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Friday, November 6, 2020

7:00 AM   CME Activity Starts

​​​​7:00 am                   Log-in to Virtual Conference  

7:15 am                    Welcome and Introductions
                                 Robert H Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, Director, Abramson Cancer Center
                                 Daniel Yoshor, MD - Chairman, Neurosurgery
                                 Ronald P DeMatteo, MD, FACS - Chairman, Surgery
                                 Sunil Singhal, MD, Activity Director
                                 Edward J. Delikatny, PhD, Activity Director
                                 John YK Lee, MD, MSCE, Activity Director

Session 1: Phase III Clinical Trials in Intraoperative Molecular Imaging for Cancer Surgery
Moderator:       Quyen Nguyen, MD, PhD

7:30 am                    5-ALA in the United States Post-Approval Adoption Challenges, Reimbursement and Future Directions: Phase IV 
                                 Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD - Neurosurgery
                                 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
                                 New York, NY, USA

7:50 am                    Folate NIR Dye for Ovarian Cancer:  Phase 3 US Trial - PRESENTATION
                                 Janos L Tanyi, MD, PhD - Gynecologic Oncology
                                 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

8:10 am                    Folate NIR Dye for Lung Cancer: Phase 3 US Trial 
                                 Sunil Singhal, MD – Thoracic Surgery
                                 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

8:30 am                   CEA Colon Cancer Trial: Phase 3 European Trial - PRESENTATION 
                                 Alexander L Vahrmeijer, MD - Oncologic Surgery
                                 Leiden University Medical Center
                                 Leiden, The Netherlands

8:50 am                   Protease Activated Dye in Breast Cancer Surgery: Multicenter, randomized US Trials - PRESENTATION
                                 Barbara L Smith, MD, PhD – Breast Surgery
                                 Harvard Medical School
                                 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

9:10 am                    Discussion

9:30 am                    Break

Session 2: Phase II Clinical Trials in Intraoperative Molecular Imaging for Cancer Surgery
Moderator:       Jason G Newman, MD, FACS

10:00 am                 Anti-EGFR Antibody Imaging Strategies for Real-Time Surgical and Pathologic Guidance
                                 Eben Rosenthal, MD - Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery;
                                 Radiology: Radiology/Molecular Imaging  
                                 Stanford University School of Medicine
                                 Stanford, California, USA

10:20 am                 Alliance Trial – TumorGlow® in Sarcoma Metastasis to Lung - PRESENTATION
                                 Linda W Martin, MD, MPH – Thoracic Surgery
                                 University of Virginia School of Medicine
                                 Charlottesville, Virginia, USA                           

10:40 am                 Ph Sensitive Dyes in Prostate Cancer - PRESENTATION 
                                 Baran Sumer, MD, FACS – Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
                                 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Southwestern Medical School
                                 Dallas, Texas, USA

11:00 am                 The Road to Image Guidance in Breast Surgery - PRESENTATION
                                 Ari D Brooks, MD – Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
                                 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

11:20 am                 Discussion

12:00 pm                 Break

Session 3: Pilot and Phase I Clinical trials in Intraoperative Molecular Imaging for Cancer Surgery
Moderator:      Andrew Tsourkas, PhD

12:30 pm                 NIR II – with ICG in Human Liver Tumors
                                 Jie Tian, PhD – Automation, Medical Imaging
                                 Chinese Academy of Sciences/Institute of Automation 
                                 Beijing, China

12:45 pm                 TumorGlow® Second Window ICG in Brain Tumors
                                 John YK Lee, MD, MSCE – Neurosurgery
                                 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1:00 pm                    TumorGlow® Second Window ICG in Pancreatic Cancer - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
                                 Major Kenneth Lee, IV, MD, PhD – Gastrointestinal Surgery
                                 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1:15 pm                    EGFR Affibody:  Design & Implementation of Novel Targeted Tumor Dye 
                                 Eric R Henderson, MD – Orthopedic Oncology 
                                 Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
                                 Hanover, New Hampshire, USA                            

1:30 pm                    Tumor Paint™ Imaging – Pediatric Brain Tumors - PRESENTATION
                                 Amy Lee, MD – Pediatric Neurological Surgery
                                 Seattle Children’s Hospital and University of Washington
                                 Seattle, Washington, USA

2:00 pm                    Nerve Specific Dyes – Normal Tissue Identification 
                                 Quyen Nguyen, MD, PhD - Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery
                                 University of California San Diego
                                 La Jolla, California, USA    

2:15 pm                    Nerve Specific Dyes – Normal Tissue Identification - PRESENTATION
                                 Summer L Gibbs, PhD – Biomedical Engineering
                                 School of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
                                 Portland, Oregon, USA

2:30 pm                    Discussion

3:00 pm                    Break

Session 4: Intraoperative Camera and Back Table Imaging Platforms
Moderator:        E James Petersson, PhD

3:45 pm                    Review of Fluorescence Camera Imaging: Advantages versus disadvantages 
                                 Brian W Pogue, PhD – Engineering
                                 Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
                                 Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

4:00 pm                    Raman Spectroscopy Imaging of Brain Tumors on the Back Table - PRESENTATION
                                 Daniel A Orringer, MD – Neurosurgery
                                 New York University
                                 New York, New York, USA

4:30 pm                    Multispectral and Confocal Microscopy                              
                                 Cleopatra Charalampaki, MD, PhD
                                 Cologne Medical Center
                                 Cologne, Germany

4:45 pm                    Discussion

4:55 pm   CME Activity Concludes 
 

INDUSTRY SESSION

Session 5:         Industry Session: Individual Camera & Imaging Platforms
Moderator:       Stefan Harmsen, PhD

5:00 pm                    Stryker - John Shen, PhD (San Jose, California, USA)

5:15 pm                    Medtronic & EleVision – Alex Chanin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

5:30 pm                    Intuitive Surgical – Jonathan Sorger (Belmont, California, USA)

5:45 pm                    Fluorescence - Richard Meester (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

6:00 pm                    Panel Discussion – Future Unmet Needs (all speakers)
                                  Moderator - Sunil Singhal, MD

6:30 pm                    Industry Session Concludes

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