The program features presentations by distinguished basic scientists and clinical research physicians from the world’s leading MPN centers. In the afternoon, attendees have the opportunity to speak with these experts during disease-specific Q&A sessions.

                                                              PROGRAM

7:45am   Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:30am   Welcome and Introduction

8:45am   Role of Inflammation in MPNS – Hans Hasselbalch, MD, PhD, Roskilde Hospital, Roskilde,                 Denmark

9:15am    Next Generation Sequencing in Diagnosis and Treatment – Alessandro M. Vannucchi,                        MD, Careggi University Hospital/University of Florence, Italy

9:45am    Polycythemia Vera: Interferon Prolongs Myelofibrosis-Free and Overall Survival –                            Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

10:15am   Break

10:45am    Current Management of Myelofibrosis – Ronald Hoffman, MD, Icahn School of Medicine                     at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

11:15am     Current Management of Essential Thrombocythemia -Jerry L. Spivak, MD,       
                  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

11:45pm    Current State of Stem Cell Transplant in MPN Therapy – Koen van Besien, MD, Weill                           Cornell Medicine, New York, NY   

12:15pm     Lunch

1:15pm       MPN Therapies: New Treatments and Drugs in the Pipeline – Srdan Verstovsek, MD,                          University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

1:45pm       Fatigue, Exercise, and Diet – Ruben A. Mesa, MD, UT Health San Antonio Cancer                                Center, San Antonio, TX

2:15pm       Thrombotic, Vascular, and Bleeding Complications in the MPNs – Andrew I. Schafer,                           MD,  Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

2:45pm       Moderated Q&A – Richard T. Silver, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY and                             Entire Panel

3:15pm       Break

3:45pm       Disease-Specific Q&A Groups (moderated by Symposium presenters):                                               Polycythemia Vera -Drs. Abu Zeinah, Hasselbalch, and Silver                                                                 Essential Thrombocythmia – Drs. Mesa, Spivak, and Vannucchi                                                               Myelofibrosis –  Drs. Hoffman, Schafer, van Besien, and Verstovsek

5:15pm        Wine Reception and Tours of Belfer Research Laboratories

6:15pm        Adjournment

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