Northern California Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, February 1, 2025

Click here to print the full agenda.* Please note: this is an in-person conference only.

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End 

Agenda  

Speaker 

9:00am, PT 

10:00am, PT 

Registration, Exhibits & Breakfast 

 

10:00am 

11:00am 

Welcome & Opening Remarks 

 

 

 

Keynote Presentation: 

The Road of Resilience: Our Legacy 

Kimberly Thompson 

Manager, Patient & Community Outreach 

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 

 

Cynthia Cantril, RN, MPH, OCN, CBCN 

Cantril Cancer Recovery Services, LLC

11:00am 

11:15am 

Break/Transition  

 

11:15am 

12:15pm 

Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

 

 

 

Adult Acute Leukemias (AML/ ALL) 

Lori Muffly, MD, MS 

Stanford Medicine 

 

 

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) 

Kelly Schoenbeck, MD 

Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center & San Francisco VA Medical Center

 

 

Multiple Myeloma  

Michael Green, MD 

The Permanente Medical Group – East Bay Medical Centers 

 

 

Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) 

Brian Andrew Jonas, MD, PhD 

UC Davis Health 

 

 

Food Matters: Top Strategies to Stay Nourished During Treatment and Recovery 

Nancy Birang, BS, NC 

CancerCAREpoint 

 

 

Tools for Navigating Mental and Emotional Resilience During Cancer Treatment and Survivorship 

Mayra Gomez Padua, PhD 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

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) 

Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH 

Stanford Medicine 

 

 

Lymphoma High Grade and Hodgkin Lymphoma 

Michael Khodadoust, MD 

Stanford Medicine 

 

 

Lymphoma Low Grade  

Joseph Michael Tuscano, MD 

UC Davis Health 

 

 

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) 

Bart Scott, MD 

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 

 

 

Food Matters: Top Strategies to Stay Nourished During Treatment and Recovery 

Nancy Birang, BS, NC 

CancerCAREpoint 

 

 

Tools for Navigating Mental and Emotional Resilience During Cancer Treatment and Survivorship 

Mayra Gomez Padua, PhD 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

2:15pm 

2:15pm  

Evaluations & Conference Concludes  

 

*Agenda subject to change. 

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