2024 Annual Meeting & Palliative Care Symposium

If you attended the meeting and are looking for continuing education information or links to slides/handouts, please visit the PRIVATE attendee page. The link was provided in your pre-meeting email, on signage onsite, as well as in a follow-up email sent on 11/6. 

Thanks to all who attended!

We hope you'll join us at the 2024 Annual Meeting and Palliative Care Symposium, November 1-2, 2024 at the beautiful Omni Mt. Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH. 

We are thrilled to share that the NASW-VT Continuing Education Committee has approved the NNECOS Annual Meeting for 7.75 Continuing Education hours for social workers!


 Travel Grants - Lodging - Agenda  - Download Flyer - Continuing Education

Corporate Member Registration Form 

Session Spotlight!

Lodging Options

Lodging Update:


As of 10/1, the Omni Mt. Washington is sold out on our peak night (11/1). NNECOS is pursuing Townhome discounts, and accepting waitlist requests should additional spots open up, but recommend making arrangements for other lodging (refundable if possible). 


Ideas for possible offsite accommodations include:

  • Townhomes at Bretton Woods - contact NNECOS for discounted rates on 2, 3 and 4 bedroom townhomes. 
    • 2 Bedrooms - $377.30++ per night

    • 3 Bedrooms - $531.30++ per night

    • 4 Bedrooms - $685.30++ per night

    • 5 Bedrooms - $839.30++ per night


Discounted attendee lodging is available at Omni Mt. Washington resort for meeting attendees, on a space available basis. All discounted room reservations must be initiated with NNECOS at the time of registration, so don't delay! 

Omni Mt. Washington Resort

  • Main Hotel: $244.00/night plus tax/resort fee
  • Bretton Arms: $224.00/night plus tax/resort fee
  • The Lodge: $166/night plus tax/resort fee

Main Hotel

Bretton Arms

Reservation procedure*: Make your room reservation request through NNECOS at time of registration. *Corporate members/exhibitors, the primary contact for each company will be contacted for corporate member reservations. 

Travel Grants

Educational Travel Grants available for active associate and fellow/trainee members. 

New Parking Fees

    The Omni Mt. Washington has informed NNECOS of the following changes to parking options/fees for this year's meeting:

  • Valet Parking: $35.00 per night, available at the front of the hotel.
  • Self-Parking: $20.00 per night, with parking available in our self-parking lot.
  • Complimentary Parking: Guests may park in the Mt. Pleasant lot adjacent to the Welcome Center and our shuttle will transport you to the main entrance.

Continuing Education

Physicians:

  • 12.25 CME

Pharmacists:

  • 12.2 contact hours (1.22 CEUs)

Social Workers:

  • 7.75 Continuing Education hours

Nurses:

  • this nursing continuing professional development activity has been submitted to the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Meeting Agenda

 THURSDAY 10/31/24

All New! Welcome Reception - 7:00 - 9:00 PM*


FRIDAY 11/1/24

Palliative Care Symposium - Geriatric Considerations in Palliative Care

9:00 am Are Geriatric Considerations in Palliative Care a Fallacy? Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN
 9:50 am Unlocking Secrets: Hidden Gems and Clinical Pearls - Symptom Management - Moderated by Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN Germine Soliman, MD, Cosmina Fachiol, MD, Molly Bacon, PharmD, Jon Jehle, NP, ACHPN
 10:35 am  Break & Exhibits  
 11:00 am Unlocking Secrets: Hidden Gems and Clinical Pearls  - Case Studies - Moderated by Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN Germine Soliman, MD, Cosmina Fachiol, MD, Molly Bacon, PharmD, Jon Jehle, NP, ACHPN
 11:45 am Lunch & Exhibits  


FRIDAY 11/1/24

Annual Meeting

 12:15 pm Annual Meeting Welcome Carl Nelson, MD
 12:30 pm Drivers of Health in Northern New England - Community Context Driving Cancer Outcomes Sally Kraft, MD & Andrew P. Loehrer, MD, MPH
 1:35 pm Advancing Access and Equity in Hematology: Addressing Barriers to Care Through Patient Navigation and Multidisciplinary Care Ludmila Svoboda, RN, BSN, MA, MSN, OCN, facilitator. Panelists: Paula Aguilera, RN; Kidest Mequanent, MHA; Manisha Fleurisme, Patient Navigator; Lachelle Weeks, MD, PhD; Julio A. Toro, RN
 2:35 pm  Break & Exhibits  
 3:05 pm  Peer Breakout Session:  
  Putting the “Person” in “Personalized Medicine"

Jens Rueter, MD & Christine Walko, PharmD


The Value of Cancer Rehabilitation across the Cancer Journey Teresa Fitzpatrick, PT, MBA
 4:05 pm  Break & Exhibits  
 4:30 pm Preserving the Bone Matrix: Fracture Protection Throughout Cancer Treatment Jennifer J. Kelly, DO
 5:30 pm  Poster Session / Cocktail Hour  
 7:00 pm

Dinner Program & Podium Presentations

  • Viral Hepatitis Screening Prior to Initiation of Immunosuppressive Agents for Treatment of Oncologic and Hematologic Malignancies
  • Neoadjuvant ArOMatase Inhibitor therapy for ER+ Breast Cancer, the NAOMI trial.
  • Risk Factors for Venous Thrombosis after Discharge from Medical Hospitalizations: The Medical Inpatient Thrombosis and Hemostasis (MITH) Study

Margaret Gray, MD, MS

Marie Anne Christine Buteau, MD


Ryan Thomas, MD


 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm  S'mores Reception  

SATURDAY 11/2/24 

 Breakfast:

  • 6:45 am Platinum Breakfast - invitation only
  • 7:00 am Fellow/Trainee Breakfast
  • 7:15 am Networking Breakfast
 
 8:30 am  Steven M. Grunberg, MD Memorial Keynote: Breast Cancer in Older Women: Optimizing Treatment Decisions

Hyman B. Muss MD - Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professor of Geriatric Oncology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine;Director of the Geriatric Oncology Program, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Program

 9:35 am Tides, Storms, and Changing Shorelines: Reflecting on our Lives in Medicine Kathryn Kirkland, MD, FAAHPM
 10:30 am  Break/Exhibits  
 11:00 am  Prostate Cancer Tumor Board: So Many Options, Where Do We Start? Richard Lee, MD, Jens Rueter, MD, Christine Walko, PharmD, Lawrence Dagrosa, MD, Nataniel Lester-Coll, MD
 12:30 pm  Lunch, Awards, State of NNECOS  
 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm  Clearing the Air: Cannabis in Patients with Cancer Lisa M. Holle, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, FISOPP



*The Thursday evening welcome reception is open to medical professional attendees and by invitation to a limited number of companies who were unable to participate as exhibitors this year due to space limitations. Please RSVP at the time of registration. 

Future Annual Meeting Dates

  • October 24-25, 2025
  • November 6-7, 2026
  • October 29-30, 2027

Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society
P.O. Box 643
Sandown, NH 03873-0643
Telephone (603) 887-1948
info@nnecos.org

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