10th Annual New York Oncology Forum

Program AgendaYoung Investigator Travel Awards | Junior Investigator Award | Meeting Organizers | Sponsors & Exhibitors | Support Opportunities

The CAHON annual New York Oncology Forum (NYOF) is a one and a half day educational program that includes presentations on new developments and updates from the latest ASH, ASCO and SITC meetings including novel agents for Hematology and Oncology. 2023 will mark the 10th anniversary for this annual event which draws more than 100 clinicians, researchers, medical students, clinical fellows as well as laboratory and health care related scientists working in the hematology and oncology.

Date

Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, October 8, 2023 - 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

Sheraton La Guardia East
13520 39th Avenue
Flushing, NY, 11354

 

 Program Agenda

Saturday, October 7, 2023

7:30 - 9:00 am                     On-site Registration, Exhibitors Visitation               

8:00 – 9:00 am                    Breakfast Promotional Talk - Sponsored by Merck
                                             A First-line Treatment Option for Certain Patients with Advanced Esophageal or GEJ Cancer
                                             Speaker: Angela Alistar, MD - Atlantic Medical Group-Oncology, Morristown Medical Center
                                             Moderator: Minggui Pan, MD – Stanford University

9:00 am – 10:40 am          Plenary Session I – Part I
                                           Session Chairs: Bo Zhao, MD, PhD - CAHON President, Virginia Oncology Associates
                                                                     Ruirong Yuan, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, New Jersey VA Medical Center

             9:00 – 9:05 am                Welcome Remarks
                                                      Delong Liu, MD, PhD - New York Medical College

             9:05 – 9:15 am                Introduction of Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
                                                      Ruirong Yuan, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, New Jersey VA Medical Center

            9:15 – 9:40 am                 Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture

                                                      Delong Liu, MD, PhD - New York Medical College

            9:40 -10:20 am                New Agents and Regimens for AML
                                                     Speaker: Joseph Jurcic, MD - Columbia University
                                                     Moderator: Richard Lin, MD, PhD - MSKCC


10:20 – 10:40 am               Break and Visit Exhibitors

10:40 am – 12:00 pm        Plenary Session I – Part II
                                           Session Chair:  Hong Zheng, MD, PhD – Penn State University

             10:40 – 11:20 am               New Agents and Regimens for Gastric Cancer
                                                         Speaker: Yelena Janjigian, MD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
                                                         Moderator: Ping Gu, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 
            11:20 am – 12:00 pm         Novel Agents and Regimens for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

                                                        Speaker: Michael Wang, MD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
                                                        Moderator: Jia Ruan, MD, PhD - Weill Cornell Medical College

12:00 – 1:00 pm                Lunch Promotional Talk - Sponsored by AstraZeneca
                                           A Treatment Option for Patients with Resectable NSCLC and Treatment of ES-SCLC
                                           Speaker: Yuanbin Chen, MD, PhD - Cancer & Hematology Centers of Western Michigan
                                           Moderator: Yue Zhang, MD, MPH -
Virginia Oncology Associates

1:00 – 1:20 pm                 Break and Visit Exhibitors

1:20 – 2:40 pm                 Plenary Session II
                                          Session Chair: Liang Deng, MD, PhD - MSKCC

            1:20 – 2:00 pm                   Novel Agents and Regimens for Lung Cancer
                                                        Speaker: Vamsidhar Velcheti, MD - NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center
                                                        Moderator: Zujun Li, MD - NYU Langone Health

            2:00 – 2:40 pm                  New Agents and Regimens for Breast Cancer
                                                       Speaker: Cynthia Ma, MD, PhD. - Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis
                                                       Moderator: Yixing Jiang, MD, PhD - University of Maryland 


2:40 – 3:00 pm                   Break and Visit Exhibitors

3:00- 3:40 pm                     Plenary Session III
                                            Session Chair: Chong-xian Pan, MD, PhD - Harvard University

            3:00- 3:40 pm                     New Agents and Regimens for GU Cancers
                                                        Speaker: Tian Zhang, MD - UT Southwestern Medical Center
                                                        Moderator: Haoran Li, MD - University of Kansa Cancer Center


3:40 – 4:00 pm  Break and Visit Exhibitors

4:00 – 5:00 pm   Case Presentation - Clinical Hematology/Oncology Session
                            Session Chairs: David Chang, MD, PhD - Virginia Oncology Associates
                                                      Hongtao Liu, MD, PhD - University of Wisconsin at Madison
                            Case presenters: Hematology case by Xiaoyang Wang, MD - Westchester Medical Center
                                                       Solid tumor case by Ping Gu, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

                            Discussion Panel: Zhengrui Xiao, MD - Montefiore Medical Center
                                                         Faye Yin, MD – RWJ University Hospital Somerset
                                                         Yong Ji, MD, PhD - Penn Medicine
                                                         Henry Xiong, MD, PhD - The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
                                                         William Li, MD - Queens Health Network
                                                         Peter Jiang, MD, PhD - John B. Amos Cancer Center, GA
                                                         Wendy Wang, MD - The Everett Clinic
                                                         Bill Gai, MD - LIFEBRIDGE Health
                                                         Chongze Ma, MD, PhD - Danbury Hospital, CT
                                                         Ligeng Tian, MD, PhD - Virginia Oncology Associates
                                                         Xiao Su, MD, PhD - Saratoga Hospital, NY
                                                         Meng Xu Welliver, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
                                                         Lan Mo, MD, PhD - Maimonides Medical Center
                                                         Shuang Fu, MD, PhD - Jackson Hematology Oncology
                                                         Qi Feng, MD, PhD - Brooklyn, NY
                                                         Songchuan Guo, MD, PhD - Brooklyn, NY
                                                         Zili He, MD, PhD - Flushing Hospital, NY
                                                         Xinhua Zhu, MD, PhD - Zuckerberg Cancer Center, NY
                                                         Spring Kong, MD, PhD - Hong Kong University

                                                         Haixia Qin, MD, PhD - MDACC at Cooper
                                                         Suhu Liu, MD - Stony Brook Medicine
                                                         Qing Zhao, MD - Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
                                                         Min Sun, MD, PhD - UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
                                                        

6:00 – 10:00 pm Members Only Meeting and Reception at New Mulan Restaurant (Junior Investigator Awardee Introduction)

 

Sunday, October 8, 2023

8:00 - 9:30 am                   On-site Registration, Exhibitors Visitation

8:30 – 9:30 am                  Breakfast Promotional Talk
- Sponsored by Genentech
                                          Advancement in the 1L Treatment of Unresectable or Metastatic HCC
                                          Speaker: Minsig Choi, MD - St. Elizabeth Healthcare
                                          Moderator: Jingsong Zhang, MD, PhD - Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, FL

9:30 am – 12:00 pm        Plenary Session IV
                                         Session Chair: Hui Chen, MD, PhD - Duke University

          9:30 – 10:00 am                Travel Grant Awardee Introduction
                                                     Session Chair: J. Christine Ye, MD, PhD -
MD Anderson Cancer Institute
                                                                             Zihai Li, MD, PhD – Ohio State University
                                                                             Richard Xu, MD, PhD -  Long Island Oncology


10:00 – 10:20 am             Break and Visit Exhibitors

         10:20 – 11:00 am             Clinical development of CAR-T, ADC and BITE: Challenges and Solutions
                                                   Moderator: Sen Zhuang, MD, PhD – Janssen
                                                   Discussion panel: Jingzhou Hou, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
                                                                       Hongtao Liu, MD, PhD - University of Wisconsin at Madison
                                                                       Richard Lin, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
                                                                       Shenhong Wu, MD, PhD - Stony Brook University

                                                                       Lei Zheng, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University
                                                                       Jeffrey Pu, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School

       11:00 am– 12:00 pm      Bridging Clinical Trial Collaboration
                                               Moderators: Wenru Song, MD, PhD - Kira Pharmaceutical
                                                                    Ke Liu, MD, PhD - Marengo Therapeutics
                                               Discussion panel: Cynthia Taub, MD - SUNY Upstate
                                                                       Kai He, MD, PhD - Ohio State University
                                                                       Max Ning, MD, PhD - CAHON
                                                                       Yuxia Jia, MD, PhD - CAHON
                                                                       Tianhong Li, MD, PhD - UC Davis
                                                                       Siwen Hu-Lieskovan, MD, PhD - University of Utah
                                                                       Li Xu, MD, FACOG - Transcenta Holding

                                                                       David Liu, MD, PhD – Nuvation
                                                                      Jianda Yuan, MD, PhD – Merck
                                                                      Weijing Sun, MD - University of Kansas Medical Center

                                                                      Fengting Yan, MD, PhD - Swedish Cancer Institute

12:00 pm             Closing Remarks
                             Yiwu Huang, MD, PhD - Maimonides Medical Center


NYOF Young Investigator Travel Awards

To foster growth and achievement amongst CAHON's early career or physician-in-training members, CAHON will award up to 10 travel awards for current fellows or residents invested in the CAHON community. If you are interested in attending this exciting event and meeting with CAHON members in New York, please consider applying for this travel award.

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Current CAHON member - Available to physicians-in-training, including residency or fellowship training (Associate Member Category, waived dues) or, physicians within 3 years of fellowship training at the level of instructor or assistant professor (Active Membership Category, dues $100 USD).

    Membership applications available at
    https://www.cahon.org/membership
     
  2. Availability to attending CAHON's New York Oncology Forum (October 7-8, 2023) and the CAHON members only-reception, which will take place the evening of Saturday, October 7.

Application Instructions

Applications should include:

  • Application Form
  • CV, including education and current training level or position
  • Short bio (3 sentences long)

Please submit all application materials to Eli Rehorst at egonzalez-rehorst@cahon.org by Friday, September 8, 2023.


Junior Investigator Awards

CAHON is is pleased to announce that we will also be offering Junior Investigator Awards (JIAs) this year. The Junior Investigator Award recognizes the achievements of outstanding Asian/Asian American high school and college student leaders. Through this award, CAHON wishes to encourage young students to participate in scientific research.

Recipients of the JIA will be honored during CAHON’s New York Oncology Forum on October 7-8, 2023. Awardees will receive an award of $500 and an official Certificate of Award.

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Outstanding high school or college student from the Asian community in the United States.
     
  2. Non-Asian individual in the United States with a keen interest in Asian culture.
     
  3. Demonstrated interests in biomedical career.
     
  4. Availability to attend CAHON’s Award Ceremony during the New York Oncology Forum on the evening of Saturday, October 7.

Application Instructions

Applications should include:

  • JIA Application Form completed by the student
  • Academic transcript from last semester
  • One-page personal statement describing career and educational goals
  • One letter of recommendation from school counselor, teacher, or research mentor

Please submit all application materials to Eli Rehorst at egonzalez-rehorst@cahon.org by Friday, September 15, 2023.


Meeting Organizers

Delong Liu, MD, PhDNYOF Chair - Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hematology & Oncology, New York Medical College
Yiwu Huang, MD, PhD – NYOF Co-chair - Maimonides Medical Center
Bo Zhao, MD – CAHON President, NYOF Co-chair,  Virginia Oncology Associates


2023 NYOF Sponsors & Exhibitors

 

Corporate Partners


Annual Supporters


Silver Sponsors


Bronze Sponsors
 


Exhibitors

AbbVie Daiichi Sankyo
ADC Therapeutics Eli Lilly & Co.
Agios Pharma Foundation Medicine
Alexion GSK
Astellas Janssen Oncology
Bayer Pfizer
Bristol Myers Squibb Rigel Pharmaceuticals
Coherus Biosciences Seagen
CTI Biopharma Taiho Oncology
   

 

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