Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium (Agenda) | Events Registration

Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program

Agenda

Meeting location:
NCI Shady Grove Campus in Seminar Room 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: Drs. Alpa Patel and Melissa Merritt 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 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: Drs. Wendy Setiawan and Jessica Madrigal TBD
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: Drs. Yu Chen and Mandy Goldberg 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 Discussants: Martin Lajous, Shelley Tworoger Room: 2W910 (Conference Room) Navigating politics and challenging situations Discussants: Yu Chen, Pietro Ferrari, Jim Lacey Room: 2W912 (Conference Room) Developing a cohort consortium project and time management for longer‐term projects Discussants: Pete Campbell, Chuck Matthews, Katherine McGlynn Room: 2W908 (Conference Room) Grant writing, writing efficiently, and finding funding Discussants: Joanne Elena, Heather Eliassen Room: 2E908 (Conference Room) Women in Science Discussants: Janet Olson, Mary Townsend Room: 2E904 (Conference Room) Virtual Roundtable Discussants: Michael Cook, Britton Trabert, Shaneda Warren Andersen
12:45 pm - 1:40 pm	Session V: Special Session – Topics in Data Harmonization
	Moderators: Drs. Pietro Ferrari and Celina Valencia 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: Drs. Jelena Bešević and Caroline Um 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