Eastern Great Lakes Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, October 26, 2024

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Start End Session Speaker
9:00am, ET 10:00am, ET Registration, Exhibits & Breakfast  
10:00am 11:00am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

 



Keynote Presentation:
Stories of Survivorship

Sadie Szrama

Senior Manager, Patient & Community Outreach

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

 

 

Freddie Campbell
CML Survivor

 

Meredith A. Cowden, MA, AT, LPCC-S
AML & GvHD Survivor; Meredith A. Cowden Foundation 

Cassandra McDonald, PhD, DHL,MLS, BA
Myeloma & MDS Survivor; Civil Rights Activist 
11:00am 11:15am Break & Exhibitor Session   
11:15am 12:15pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions  
    Adult Acute Leukemias (ALL & AML)

Bhavana Bhatnagar, DO

West Virginia University Cancer Institute
    Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
    Lymphoma Low Grade Matthew Cortese, MD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Benjamin Tomlinson, MD
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
    Finding Purpose Through the Pain: How to Effectively Cope with Common Issues in Cancer Survivorship Andre Plate, PhD
Allegheny Health Network Cancer institute
    Strength in Motion: How Exercise Empowers Blood Cancer Survivors

Eileen Slavin, DO
Cleveland Clinic
12:15pm 12:30pm Break & Exhibitor Session  
12:30pm 1:00pm Lunch  
1:00pm 1:15pm Break/Exhibitor Session  
1:15pm 2:15pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions  
    Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Clive Zent, MD
University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Center
    Lymphoma High Grade & Hodgkin Lymphoma Salman Fazal, MD
Allegheny Health Network
    Multiple Myeloma

Srinivas Devarakonda, MD

The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)

Tamila Kindwall-Keller, DO

The MetroHealth System - Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
    Finding Purpose Through the Pain: How to Effectively Cope with Common Issues in Cancer Survivorship Andre Plate, PhD
Allegheny Health Network Cancer institute
    Strength in Motion: How Exercise Empowers Blood Cancer Survivors

Eileen Slavin, DO
Cleveland Clinic
  2:15pm 2:30pm Evaluations & Conference Concludes  

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