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  • Thursday, Nov 13th
    10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST
    Advancing Cancer Care with Non-Blood-Based Cell-Free DNA Testing
    Breakout Speaker: Christina Lockwood – University of Washington Medical Center
  • Thursday, Nov 13th
    11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST
    Current Clinical Applications of Blood-Based Cell-Free DNA Testing in Oncology
    Breakout Speaker: Trevor Pugh, PhD, FACMG (he/him/his) – Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EST
    Gene Fusions in Cancers: Challenges in Detection and Interpretation
    Breakout Speaker: Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EST
    Standards for classifying fusion oncogenicity and its applications
    Breakout Speaker: Jason Saliba – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    11:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST
    Standards for gene fusion nomenclature and reporting
    Breakout Speaker: Karen Tsuchiya, MD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Genomic Medicine/Nationwide Children's Hospital
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    1:15 PM - 1:45 PM EST
    Experience of MayoComplete Organ Specific Panels - Including a Lung Cancer-Specific Panel
    Breakout Speaker: Ying-Chun Lo, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    1:45 PM - 2:15 PM EST
    Interpreting Virtual Panels from Broad Cancer Sequencing Data
    Breakout Speaker: Melissa Tjota, MD, PhD – University of Chicago Medicine
  • Friday, Nov 14th
    2:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST
    Clinical Implementation of Joint Exome/Transcriptome Sequencing
    Breakout Speaker: Parth S. Shah (he/him/his) – Dartmouth Hitchcock and Medical Center
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    4:15 PM - 5:15 PM EST
    Plenary Solid Tumors
    Program Committee Moderator: Arivarasan Karunamurthy, n/a – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Program Committee Moderator: Fei Dong, MD – Stanford University
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    4:15 PM - 5:15 PM EST
    Leveraging RNA Sequencing for Splice Variant Discovery and Somatic Variant Prioritization in Precision Oncology
    Plenary Speaker: Malachi Griffith, PhD (he/him/his) – Washington University