AGENDA


DAY 1 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019
 
9:00 – 3:00 Registration Lobby, Main Level
 
11:00 – 6:00 Cohort Consortium Working Group Meetings Refer to Working Group Schedule
 
11:00 – 12:30 Steering Committee Working Lunch
Attendees are responsible for meals and refreshments on their own at their own cost.
Room 5E032/034
 
DAY 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2019
 
7:30 Registration Lobby, Main Level
 
8:30 – 5:00 Cohort Consortium Main Meeting Room 406/408/410
Terrace Level
 
SESSION I Opening Session
 
  Moderators
Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Dr. Celine Vachon, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
 
8:30 – 8:40 Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer, NCI
Dr. Celine Vachon, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
 
8:40 – 8:50 Opening Remarks and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Updates
Dr. Robert Croyle, Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), NCI
Dr. Stephen Chanock, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), NCI
 
 
8:50 – 9:05 Update on NCI DCEG Cohort
Dr. Montserrat Garcia-Closas, NCI
 
9:05 – 9:15 Open Discussion
 
SESSION II Strategic Planning for the Cohort Consortium: Updates
 
9:15 – 9:35 Strategic Planning Updates and Summary of Results from 2018 Science Planning
Dr. Susan Gapstur, American Cancer Society, Inc.
Dr. Nonye Harvey, NCI
 
9:35 – 9:45 Open Discussion
 
9:45 – 10:00 Break
 
SESSION III Plenary Session: Return of Research Results
 
  Moderator
Dr. Julie Palmer, Boston University School of Public Health
 
10:00 – 10:30 Returning Genetic Research Results to Individual Participants: Who, What, When and How?
Dr. Angela Bradbury, University of Pennsylvania
 
10:30 – 11:00 Germline Genetics: An Institutional Experience With Research Results
Dr. Les Robison, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
 
11:00 – 11:30 Open Discussion
 
11:30 – 12:45 Lunch
Attendees are responsible for meals and refreshments on their own at their own cost.
Cafeteria, Terrace Level
 
SESSION IV Kick-off Session of the Cohort Consortium Associate Member Council Seminar Room 110
 
  Moderator
Dr. Celine Vachon, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
 
11:30 – 11:45 Grab lunch from the cafeteria and go to Seminar Room 110
Attendees are responsible for meals and refreshments on their own at their own cost.
 
11:45 – 11:50 Overview – Goals, Purpose, Charge
Representatives of the Associate Member Council
 
11:50 – 12:10 Table Discussions with Senior PIs – Round 1
 
12:10 – 12:30 Table Discussions with Senior PIs – Round 2
 
12:30 – 12:45 Wrap Up
 
SESSION V Poster and Networking Session
 
12:45 – 1:45 Poster Session
Presenters are asked to be by their posters during this time.
Atrium, Second Level
 
1:45 – 2:00 Break
 
SESSION VI Plenary Session: Methodological Issues in Cohort Studies
 
  Moderator
Dr. Roger Milne, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
 
2:00 – 2:30 Integration of Geospatial Data into Existing Epidemiology Cohorts
Dr. Gianluca Severi, Inserm, Paris
 
2:30 – 2:45 Open Discussion
 
2:45 – 3:00 Development of the Virtual Pooled Registry Cancer Linkage System
Ms. Castine Clerkin, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Inc.
 
3:00 – 3:15 Opportunities to Advance Subsequent Neoplasm Ascertainment in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Dr. Gregory T. Armstrong, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
 
3:15 – 3:30 Cancer Ascertainment by U.S. Population-Based Cancer Registries, Self-Report and Death Certificates in the Nationwide U.S. Radiologic Technologists Cohort
Dr. Danping Liu, NCI
 
3:30 – 3:45 Open Discussion
 
SESSION VII Plenary Session: Grants - Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Supporting Consortial Projects
 
  Moderators
Dr. Joanne Elena, NCI
Dr. Marc Gunter, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
 
3:45 – 4:00 The Quest for the Holy Grail of Consistent Consortium Funding
Dr. Shelley Tworoger, Moffitt Cancer Center
 
4:00 – 4:15 Open Discussion
 
4:15 – 4:30 The Experience of the Pooling Project on Alcohol and Cancer Consortium
Dr. Pietro Ferrari, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
 
4:30 – 4:45 Open Discussion
 
4:45 – 5:00 Wrap Up of Main Meeting
 
  Dr. Celine Vachon, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dr. Lynne Wilkens, University of Hawaii Cancer Center
 
  Meeting Evaluation
Please drop off your meeting evaluation as you exit the room (side and back doors)
 
  Poster Awards
 
5:00 Adjournment
 
6:00 Networking Social
Attendees are responsible for meals and refreshments on their own at their own cost.
 

DAY 3 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019
 
8:30 – 1:00 Cohort Consortium Working Group Meetings Refer to Working Group Schedule
 
1:00 Adjournment