Programme

Theme: “Involving the Caregivers”

Host: University of Nottingham, UK

Chair: Kwok-Leung Cheung

Date: Friday 1 March 2024

Venue: The Jubilee Hotel & Conferences, Nottingham, UK

Provisional Programme

Arrival and Registration

Time: 9am to 9.45am

Welcome and Introduction

Time: 9.45am to 10am

Speaker: Kwok-Leung Cheung; Professor of Breast Surgery and Medical Education, University of Nottingham; Consultant Breast Surgeon, University Hospitals of Royal Derby and Burton Hospital; UK National Representative, SIOG; Symposium chair

Session 1: Updates

Time: 10am to 11.15am

Chair: Holly Holmes

10am to 10.30am: Updates

Speaker: Etienne Brain; Medical Oncologist, Institute Curie, Paris, France; Past President, SIOG

10.30am to 11am: Challenges in clinical trials participation

Speaker: Ruth Parks

11am to 11.15am: Discussion

Speaker: Panel

11.15am to 11.35am: Coffee break and poster viewing

Session 2: Oral abstracts

Time: 11.35am to 12.40pm

Chair: Ruth Parks

11.35am to 12.20pm: Oral abstracts

Speaker: Various

12.20pm to 12.40pm: MDT case discussion

Speaker: Panel

12.40pm to 1.40pm: Lunch break and poster viewing

Session 3: Challenging areas

Time: 1.40pm to 2.55pm

Chair: Kwok-Leung Cheung

1.40pm to 2.10pm: Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy - the Edinburgh experience

Speaker: J Michael Dixon; Professor of Surgery and Consultant Surgeon, Edinburgh Breast Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

2.10pm to 2.40pm: Polypharmacy – is it relevant?

Speaker: Holly Holmes; Vice President and Joan and Stanford Alexander Chair in Gerontology; Professor, UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School, USA

2.40pm to 2.55pm: Discussion

Speaker: All faculty

2.55pm to 3.15pm: Coffee break and poster viewing

Session 4: Patients and caregivers

Time: 3.15pm to 4.45pm

Chair: Etienne Brain

3.15pm to 4.05pm: Interviewing patients and caregivers

Speaker: Facilitated by Joanne York; Consultant Radiographer, Royal Derby Hospital

4.05pm to 4.35pm: Involving patients and caregivers