate Welcome – Martha Carlson

Session 1: Keynote 

Moderator: Jeff Rosen, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio *Virtual*


8:30 am

Jos Jonkers, PhD – Netherlands Cancer InstituteView Bio *Virtual*

Session 2: Metastatic seed and soil 

Moderator: Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – View Bio – *Virtual*


9:00 am

Heide Ford, PhD – University of Colorado View Bio

9:20 am

Pepper Schedin, PhD –
Oregon Health & Science University  View Bio *Virtual*

9:40 am

Mikala Egeblad, PhD – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – View Bio – *Virtual*

10:00 am

Leah Cook, PhD – University of Nebraska Medical Center – View Bio
10:20 amBreak

Session 3:  Immunology

Moderator: Kevin Barry, PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – View Bio – *Virtual*


10:40 am

Valentina Hoyos, MD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio

11:00 am

Matthew Krummel, PhD – University of California, San Francisco – View Bio

11:20 am

Paula Bos, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University – View Bio *Virtual*

11:40 am

Cyrus Ghajar PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – View Bio *Virtual*
12:00 pmLunch

LightningTalks Day 1

Moderator: Chuck Perou, PhD  – University of North Carolina – View Bio – *Virtual*

1:00 pmLightningTalks
2:00 pmBreak

Session 4:  Precision Medicine in MBC

Moderator: Bora Lim, MD – Baylor College of MedicineView Bio


2:15 pm

Ben Park, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center – View Bio *Virtual*

2:35 pm

Christos Vaklavas, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio

2:55 pm

Minetta Liu, MD – Mayo Clinic – View Bio – *Virtual*

Session 5: Patients as Part of the Research Team

Moderator: Julia Maues – View Bio & Josh Newby –View Bio


3:15 pm Martha Carlson –  – View Bio


3:35 pm Panel Discussion: Panelist: Martha Carlson
Maryam Lustberg Yale – View Bio
Elizabeth  Papautsky – University of Illinois at Chicago – View Bio

Session 6: Breakthroughs in Treatment of MBC

Moderator: Jamie Fornetti, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio


3:50 pm

Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO – University of North Carolina View Bio *Virtual*

4:10 pm

Nancy Lin, MD – Dana Farber Cancer Institute –  View Bio  – *Virtual*
4:30 pmAdjourn

7:30 amBreakfast
7:50 amPatient Advocate Welcome – Sheila McGlown

Session 7: Keynote 

Moderator: Alana Welm, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio


8:00 am

Fran Visco, JD – National Breast Cancer Coalition – View Bio
– *Virtual*

Session 8: Emerging advances in MBC

Moderator: Namita Chittoria, MD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio


8:30 am

Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD – Harvard Medical School –  View Bio

8:50 am

Nick Navin, PhD, MD Anderson – View Bio
*Virtual*

9:10 am

K-T Varley, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio – *Virtual*

9:30 am

Gloria Vittone Echeverria, PhD  – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio
9:50 amBreak

Session 9: Working Together to Change the Odds

Moderators: Josh Newby & Alana Welm, PhD


10:00 am

Hillary Stires, PhD – Collaboration with advocates: What Researchers need – View Bio

10:30 am

Panel Discussion

Session 10:  Selected Topics in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Moderator: Adrian Lee, PhD – University of Pittsburgh – View Bio


11:10 am

Zachary Schafer, PhD – University of Notre Dame – View Bio

11:30 am

Steffi Oesterreich, PhDUniversity of PittsburghView Bio

11:50 am

Chuck Harrell, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University –  View Bio

12:10 pm

Mike Oliphant, PhD – Harvard Medical School – View Bio
12:30 pm Lunch

LightningTalks Day 2

Moderator: Jennifer Richer, PhD – University of Colorado – View Bio

1:00 pmLightningTalks
2:00 pmBreak

Session 11:  Site-Specific Metastasis

Moderator: Andy Ewald, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine – View Bio


2:15 pm

Shawn Zhang, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine View Bio

2:35 pm

Siyuan Zhang, PhD – University of Notre Dame – View Bio

2:55 pm

Peter Siegel, PhD – McGill University – View Bio *Virtual*

3:15 pm
Closing with Josh Newby and Alana Welm, PhD
3:30 pm Adjourn

Registration is Open!