2024 Annual Meeting & Palliative Care Symposium

Registration is now open!

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. 


Abstracts - Travel Grants - Fees - Lodging - Agenda  - Download Flyer

Call for Abstracts

Podium consideration deadline is 8/26/24. Learn more at nnecos.org/abstracts

Travel Grants

Registration Fees

 Category

Early

(through 8/31) 

Regular

(9/1 through 10/1)  

 Active Associate $  65 $100
 Active Physician $140 $175
 Non-Member Allied Health $  90 $125
 Non-Member Physician $315 $350
 Fellow/Trainee $  60 $  85
 Symposium Only - Member $  75 $100
 Symposium Only - Non-Member $125 $150

Early Bird Registration Gift


Register by August 31st, receive a NNECOS travel mug at check-in! Registration must be paid in full to be eligible for gift.*

*Exhibitors/corporate members not eligible.


Lodging Options

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. 

Tentative Agenda

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 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 (part 2) 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 Navigating Access to Cutting Edge Leukemia Treatment for Historically Marginalized Patients: Challenges in Urban and Rural Settings Ludmila Svoboda, RN, BSN, MA, MSN, OCN, facilitator. Panelists: Paula Aguilera, RN; Kidest Mequanent, MHA; Manisha Fleurisme, Patient Navigator; Lachelle Weeks, MD, PhD; Julia A. Toro, RN
 2:35 pm  Break & Exhibits  
 3:05 pm  Peer Breakout Session:  
  Putting the “Person” in “Personalized

Jens Reuter, 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  
 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

 9:40 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 Reuter, MD, Christine Walko, PharmD, Lawrence Dagrosa, MD, Nataniel Lester-Coll
 12:30 pm  Lunch, Awards, State of NNECOS  
 1:15 pm  Clearing the Air: Cannabis in Patients with Cancer Lisa M. Holle, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, FISOPP
 3:00 pm Fellows Retreat (tentative)