2019 Independent Supported Sessions at SNO

The 24th Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day of the Society for Neuro-Oncology is set for November 21-24, 2019, at the Marriott Hotel Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona will feature multiple Independent Supported Symposia (ISS) Sessions. Lunch-time and evening sessions will be offered.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

5:30PM – 7:30PM

Speakers:

• Jaishri Blakeley, MD – Johns Hopkins
• Roger J. Packer, MD -Children's National Health System
• Brian Weiss, MD – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Registration: Please click here.
Supported by Medscape through an unrestricted educational grant from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
 

Location: Grand Saguaro North
Chair: Steven Brem, MD – University of Pennsylvania
Speakers: 

• Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, FACP – Cleveland Clinic
• Steven A. Toms, MD, MPH, FAANS, FACS – Brown University

Registration: Please click here.
Jointly provided by Medical Learning Institute, Inc.; PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education; and the American Brain Tumor Association through educational grants from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., Karyopharm Therapeutics, Inc., and Novocure.

Friday, November 22, 2019

12:15PM – 1:15PM

Location: Grand Sonoran F
Speaker: Na Tosha Gatson, MD, PhD - Geisinger Neuroscience & Cancer Institutes
Registration: Not required.
Supported by Novocure

Speakers: 

• Raj Puri, MD, PhD - FDA
• Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD - Pacific Neuroscience Institute
• John H. Sampson, MD, PhD - Duke University School of Medicine
• Fahar Merchant, PhD - Medicenna Therapeutics

Registration: Not required.
Supported by Medicenna

 
Speakers:

• F. David Barranco, MD - Barrow
• Igor Barani, MD - Barrow

Registration: Not required.
Sponsored by Zap Surgical

5:30PM – 7:30PM

Location: Grand Sonoran E
Speakers: 

• Wenyin Shi, MD, PhD - Thomas Jefferson University
• Orin Bloch, MD - UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Andrew Brenner, MD - UT Health San Antonio

Registration: Please click here.
Supported by Brainlab


Location: Grand Saguaro South

Chair:

• Tom Mikkelsen, MD, FRCPC – Henry Ford Health System

Speakers:

• Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, MD, FACP – Cleveland Clinic
• Rimas V. Lukas, MD – Northwestern University

Registration: Please click here.
Provided by Clinical Care Options, LLC and supported by an educational grant from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

12:15PM – 1:15PM

Location: Grand Sonoran G
Speakers: 

• Michael Lim, MD - Johns Hopkins University
• Tony Wang, MD -  Columbia University

Registration: Not required.
Supported by Elekta


Location: Grand Sonoran JK
Speaker: Whitney B. Pope, MD, PhD - UCLA
Registration: Not required.
Supported by Blue Earth Diagnostics

Location: Grand Sonoran HI
Speakers: 

• David Brachman, MD - GT Medical Technologies, Inc.
• Clark Chen, MD, PhD - University of Minnesota
• Kris Smith, MD - Barrow Neurological Institute
• Oscar Garcia - Patient

Registration: Not required.
Supported by GT Medical Technologies

Chair: Matthew Gubens, MD, MS - University of California, San Francisco
Speakers: 

• Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD - Cleveland Clinic
• Daniel Gomez, MD, MBA - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Gregory J Riely, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Registration: Please click here.
Supported by Research to Practice through an unrestricted educational grant from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP. 

 

 5:00PM – 7:00PM

Chairs: 

• Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD – University of Toronto
• Kenneth Aldape, MD - NIH

Speakers: 

• Kenneth Aldape, MD – NIH
• Farshad Nashiri, MD – University of Toronto
• Felix Sahm, MD, PhD – University Hospital Heidelberg
• Ian Dunn, MD – Stephenson Cancer Center
• Susan Short, MBBS, PhD - University of Leeds
• Jennifer Moliterno Gunel, MD – Yale University\
• Ghazaleh Tabatabaie, MD, PhD - University Tubingen
• Leland Rogers, MD - Barrow Neurological Institute

Supported by Illumina.