Northern California Blood Cancer Conference: Saturday, January 31, 2026

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

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

 


Keynote Presentation:
Meaningful Conversations about Survivorship, Advocacy and Support 

Kimberly Thompson 
Manager, Patient & Community Outreach
Blood Cancer United

 

Keynote Panel  

Mark Chao, Board Member, Moderator 

Peter Feinberg 

Masha Kutilova 

Esteban Zapiain  

11:00 am  11:15 am   Break & Exhibitor Session  
11:15 am  12:15 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions  
    Adult Acute Leukemias (ALL & AML)

Vanessa Kennedy, MD 

Stanford Medicine 

    Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)  

Neil Shah, MD, PhD 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) 

Caroline Behler, MD 

Sutter Health – California Pacific Medical Center 

    Multiple Myeloma 

Aaron Rosenberg, MD, MS 

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Exploring Beyond Treatment with Integrative Cancer Care 

Kavita Mishra, MD, MPH 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Mitigating Financial Distress after a Cancer Diagnosis: A Holistic Approach 

Patty Falconer, MBA 

Health Options, LLC 

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)

Carrie Ho, MD 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Lymphoma High Grade and Hodgkin Lymphoma 

Joe Schroers-Martin, MD 

Stanford Medicine 

    Lymphoma Low Grade

Kevin Knopf, MD, MPH 

Sutter Health East Bay - Alta Bates Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) 

Gerald Hsu, MD, PhD 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

San Francisco VA Medical Center 

    Exploring Beyond Treatment with Integrative Cancer Care 

Kavita Mishra, MD, MPH 

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 

    Mitigating Financial Distress after a Cancer Diagnosis: A Holistic Approach 

Patty Falconer, MBA 

Health Options, LLC 

2:15 pm  2:30 pm Evaluations & Conference Concludes  

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