SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Virtual | October 6-8, 2026

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM

SESSION I (PART 1): PATIENT POPULATION PRIOR TO DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER: SCREENING AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MEN WITH CLINICAL SUSPICION

10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

SESSION I (PART 2): PATIENT POPULATION PRIOR TO DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER: SCREENING AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MEN WITH CLINICAL SUSPICION

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS – PRECISION CARE AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN BLACK MEN

3:20 PM – 5:30 PM

PANEL ON BIOINFORMATICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR A MULTI-MODALITY DATA ANALYSIS FOR PRECISION DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2026

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM

SESSION II (PART 1). CLINICAL EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEN WITH LOCALIZED AND RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER

10:30 AM – 12:50 PM

SESSION II (PART 2): CLINICAL EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEN WITH LOCALIZED AND RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER

12:50 PM – 2:15 PM

LUNCH BREAK

2:15 PM – 6:30 PM

SESSION III: POPULATION OF MEN WITH ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

SESSION IV: PRECISION DIAGNOSTICS AND EMERGING ROLE OF IMAGE-TARGETED, MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENT: Multimodality Diagnostics for Improved Target Definition, Patient Selection, Monitoring & Outcomes

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

GENERAL DISCUSSION

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

LUNCH BREAK

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

PRESENTATION OF WINNING ABSTRACTS

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

GENERAL DISCUSSION

4:00 PM

ADJOURN

8:00 am         WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

 

.Faina Shtern, MD, President and CEO, AdMeTech Foundation

 

 

 

.8:15 am      SESSION I (PART 1): PATIENT POPULATION PRIOR TO DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER: SCREENING AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MEN WITH CLINICAL SUSPICION

Moderators:

Peter Albers, MD, Chairman, Department of Urology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and Division Head, Division of Personalized Early Detection of Prostate Cancer at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University, Germany

 

 

 

 

Sigrid Carlsson, MD, PhD, MPH, Division Head, Clinical Epidemiology of Early Cancer Detection, DKFZ, Heidelberg University, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Stenio Zequi, MD, MSc, PhD, Head of Referral Center for Urological Tumors, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, Brazil

 

 

 

8:30 am      Topic 1: State of the Art and Future Directions in “Smart” Prostate Cancer Screening

8:30 am       Topic 1A: Advancing Risk-Stratified Screening and Early Detection

Sigrid Carlsson, MD, PHD, MPH

 

 

 

 

8:40 am         Q & A

8:42 am         Topic 1B: Update on the PROBASE Trial: Baseline PSA in Young Men (Aged 45 and 50) 

Peter Albers, MD

 

 

 

 

8:52 am         Q & A

8:54 am      Topic 1C: Update on PRAISE-U Project – European Union Initiative in PC Screening

Monique Roobol, PhD, Professor of Decision Making in Urology and the Head of the Scientific Research Office, Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (TBC)

 

 

 

9:04 am        Q & A

9:06 am      Topic 1D: Organized Prostate Testing (OPT) in Sweden

Anders Bjartell, MD, PhD, FEBU, Professor in Urology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University; and Senior Consultant, Skane University Hospital, Sweden

 

 

 

9:16 am        Q & A

 

9:18 am       Topic 1E: TRANSFORM – National UK Trial of Prostate Cancer Screening

Rhian Gabe, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Director of Barts Clinical Trials Units, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (TBC)

 

 

 

9:28 am         Q & A

 

9:30 am          Topic 1F: Update on PROSCREEN: A Randomized Population-Based Screening Trial Combining PSA, Kallikrein Panel and MRI

Anssi Auvinen, MD, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Epidemiology, Tampere University, Finland

 

 

 

 

 

9:40 am         Q & A

 

9:40 am – 10:00 am         Panel Discussion: “Smart” Prostate Cancer Screening

10:00 am – 10:30 am        COFFEE BREAK

10:30 am      SESSION I (PART 2): PATIENT POPULATION PRIOR TO DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATE CANCER: SCREENING AND CLINICAL EVALUATION OF MEN WITH CLINICAL SUSPICION

Moderators:

 

Preston Sprenkle, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine; and Vice Chair, NCCN Prostate Cancer Early Detection Panel

 

 

 

 

Clare M. C. Tempany-Afdhal, MB, BAO, BCh, Ferenc Jolesz MD Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School; Scientific Director of Clinical and Translational research MGB, Director of the Ferenc Jolesz National Center for Image-Guided Therapy & AMIGO; and Immediate Past Chair, Joint American College of Radiology, AdMeTech Foundation and European Society of Urogenital Radiology Steering Committee on PI-RADS

 

10:30 am      Topic 2: Current and Emerging Diagnostic Tools for Improving Risk Assessment, Selection of Patients for Biopsy and Tissue Sampling

 

10:30 am         Topic 2A: Current and Emerging Liquid Diagnostics

 

10:30 am         Overview of Liquid Biomarkers 

E. David Crawford, MD, Professor of Urology, University of California San Diego; Chairman, Prostate Conditions Education Council; Editor in Chief, Grand Rounds in Urology; and Prostate Cancer Series Editor, Oncology Journal

 

 

 

10:40 am         Q & A

10:42 am      Large-Scale, Prospective, Clinical Validation Study of the Diagnostic Performance of IsoPSA Without and In Combination with Mutli-Parametric MRI for the Detection of High-Grade Prostate Cancer

Mark Stovsky, MD, MBA, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, Cleveland Diagnostics, Inc.

 

 

 

 

10:48 am         Q & A

10:50 am        Topic 2B: Current and Emerging Imaging Tools and Targeted Biopsies

 

10:50 am         OPTIMUM Trial – A 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Clinical Study Evaluating the Role of Micro-Ultrasound in Men with Clinical Suspicion of Prostate Cancer

Laurence Klotz, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto and Chair of Prostate Cancer Research, Sunnybrook Medical Center; and Chair, World Urologic Oncology Federation

 

 

 

11:00 am         Q & A

11:02 am      MRI PI-RADS Standardization and Clinical Evaluation

Clare M. C.Tempany-Afdhal, MB, BAO, BCh

 

 

 

 

11:12 am         Q & A

11:14 am       A Calibration Tool for ADC Measurements in Prostate Cancer

Xavier Golay, PhD, MS, Honorary Professor of MRI Physics, University College London, UK

 

 

 

 

11:24 am         Q & A

11:26 am         Topic 2C: State of the Art and Future Directions in Prostate Biopsies 

11:26 am         Urologic Perspective 

Alastair Lamb, MD, PhD, FRCS, CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellow, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London; Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guy’s Hospital; and Visiting Associate Professor, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (TBC)

 

 

11:36 am         Q & A

11:38 am       Role of MRI-Targeted Biopsy in Optimizing Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Fergus Coakley, MD, Professor and Chair of Diagnostic Radiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University

 

 

 

11:48 am         Q & A

 

11:50 am       Topic 2D: Do Biopsies Account for Some of the Progression We See After Prostate Cancer Treatments?

Mark Emberton, MD, Professor of Interventional Oncology, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London; and Honorary Consultant Urologist, University College London Hospital, United Kingdom

 

 

 

12:00 pm         Q & A

 

12:02 pm – 12:30 pm         Panel Discussion: Current and Emerging Diagnostic Tools

 

12:30 pm      Topic 3: Newly Identified Mutations Associated with Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness

Brian T. Helfand, MD, PhD, Ronald L. Chez Family and Richard Melman Family Endowed Chair in Prostate Cancer, and Clinical Professor, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Endeavor Health

 

 

 

12:40 pm         Q & A

12:42 pm      Topic 4: NCCN Guidelines for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Preston Sprenkle, MD

 

 

 

 

12:52 pm         Q & A

12:54 pm – 1:30 pm         General Discussion – Moderators and Speakers  

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm         LUNCH BREAK

3:00 pm       KEYNOTE ADDRESS – PRECISION CARE AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN BLACK MEN

Adam B Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI, Distinguished Professor of Population Health Research in Urology, Department of Urology and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern Medicine – Feinberg School of Medicine

 

3:15 pm         Q & A

3:20 pm         PANEL ON BIOINFORMATICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR A MULTI-MODALITY DATA ANALYSIS FOR PRECISION DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Moderators:

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA, Professor of Cancer Genetics & Epigenetics and Director, Cancer Center; and Vice President, Data Science & AI, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

 

 

 

Amita Dave, PhD, Vice-Chair, Radiology-Medical Physics Outreach; Deputy Service Chief for Predictive Informatics, and Director of Quantitative Imaging, Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 

3:30 pm        The Evolution of AI Tooling: Should I Be Scared Yet?

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

 

 

 

 

3:40 pm         Q & A

 

3:42 pm  AI, Bioinformatics and Prostate Cancer Care

Ilya Gipp, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer – Oncology, GE Healthcare, Sponsored by GE Healthcare (TBC)

 

 

 

3:52 pm         Q & A

3:54 pm – 4:30 pm        Panel Discussion: Moderators, Speakers

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm    GENERAL DISCUSSION

8:00 am       SESSION II (PART 1). CLINICAL EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEN WITH LOCALIZED AND RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER

Moderators:

 

Mohammed Shahait, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology, Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine

 

 

 

 

Lalitha K. Shankar, Acting Associate Director, Cancer Imaging Program; and Chief, Clinical Trials Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

 

 

8:05 am         Topic 1: Multiomics of Prostate Cancer 

8:05 am      Topic 1A: Molecular Imaging

8:05 am       PRIMARY2 Clinical Trial – PSMA PET/CT as a “Manogram” to Improve Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Professor Michael Hofman, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS, FSNNMI, FAHMS, GAICD, PET/CT Head, Cancer Imaging; Director, Prostate Cancer Theranostics and Imaging Centre of Excellence (ProsTIC); Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne; and Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

 

 

8:15 am        Q & A

8:17 am      Topic 1B: Clinical and Prognostic Implications of Cancer Visibility on Imaging

8:17 am    Radiologic Perspective

Sungmin Woo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

 

 

8:27 am        Q & A

 

8:29 am       Urologic Perspective: Genomics and Natural History of MRI Invisible vs Visible Cancers

Laurence Klotz, MD

 

 

 

 

 

8:39 am        Q & A

 

8:41 am   Micro-ultrasound in Prostate Cancer: Role in Biopsy-Naive Patients, Decisions to Biopsy, and Active Surveillance

Adam Kinnaird, MD, PhD, Frank and Carla Sonjonky Chair of Prostate Cancer Research, Departments of Surgery, Oncology, Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Canada

 

 

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8:51 am        Q & A

 

8:53 am  Topic 1C:PSMA Imaging-Guided Salvage Radiotherapy in Patients with Biochemical Recurrence after Radical ProstatectomyEmerging Five-Year Outcomes

Andrea Di Giorgio, MD, Nuclear Medicine Unit – University of Bologna, and University of Bologna Medical Center, Italy

 

 

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9:03 am        Q & A

9:05 am     Topic 1D: Novel and Emerging Pathological Factors in Localized and Recurrent Prostate Cancer

Gladell P. Paner, MD, Professor of Pathology and Surgery (Urology), and Director of Genitourinary Pathology Service, University of Chicago

 

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9:15 am        Q & A

9:17 am       Topic 1E:  ProQuant Update – Gleason Pattern 4 for Risk Stratification

Andrew Vickers, PhD, Attending Research Methodologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 

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9:27 am        Q & A

9:29 am       Topic 1F: Integration of MRI with Histology, Genomics, and Proteomics

Steven Raman, MD, Clinical Professor of Radiology and Director of Prostate MR Imaging and Interventions, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

 

 

 

9:39 am        Q & A

9:41 am – 10:00 am         Panel Discussion: Multiomics – Moderators and Speakers

 

10:00 am – 10:30 am         COFFEE BREAK

10:30 am     SESSION II (PART 2): CLINICAL EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEN WITH LOCALIZED AND RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER

Moderators:

 

Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH, Professor of Urology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Associate Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Urology; Helen Diller Family Chair in Urology, UCSF (TBC)

 

 

 

Raja B. Khauli, MD, Professor of Urology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon; and Professor of Surgery and Urology, Carle Health, College of Medicine, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

 

 

10:30 am       Topic 2: Year in Review – Emerging Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH (TBC)

 

 

 

 

10:40 am         Q & A

10:42 am     Topic 3: Old School, New Insight: Histomorphology in the Modern Biomarker Era of Risk Stratification of Prostate Cancer 

Jane Nguyen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Case Western Reserve University/ Lerner College of Medicine; Director of Genitourinary Pathology; Staff Pathologist in the Diagnostics Institute, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic

 

 

10:52 am         Q & A

10:54 am           Topic 4: The Future of PSMA PET Imaging 

Ashley E. Ross, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology and Clinical Director, Polsky Urologic Oncology Center, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Sponsored by Blue Earth Diagnostics.

 

 

 

11:04 am       Q & A

11:06 am       Topic 5: Integration of Precision Diagnosis and Precision Treatment

11:06 am       Topic 5A: Integrated Diagnostics (Radiogenomics) for Active Surveillance, Surgical and Radiation Treatment

Sanoj Punnen, MD, MAS, MBA, Professor of Urology, and Vice Chair of Research, Desai Sethi Urology Institute; and Assistant Director of Clinical Research and Cancer Control Research Program Co-Lead, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

 

 

11:16 am         Q & A

11:18 am         Topic 5B: Image-Guided, Minimally-Invasive Focal Treatment: Emerging Role in Patient Management

John Feller, MD, Chief Medical Officer, HALO Diagnostics; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine

 

 

 

11:28 am         Q & A

11:30 am         Topic 5C: Radiation Treatment

Daniel Y. Song, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, and Co-Director, Prostate Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Clinic, Johns Hopkins University (TBC)

 

 

 

11:40 am         Q & A

11:42 am        Topic 6: Optimal Management of Patients Presenting with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer in 2026

Raja B. Khauli, MD

 

 

 

 

11:52 am         Q & A

11:54 am      Topic 7: Recurrent Disease

11:54 am         Topic 7A: Principles of Focal Salvage Treatment for Radiorecurrent Prostate Cancer – Is it Feasible?

Giancarlo Marra, MD, Consultant Urologist and Assistant Professor, Division of Urology, AOU Citta Della Salute e Della Scienza and University of Turin, Italy

 

 

 

12:04 pm         Q & A

12:06 pm         Topic 7B: NCI Working Group Recommendations on Biomedical Cancer Recurrence

David Einstein, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program

 

 

 

 

12:16 pm         Q & A

 

12:18 pm         Topic 7C: Clinical Role of PET/MRI in Biochemical Recurrence

Hong Song, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Medicine/Radiology, Stanford University (TBC)

 

 

 

 

12:28 pm         Q & A

 

 

12:30 pm – 12:50 pm         Panel Discussion: Integration of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment

 

12:50 pm – 2:15 pm         LUNCH BREAK

2:15 pm        SESSION III: POPULATION OF MEN WITH ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER

Moderators:..

 

Steven Eric Finkelstein, MD, DABR, FACRO, National Director of the Center of Advanced Radiation Excellence (CARE) and Director, Radiation Oncology Research, Associated Medical Professionals / US Urology, Syracuse, NY; and Board of Chancellors and Chair of Education Committee, American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO)

 

 

 

Katherine Ferrara, PhD, Professor and Division Chief, Molecular Imaging Program, Stanford University (TBC)

 

 

 

 

Raluca Mititelu, MD, PhD, Lecturer, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Central University Emergency Military Hospital Bucharest, Romania

 

 

 

2:15 pm        Topic 1: Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer, including Oligometastatic and Systemic Disease

2:15 pm       Topic 1A: The Earlier Use of Radio Pharmaceuticals in Prostate Cancer

Marc B. Garnick, MD, Director of Cancer Community Services, BIDMC; Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Medical School Prostate Disease Report

 

 

 

2:25 pm        Q & A

2:27 pm      Topic 1B: Sequencing of Treatment

Arnulf Stenzl, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, University of Tuebingen, Germany; Secretary General Adjunct – European Association of Urology; and Member, European Cancer Organization (ECO) Board of Directors (TBC)

 

 

 

2:37 pm        Q & A

2:39 pm       Topic 1C: Novel Systemic Treatment: Recent Advances and Future Directions in Targeted Treatment:

 Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Genitourinary Oncology; and Co-Director of Signal Transduction Program, Yale University (TBC)

 

 

 

2:49 pm        Q&A

 

2:51 pm – 3:30 pm  COFFEE BREAK

 

3:30 pm        Topic 1D: Emerging Advances in Precision Radiation Treatment and Immunotherapy – Fireside Chat

Steven E. Finkelstein, MD;

 

 

 

 

Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, Executive Chairman and Global Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, ImmunityBio (TBC)

 

 

 

 

3:45 pm        Q & A

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm        Panel Discussion: Standard and Emerging Treatment

 

4:20 pm        Topic 2: Molecular Imaging and Theranostics

4:20 pm      Topic 2A: PSMA-PET Metrics for Outcome Prediction in Patients with mCRPC

Sungmin Woo, MD, PhD

 

 

 

 

4:30 pm        Q & A

4:32 pm      Topic 2B: Radiologic Perspective on Integration of Molecular Imaging and Treatment

Andrei Iagaru, MD, Professor of Radiology and Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging; and Co-Director, PET-MRI Research Program, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

4:42 pm        Q & A

4:44 pm     Topic 2C: PSMA-Targeted Therapy – Clonal Heterogeneity, Neuroendocrine Differentiation, and Finding the Right Sequence of Systemic Treatment

Vikas Prasad, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of Clinical Theranostics, Center for Clinical Theranostics Research, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; and Co-Chair, Theranostics Program, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, Saint Louis, Missouri

 

 

4:54 pm        Q & A

4:56 pm   Topic 2D: Emerging Radioligand Therapy and Prostate Cancer

Ilya Gipp, MD, PhD (TBC)

 

 

 

 

5:06 pm        Q & A

 

5:08 pm – 5:30 pm      Panel Discussion: Molecular Imaging and Theranostics 

 

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm      General Discussion: Speakers, Moderators

8:00 am     SESSION IV: PRECISION DIAGNOSTICS AND EMERGING ROLE OF IMAGE-TARGETED, MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENT: Multimodality Diagnostics for Improved Target Definition, Patient Selection, Monitoring & Outcomes

Moderators:

David Albala, MD, Chief of Urology, Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, New York

 

 

 

 

Giovanni Lughezzani, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Urology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital, Rozzano (MI), and Associate Professor, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

 

 

 

Mitchell Sokoloff, MD, Professor and Chair of Urology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine

 

 

 

Stephen Zappala, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Tufts University School of Medicine

 

 

 

8:10 am     Topic 1: Overview of Focal Treatment

Mark Emberton, MD

 

 

 

 

8:20 am        Q & A

 

8:22 am      Topic 2: Current Clinical Trials

 

8:22 am   Urologic Perspective: Clinical Trials in Focal Treatment at NIH and Emerging Role of Intraprostatic Drug Delivery

Peter Pinto, MD, National Institutes of Health, Director of the Urologic Oncology Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute

 

 

 

 

8:32 am        Q & A

 

8:34 am  Radiologic Perspective: Multicentre Trials on Focal Therapy

Jurgen Futterer, MD, PhD,Interventional Radiologist, Professor of Image-guided Interventional Oncology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen; and Professor, Robotics and Mechanics Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands

 

 

8:44 am        Q & A

8:46 am    Topic 3: AI and Focal Treatment – Quantitative MRI Reading, AI Derived Algorithms for ECE/BCR, and AI Use in MRI Directed Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Victoria Bird, MD, President and Founder of Urologic Integrated Care, Gainesville, FLA;  Staff Urologic Surgeon, HCA Florida North Florida Hospital; CEO, Urology Division, Research Group, National Medical Association; and Former Affiliate Professor of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, and Former Assistant  Professor, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Florida

 

 

8:56 am        Q & A

8:58 am    Topic 4: Irreversible Electroporation (IRE)

 

8:58 am   The Current state of IRE and Imaging in Prostate Cancer Focal Therapy

Professor Phillip Stricker M.B., B.S(N.S.W.)(Hons), F.R.A.C.S. AO, Conjoint Professor, UNSW and Western Sydney University; Chairman, Department of Urology, St Vincents Campus; Director, St Vincents Prostate Cancer Research Centre; and Emeritus Fellow Garvan Institute

 

 

9:08 am        Q & A

 

9:10 am      Micro-Ultrasound and IRE 

Xiaosong Meng, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor and Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care, Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

 

 

 

9:20 am           Q & A

9:22 am       Topic 5: Comparative Analysis and Clinical Utility of the Current Modalities in Therapeutic Ablation for Prostate Cancer

Alessandro Marquis, MD, FEBU, Urology Clinic, Department of Surgical Sciences, Molinette Hospital and University of Turin

 

 

 

 

9:32 am – 9:50 am  Panel Discussion

 

9:50 am – 10:10 am    COFFEE BREAK

 

10:10 am           Topic 6: Addressing Fundamental Challenges in Clinical Evaluation, Acceptance and Adoption of Image-Targeted Treatment- Perspective from the AdMeTech Foundation’s International Working Group

 

10:10 am   Review and Update – Imaging for Improving Post-Ablation Assessment and Developing Short-Term Patient Outcomes

Faina Shtern, MD

 

 

 

 

 

10:20 am     Current Approaches to MRI Reporting After Focal Treatment

Daniel Margolis, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Director, Prostate MRI, and Chair, Weill Cornell Institutional Review Board, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

 

 

 

 

10:30 am        Q & A

 

10:32 am       The Ablation Site Imaging (AIM) Multicenter Diagnostic Accuracy Study of MRI After Focal Therapy

Alexander Light, MBBS, MRCS, NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Urology Registrar, Imperial Prostate, Imperial College London

 

 

 

10:42 am        Q & A

 

10:44 am – 10:50 am  Comments

Francesco Giganti, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, Honorary Consultant Radiologist, University College London Hospitals

 

 

 

Sangeet Ghai, MD, Professor and Trachtenberg Haque Chair in Image Guided Prostate Therapy Research, Director of Research, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network – Mt Sinai Hospital – Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada (TBC)

 

 

 

10:50 am        Q & A

 

10:52 am   A New Scoring System for PSMA Imaging and PSMA/MRI Integration for Patient Evaluation after Focal Treatment: Development and Preliminary Data

Giovanni Lughezzani, MD

 

 

 

 

11:02 am        Q & A

 

11:04 am – 11:30 am       Panel on MRI Reporting Post Focal Treatment – Rationale, Background, & Recommendations

Led By: 

Sangeet Ghai, MD (TBC)

 

 

 

 

Francesco Giganti, MD, PhD

 

 

 

 

Daniel Margolis, MD

 

 

 

 

11:30 am – 12:00 pm   Panel on Molecular Imaging Post Focal Treatment – Rationale, Background, Emerging Data, and Next Steps

Led By: 

Andrei Iagaru, MD

 

 

 

 

Irene Burger, MD, Head of Nuclear Medicine, Kantonsspital Baden, Baden Switzerland; Attending Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

 

Andrea Di Giorgio, MD

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm     GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm        LUNCH BREAK

1:30 pm

         KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: We Still Don’t Understand the Prostate Cancer Genome: Why Not?

Keynote Speaker:

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

 

 

 

 

1:45 pm        Q & A

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm   PRESENTATION OF WINNING ABSTRACTS

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm     GENERAL DISCUSSION

4:00 pm        ADJOURN