Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium (Agenda)

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
  • Pothur Srinivas, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute

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
  • En Cheng, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Speakers:

  • Heather Creasy, MS, National Cancer Institute & Erin Siegel, PhD, MPH, ICF Next
    • Population Science Data Commons Development Updates
  • Nicole Gerlanc, PhD, National Cancer Institute
    • OMOP Survey Common Data Model Working Group Update
  • Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, MPH, DrPH, Institute of Cancer Research
    • Improving Interoperability of Cohort Data: Lessons from the Generations Study
10:15 – 10:40 a.m.
Session II: Cohort Consortium Steering Committee Updates

 

 

Speakers:

  • Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, Boston University
    • Updates from the Chair
  • Audrey Wellons, MPH, National Cancer Institute 
    • Updates from the National Cancer Institute
  • Katie O'Brien, PhD, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    • Project Group Subcommittee Updates
  • Jessica Madrigal, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield
    • 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

 

 

Presentations followed by Q&A discussion.

Moderators:

  • Arash Etemadi, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute
  • Lauren Barber, PhD, MSc, Emory University

Speakers:

  • Ping-Ching Hsu, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    • Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) Study
  • Mia Gaudet, PhD, National Cancer Institute
    • Connect for Cancer Prevention Study
  • Jiyoung Ahn, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    • Food and Microbiome Longitudinal Investigation (FAMiLI)
  • Susan Pinney, PhD, University of Cincinnati
    • Fernald Community Cohort
  • Jeongseon Kim, PhD, National Cancer Center Korea
    • Korean National Cancer Center (KNCC) Screenee Cohort
  • Somdat Mahabir, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute
    • Overview of Cohorts for Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risks (CEECR)
11:55 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Session IV: Lightning Talks
 
 

Moderators:

  • Ping-Ching Hsu, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  • Yin Zhang, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speakers:

  • Konrad Stopsack, MD, MPH, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology
    • An R Package for the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
  • Xiang Shu, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    • Multi-omics Study Reveals Potential Novel Biomarkers Linking Low Fruit Intake and Aging to Gastric Cancer
  • Lawrence Kushi, ScD, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
    • The Pathways Study Data Portal
  • Meng-Han Tsai, PhD, Augusta University
    • Descriptive Insights into Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors in Young Hispanic Adults
  • Ting Zhang, PhD, National Cancer Institute
    • Blood Proteomic Profiles and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Risk
  • Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD, MPH, DrPH, Institute of Cancer Research
    • Adding Serum Hormone Measurement to Improve the Tyrer-Cuzick Breast Cancer Risk Model
  • Yixuan Meng, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    • Oral Bacterial and Fungal Microbiome and Subsequent Risk for Pancreatic Cancer
  • Hannah E. Guard, MS, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    • Tumor expression of ERG, PTEN, and p53 and lethal prostate cancer in two prospective cohort studies - 
  • Yilda G. Macias, MPH, PhD candidate, University of Washington School of Public Health / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    • Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome and pancreatic cancer risk: A pooled analysis across four prospective cohorts 
  • Devendra Paudel, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
    • 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
  • Jessica Madrigal, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield
    • Chemical and metal emissions from industrial sources and breast cancer risk in the Black Women's Health Study 
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
  • Mandy Goldberg, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health

Speakers:

  • Douglas Walker, PhD, Emory University
    • Exposome (Targeted & Untargeted Assays) in Silicone Wristbands & Biological Samples
  • Melissa Friesen, PhD, National Cancer Institute
    • Standardizing Occupational Coding System SOCCER
  • Peter James, ScD, MHS, University of California Davis
    • Smart-Phone Based Apps & Wearable Accelerometers to Track Location, Behavior, & Contextual Exposures
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.Break
3:30 – 4:40 p.m.
Session VI: Project Group Updates

 

 

Presentations followed by Q&A discussion.

Moderators:

  • Martha Shrubsole, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Harindra Jayasekara, PhD, MBBS, Cancer Council Victoria

Speakers:

  • Jill Koshiol, PhD, National Cancer Institute
    • Biliary Tract Cancers Pooling Project
  • Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD, National Cancer Institute
    • Population Attributable Fractions of Pancreatic Cancer Caused by Key Risk Factors
  • Jeanine Genkinger, PhD, MHS, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
    • 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

  • 10,000 Families Study (10KFS)

  • Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) Study

  • Connect for Cancer Prevention Study

  • Food and Microbiome Longitudinal Investigation (FAMiLI)

  • Fernald Community Cohort

  • Korean National Cancer Center (KNCC) Screenee Cohort

  • Michigan Cancer and Research on the Environment Study (MI-CARES)

  • Southern Environmental Health Study (SEHS)

  • Southern Liver Health Study (STRIVE)

6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Evening Social Mixer (optional and open to all attendees)

Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites Rockville-Gaithersburg
14975 Shady Grove Road, Rockville, MD 20850

 

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
  • Harindra Jayasekara, PhD, MBBS, Cancer Council Victoria

Speakers:

  • Katherine McGlynn, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute
    • Liver Cancer Pooling Project (LCPP)
  • Brenda Birmann, ScD, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
    • 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

 

 

Moderators:

  • Mia Gaudet, PhD, National Cancer Institute
  • Liliana Gomez Flores Ramos, PhD, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública

Speakers:

  • John Giannini, PhD, National Institutes of Health & Matthew Spotnitz, MPH, MD, National Institutes of Health
    • All of Us Research Program
  • Martín Lajous, MD, MSc, DSc, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 
    • Mexican Teachers' Cohort
  • Garnet Anderson, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Medical Data Use from WHI LILAC Cohort
11:25 – 11:20 a.m.Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 a.m.
Session VIII: Special Session on 'Omics

 

 

Presentations followed by Q&A discussion.

Moderators:

  • Karl Smith-Byrne, MPhil, DPhil, University of Oxford
  • Jessica Madrigal, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield

Speakers:

  • Tengteng Wang, PhD, Rutgers Cancer Institute
    • Early Career Researcher on Multi-Omics including Microbiome
  • Burcu Darst, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Prostate Cancer and Metabolomics
  • James Yarmolinsky, PhD, MSc, Imperial College London
    • Pan-Cancer Proteomics in EPIC
12:20 – 12:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up

  • Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, Boston University