2009 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors

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AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE

Thursday, October 22, 2009
8:00 am – 7:15 pm Exhibit Hall Open
EDUCATIONAL HALF-DAY – Concurrent Sessions
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Personalized Medicine: Is It the Future or Is It Now?
Lauren Eileen Abrey, Kenneth D. Aldape, Daniel J. Brat, Cameron Brennan, Mark R. Gilbert, Minesh P. Mehta, Christopher Nimsky, Christina Tsien
8:15 am – 12:00 pm Enhancing Quality of Life Throughout the Illness Trajectory
Walter F. Baile, PhD, Paul D. Brown, Sherry W. Fox, PhD, Harriet Patterson, MPH, Jeffrey Wefel, PhD
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
OFFICIAL OPENING OF MEETING
1:00 – 1:15 pm Introduction
1:15 – 3:15 pm Top-Scoring Abstracts
3:15 – 3:30 pm Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm Concurrent Session I – Cell Biology
Concurrent Session II – Clinical Trials
5:15 – 7:15 pm Poster Viewing Reception and Discussion
Friday, October 23, 2009
7:00 – 8:00 am Sunrise Sessions - Meet the Experts
Neurosurgical Oncological Endoscopy
Meningiomas: Current Basic Science and Clinical Treatments
Cancer Stem Cell: State of the Hypothesis
Metastatic Spine Tumors: Biology and Therapy
8:00 am – 7:15 pm Exhibit Hall Open
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Morning Plenary Session
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:00 am Keynote Speaker - Raymond Sawaya
12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 – 3:00 pm Concurrent Session III – Medical Therapies
Concurrent Session IV – Epidemiology & Quality of Life
Concurrent Session V – Radiology
3:00 – 3:15 pm Break
3:15 – 5:00 pm Concurrent Session VI – Pediatric Basic Science
Concurrent Session VII – Immunobiology & Immunotherapy
Concurrent Session VIII – Radiation Oncology
5:15 – 7:15 pm Poster Viewing Reception and Discussion
7:30 pm Evening Reception
Saturday, October 24, 2009
7:00 – 8:00 am Sunrise Sessions - How I Do It:
Epidemiology and Pharmacogenomics
Immunotherapy: Current Status of Clinical Trials
Medulloblastoma: Current State of Biology and Therapy
–omics and Brain Tumors: Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Ubiquinomics
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Morning Plenary Session
8:10 am – 8:30 am Hassenbusch Lecture - Katie Orrico
10:00 – 10:15 am Break
12:15 – 12:30 pm Concluding remarks
12:15 – 1:15 pm SNO Business Meeting

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Society for Neuro-Oncology and the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors
c/o Congress of Neurological Surgeons
E-mail: info@1cns.org
Phone: 847 240 2500 | Toll Free: 877 517 1CNS
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