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Conference Program
8:00 AM
Welcome
Past & Present
A Brief History of the AYA Cancer Movement
8:10 AM
Archie Bleyer, MD (Oregon Health Sciences University)
8:50 AM
The Current State of AYA Cancer and of AYA Survivorship Care
Susan Parsons, MD (Tufts Medical Center)
On the Front Lines
9:30 AM
Struggling to Demonstrate Improvement: Sarcoma
Michael Isakoff, MD (Connecticut Children's Medical Center)
Break (15 minutes)
10:20 AM
Experimental Therapeutics & Phase 1 Programs: Sarcoma
Lee Helman, MD (Children's Hospital Los Angeles)
11:00 AM
International Collaboration in Clinical Research: Germ Cell Cancers & Hodgkin Lymphoma
Lindsay Frazier, MD (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
Andy Evens, DO (Rutgers University)
11:50 AM
Conference resumes promptly at 12:30 PM
40-Minute Lunch Break
12:30 PM
Success Stories in AYA Oncology: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Daniel DeAngelo, MD, PhD (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
1:10 PM
New and Expanding Focus Areas in AYA Oncology: Neuro-oncology
Kathy Warren, MD (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
1:50 PM
Putting Lives Back on Track: Onco-fertility
Natasha Frederick, MD (Connecticut Children's Medical Center)
Nadine Linendoll, Ph.D (Tufts Medical Center)
Break (15 minutes)
2:50 PM
The Patient Perspective: AYA Cancer Survivor Panel
Rebecca Johnson, MD (Mary Bridge Children's Hospital) (Moderator)
Matt Maler
Rachel Murphy-Banks
Josh Smith
The Outlook
3:30 PM
The Next Decade of the AYA Cancer Movement: Emergent Risks, Challenges and Solutions: Faculty Speaker Panel
Stuart Siegel, MD (Moderator)
David Freyer, DO (Keck School of Medicine, USC)
Michael Roth, MD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Closing
4:30 PM
Concluding Remarks
Susan Parsons, MD
4:50 PM
Adjourn
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