Agenda
The Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium is organized into two days on September 24 (full day) and September 25 (half day). The agenda provided below is subject to change.
NCI Shady Grove Campus
9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
Seminar Room: 406/408/410 (Lower TE Level, East Wing)
Times are all listed in Eastern Time (ET) zone
DAY 1: Thursday, September 24 (9:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. ET)
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks, Introduction, and Acknowledgements Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, Boston University Welcoming Remarks from NCI Stephen Chanock, MD, National Cancer Institute |
| 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. | Session I: Population Science Data Resources |
Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Yu Chen, PhD, MPH, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Speakers: Population Science Data Commons Development Updates Heather Creasy, MS, National Cancer Institute OMOP Survey Common Data Model Working Group Update Improving Interoperability of Cohort Data: Lessons from the Generations Study | |
| 10:15 – 10:40 a.m. | Session II: Cohort Consortium Steering Committee Updates
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Speakers: Updates from the Chair Updates from the National Cancer Institute Project Group Subcommittee Updates Associate Member Council Updates | |
| 10:40 – 10:50 a.m. | Break |
| 10:50 – 11:45 a.m. | Session III: New Cohort Introductions: Goals, Progress, and Challenges
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Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Arash Etemadi, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute Speakers: Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) Study Connect for Cancer Prevention Study Food and Microbiome Longitudinal Investigation (FAMiLI) Fernald Community Cohort: Rich in Research Resources and Opportunities Korean National Cancer Center (KNCC) Screenee Cohort Overview of Cohorts for Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risks (CEECR) | |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. | Session IV: Lightning Talks |
Moderators: Ping-Ching Hsu, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Speakers: An R Package for the Health Professionals Follow-up Study The Pathways Study Data Portal Multi-omics Study Reveals Potential Novel Biomarkers Linking Low Fruit Intake and Aging to Gastric Cancer Blood Proteomic Profiles and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Risk Oral Bacterial and Fungal Microbiome and Subsequent Risk for Pancreatic Cancer Chemical and metal emissions from industrial sources and breast cancer risk in the Black Women's Health Study Adding Serum Hormone Measurement to Improve the Tyrer-Cuzick Breast Cancer Risk Model Prediagnostic plasma per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and colorectal cancer risk: a nested case-control study in the CLUE II cohort stratified by time to diagnosis Pilot Assessment of Potential Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors in Young Hispanic Adults Tumor expression of ERG, PTEN, and p53 and lethal prostate cancer in two prospective cohort studies Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome and pancreatic cancer risk: A pooled analysis across four prospective cohorts Radon and uranium particulate exposure to a community population and incidence of lung cancer | |
| 12:40 – 2:10 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:10 – 3:15 p.m. | Session V: Special Session on Novel Exposure Assessment |
Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, Boston University Speakers: Operationalizing Exposomics for Large-Scale Population Studies of Cancer Opportunities to improve occupational data collection in questionnaires using the auto-coding SOCcer algorithm Embedding smartphones and consumer wearable devices to develop high spatial and temporal resolution measures of the external exposome and cancer-related behaviors | |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 – 4:40 p.m. | Session VI: Project Group Updates
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Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Martha Shrubsole, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Speakers: Consortial Efforts to Elucidate Biliary Tract Cancer Etiology Population Attributable Fractions of Pancreatic Cancer Caused by Key Risk Factors Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP) | |
| 4:40 – 4:45 p.m. | Housekeeping & Logistics for Day 2 Audrey Wellons, MPH, National Cancer Institute |
| 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. | Concurrent Poster Session and New Cohorts Meet & Greet New Cohorts
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| 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Evening Social Mixer (optional and open to all attendees) Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites Rockville-Gaithersburg |
DAY 2: Friday, September 25 (9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET)
| 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. | Welcome Remarks Audrey Wellons, MPH, National Cancer Institute |
| 9:10 – 9:55 a.m. | Session VI (continued): Project Group Updates |
Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Martha Shrubsole, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Speakers: Liver Cancer Pooling Project (LCPP) Lymphoid Malignancies Project Group | |
| 9:55 – 10:05 a.m. | Break |
| 10:05 – 11:05 a.m. | Session VII: Special Session on Medical Records Data Use in Cohort Research
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Moderators: Mia Gaudet, PhD, National Cancer Institute Speakers: Assessing the Data Quality Dimensions of Surgical Oncology Cohorts in the All of Us Research Program Mexican Teachers' Cohort Multiple Sources of Clinical Outcomes Data in WHI: Comparisons and Considerations | |
| 11:05 – 11:20 a.m. | Break |
| 11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | Session VIII: Special Session on 'Omics
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Presentations followed by Q&A discussion. Moderators: Karl Smith-Byrne, MPhil, DPhil, University of Oxford Speakers: Reproductive Factors, the Gut Microbiome, and Breast Carcinogenesis: Insights from the Nurses’ Health Study II Prostate Cancer and Metabolomics Pan-Cancer Proteomics in EPIC | |
| 12:20 – 12:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, Boston University |