Early Career Program

The Early Career Program, taking place 7 and 9 June, is an exclusive in-training program providing in-depth, hands-on training from renowned IO experts. This page highlights events that are specific to the Early Career program for WCIO 2017.

Note: schedule is preliminary, and is subject to change.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

1:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Early Career Program, Part 1

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm

Introduction Moderator: Sarah White, MD

1:00 pm - 1:10 pm	What is IO and the Future of IO? J.F. Geschwind, MD
1:10 pm - 1:20 pm	Why We Are Here? Mitch Berger, JD

1:20 pm - 2:40 pm

The Language of A Tumor Board Moderators: Justin McWilliams, MD & J.F. Geschwind, MD

1:20 pm - 1:30 pm	HCC Karen Brown, MD
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm	Liver Mets Alban Denys, MD
1:40 pm - 1:50 pm	Lung Alice Gillams, MD
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm	Kidney Debra Gervais, MD
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm	Bone Matthew Callstrom, MD, PhD
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm	Meet the Professors Justin McWilliams, MD; Karen Brown, MD; Debra Gervais, MD; Matthew Callstrom, MD, PhD; J.F. Geschwind, MD; Alban Denys, MD; Alice Gillams, MD

2:40 pm - 2:50 pm

Break

2:50 pm - 3:45 pm

Tumor Board Moderators: Charles Ray, MD, PhD, MS & Michael Soulen, MD

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Practice Building Moderators: Riad Salem, MD & Kevin Kim, MD

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm	How To Build a Clinical IO Practice William Rilling, MD
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	Clinical Care in IO Peter Mueller, MD
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm	Importance of Integrating Palliative Care into IO Ashraf Thabet, MD
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Anesthesia: Types and Benefits Michael Brown, MD

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm

Business of IO Moderators: David Madoff, MD and Matthew Callstrom, MD, PhD

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Documentation of Procedures and E&M Matthew Hawkins, MD
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm	Contract Negotiations Greg Hill, JD
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Managing Complications from a Legal Perspective Matt Hanzel, JD
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm	Leadership and Building a Successful Team Ann Roberts, MD

5:45 pm - 6:45 pm

In-Training Reception

6:45 pm - 9:15 pm

BTG In-Training Dinner Symposium - Invite Only: 4th Year Residents & Fellows

Thursday, June 8, 2017

7:00 am - 8:25 am	BTG Hands-On Workshops Featuring Demonstrations of Devices and Expert Discussions on Techniques in Radioembolization, Embolization, and Cryoablation Invite Only: 4th Year Residents & Fellows
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Early Career Exhibit Hall Walk Through

Friday, June 9, 2017

7:00 am - 7:45 am

Breakfast Symposium & Hands-On Session- How I Do It: Experts' Approach to Conventional TACE
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Guerbet

9:15 am - 10:15 am

Hands-On Workshop: MSK & Spine

9:15 am - 9:25 am	Can Parenchymal Sparing Surgery Match Outcomes of Lobectomy in Early Stage Lung Cancer? Michael Lanuti, MD
9:25 am - 9:35 am	SBRT Can Replace Surgery for Early Stage Lung Cancer Stuart Berman, MD
9:35 am - 9:45 am	Microwave Ablation Has Equivalent Outcomes In Parenchymal Sparing Approaches in Early Stage Lung Cancer Damian Dupuy, MD
9:45 am - 9:55 am	Will Personalized Medicine Replace the Role of Intervention?
9:55 am - 10:15 am	Tumor Board - Moderator: Bradley Pua, MD Panelists: Michael Lanuti, MD; Stuart Berman, MD; Damian Dupuy, MD; & Alice Gillams, MD

1:30 pm - 3:-00 pm

Hands-On Workshop: Guidance & Targeting

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Early Career Program, Part 2

Research and Innovation in IO Moderators: Moderators: Alda Tam, MD & Parag Patel, MD

6:00 pm - 6:10 pm	*Different Flavors of IO Research* Alda Tam, MD
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm	*Ablation* Joseph Erinjeri, MD
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm	*Device Development* Fred Lee, MD
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm	*Mentor-Mentee Relationship* Parag Patel, MD
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm	*Ongoing Clinical Trials in IO* Ravi Murthy, MD
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm	*Transcatheter Therapies* Riad Salem, MD
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm	*Grants and Funding* Andrew Larson, PhD

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

A Transjugular Liver Access In-Training Dinner Symposium *Scholarship Recipients Only*
Presented by Cook Medical
Sarah B. White, MD and Kei Yamada, MD

Saturday, June 10, 2017

9:15 am - 10:15 am

Hands-On Workshop: Ablative Therapies

9:15 am -9:27 am	Advances in Surgery: What's Considered Resectable A. James Moser, MD
9:27 am -9:39 am	Role of IRE in Surgical Resectability (Open vs. Percutaneous) Michael Kluger, MD, MPH
9:39 am -9:51 am	Role of Sterotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Patients with Locally Advanced and Borderline Resectable Pancreas Cancer Chris Crane, MD
9:51 am -10:03 am	Percutaneous Therapy in IRE Govindarajan Narayanan, MD
10:03 am -10:15 am	Emergence and Role of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer Mark Truty, MD

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Hands-On Workshop: Hepatic Intra-Arterial Therapies