*The presentations will be held in English.

The skills (CanMEDS roles) targeted by this program are: Expertise, collaboration, communication, health promotion, scholarship, and professionalism

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9:00 - 11:30 | Part 1:  ALL: From history to legacy - decades of optimization
Moderators:  Drs Thai Hoa Tran & Stephanie Mourad

  1. The DFCI approach - Dr Lewis Silverman (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA)

  2. The BFM approach - Dr Gunnar Cario (University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany)

  3. The COG approach - Dr Mignon Loh (Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA)

  4. The adult approach - Dr Guillaume Richard-Carpentier, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

  5. Discussion Panel

Break and lunch 11:30 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:30 |Part 2 : ALL -  Genomic discoveries and novel technologies
Moderators: Drs Raoul Santiago &  Stéphanie Vairy

  1. Genomic landscape of ALL across the age spectrum* - Dr Charles Mullighan (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA)

  2. Genomics in pediatric oncology : the Quebec experience - Drs Sonia Cellot & Vincent-Philippe Lavallée (CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada)

  3. Discussion Panel

Coffee break - 14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 17:00 | Part 3 : ALL - A new era of therapies
Moderators: Drs Henrique Bittencourt & Pauline Tibout

  1. De-escalation of therapy in childhood and infant ALL - UK approach* - Dr Jack Bartram (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada)

  2. Immunotherapy in adult ALL -  Dr Julie Bergeron (Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, QC, Canada)

  3. Precision medicine approaches in pediatric Ph+ and Ph-like ALL -  Dr Thai Hoa Tran (CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC, Canada)

  4. Discussion Panel

This activity has received an educational grant from the following companies:

Amgen and Servier

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