Working to Eradicate Gynecologic Cancers

2015 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer®

Thursday, March 26, 2015

2:00 PM-6:00 PM

Friday, March 27, 2015

6:30 AM-5:30 PM

7:30 AM-8:00 AM

8:00 AM-12:30 PM


GOFRN Meeting Ramez N. Eskander, MD and Kimberly Levinson, MD, MPH

Special Interest Session I: Seminal and International Clinical Trials Kathleen N. Moore, MD, Wui-Jin Koh, MD, Carol Aghajanian, MD, Kristin K. Zorn, MD, Rachel Nicole Grisham, MD, Matthew A. Powell, MD, Anuja Jhingran, MD, Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD, Amit M. Oza, MD, Ding Ma, PhD and Philipp Harter, MD

12:30 PM-5:30 PM

1:00 PM-5:00 PM


Special Interest Session III: First SGO International Advanced Surgery and Research Symposium Pedro T. Ramirez, MD, Linus T. Chuang, MD, Lynette Denny, MD, Luis M. Chiva, MD, PhD, Anna Fagotti, PhD, Fabrice Lecuru, MD, PhD, Michael Frumovitz, MD, MPH and Noriaki Sakuragi, MD

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Special Interest Session IV: Pathway to the Contemporary Standard of Care and Guidance for a Successful Expedition Ahead - Resident/Fellow/Candidate Course Camille Catherine Gunderson, MD, Susan C. Modesitt, MD, Anuj Suri, MD, Robert Scott Mannel, MD, Jeff F. Lin, MD, Andrew Berchuck, MD, Leslie M. Randall, MD, Bobbie Smith Gostout, MD, Ana Isabel Tergas, MD, MPH, Rodney P. Rocconi, MD, Jason A. Lachance, MD, Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD and Jeffrey McCabe Fowler, MD

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Saturday, March 28, 2015

6:30 AM-6:30 PM

7:30 AM-9:15 AM


Opening Scientific Session Uziel Beller, MD and Joel I. Sorosky, MD

9:15 AM-9:55 AM

9:55 AM-10:25 AM

9:55 AM-6:30 PM

10:25 AM-12:00 PM


Scientific Plenary II Laura Jean Havrilesky, MD, Noriaki Sakuragi, MD and Barbara A. Goff, MD

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

2:00 PM-3:00 PM


Scientific Plenary III David M. O'Malley, MD and Jeff Boyd, PhD

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


Education Forum I: SGO White Paper Review Mark Shahram Shahin, MD, Debra L. Richardson, MD, Mark H. Einstein, MD, MS, William M. Burke, MD and Thomas J. Herzog, MD

Education Forum II: Patient Perspectives on Cancer Care Laura Jean Havrilesky, MD, David Cella, PhD, Lari Wenzel, PhD and Angeles Alvarez Secord, MD

Education Forum III: Gyn/Onc in the OB Ward Mitchell Ira Edelson, MD, Linda Duska, MD, Muhieddine A-F Seoud, MD and Cheryl C. Saenz, MD

Surgical Forum I: Sentinel Lymph Node Assessment, State of the Art Film Review Bobbie Smith Gostout, MD, Charles F. Levenback, MD, Michael Frumovitz, MD, MPH and Emma C. Rossi, MD

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

Sunday, March 29, 2015

6:00 AM-6:30 AM

6:00 AM-6:30 PM

6:30 AM-7:30 AM


Sunrise Seminar I: Ergonomic Efficiency in the OR Adrian Park, MD, Susan Hallbeck, PhD and Neil S. Horowitz, MD

Sunrise Seminar II: GTN: Managing Her Headache and Yours John T. Soper, MD, Aaron Shafer, MD and Julian C. Schink, MD

Sunrise Seminar III: Avoiding Clinical Catastrophes when Incorporating Novel Targeted Agents into Care of Gynecologic Cancer Patients Elise C. Kohn, MD, Robert Allen Burger, MD, Leslie M. Randall, MD, Jung-min Lee, MD and Joyce F. Liu, MD, MPH

7:00 AM-7:30 AM

7:00 AM-4:00 PM

7:30 AM-9:20 AM


Scientific Plenary IV: The Farr Nezhat Surgical Innovation Session Anna Fagotti, PhD, Farr R. Nezhat, MD, FACOG, FACS and Joo-Hyun Nam, MD

9:25 AM-10:00 AM


Presidential Address Richard R. Barakat, MD

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

11:00 AM-12:15 PM


Seminal Abstract Session Ginger J. Gardner, MD and Marcela del Carmen, MD, MPH

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

2:15 PM-3:05 PM


Scientific Plenary V Charles N. Landen Jr., MD and Barbara Stulken Norquist, MD

3:05 PM-4:00 PM

3:45 PM-6:15 PM


Special Interest Session V: Practical Management of the Gynecologic Oncology Patient and Biomarkers for the Allied Health Professional Jaclyn Maphies, NP, Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, Kim Connell, PA, Kathleen Lutz, NP, Kathleen N. Moore, MD and Jodi Strand, PA

4:00 PM-5:15 PM


Education Forum V: Contemporary Radiation Therapy in Gynecologic Cancer: What Surgeons Need to Know Wui-Jin Koh, MD, Ann Hoge Klopp, MD, PhD, Akila Viswanathan, MD, MPH and Kaled Alektiar, MD

4:00 PM-5:25 PM

5:20 PM-6:30 PM


Scientific Plenary VI Audrey Tieko Tsunoda, MD and Rene Pareja, MD

7:30 PM-11:00 PM

Monday, March 30, 2015

6:00 AM-6:30 AM

6:00 AM-7:00 PM

6:30 AM-7:30 AM


Sunrise Seminar V: Controversies on Tissue Morcellation and Extraction John O. Schorge, MD, Jubilee Brown, MD, David M. Boruta II, MD and Jason D. Wright, MD

Sunrise Seminar VI: Nonendometrioid Uterine Adenocarcinomas: Update David Scott Miller, MD, F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S. and Akila Viswanathan, MD, MPH

7:00 AM-7:45 AM

7:45 AM-8:15 AM

8:15 AM-9:15 AM

9:15 AM-10:00 AM

10:00 AM-10:15 AM

10:15 AM-11:15 AM


Focused Plenary I - Pre-Clinical Discovery Ernst Lengyel, MD and Dmitriy Zamarin, MD

Focused Plenary II - Genetics of Uterine Cancer Seiko Diane Yamada, MD and Summer B. Dewdney, MD

Focused Plenary III - Novel Approaches to Surgery Heidi J. Gray, MD and Camille Catherine Gunderson, MD

11:25 AM-12:30 PM

12:45 PM-2:15 PM

2:25 PM-3:45 PM


Scientific Plenary VII: Late Breaking Abstracts David E. Cohn, MD and Martee Leigh Hensley, MD

4:00 PM-5:15 PM


Special Interest Session VIII: The First Department of Defense Ovarian Academy Abstract Session Jeff Boyd, PhD, Douglas A. Levine, MD, Anda Vlad, PhD and Panagiotis A, Konstantinopoulos, MD, PhD

4:00 PM-7:15 PM


Special Interest Session VI: SGO Latin American Symposia - The Current, Present & Future of Gynecologic Oncology in Developing Countries-A Call for Future Partnerships Pedro T. Ramirez, MD, Rene Pareja, MD, Michael Frumovitz, MD, MPH, Marcela G. Del Carmen, MD, MPH, Lynette Denny, MD, Kathleen M. Schmeler, MD, Erick Estuardo Estrada Sr., MD, Raul Murillo, MD, Alejandro Hector Soderini, PhD, Audrey Tieko Tsunoda, MD, Gabriel J. Rendón, MD, Diego Odetto, MD, Raimundo Correa, MD, David Cantu, MD and Lois M. Ramondetta, MD

Special Interest Session VII: International Symposium on Emerging Fertility – Sparing and Neoadjuvant Therapy: Novel approaches for cervical, uterine, and ovarian malignancies Linus T. Chuang, MD, X Xie, MD, Barbara A. Goff, MD, Jin Li, M.D., Seiko Diane Yamada, MD, Jason D. Wright, MD, Xiaohua Wu, MD, Rene Pareja, MD, Alexandros Rodolakis, MD, PhD, Dongyan Cao, MD, Martee Leigh Hensley, MD, Jihong Liu, PhD, MD, David Marc Gershenson, MD, Ding Ma, PhD, Lucas Minig, MD, PhD, Chyong-Huey Lai, MD, Philipp Harter, MD and Jiaxin Yang, MD

5:15 PM-7:15 PM


Special Interest Session IX: SGO Wellness Retreat: Reinvigorating the Joy and Compassion in Your Practice David M. Kushner, MD, Kell Julliard, MA and Jeffrey McCabe Fowler, MD

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

7:30 AM-8:00 AM

7:30 AM-10:45 AM

8:00 AM-9:20 AM


Scientific Plenary VIII Xiaohua Wu, MD and Jason Konner, MD

9:30 AM-10:45 AM


Scientific Plenary IX Jamie N. Bakkum-Gamez, MD and Stephen L. Rose, MD