Southern California Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, March 15, 2025

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Start

End

Agenda

Speaker

9:00am PT

10:00am PT

Registration, Exhibits & Breakfast

10:00am

11:00am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

 

 

Keynote Presentation:

In their Own Words: Survivorship Stories from The Blood Cancer Community

Laura Diaz

Patient & Community Outreach Manager

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

 

Blood Cancer Survivor Panel:

Jack Kelly, Paul Goodman, Laurie Adami, Melanie Meyer, and Jeff McLain

11:00am

11:15am

Break/Transition

 

11:15am

12:15pm

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Adult Acute Leukemias (ALL & AML)

Elisa Quiroz, MD

Scripps Health

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Ronald Paquette, MD

Cedars Sinai Cancer

Lymphoma Low Grade

Aaron Goodman, MD

UC San Diego Health

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)

Caitlin O’Neill, MD

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center 

Managing Cancer with Care: Enhancing Quality of Life Throughout Treatment

Suzi K. Johnson, MPH, RN

Sharp Healthcare

What’s Best for Me? Navigating Your Cancer Treatment Options and Clinical Trials

Christen Hawthorne, RN, BSN, BMT-CN

Kelly Stackhouse, RN, BSN

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

12:15pm

12:30pm

Break/Exhibitor Session

12:30pm

1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:15pm

Break/Exhibitor Session

1:15pm

2:15pm

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

Vina Nguyen, MD

Kaiser Permanente

Lymphoma High Grade & Hodgkin Lymphoma

Tycel Phillips, MD

City of Hope National Medical Center

Multiple Myeloma

Sarah Larson, MD

UCLA Health

Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Deepa Jeyakumar, MD

UCI Chao Comprehensive Cancer Center

Managing Cancer with Care: Enhancing Quality of Life Throughout Treatment

Suzi K. Johnson, MPH, RN

Sharp Healthcare

What’s Best for Me? Navigating Your Cancer Treatment Options and Clinical Trials

Christen Hawthorne, RN, BSN, BMT-CN

Kelly Stackhouse, RN, BSN

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

2:15pm

2:15pm

Evaluations & Conference Concludes

*Agenda subject to change. 

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