Agenda
A focus on bladder, kidney and prostate cancers.
The World GU agenda is presented by multidisciplinary thought leaders who will present the latest insights, debate hot topics, and participate in panel discussions and audience Q&As. Attendees receive up to 11.75 CE credits.
Thursday | August 21
Poster Session & Welcome Reception
- 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Curb Conservatory & Hall of Fame Rotunda
Friday | August 22
- 7:30 AM
Breakfast
- Event Hall
- SESSION 1
- CMA Theater
MDT Advancements in Staging and Treatment Planning in GU Cancers
CHAIR: Ashley Ross, MD, PhD (Northwestern Medicine)
- 8:50 AM
Theranostics in Prostate: Critical Role of Imaging
Heather Jacene, MD (Brigham and Women's Hospital) & Kerry Schaffer, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 9:00 AM
Panel Discussion
- 9:15 AM
How Do You Define Locally Advanced Bladder Cancer?
Michael Woods, MD (Loyola University) & Matthew Milowksy, MD (University of North Carolina)
- 9:25 AM
Panel Discussion
- 9:40 AM
Diagnosis and Management of Indeterminant Metastasis in Kidney Cancer
Brian Shuch, MD (University of California Los Angeles) & Rajan Gupta, MD (Duke Cancer Center)
- 9:50 AM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 10:05 AM
Networking Break
- Grand Foyer
- SESSION 2
- CMA Theater
Managing Early-Stage Disease
CHAIR: Stacy Loeb, MD (NYU Langone Health & Manhattan VA)
- 10:35 AM
Early-Stage Kidney: Surgery, Ablation and Active Surveillance
Phillip Pierorazio, MD (University of Pennsylvania)
- 10:45 AM
Early-Stage Bladder: The Evolving Landscape
Sam Chang, MD, MBA (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 10:55 AM
Early-Stage Prostate: Novel Diagnostics, Focal Therapy and Active Surveillance
Daniel Barocas, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 11:05 AM
Radiation Chip Shots: Small Tumors and Localized Disease
Eric Shinohara, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 11:15 AM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Mark Fleming, MD (Virginia Oncology Associates)
- 12:00 PM
Lunch Symposium (Non-CE)
- Event Hall
- SESSION 3
- CMA Theater
Multidisciplinary Care of High-Risk Patients in GU Cancers
CHAIR: Karen Hoffman, MD, MHSc, MPH, FASTRO
- 1:15 PM
High-Risk Kidney Cancer
Naomi Haas, MD (University of Pennsylvania) & Michael Abern, MD (Duke Cancer Center)
- 1:25 PM
Panel Discussion
- 1:40 PM
High-Risk Prostate Cancer
James Eastham, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) & Jonathan Leeman, MD (Harvard Medical School)
- 1:50 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 2:05 PM
High-Risk Bladder Cancer
Jason Efstathiou, MD, DPHIL (Massachusetts General Hospital) & Monika Joshi, MD (Penn State Cancer Institute)
- 2:15 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 2:30 PM
Networking Break
- Grand Foyer
- SESSION 4
- CMA Theater
Case-Based Real-World Management and Therapeutic Interventions in GU Cancers- Part I: Maximizing MDT Resources
CHAIR: Mehmet Bilen, MD (Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University)
- 3:00 PM
Case-Based Approach to Oligometastatic Renal Disease
Michael Harrison, MD (Duke Cancer Center)
- 3:05 PM
Case-Based Approach to Locally Advanced Bladder Cancer
Kristin Scarpato, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 3:10 PM
The Current State of mHSPC: Volume of Disease and Treatment Management
Elizabeth Kessler, MD (University of Colorado Health)
- 3:15 PM
Risk Stratification and Future Developments in Precison Management of Prostate Cancer
Mutlay Sayan, MD (Harvard Medical School)
- 3:20 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
- SESSION 5
- CMA Theater
Classifying and Managing Rare Histologies Across GU Cancers
CHAIR: Manojkumar Bupathi, MD (Rocky Mountain Cancer Center)
- 3:35 PM
Classifying Rare Histologies
Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD (Duke Cancer Center)
- 3:40 PM
How do you Manage Rare Bladder Histologies?
Arlene Siefker-Radtke, MD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
- 3:45 PM
Managing Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma
Jeannie Hoffman-Censits, MD (Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center)
- 3:50 PM
Management of Rare Kidney Histologies
Darren Feldman, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
- 3:55 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Bradley Somer, MD (West Cancer Center & Research Institute)
- SESSION 6
- CMA Theater
Keynote Presentation (Non-CE)
- 4:15 PM

Chaunté Lowe
4x Olympian
Founder & CEO
Boundless Resilience
Saturday | August 23
- 7:30 AM
Breakfast
- Event Hall
- SESSION 7
- CMA Theater
Tools for Tomorrow's Oncologist
CHAIR: Katy Beckermann, MD, PhD (Tennessee Oncology)
- 8:45 AM
Role of Precision Medicine
Ulka Vaishampayan, MD (University of Michigan)
- 8:55 AM
Trials in Progress in Early-Stage Therapeutics
Elisabeth Heath, MD (Mayo Clinic)
- 9:05 AM
Patient Frailty/FIT Levels
Stephanie Berg, DO (Harvard Medical School)
- 9:15 AM
Palliative Care & Decision Making
Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield, MD (University of Kansas)
- 9:25 AM
Implementing Pathways in an Evolving Landscape
Lisa Raff, PharmD (OneOncology)
- 9:35 AM
Improving Communication in a Multidisciplinary Environment
Kelvin Moses, MD, PhD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 9:45 AM
Q&A
- 10:00 AM
Networking Break
- Grand Foyer
- SESSION 8
- CMA Theater
Strategies for the Implementation of MRD in GU Cancers
CHAIR: Benjamin Maughan, MD (Huntsman Cancer Institute)
- 10:30 AM
Defining MRD
Alan Tan, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 10:35 AM
Using ctDNA to measure MRD in Bladder Cancer
Elizabeth Plimack, MD (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
- 10:40 AM
What's Different with MRD in Prostate?
Michael Schweizer, MD (Fred Hutch Cancer Center)
- 10:45 AM
Controversies in Imaging MRD: PSMA PET and Biochemical Recurrence
Ravi Madan, MD (National Institutes of Health)
- 10:50 AM
How Can We Better Measure MRD in Kidney?
Brian Rini, MD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- 10:55 AM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Jeffrey Yorio, MD (Texas Oncology)
- SESSION 9
- CMA Theater
Special Session
- 11:15 AM
Introduction
Daniel George, MD (Duke Cancer Center) & Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO (Harvard Medical School)
- 11:20 AM
Fireside Chat with Robert Califf, MD, MACC, former FDA Commissioner
Robert Califf, MD, MACC (Duke University Medical Center)
- 12:05 PM
Lunch Symposium (Non-CE)
- Event Hall
- SESSION 10
- CMA Theater
Case-Based Real-World Management and Therapeutic Interventions in GU Cancers- Part 2
CHAIR: Edwin Posadas, MD (Cedars Sinai Medical Center)
- 1:20 PM
Case-Based Approach to PARP Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer
Chandler Park, MD (Norton Healthcare)
- 1:25 PM
Case-Based Approach to Kidney Cancer
Hans Hammers, MD, PhD (UT Southwestern)
- 1:30 PM
Bladder MIBC Systemic Therapy and Outcomes
Jacqueline Brown, MD (Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University)
- 1:35 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Michael Lattanzi, MD (Texas Oncology)
- SESSION 11
- CMA Theater
Early-Stage Therapeutics: New Drugs in the Contemporary Landscape
CHAIR: Robert Dreicer, MD (University of Virginia)
- 1:55 PM
Emerging Approaches to Bladder Cancer
Karine Tawagi, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- 2:05 PM
Emerging Approaches to Prostate Cancer
Benjamin Garmezy, MD (Sarah Cannon Research Institute)
- 2:15 PM
Emerging Approaches to Kidney Cancer
Eric Jonasch, MD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
- 2:25 PM
Harnessing Resistance to Immunotherapy Approaches in Kidney Cancer
David Braun, MD, PhD (Yale Medicine)
- 2:35 PM
Q&A
- 2:50 PM
Networking Break
- Grand Foyer
- SESSION 12
- CMA Theater
Applying the Good News into Everyday Practice
CHAIRS: Charles Ryan, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) & Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO (Harvard Medical School)
- 3:20 PM
Monday Morning Quick Start
- SESSION 13
- CMA Theater
- 4:20 PM
World GU-Pardy
HOST: Mark Pomerantz, MD (Harvard Medical School)
- 5:00 PM
Farewell Reception
- Event Hall
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