Presidential Symposium
Sunday, October 24 | 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The 2021 Presidential Symposium “Advancing Person-centered Care Through Innovation” will showcase how innovation can improve patient outcomes and experience. New this year, in all sessions, patient speakers will share their perspectives.
In the first session, “Harnessing Scientific Innovation to Improve Person Centered Care”, advances in AI, imaging, real time planning, image guidance, radiopharmaceuticals, FLASH and biomarkers will be discussed. The second session, “Digital Health to Improve Patient Outcomes and Experience”, includes talks on crowdsourcing, equitable digital health, patient reported outcomes and successful implementation of digital advances to the clinic. The third session will highlight some potentially paradigm changing applications of radiation therapy, such as the rapidly expanding role of radiation therapy in the treatment of oligometastases, radiation therapy as an immune modulator, and radiation therapy as a curative alternative to surgery for liver cancer.
The Symposium will end with a lively debate on randomized clinical trials versus real world data, concluding with a vote and panel discussion featuring patient advocate and survivor, Jill Feldman. This is a Presidential Symposium you won’t want to miss!
8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
| Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| Introductions |
Laura Dawson, MD, FASTRO, Princess Margaret Hospital |
| Innovating with Compassion |
Shekinah Elmore, MD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
8:15 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Chairs:
Kristy Brock, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Curtland Deville Jr, MD, Johns Hopkins University
| Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| Introduction: Harnessing Innovation to Drive Patient-Centered Care |
Kristy Brock, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Artificial Intelligence Improving Person-Centered Care |
Raymond Mak, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Innovations in Radiation Delivery: Real-Time Planning and Image Guidance |
Carri Glide-Hurst, PhD, University of Wisconsin |
| Transforming Radiotherapy with Ultra High Dose Rates (FLASH) |
Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, PhD, University of Victoria |
| Advanced Imaging for Bioadaptive Radiotherapy |
Cynthia Menard, MD, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM) |
| Patient Centered Radiopharmaceutical Therapy |
Ana Kiess, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University |
| Personalizing Radiation Therapy Using Molecular Biomarkers |
Felix Feng, MD, University of California, San Francisco |
| Patient Perspective (Video) |
Barney Morris |
9:25 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Moderators:
Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, FASTRO, Thomas Jefferson University
Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
| Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| Introductions |
Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Key Actors – Patients and Crowdsourcing |
Jen Horonjeff, PhD, Savvy Cooperative |
| Reducing Disparities with Digital Innovation(e) PROMs/PREMs as the True North – Why/When/How |
Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA, MS, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute |
| (e) PROMs/PREMs as the True North – Why/When/How |
Deb Schrag, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| Implementing: From "Code" to "Clinic |
Ale Berlin, MD, MS, Princess Margaret Cancer Center |
| Introduction of Dr. Ohri |
Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, FASTRO, Thomas Jefferson University |
| Reflections/Lessons Learned in Radiation Oncology Digital Health |
Nitin Ohri, MD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Panel Discussion with Moderators and Presenters |
Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Moderators:
Sue Evans, MD, Yale University
Iris Gibbs, MD, FASTRO, Stanford University
| Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| Introductions |
Sue Evans, MD, Yale University |
| Introduction of Patient Speaker |
Iris Gibbs, MD, FASTRO, Stanford University |
| Patient Perspective (Video) |
Ginger Powell, BS |
| Beyond Oligometastases: New Frontiers for Stereotactic Radiation |
David Palma, MD, PhD, London Health Sciences Center |
| Innovative Immune Targeting/TME/RT as Vaccine |
Chandan Guha, MD, PhD, MBBS, Montefiore Medical Center |
| Radiation as a Curative Therapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
Jinsil Seong, MD, PhD, Severance Hospital of the Yonsei University Health System |
| Rethinking Radiation Timing and Surgical Perturbation Failure |
Stuart Burri, MD, Levine Cancer Institute |
| Beyond the Cancer - Targeting Pain with Radiation |
Yaacov Lawrence, MD, MRCP, Sheba Medical Center |
11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.
Moderators:
Gita Suneja, MD, MS, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute
Jeffrey Bradley, MD, FASTRO, Emory University
| Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| Introductions |
Gita Suneja, MD, MS, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| Introductions |
​Jeffrey Bradley, MD, FASTRO, Emory University |
| Pro: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) |
Soren Bentzen, DSc, PhD, FASTRO, University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Pro: Real World Data (RWD) |
Corinne Faivre-Finn, MD, PhD, FRCR, The University of Manchester |
| Rebuttal: Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT) |
Reshma Jagsi, MD, PhD, FASTRO, University of Michigan |
| Rebuttal: Real World Data (RWD) |
Dave Fuller, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Introduction of Ms. Jill Feldman, Patient Speaker |
Gita Suneja, MD, MS, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| Vote and Panel Discussion with Patient Perspective, Jill Feldman |
Gita Suneja, MD, MS, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| Vote and Panel Discussion with Patient Perspective, Jill Feldman |
Jeffrey Bradley, MD, FASTRO, Emory University |
| Vote and Panel Discussion with Patient Perspective, Jill Feldman |
Jill Feldman, MA |