Eastern Great Lakes Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, September 27, 2025

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9:00 am ET 10:00 am ET Registration, Exhibits & Breakfast  
10:00 am  11:00 am 

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

 


Keynote Presentation:
Navigating Survivorship: Personal Survivor Stories

Angela Austin
Senior Manager, Patient & Community Outreach
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 

 

Keynote Panel 
Kim Evans, Liz Grand, Robert F. Lasich, 
John Mackin and Yvonne E. Yaksic

11:00 am  11:15 am   Break/Transition  
11:15 am  12:15 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions  
    Adult Acute Leukemias (ALL & AML) Carl T. Shultz, DO
WVU Cancer Institute
    Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
    Lymphoma Low Grade Taylor Brooks, MD
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
    Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Elizabeth Griffiths, MD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Nutrition to Optimize Treatment/Survivorship Andrea Santella, RD, CSO, LDN
Angela Zaccagnini, MS, RD, LDN

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
    It's How Much?  Exploring the Costs of Cancer Melanie J. Douglass, MSW, OSW-C
WVU Cancer Institute
12:15 pm 12:30 pm  Break & Exhibitor Session  
12:30 pm 1:00 pm Lunch  
1:00 pm 1:15 pm  Break & Exhibitor Session  
1:15 pm   2:15 pm   Concurrent Breakout Sessions  
    Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)     Matthew Cortese, MD 
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Lymphoma High Grade & Hodgkin Lymphoma   Kelly Ross, MD
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
    Multiple Myeloma Santhosh K. Sadashiv, MD
Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute
    Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) Salman Fazal, MD
Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute
    Nutrition to Optimize Treatment/Survivorship Andrea Santella, RD, CSO, LDN
Angela Zaccagnini, MS, RD, LDN

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
    It's How Much?  Exploring the Costs of Cancer Melanie J. Douglass, MSW, OSW-C
WVU Cancer Institute
2:15 pm  2:30 pm Evaluations & Conference Concludes  

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