Texas Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, May 3, 2025

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

 

Start

End

Agenda

Speaker

9:00am CT

10:00am CT

Registration, Exhibits & Breakfast

10:00am

11:00am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Keynote Presentation:

The Power of Survivorship: Voices from the Blood Cancer Community 

Samantha Harris, BSN, RN

Senior Manager, Patient & Community Outreach

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Steve Pine - Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Survivor

Sona Strenger - ALL Survivor

Karen Williams - Myeloma Survivor

11:00am

11:15am

Break/Transition

 

11:15am

12:15pm

Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Adult Acute Leukemias (ALL & AML)

Gerardo Rosas, MD

UT Health Science Center San Antonio

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Jacinth Joseph, MD

Texas Oncology - Medical City Dallas

Lymphoma Low Grade

Vikas Bhushan, MD

Texas Oncology - Medical City Dallas

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)

Luis Pineiro, MD

Texas Oncology - Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant

Calm Amidst the Chaos: Managing Stress After a Diagnosis 

Melissa Lewis, MA, LPC-Associate, NCC

Collective Pathway Counseling, PLLC

Unraveling Hematologic Toxicities: 
Navigating the Challenges After 
CAR T-Cell Therapy  

Liffy Cherian MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC OCN

UT Southwestern Medical Center Harold C. Simmon 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)

Jan A. Burger, MD, PhD

The University of Texas at MD Anderson

Lymphoma High Grade & Hodgkin Lymphoma

Elif Yilmaz, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Multiple Myeloma

Larry Anderson, MD, PhD, FACP
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
 

Brian Berryman, MD

Texas Oncology - Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant

Calm Amidst the Chaos: Managing Stress After a Diagnosis

Melissa Lewis, MA, LPC-Associate, NCC

Collective Pathway Counseling, PLLC

Unraveling Hematologic Toxicities: 
Navigating the Challenges After 
CAR T-Cell Therapy

Liffy Cherian MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC OCN

UT Southwestern Medical Center Harold C. Simmon Comprehensive Cancer Center

2:15pm

2:30pm

Evaluations & Conference Concludes

*Agenda subject to change. 

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