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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, November 23, 2024
  • 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST
    Attendee, Speaker and Exhibitor Registration and Check-In
  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM PST
    Break
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Coat & Bag Check
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM PST
    Language of Innovation: Navigating Large Language Models in Healthcare
    Program Committee Moderator: Julie W. Hirschhorn, PhD (she/her/hers) – Geisinger
    Program Committee Moderator: Heather Blankenship, PhD – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
    Informatics
     CE Credit: 1.0
  • 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM PST
    Expo Hall Open
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM PST
    Coffee Break — Visit Expo Hall and View Posters
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    Innovation Spotlight
  • 9:30 AM - 1:10 PM PST
    Innovation Spotlights
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Advances in Characterizing Structural Chromosomal Alterations: Utility of Optical Genome Mapping and Long Read Sequencing in Hematopoietic Cancers and the Germline Genome
    Program Committee Moderator: Craig Soderquist, MD – Columbia University
    Program Committee Moderator: Honey Reddi, PhD, FACMG (she/her/hers) – Belay Diagnostics
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Eric McGinnis, MD (he/him/his) – Vancouver General Hospital / University of British Columbia
    Oncology
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Navigating the Landscape of Open Source Tools for Applications in Molecular Pathology
    Program Committee Moderator: Heather Blankenship, PhD – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Wesley Goar, PhD (he/him/his) – Nationwide Children's Hospital
    OncologyInfectious DiseasesInformatics
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Radiogenomics: Integrating Molecular and Imaging Data in Cancer Diagnosis
    Program Committee Moderator: Arivarasan Karunamurthy, MD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Catherine Gestrich, D.O. – UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
    Oncology
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Syndromic Panels for Infectious Disease Diagnosis
    Program Committee Moderator: Heba Mostafa, MD. PhD. D(ABMM) (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Kenneth Gavina, PhD, D(ABMM) (he/him/his) – Indiana University School of Medicine
    Infectious Diseases
     CE Credit: NOT CME/CMLE
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Technologist Innovation Session
    Technologist Moderator: Tessara Baldi (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Technologist Moderator: Tracy McMillen (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM PST
    Exhibitor Appreciation Lunch—Visit Expo Hall and View Posters
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PST
    Innovation Spotlight
  • 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM PST
    Innovation Spotlight
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST
    Poster Removal
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PST
    2024 CAP/IASLC/AMP Updated Molecular Testing Guideline for the Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for Treatment With Targeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Guideline Update
    Working Group Moderator: Susan Hsiao, MD, PhD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Oncology
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PST
    AMP/ACMG/CPIC/CAP/DPWG/ESPT/PharmGKB/PharmVar DPYD Genotyping Recommendations
    Working Group Moderator: Stuart A. Scott, PhD – Stanford
    OncologyInherited Conditions
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PST
    Platform Presentations of Selected Hemepath Abstracts
    Program Committee Moderator: Craig Soderquist, MD – Columbia University
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Aida Richardson, MD/PhD – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University
     CE Credit: 1.0
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PST
    Platform Presentations of Selected Infectious Diseases Abstracts
    Program Committee Moderator: Heba Mostafa, MD. PhD. D(ABMM) (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Krupa Jani, MS, ASCP(iMB) (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
     CE Credit: 1.0
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PST
    Platform Presentations of Selected Solid Tumors Abstracts
    Program Committee Moderator: Deepika Sirohi, MD – University of California San Francisco
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Ying-Hsia Chu, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
     CE Credit: 1.0
  • 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PST
    Break
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    21st Century Diagnostic Parasitology – The Roles that Nucleic Acid Tests Play in Parasite Detection, Characterization, and Surveillance
    Program Committee Moderator: Ryan F. Relich, PhD – Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health
    Infectious Diseases
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    AMP/CAP/SITC Recommendations for Tumor Mutational Burden Assay Validation and Reporting
    Breakout Moderator: Jonathan A. Nowak, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    From Pathology to the Biobank: Considerations for Managing Laboratory Samples and Data
    Program Committee Moderator: Tessara Baldi (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Lulu Sun, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
    Lab Management
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    Role of Gender Identification in Genetic Testing
    Program Committee Moderator: Stuart A. Scott, PhD – Stanford
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Stephanie Siegmund, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women's Hospital
    AdvocacyLab ManagementOncologyInherited Conditions
     CE Credit: NOT CME/CMLE
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    Standardization Efforts for AI
    Program Committee Moderator: Julie W. Hirschhorn, PhD (she/her/hers) – Geisinger
    Co-Moderator (Early Career): Nada Shaker, NS (she/her/hers) – University of California San Francisco, UCSF
    Lab ManagementInformatics
     CE Credit: 1.5
  • 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM PST
    Break
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM PST
    Disparities in Genetic Testing
    Program Committee Moderator: Honey Reddi, PhD, FACMG (she/her/hers) – Belay Diagnostics
    Program Committee Moderator: Stuart A. Scott, PhD – Stanford
    Inherited Conditions
     CE Credit: 1.0
  • 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM PST
    Closing Remarks
    Plenary Speaker: Somak Roy, MD – Cinncinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center