Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium (Agenda)

Agenda 

Meeting location:
NCI Shady Grove Campus in Seminar Room TE 406/408/410 (in-person)
ZoomGov Meeting (virtually)

The following times are all listed in the Eastern Time Zone.

Day 1 - Thursday, November 14, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Opening Remarks, Introduction, and Acknowledgements

 

Dr. Erin Siegel, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Dr. Janet Olson, Mayo Clinic

Welcoming Remarks from NCI
Dr. Katrina Goddard, Director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Dr. Peter Kraft, Director, Trans-Divisional Research Program (TDRP), Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH

2:20 pm - 3:45 pm

Session I: Data Sharing Updates – US and International
 

Moderators:
Dr. Alpa Patel, American Cancer Society
Dr. Melissa Merritt, The University of Sydney

Population Sciences Data Commons - Update from NCI
Dr. Pothur Srinivas, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH

NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Updates
Ms. Charlisse Caga-Anan, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Dr. Sonia Rosenfield, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Data Sharing in the European Context – contractual arrangements from a data protection and scientific point of view
Ms. Jolien Jongerius, International Agency for Research on Cancer

Cohort Data Interoperability Interest Group
Dr. Peter Kraft, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Q&A (15 minutes)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Session II: Cohort Consortium Steering Committee Updates

 

Moderator: Dr. Rachel Hanisch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH

AMC Update 
Dr. Jessica Petrick, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University

Project Group Subcommittee Updates
Dr. Jelena Bešević, UK Biobank

Chair Updates
Dr. Janet Olson, Mayo Clinic

4:00 pm - 4:10 pm

Break
4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Session III: Lightning Talks
Lightning talks can be on any new ideas, works in progress or completed work. Preference will be given to Early Career Scientists.

 

Moderators:
Dr. Wendy Setiawan, University of Southern California
Dr. Jessica Madrigal, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Smoking history and lung cancer risk on four continents – Comprehensive analysis in 3,000,000 cohort participants from the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3)
Mrs. Karine Alcala, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO)

Our Future Health: A New Prospective Cohort for Translational Research
Dr. Benjamin Cairns, Our Future Health

International Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Consortium (IESC3)
Mrs. Monireh Sadat Seyyedsalehi, University of Bologna

Leveraging existing cohort studies of Mexican women to better understand Hispanic health
Dr. Liliana Gómez, Mexico National Institute of Public Health

Geocoding Self-Reported Addresses in a Large Population-based Cancer Cohort in Mexico
Dr. Martin Lajous, Mexico National Institute of Public Health

Characterizing drivers of prognosis and quality of life among Black colorectal cancer survivors: a pooled approach
Dr. Doratha “Armen” Byrd, Moffitt Cancer Center

Post-diagnosis Adherence to ACS Guidelines and Mortality in Prostate Cancer Patients in the CPS-II Nutrition Cohort
Dr. Valeria Elahy, American Cancer Society

Circulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and risk of liver cancer: a nested case-control analysis of individual participant data from 12 prospective cohorts
Dr. Cody Watling, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Poster session

 

(to be held at the back of the meeting room, TE - 406-410)
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reception for all members/attendees at True Food Kitchen
 

Gaithersburg/Rio Lakefront
221 Rio Boulevard, Suite 0221 (Reception in private room)

 

Day 2 - Friday, November 15, 10:00 am – 2:30pm

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Session IV: Special Session – Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Tissue
 

Moderators:
Dr. Yu Chen, New York University School of Medicine
Dr. Mandy Goldberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

A Population-level Computational Histologic Signature for Invasive Breast Cancer Prognosis
Dr. Lee Alex Donald Cooper, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

NCI SEER-Linked Biorepositories & Future Whole Slide Imaging Program
Dr. Alison Van Dyke, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Evaluating AI Use for Mammography Screening
Dr. Christoph Lee, University of Washington & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Q&A Panel (15 minutes)
11:30 am - 12:45 pm

AMC - Roundtable Discussion (organized by AMC members)

Others: Get your own lunch/open networking session
 

AGENDA
11:30-11:55 am: Open networking
Grab lunch and head to the 2nd floor
11:55-12:30 pm: Roundtable 1
12:30-12:45 pm: Roundtable 2

Roundtable Topics, Discussants, and Locations:

Identifying mentors versus sponsors and transitioning teams
Room: 2W910 (Conference Room)
Discussants:  Dr. Martin Lajous, Mexico National Institute of Public Health
                      Dr. Shelley Tworoger, Knight Cancer Institute & Oregon Health
                      and Science University

Navigating politics and challenging situations
Room: 2W912 (Conference Room)
Discussants:  Dr. Yu Chen, New York University School of Medicine
                      Dr. Pietro Ferrari, International Agency for Research on Cancer
                      Dr. Jim Lacey, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope

Developing a cohort consortium project and time management for longer‐term projects
Room: 2W908 (Conference Room)
Discussants:  Dr. Pete Campbell, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
                      Dr. Chuck Matthews, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics,  National Cancer Institute, NIH
                      Dr. Katherine McGlynn, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Grant writing, writing efficiently, and finding funding
Room: 2E908 (Conference Room)
Discussants:  Dr. Joanne Elena, American Cancer Society
                      Dr. Heather Eliassen, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan   School of Public Health

Women in Science
Room: 2E904 (Conference Room)
Discussants: Dr. Janet Olson, Mayo Clinic
                     Dr. Mary Townsend, Knight Cancer Institute & Oregon Health and  Science University

Virtual Roundtable
Discussants: Dr. Michael Cook, Our Future Health
                     Dr. Britton Trabert, University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute
                     Dr. Shaneda Warren Andersen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:45 pm - 1:40 pm

Session V: Special Session – Topics in Data Harmonization
 

Moderators:
Dr. Pietro Ferrari, International Agency for Research on Cancer
Dr. Celina Valencia, University of Arizona

Introduction of Problem by Moderators

A Symphony of Tools: Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3) Data Harmonization
Drs. Shelley Tworoger and Mary Townsend, Knight Cancer Institute & Oregon Health and Science University

epiHarmony: Harnessing AI for Decentralized Data Harmonization in Epidemiology
Dr. Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian, Data Science & Engineering Research Group, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Q&A (10 minutes)
1:40 pm - 2:30 pm

Session VI: Project Group Updates
 

Moderators:
Dr. Jelena Bešević, UK Biobank  
Dr. Caroline Um, American Cancer Society

Promise: Proteomics Research for Advancements in Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
Dr. Karl Smith Byrne, University of Oxford

Discovering Novel Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci and Genes and Improving Risk Prediction among African-ancestry Females
Dr. Wei Zheng, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Premenopausal Breast Cancer Project Group
Dr. Katie O’Brien, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

Q&A (5 minutes)

Wrap Up
Dr. Janet Olson, Mayo Clinic