All Ireland Colorectal Cancer Conference
6 CPD credits have been awarded for this meeting by RCPI
The All Ireland Colorectal Cancer Conference 2020, will now take place on a virtual platform and be broadcast live from Dublin on Friday 27th November. This year’s meeting comprises a wide array of multidisciplinary topics of clinical interest.
The virtual conference programme will bring together Irish health care professionals with an international faculty of leading medical oncology, pathology, radiation, surgical and scientific experts from Europe and North America. The meeting will provide participants with an opportunity to facilitate best practice through educational presentations based on the latest trends and developments in treatment and therapy of colorectal cancers.
Registration is open to healthcare professionals working across the cancer care spectrum including; consultants; surgeons; nurses; scientists; registrars; geneticists; pharmacists; researchers and trainees.
We look forward to engaging and collaborating, once more, with our colleagues in November.
Best regards,
The All Ireland Colorectal Cancer Conference Organising Committee
Gregory Leonard, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Galway University Hospital
Brian O’Neill, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Beaumont Hospital
Emmet Andrews, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cork University Hospital
| Friday 27th November | |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Registration Open & Welcome Coffee |
| 08:25 | Welcome Address |
| Session 1: Precision Medicine | |
| 08:30 | The ABCs of Cancer Genomics Dr Terri McVeigh, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London |
| 08:50 | Next Generation Sequencing and How to Set Up a Molecular tumour board Prof. Maeve Lowery, St. James’s hospital, Dublin |
| 09:10 | What is the Optimal Survivorship Plan for Patients? Dr Gregory Leonard, Galway University Hospital, Galway |
| 09:30 | Precision Medicine Now and in the Future: What we learned from Colorectal Cancer Prof. Heinz Josef Lenz, Keck school of Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles |
| 09:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Standards of Care for Colorectal Cancer | |
| 10:30 | Patient Perspectives of Nuitritional Care in Cancer: How to Address Gaps? Niamh Rice, Irish Society for Clinical Nuitrition and Metabolism |
| 10:50 | Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Prof. Debbie McNamara, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin |
| 11:10 | The Paddy Johnston Colorectal Cancer Research Award Presentations |
| 11:40 | Adjuvant Therapy for Colon Cancer – Less is More for all Patients? Dr Alan Venook, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre, San Francisco |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Metastatic Disease: Updates on Locoregional Rx – Rapid Reviews in the Management of Colorectal Metastases | |
| 13:00 | Peritoneal Surgery and the Role of HIPEC Mr Jurgen Mulsow, the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin |
| 13:15 | Lung Metastatectomy for Colorectal Carcinoma Mr Alan Soo, University Hospital, Galway |
| 13:30 | Optimal Imaging of Colorectal Metastases Dr John Bruzzi, University Hospital Galway, Galway |
| 13:45 | SBRT for Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer Dr Katherine Aitken, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London |
| 14:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Rectal Cancer Updates | |
| 15:00 | Updates on Transanal TME Mr John Burke, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin |
| 15:20 | Neo Adjuvant Therapy: When and What? Dr Charles Gillham, St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin |
| 15:40 | Robotic Surgery – A Vision for the Future Prof. David Jayne, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, NHS trust, Leeds |
| 16:20 | Meeting Concludes |