2018
Previous Year Event Recaps
January 31, 2024
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Jeff Leek, PhD
Chief Data Officer, Vice President, and J Orin Edson Foundation Chair of Biostatistics at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
2024 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Vineet Raghu
Most Innovative Idea:
Connor Grady
Best Poster Presentation:
Tavor Baharav
Agenda
1:00 – 1:05 pm | Introductions Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, Deputy Director of the DF/HCC |
1:05 – 1:45 pm
| Keynote Speaker 
Jeff Leek, PhD
Talk Title: "Taking Calculated Career Risks to Impact the World Through Data Science” |
1:45 – 2:35 pm | Oral Presentation (Part 1) Remarks from Lee Nadler, MD, Director of PATHFINDER |
2:35-2:50 pm | Break |
2:50-3:30 pm | Oral Presentation (Part 2) Jennifer Mongiovi, PhD, MS: Metabolomic profiles associated with breastfeeding and subsequent ovarian cancer risk |
3:30– 4:10 pm | Panel Discussion – The Future of Cancer Population Science Jeff Leek (FHCC), Hermioni Amonoo, MD (BWH), Mingyang Song, MBBS, ScD (MGH), Lida Hariri, MD, PhD (MGH), and Elecia Miller (City of Lawrence) |
4:10– 5:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception Tavor Baharav, PhD: SPLASH: A statistical, reference-free genomic algorithm unifies biological discovery [Poster] |
5:00 pm | Award Announcement |
February 10, 2023
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Jennifer Temel, MD
Clinical Director of Thoracic Oncology
Co-Director, Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
2023 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Mahnum Shahzad (HMS)
Most Promising Idea:
Martin Hemberg, PhD (BWH)
Best Poster Presentation:
Sarika Aggarwal (HSPH)
Best Online Poster:
Nichole Gutierrez (MGH)
Agenda
1:00 – 1:05 pm | Introductions Greetings from Dr. Laurie Glimcher, MD Acknowledgment of PATHFINDER Director Lee Nadler, MD |
1:05 – 1:30 pm
| Keynote Speaker  Clinical Director of Thoracic Oncology Co-Director, Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital |
1:30 – 2:00 pm
| Panel Discussion Moderator Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH Panelists Areej El-Jawahri, MD Deborah Forst, MD Jamie M. Jacobs, PhD Jessica Bauman, MD |
2:00-2:10 pm | Break |
2:10-3:30 pm | Oral Presentation Charlotte Roscoe, PhD: Impact of a hypothetical policy to reduce particulate matter air pollution on all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Black and white men with prostate cancer: A registry-based cohort study Marouen Ben Guebila, PhD: Pan-cancer network analysis reveals that lactate dehydrogenase B contributes to Warburg effect by activation in its nonpreferential biochemical direction Siwen Wang, MD: A prospective cohort study of infertility and cancer incidence Aimee Huang, MD, MPH: Disparities in cancer incidence by sexual orientation Stephen Lo, PhD: A randomized controlled trial of a novel cognitive-behavioral treatment utilizing exposures and pulse oximetry biofeedback for shortness of breath in lung cancer Mahnum Shahzad: Timing and quality of evidence for oncology indications approved using the FDA’s Accelerated Approval Program Yujia Lu: Imaging-based visceral adipose tissue volume (VAT) and cancer risk in the UK Biobank cohort Zeba Ahmad, PhD, MA, EdM: Associations among symptom distress, coping, psychological well-being, and medication adherence in patients with breast cancer taking adjuvant endocrine therapy Emma McGee, MSc: Methodological challenges in estimating the long-term effects of lifestyle interventions for cancer survivors Martin Hemberg, PhD: Leveraging sequences missing from the human genome to diagnose cancer |
3:30– 4:30 pm | PATHFINDER Poster Session  PATHFINDER Lightning Talk In-person posters: Sarika Aggarwal: Cause-specific risk of hospital admission related to floods in older adults [Poster] [Video] Sunjeong Bae, MD: Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake, The Gut Microbiome, And Their Interaction With Chronic Systemic Inflammation In A Cohort Of Adult Men [Poster] [Video] Kristen Brantley, PhD: Second primary breast cancer among young breast cancer survivors [Poster] [Video] Naiyu Chen, MPH: Marital status, living arrangement, and overall survival among individuals with advanced prostate cancer in the IRONMAN cohort [Poster] [Video] Cami Christopher, MPH: Physical Activity Before and After Cancer Diagnosis and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality [Poster] [Video] Jingwen Dong: Association between the Dietary Inflammatory Index and Esophageal Precancerous Lesions and Esophageal Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study [Poster] [Video] Wenyu Gao, PhD: Better Base Qualities for Next-Generation Sequencing [Poster] [Video] Paola Gonzalo-Encabo, PhD: Exercise training on metabolic-related biomarkers in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy [Poster] [Video] Daniel Hall, PhD: Feasibility and Acceptability of IN FOCUS: A Synchronous, Virtual Group Intervention for Fear of Cancer Recurrence and Uncertainty in Survivorship [Poster] Claire Kim, PhD, MPH: Population-based incidence rates of prostate cancer molecular subtypes by race [Poster] [Video] Pin-Ji Lei, PhD: Breast cancer cell MHC class II-mediated tumor progression and immune regulation in the draining lymph nodes [Poster] [Video] Kevin Ma, DDS: The use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality in patients with cancer [Poster] [Video] Vanessa Merker, PhD: Access to Specialized Neurofibromatosis Clinics in the United States: A National Survey of Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) Patients and Caregivers [Poster] Jennifer Mongiovi, PhD, MS: Contraception and ovarian cancer risk by tumor immune profiles [Poster] [Video] Manan Nayak, PhD: Exploring the role of Cannabidiol (CBD) in cancer care both from the medical oncologists perspective as well as from the cancer patients [Poster] [Video] Phillip Nicol: Model-based dimensionality reduction for single-cell RNA-seq with generalized bilinear models [Poster] [Video] Vedant Shukla: Assessment of Intratumoral and Stromal Infiltrating Lymphocytes in the Various Subtypes of Breast Cancer Post-Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Western India [Poster] [Video] Xinan Wang, PhD, MS: Impact of individual level uncertainty of lung cancer polygenic risk score (PRS) on risk stratification and prediction [Poster] Yaguang Wei, PhD: Additive effects of 10-year exposures to PM2.5 and NO2 on cancer incidence in American older adults [Poster] [Video]
Elisa Botting: Changes of clinical care for patients with advanced prostate cancer in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster] [Video] Audrey Cantillon: Resiliency program needs among fathers of children and youth with special healthcare needs [Poster] [Video] Maria Cote, MD: Pre-Liver Transplantation Locoregional Therapy in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma [Poster] [Video] Brigitte Durieux: Goals of Care Documentation in the Structured and Unstructured Electronic Medical Record: Qualitative Observations and Implications for Practice [Poster] [Video] John Gardiner: Circuit, Interval-based Exercise reduces fatigue in Breast, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancer Survivors [Poster] [Video] Nicole Gutierrez: Framework-guided cultural adaptation of a nurse-led intervention (INITIATE) to increase initiation of adjuvant endocrine therapy for patients with breast cancer [Poster] [Video] Michaela Markwart: Acceptability of an adapted resiliency program for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (AYA) [Poster] [Video] Yan Si: Perceived ability to cope and its impact on anxiety and depression on adolescent and young adult cancer survivors [Poster] [Video] Yi Zhang: MetaTiME: Meta-components of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment [Poster] [Video] |
4:30 pm | Award Announcement |
January 19, 2022
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Vice Chair of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Director of the Adult Survivorship Program
Agenda
| 1:00 - 1:05 pm | Introduction |
| 1:05 - 1:30 pm | Keynote Speaker:  Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH Talk Title: "Improving Care and Outcomes for Young Women with Breast Cancer: From Observation to Intervention" Biography: Hide Biography Ann Partridge, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Vice Chair of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she also serves as Director of the Adult Survivorship Program and leads the Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer. As a medical oncologist and clinical researcher, she has sought to improve the care and outcomes of patients with cancer by conducting research, and by developing innovative clinical programming.
After graduating from Georgetown University, Dr. Partridge received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, pursued an internal medicine residency at the Hospital for the University of Pennsylvania, and completed Medical Oncology and Hematology fellowship at Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare. She earned a Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | Panel Discussion Tal Sella (tal_sella@dfci.harvard.edu) Tamryn Gray (Tamryn_gray@dfci.harvard.edu) Peter Miller (Pmiller4@partners.org) |
| 2:00 - 2:45 pm | Oral Presentations Breakout Room 1: David Lee: Prevalence of monoclonal gammopathies, including an age-related monoclonal gammopathy of indeterminate potential (MGIP), and their associated risk factors and clinical outcomes: results of a screening study by mass spectrometry in a high-risk population Sofia Vega: Expanding Bayesian Methods to Estimate Causal Effects of Environmental Exposures on Childhood Leukemia Andrea Romanos-Nanclares: Insulinemic Potential of Diet and Risk of Total and Subtypes of Breast Cancer Among US Women Pragya Kakani: The impact of physician-hospital integration on spending and quality of oncology care Chaoran Ma: Association of Prostate Cancer Risk Variants with Gene Expression in Prostate Stroma Phillip Nicol: pcDiffPop: Robust identification of perturbed cell types in single-cell RNA-seq data
Jim Doolin: A Phase II Feasibility Study of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePROs) for Oral Cancer Directed Therapies (OCDT) Alexandra Bercow: NCCN Guideline-Discordant Care in Early-Stage Vulvar Cancer: A National Cancer Database Study Kristen Brantley: A metabolomic analysis of adiposity measures and pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Nurses’ Health Studies Cheng Peng: Regular aspirin use, breast tumor characteristics and long-term breast cancer survival Bailey Vaselkiv: Intratumoral vitamin D signaling and lethal prostate cancer Qiaoli Wang: Weight loss and subsequent cancer diagnosis: a prospective cohort study |
| 2:45 - 3:30 pm | Poster Session [Poster Booklet] Khalid Alkhatib: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in High-Risk Cancer Genetic Testing Awareness in the United States; Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) Analysis [Poster][Video] Naiyu Chen: Impact of Age, Race, and Family History on COVID-19 Related Changes in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Imaging among the Boston Mammography Cohort Study [Poster][Video] Lydia Chevalier: Evaluating Sensitive Symptoms in Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Feasibility and Acceptability of Sexual Health and Suicide Items Across Administration Modes [Poster][Video] Cami Christopher: Improved insulin resistance and adiponectin among minority cancer survivors through circuit, interval-based exercise [Poster][Video] Krinio Giannikou: Distinct oncogenic signatures in malignant PEComa and leiomyosarcoma identified by integrative RNA-seq and H3K27ac ChIP-seq analysis [Poster][Video] Tian Gu: Synthetic data integration by leveraging external summary-level data to improve the risk prediction of prostate cancer [Poster][Video] Corinne Jansen: Does the histologic carcinoma subtype correlate with outcomes in uterine carcinosarcoma? [Poster] [Video] Dong-Woo Kang: Impacts of aerobic exercise on cardiorespiratory fitness and biochemical progression in men with prostate cancer on active surveillance: a randomized controlled trial [Poster][Video] Claire King: Inequities in referrals to a breast cancer personalized risk assessment and reduction program at an academic medical center [Poster][Video] Mara Koelker: Impact of exercise on physical health status in bladder cancer patients [Poster][Video] Muhieddine Labban: Access to definitive treatment and survival for intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer at hospital systems serving health disparity populations [Poster][Video] Daniel Lage: CONTINUUM: A Pilot Care Transition Intervention for Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Cancer [Poster][Video] Colleen McGrath: Health Behaviors among Older Men and Cancer Survivors during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Poster] [Video] Jennifer Mongiovi: Associations between intrauterine device and oral contraceptive use with ovarian cancer risk among 6 case-control studies from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium [Poster][Video] Eve Nagler: Scaling up tobacco control in India: Comparing smartphone to in-person training for implementing an evidence-based intervention to reduce tobacco use among schoolteachers: Study overview [Poster][Video] Kaitlin Nicholson: Patient-reported drivers of financial toxicity in gynecologic cancers: A focus group study [Poster][Video] Yuho Ono: Ampullary Neoplasia in Young Patients: Syndromic and non-syndromic associations [Poster][Video] Vineet Raghu: Validation of a deep learning-based model to estimate lung cancer risk from chest radiographs [Poster][Video] Takashi Shimizu: Associations of molecular characteristics with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in non-microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancer [Poster][Video] Alaina Shreves: Sleep problems among long-term prostate cancer survivors by metastatic disease status [Poster][Video] Tomotaka Ugai: Smoking and Colorectal Cancer Incidence by T cell, Macrophage, and Myeloid Cell Infiltrates in Cancer Tissue [Poster][Video] Rebekah Wilson: Impact of Exercise on the Complications of Corticosteroids in Patients with Graft-Versus-Host Disease following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: the RESTART Trial [Poster][Video] Yan Yan: Identifying strain-specific functional genes in colorectal cancer Yin Zhang: Incident early- and later-onset type 2 diabetes and risk of early- and later-onset cancer [Poster][Video] |
| 3:30 pm | Award Announcement |
January 21, 2021
1:00 - 3:30 pm
Keynote Speaker:
Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH
Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Agenda
| 1:00 - 1:05 pm | Introduction |
| 1:05 - 1:30 pm | Keynote Speaker:  Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH Talk Title: "Multidisciplinary research to advance the care of patients with gastrointestinal cancers" Biography: He joined the staff of DFCI and Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007, where he is a medical oncologist and clinical investigator in the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology. His research focuses on biomarkers and novel therapeutics in gastrointestinal malignancies, with a particular focus on pancreatic cancer. |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | Panel Discussion |
| 2:00 - 2:45 pm | Oral Presentations - Hide Presenters
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| 2:45 - 3:30 pm | Poster Session - Hide Presenters
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| 3:30 pm | Award Announcement |
November 4, 2019
9:00 - 1:00 pm
Plenary Speaker:
Irene M. Ghobrial, MD
Attending Physician, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Clinical Investigator Research Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Michele & Stephen Kirsch Laboratory
2019 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Jennifer Spencer (HTCSPH)
Best Poster:
Jennifer Snaman (DFCI)
Most Promising Idea
Yuxi Liu (HTCSPH)
Agenda
MORNING SESSION
Smith 308
1 Jimmy Fund Way,
Boston, MA 02215
Yawkey Conference Center
450 Brookline Ave,
Boston, MA 02215
| 9:00 - 9:15 am | Introduction (Smith 308) |
| 9:15 - 10:00 am | Keynote Speaker:  Irene M. Ghobrial, MD Biography: She joined Dana-Farber in the field of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia and multiple myeloma in 2005. She is conducting research in the area of homing and migration of B cells and novel therapeutic agents in Waldenstrom's macroglbulinemia and multiple myeloma. |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Q&A and Discussion |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:45 pm | Oral Presentations |
| 12:00 - 12:45 pm | Poster Session and Reception (Yawkey Conference Center) |
| 12:45 - 1:00 pm | Award Announcement |
December 12, 2018
9:00 - 1:00 pm
Plenary Speaker:
Elena Martinez, PhD
Associate Director, Population Science, Disparities and Community Engagement
Co-Leader, Community Outreach & Engagement Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California-San Diego
2018 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Emma McGee
Most Promising Idea
Jacqueline Seddon
Best Poster:
Karl Tully
Agenda
Harvard Medical School, Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall
| 9:00 - 9:15 am | Introduction |
| 9:15 - 10:00 am | Plenary talk by Elena Martinez, PhD |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Q&A and Discussion |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:45 pm | Oral Presentations |
| 12:00 - 12:45 pm | Poster Session and Reception |
| 12:45 - 1:00 pm | Award Announcement |
Oral Presentations
Camila Lopes-Ramos - HSPH
Gene regulatory networks identify sex differences in colon cancer
Rachel Nethery - BWH
A causal inference framework for cancer cluster investigations with Bayesian estimation of causal standardized incidence ratios using publicly available data
Caleb Bae - DFCI
Variant-level BRCA mutations risk prediction model
Alessandra Ferrario - HMS
Trends in availability and use of cancer medicines in six Asian countries working towards universal health coverage
Kaelo Moahi - DFCI
Effect of HIV on Survival of Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Prospective Study in Botswana
Konrad Stopsack - HSPH
Single-cell multiplex immunofluorescence to identify PI3K pathway activation in archival prostate cancer tissue from two prospective cohort studies
Oana Zeleznik - BWH
Mammogram-derived texture features and risk of breast cancer
Emma McGee - BWH
Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Biliary Tract Cancer Risk: A Pooling Project of 26 Prospective Studies
Kayoll Galbraith-Gyan - BWH
Community stakeholder and practitioner perspectives on introducing HPV and biobanking programming for underserved communities: A community engaged approach
Poster Presentations
Olga Ehrlich - DFCI
A Framework for Cancer Pain Social Processes and Poorly-Controlled Pain in the Hospice Caring Triad
Christina Nguyen - HMS
Oncology Care Delivery Systems
Allison Ringel - HMS
Immunomodulatory mechanisms in the tumor microenvironment
Xihao Hu - DFCI
Landscape of B cell immunity and related immune evasion in human cancers
Xia Xiang - HSPH
Circulating vitamin D and risk of breast and prostate cancer: a Mendelian randomization study
Marieke Krimphove - BWH
Variation and Correlation of Facility-level Probabilities of Treatment in Men with Low- risk Prostate Cancer and Men with Limited Life Expectancy
Lucia Petito - HSPH
Emulating randomized trials in SEER-Medicare: a causal approach
Yered Pita-Juarez - DFCI
Modeling the effect of copy number alterations in gene expression using matching normal tissues
Karl Tully - BWH
The effect of androgen deprivation therapy on the risk of cognitive-related conditions in men with prostate cancer: a population-based study
Yunqi Yang - HSPH
A Likelihood-based Approach to Assessing Frequency of Pathogenicity among Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) in Susceptibility Genes
Zijie Zhao - DFCI
Revealing Transcriptional Variation of Chromosomal Abnormalities at Single-cell Level
Jaihwan Kim - DFCI
Clinical Factors Associated with Gastric Cancers among Lynch Syndrome Patients
Archana Agarwal - DFCI
Impact of pure versus mixed metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) histology on response with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs).
Abha Aggarwal - BWH
High Glucose Environment Increases Cell Proliferation and Hexokinase-2 Copy Number in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Andres Korat - BWH
A prospective analysis of red blood cell trans fatty acid levels and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Ingabire Balinda - MGH
HIV infection not associated with decreased anal cancer survival
Kristen Brantley - HSPH
Plasma Estrogen Metabolites and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study
Vitoria De Carmo - BCH
Characterization of new regulators of S1PR1 endocytosis and signaling in endothelial cells
Barbra Dickerman - HSPH
Guideline-based physical activity and survival among US men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer
Chi Gao - HSPH
Validation of Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Models using Nurses Health and Nurse Health II Studies
Colby Hyland - HMS
The use of 18F-FDG PET/CT as an initial staging procedure for stage II-III breast cancer reduces false positives, costs, and time to treatment: a multicenter value analysis
Dong Hoon Lee - HSPH
Prediagnosis dietary pattern and survival in patients with multiple myeloma
Matthew Mossanen - BWH
Examining the impact of complications on perioperative mortality after radical cystectomy
Patricia Saade-Lemus - BIDMC
Characteristics of older adults with locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who do and do not receive palliative chemotherapy
Naoko Sasamoto - BWH
Breastfeeding patterns and ovarian cancer risk: Results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Jacqueline Seddon - DFCI
Construction of pgRNA/CRISPR Cas9 Vectors for Validation of Synthetic Lethal Gene Interaction
Rui Song - HSPH
Adherence to the 2018 World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Cancer Prevention Recommendations and Colorectal Cancer Survival: Results from Two Prospective Cohort Studies
Yiwen Zhang - HSPH
A prospective study of inflammation, focal atrophy, and lethal prostate cancer
Jill Ronacarati - HSPH
Housing Boston’s Rough Sleepers: outcomes from a 10-year prospective study
David Cote - HSPH
Tea, coffee, and caffeine intake and risk of glioma
November 6, 2017
1:00 - 6:00 pm
PLENARY SPEAKER:
Paul Jacobsen
Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Science’s Healthcare Delivery Research Program
2017 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Deirdre Tobias
Most Promising Idea
Khansa Sidahmed
Best Poster:
Barbra Dickerman
Agenda
| Yawkey Conference Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |
| 1:00 - 1:15 pm | Introduction |
| 1:15 - 2:15 pm | Plenary talk by Paul Jacobsen: “Improving Cancer-Related Care and Outcomes: A Healthcare Delivery Research Agenda" |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 pm | Short oral presentations |
| 3:30 - 4:45 pm | Poster Session |
| 4:45 - 5:00 pm | Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks by Dr. Giovanni Parmigiani |
Oral Presentations
Erin Cook - HSPH
Effect of HPV Legislation to Increase Uptake of HPV Vaccination onTeen Sexual Behaviors
MK Downer - BWH
Moderate alcohol intake and risk of lethal prostate cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
Margaux Hujoel - Hsph
Estimating prevalence of rare genetic mutations
Catherine Marinac - DFCI
Elucidating under-studied aspects of the link between obesity and multiple myeloma: a prospective assessment of the influence of the stability, trajectory, and distribution of body fatness
Deirdre Tobias - BWH
Effect of randomized aspirin use in the Women’s Health Study on cancer incidence and mortality, by baseline inflammatory status
David Yang - HMS
Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Patients with Prostate Cancer
Oana Zeleznik - BWH
Metabolomicanalysis of ovarian cancer riskinthe Nurses’ Health Studies: Identification of potentialnovel riskfactors of endometrioid/clear cell and mucinous tumors
Cindy Zhou - HSPH
Coffee consumption after prostate cancer diagnosis and survival among men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
Poster Presentations
Francisco Acevedo - MGH
Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Predict Cancer Risk after Multi-Gene Panel Testing
Justin Brown - DFCI
Muscle Wasting and Survival in Stage I-III Colorectal Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study (C-SCAN)
Daniela Buscariollo - BWH
Impact of pre-diagnosis depressive symptoms and quality of life on treatment choice for ductal carcinoma in situ in older women.
Barbra Dickerman - HSPH
Obesity and risk of prostate cancer
Hari Iyer - HSPH
Gender, cancer type, and treatment delay in Botswana
Robert Knoerl - DFCI
Efficacy of the Electronic Self-Report Assessment – Cancer (ESRA-C)
Melanie Kornides - HMS
A scale to measure parent satisfaction with provider communication about HPV vaccination: Psychometric properties and relationship to vaccination behaviors
Elizabeth Loehrer - HSPH
Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin Dlevelsat diagnosis and overall survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma
Michael Milligan - DFCI
Imaging for Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Prasad Patil - DFCI
Incorporating Inter-Study Heterogeneity into the Training of Predictors
Joshua Petimar - HSPH
Recommendation-Based Dietary Indices and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study
Naoko Sasamoto - BWH
CA125 ovarian cancer prediction models
Derek Shyer - DFCI
Simulation study to compare performance of dual-agent dose-escalation methods in a pediatric oncology framework
Khansa Sidhamed - HSPH
A Pooled Analysis of Dietary Fiber Intake and Prostate Cancer Risk
Cathy Wang - DFCI
Genetic factors for Lynch Syndrome and colorectal cancer risk
You Wu - HSPH
Dietary fiber and breast cancer risk
Jennifer Yland - HSPH
Dietary intake of folate, methionine, and vitamin B6 in relation to ovarian cancer survival in the New England Case-Control Study
Linying Zhang - HSPH
Interactions between multiple myeloma cells and bone marrow stromal cells impact epigenetic profiles of multiple myeloma
November 14, 2016
1:00 - 6:00 pm
Plenary Speaker:
Karen Emmons
Vice President for Research and Director,
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
2016 Award Winners
Best Oral Presentation:
Kathryn Wilson
Most Promising Idea
Peter James
Best Poster:
Aymen Elfiki
Agenda
| Yawkey Conference Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |
| 2:00 - 2:05 pm | Introduction |
| 2:05 - 3:05 pm | Plenary talk by Karen Emmons, PhD “Realizing the Potential of Cancer Prevention in a Precision Era.” |
| 3:05 - 3:20 pm | Coffee break |
| 3:20 - 4:45 pm | Short oral presentations |
| 4:45 - 5:00 pm | Words from Dr. Laurie Glimcher, MD |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster session (viewings, groups led by faculty, active discussions) |
| 6:00 - 6:10 pm | Closing Remarks by Dr. Frank Hu, MD |
| 6:10 - 6:15 pm | Award Announcement by Dr. Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD |
Oral Presentations
Garcia de albeniz - HSPH
Colonoscopy and risk of infective endocarditis in the elderly
Peter James - HSPH
Light at night and breast cancer incidence in the Nurses' Health Study II
Loren Saulsberry - HMS
The impact of breast density notification laws on the use of supplemental breast cancer screening procedures
Helian Feng - HSPH/DFCI
A multi-tissue transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer identifies 29 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci
Kathryn Wilson - HSPH
Baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in midlife predict aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men
Salome Kuchukhidze - MGH
Knowledge and interest in lung cancer screening among community health center current and former smokers
Maud Fagny - DFCI/HSPH
A network-based approach to eQTL interpretation and SNP functional characterization
Catherine marinac - HSPH
Associations between timing of meals, physical activity, light exposure, and sleep with body mass index in free-living adults
Maxine Sun - BWH
Cognitive impairment after androgen deprivation therapy for advanced prostate cancer: a retrospective analysis and a pooled-analysis
Thomas Madsen - DFCI
Peeling and paring: an algorithm for computing carrier probabilities for an arbitrary number
Mesfin Bekalu - DFCI/HSPH
Emotional and cognitive reactions to tobacco graphic health warnings (GHWs) and associated quit attempts among low socioeconomic position (SEP) populations
Poster Presentations
David Cheng - HSPH
Inverse probability weighting with a responseinformed calibrated propensity score: a robust and efficient approach for treatment effects in large observational studies
Claire Kim - BWH
Stability and reproducibility of proteomic profiles measured with SOMAscan platform
Anupriya Dutta - DFCI
Racial differences in prostate cancer risk in young HIV-positive and HIV-negative men: a prospective cohort study
Peter James - HSPH
GPS-based exposure to greenness and objectively measured physical activity
Prasanna Ananth - DF/BCC and Blood Disorders Center
Providers perspectives on use of medical marijuana in pediatric oncology patients
Anish Mehta - BWH
Mediators of disparities in survival among patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Xia Jiang - HSPH
Analysis of shared heritability and functional enrichment based on genome-wide association studies for five common cancers
Trang VoPham - HSPH
Environmental radon and breast cancer risk in the Nurses’ Health Study II
Dana Footer - DF/BCC and Blood Disorders Center
Pain in survivors of pediatric brain tumors
Claire Pernar - HSPH
Physical activity and risk of prostate cancer defined by TMPRSS2:ERG
Ericka Ebot - HSPH
Gene expression profiling of prostate tissue identifies biological pathways associated with TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion
Sarah Markt - HSPH
Age ≥ 40 years is associated with adverse outcomes in metastatic germ cell cancer despite appropriate intended chemotherapy
Aymen Elfiky - DFCI
Short-term mortality prediction using a machine learning algorithm for patients initiating chemotherapy
Giselle Perez-Lougee - MGH
Promoting resiliency among palliative care clinicians: stressors, coping strategies, and training needs
Giselle Perez-Lougee - MGH
Mental health insurance preferences, coverage and utilization among childhood cancer survivors
Zoe Guan - DFCI/HSPH
BRCA-Gail: a combination model for breast cancer risk prediction
Theo Huang - DFCI/HSPH
Using frailty models to improve familial cancer risk prediction
Jiabei Yang - DFCI/HSPH
A tool to predict cancer risk with uncommon genetic mutations
Shoshana Rosenberg - DFCI
Employment trends in young women following a breast cancer diagnosis
Maxine Chen CDNM—BWH/HMS
Transcriptome-wide association study of prostate cancer risk.
Joseph Paulson - DFCI/HSPH
Tissue-aware RNA-Seq processing and normalization for heterogeneous and sparse data
Marieke Kuijjer - DFCI
Modeling the effects of gene regulation on glioblastoma survival using individual patient networks
Camila Lopes-Ramos - DFCI
Sexual dimorphism in colon cancer revealed by gene regulatory networks
Evan Busch - BWH/HMS/HSPH
Mutations in genes related to epithelialmesenchymal transition in carcinomas
Candice Chow - DFCI
Relapse as a risk factor for anxiety in adolescent and young adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors
Mary Kathryn Downer - HSPH
Aspirin use and the risk of lethal prostate cancer in the Physicians' Health Study
Kevin Kensler - HSPH
Androgen receptor expression and breast cancer survival in the Nurses’ Health Study cohorts
Megan Rice - MGH/HMS
Texture variation on a mammogram and risk of breast cancer
Natalie DuPre - HSPH
Particulate matter exposures in relation to breast cancer survival
Ilaria Domenicano - DFCI
A Bayesian information-driven phase I/II dose-finding design
Mollie Barnard - HSPH
Analgesic use and risk of ovarian cancer in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Sarah Mantwill - DFCI
Interpersonal communication about graphic health warning labels in a vulnerable population – Predictors and smoking-related consequences of conversations