FRIDAY

Palliative Care Symposium:

Focus on Geriatric Oncology

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 Start  End  Session/Activity  Presenter Location
 8:00am  8:50am Keynote: Exploring the Intersection Among Aging, Cancer, and Other Serious Illnesses (Multimorbidity)
Ronald J. Maggiore, M.D.  Rockland
 9:00am  9:50am

Beyond Frailty - Ensuring Geriatric Assessment Leads to Intervention

Handout: AGE FRIENDLY CANCER CARE RESOURCES

Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN  Rockland
 9:50am  10:20am  Exhibits/Refreshments/Networking    State of Maine Hall
 10:20am  11:05am Models of Delivery of Palliative Care Panel

Andrew Hertler, MD, FACP - Moderator

Panelists: Lauren G. Michalakes, MD, Stephen T. Rust, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, Matthew M. Wilson, MD

 Rockland
 11:15am  12:00pm Project ECHO: A Disruptive Innovation to Expand Palliative Care in Maine
Lauren G. Michalakes, MD, Joan B. Ingram, MPH
 Rockland
 12:00pm  12:50pm  Lunch/Exhibits/Networking  

 Rockland

Buffet in State of Maine


Navigation & Financial Advocacy Symposium:

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 Start  End  Session/Activity  Presenter Location 
 8:00am  8:50am Keynote: Value-Based Cancer Care: Creating Partnerships between the Oncology Navigator and Oncology/Hematology Physician Practices
Tricia Strusowski, RN, MS
 Camden
 9:00am  9:20am

Patient Story & Round Table Introductions

  • Food Insecurities
  • Access to Medication
  • Transportation

Tricia Strusowski, RN, MS

  • Tracey F. Weisberg, MD
  • Torie Lavoie
  • Nicole Messier BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG
 Camden
 9:25am  9:45am  Rotation #1 (Food Insecurities, Access to Medication, Transportation)
 
  • Tracey F. Weisberg, MD
  • Torie Lavoie
  • Nicole Messier BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG
 Camden
 9:50am  10:10am  Rotation #2 (Food Insecurities, Access to Medication, Transportation)


  • Tracey F. Weisberg, MD
  • Torie Lavoie
  • Nicole Messier BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG
 Camden
 10:10am  10:35am  Exhibits/Refreshments/Networking    State of Maine Hall
 10:35am  10:55am  Rotation #3 (Food Insecurities, Access to Medication, Transportation)
  • Tracey F. Weisberg, MD
  • Torie Lavoie
  • Nicole Messier BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG
 Camden
 11:00am  12:00pm  Report Out & Discussion - Next Steps
Project ECHO and Patient Navigation

Facilitator: Aysha Sheikh, RN, MPH
 Camden
 12:00pm  12:50pm

 Lunch/Exhibits/Networking


Discussion Table Seating

 

 State of Maine Hall

Camden


Annual Meeting Begins

FRIDAY

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Start 

 End

 Session/Activity

 Presenter

 Location
 12:00pm  12:50pm

 Lunch/Exhibits/Networking

Overflow Seating

 

 State of Maine Hall

Penobscot Bay Room

 12:50pm
 1:00pm Welcome Paul S. Unger, MD
 
 1:00pm  1:45pm Plenary Session: High Quality Cancer Care for Every Patient
Stephen S. Grubbs, MD, FASCO  Bay Point Ballroom
    CONCURRENT SESSIONS    
 1:55pm  2:45pm “CAR Talk” – Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy Driving Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
John M. Hill, Jr., MD
 Camden
 1:55pm  2:45pm

 Reconsidering Cancer Survivorship in Our Aged Society: Improving Patient Experience and Clinical Care

Handout: For the Few, Not the Many: Considering the Limitations of
Cancer Survivorship

Sarah H. Kagan PhD, RN  Rockland
 2:45pm  3:05pm  Exhibits/Refreshments/Networking    State of Maine Hall
     ONCOLOGY REHAB PLENARY SESSION
   Bay Point Ballroom
 3:05pm  3:50pm Why Cardiac Rehabilitation is Important for Cancer Patients Susan C. Gilchrist, M.D., M.S.  
 3:50pm  4:35pm

Value of Exercise based Oncology Rehabilitation for cancer Survivors

Dittus Morris

Kim L. Dittus, MD, PHD, G. Stephen Morris, PT, Ph.D., FACSM  
 4:35pm  5:00pm  Exhibits/Refreshments/Networking    State of Maine Hall
 5:00pm  6:00pm Plenary Session: Better Care for Cancer Patients at Lower Cost:  How Oncology Practices Can Improve Value While Remaining Financially Viable
Harold D. Miller, MS  Bay Point Ballroom
 6:00pm  7:00pm

Exhibits/Networking/Snack

Friday Prize Drawing

   State of Maine
 6:15pm  7:00 pm
 Poster Session: - supportive care, prognostic markers, genetic evaluations and indications
   Rockport
     CONCURRENT EVENING ACTIVITIES
   
 7:00pm  9:00pm Platinum Roundtable Dinner - Invitation Only

 Camden
 7:00pm 9:00pmOptional Attendee Networking Dinner - Ticketed
  Bay Point Ballroom
 7:00pm
 8:00pm Optional S'mores Reception - Complimentary    Fire Pit

SATURDAY

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Session/Activity 

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  Location
 7:15am  8:30am Voting Member Business Meeting Breakfast & Member Awards   Camden
 7:15am  8:30am General Breakfast/Exhibits/Networking
   State of Maine & Rockland


 7:15am

 

8:30am

Fellow/Trainee Breakfast

  • Dr. Paul Hesketh
  • Dr. Douglas Weckstein
   Penobscot Bay
 8:30am  9:30am Steven M. Grunberg, MD  Memorial Keynote: Current status of molecular testing in defining optimal treatment strategies in non-small cell lung cancer
Paul J Hesketh, MD, FASCO  Bay Point Ballroom
 9:30 am
 10:15am Poster Session: case reports and treatment
   Rockport
 10:15am  10:45am Exhibits/Refreshments/Networking    State of Maine
     CONCURRENT SESSIONS
   
 10:45am  11:30am Re-Imagining Life With Cancer
Barbara L. Jones, Ph.D.  Rockland
 10:45am  11:30am Innovative Techniques in Neurosurgical Oncology
Linton T. Evans, MD
 Camden
     CONCURRENT SESSIONS
   
 11:35am 12:15pm  Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer: What the Practicing Oncologist Needs to Know in 2019
Deborah L. Ornstein, MD, MS
 Camden
 11:35am  12:15pm

Survivorship Issues: Implications of Head & Neck Cancer Treatment Panel

Panel to include: radiation oncology, dietician, patient navigator, speech, and surgeon

Moderator: Nicole Messier BSN, RN, OCN, ONN-CG

Panelists:

Philip Schaner, MD
Elise Cushman RD, LD
Michelle Coogan RN
Christina M. Mimikos, DO
Zoe Kennedy, MA, CCC-SLP
 Rockland
 12:20pm  1:10pm

 Abstract Podium Presentations


Heather, Wright, MD

Whitney Hammond

Allison Smith, MD, MPH


 Bay Point Ballroom
 1:10pm  1:30pm Lunch Buffet & Distinguished Service Awards  

 Bay Point Ballroom

 1:30pm  2:15pm Lunch Lecture: Evidence-based Multi-disciplinary Management of Pancreatic Cancer  Timothy J. Fitzgerald, MD
 Bay Point Ballroom
 2:15pm  2:30pm Prize Drawings & Refreshments/Networking
  Knox County Hallway

Late Afternoon Bonus Workshops

(not for credit)

 Start End
Session/Activity
 Location
     CONCURRENT SESSIONS  
 2:35pm  4:05pm  Regional Research Overview - Rural Access to Clinical Trials
 Camden
 2:35pm  4:05pm  Patient Engagement Initiatives - Innovation to Improve the Patient Experience
 Rockland
       

Fellows Retreat Sessions


Start
End
Session/Activity
  Location

 

2:30pm

 

3:30pm

Career Development and Research in Progress Brainstorming Sessions
  • Dr. Sarah Ketchum
  • Dr. Shodeinde Coker
  • Dr. Paul Unger
  • Dr. Hibba Tul Rehman
 Penobscot Bay


 3:45pm

 

4:30pm

 Project ECHO Introduction -

  • Dr. Mary Chamberlin
  • Rebecca Johnson
  • Dr.  Victoria Forbes
 Penobscot Bay
 6:00pm    Dinner at Flatbread - Significant others welcome  Flatbread

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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