Preview the outline of the 2026 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium schedule — full details coming in June.
| 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast Sinatra Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:50 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Day One Welcome Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Speaker: Julie Bauman, MD, MPH, George Washington Cancer Center, Washington, DC [M] |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. | Patient Perspective Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 |
| 8:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. | Session I Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Maie St. John, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles [S] |
| 9:50 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. | Keynote I: Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy: A Road to Progress - How Far Can It Take Us? Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Dan Zandberg, MD, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh [M] |
| 10:35 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Session II Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Kelly Malloy, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan [S] |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom and Terrace Early Career and Trainee Networking Luncheon: Choosing Your Career Path Santa Rosa Ballroom
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| 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | K. Kian Ang, MD, PhD, FASTRO, Commemorative Plenary Session Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break and Poster Session I Springs Ballroom |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Session III: New Advances and Contemporary Management of Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer Sinatra Ballroom Moderator: C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PHD, MS, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [R] |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Poster Session II and Networking Hour Springs Ballroom |
| 7:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom and Terrace |
| 7:55 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Day Two Welcome Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Speaker: Maie St. John, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles [S] |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. | Patient Perspective Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 |
| 8:20 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. | Session IV: Going Viral: Leveraging Emerging Data for the Treatment of HPV and EBC-related Head and Neck Cancers Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Musaddiq Awan, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [R] |
| 9:40 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. | Keynote II: Rethinking Elective Nodal Treatment in SCC of the Head and Neck Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Zain Husain, MD, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Ontario, California [R] |
| 10:25 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. | Coffee Break and Poster Session III Springs Ballroom |
| 10:50 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Plenary II Session Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 |
| 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom and Terrace Early Career and Trainee Networking Luncheon: Launching Your Successful Career Santa Rosa Ballroom
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| 1:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Session V: Contemporary Considerations in Managing Thyroid Malignancy Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Samir Khariwala, MD, MS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis [S] |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break and Poster Session IV Springs Ballroom |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Session VI: Salivary Tumor Board: An Update on Multidisciplinary Management of Salivary Cancer Sinatra Balloom 1-8 Moderator: Michael Moore, MD, Indiana University, Indianapolis [S] |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Session VII: Toxicities in Survivorship Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Jessica Geiger, MD, Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Cleveland [M] |
| 7:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom and Terrace |
| 7:55 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | Day Three Welcome Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Speaker: Faye Johnson, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston [M] |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. | Patient Perspective Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 |
| 8:20 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Session VIII: Deploying Emerging Technologies to Improve Patient Care Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Alexander Pearson, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago [M] |
| 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Session IX: Advances in Multimodal Management of Skull Base Sinonasal Tumors Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Ari Rosenberg, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago [M] |
| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Coffee Break and Poster Browsing Springs Ballroom |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Session X: Innovations in Action: Emerging Clinical Trials in Head and Neck Cancers Sinatra Ballroom 1-8 Moderator: Faye Johnson, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston [M] |
