Agenda

Friday, November 21, 2025

7:30 am – 2:30 pm

In Person at
Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue, 4200 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19131
or
Virtually via AJI Media Livecast

*Agenda reflects invited speakers 

Register to Attend In Person  Register to Attend Virtually

7:30am

Check- In, Continental Breakfast, Visit Exhibits and Experts in Integrative Approaches and Survivorship

8:30am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

*Will be live streamed
Opening Remarks   
Edward Stadtmauer, MD  |  Conference Chair
Joseph Carver, MD  |  Chief of Staff  |  Abramson Cancer Center
Upcoming Cancer Center Events 
Katie Dewees Detzel  |  Director of Development
Distinguished Partner in Hope Award 
8:45am

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION (CLL)

*Will be live streamed
Joanna Rhodes, MD, MSCE   |  Rutgers Cancer Institute
9:15am

Break/Visit Exhibits/Chat with Experts

Workshops

**The CLL workshop will be livestreamed; all other workshops will be recorded and made available post-conference

9:45 am

Acute Leukemia (ALL, AML) and Myelodysplasia (MDS)

Alexander Perl, MD
Noelle Frey, MD, MSCE
Katie Allen, CRNP
9:45 am

Long Term Survivorship Management in Acute Leukemias and Myeloid Neoplasms

Ximena Jordan-Bruno, MD
Catherine Lai, MD, MPH  |  Conference Co-Chair
Linda Perry, MS, PA-C
9:45 am

Allogeneic (Donor) Bone Marrow Transplant and Graft vs Host Disease Considerations for older adults going to BMT

Pashna Munshi, MD, MSTR
Shannon McCurdy, MD 
9:45 am

Autologous Transplant and CAR T Cells for Myeloma

Alfred Garfall, MD, MTR
Chelsey Billig BSN, RN, BMTCN
9:45 am

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

**Will be live streamed
Jordan Carter, MD
Emily Tomasulo, DO, FACP
Register to Attend the Workshop Virtually
9:45 am

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) and Myeloproliferative Diseases

Elizabeth Hexner, MD
Tetyana Furmanets, MSN, CRNP
9:45 am

Follicular/Low Grade Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)

Michael Cook, MD
Elise Chong, MD
Danielle Land, MSN, CRNP
9:45 am

Hodgkin Lymphoma and T-Cell Lymphomas

Stefan Barta, MD, MS, MRCPCUK  |  Conference Co-Chair
Brenda Shelly, MSN, CRNP
9:45 am

Aggressive Lymphomas including Mantle Cell, Large B Cell

Sunita Nasta, MD, FACP
Alicia Rae McLeish, MSN, CRNP
9:45 am

Monoclonal Gammaopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) and Asymptomatic Multiple Myeloma (AMM) and Amyloidosis

Adam Waxman, MD, MS
Sandra Susanibar-Adaniya, MD
Leah Power, MSN, CRNP
9:45 am

Multiple Myeloma (Active Symptomatic), Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia

Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD  |  Conference Chair
Patricia Mangan, RN, MSN, CRNP, APRN-BC
9:45 am

Relapsed Myeloma and Clinical Trials

Adam Cohen, MD
Danielle Zubka, RN
9:45 am

Clinical Trials for Relapsed Lymphomas Using Novel Cell Therapies

Jakub Svoboda, MD  |  Conference Co-Chair
Ellen Napier, CRNP, MSN
12:00pm

Lunch/ Visit Exhibits/ Chat with Experts

TOWN HALL: Penn's Commitment to Finding Cures for Blood Cancers: From the Lab to the Patient

*Will be live streamed

1:00pm

Moderator:  Edward Stadtmauer, MD  |  Conference Chair
Panel Members:
Noelle Frey, MD, MSCE
Alfred Garfall, MD, MTR
Saar Gill, MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Elizabeth Hexner, MD
Nasheed Hossain, MD  |  Conference Co-Chair
Selina Luger, MD
Alexander Perl, MD
David Porter, MD  |  Conference Co-Chair
Stefan Barta, MD, MS, MRCPCUK  |  Conference Co-Chair
Dan Vogl, MD
Patients on Clinical
Research Nurses
2:30pm

Conference Closing