AGENDA
2017 NCI Cohort Consortium Annual Meeting
November 13–14, 2017, NCI Shady Grove, Rockville, Maryland

DAY 1 Monday, November 13, 2017  
8:00 – 12:00 Registration Lobby Level
9:00 – 12:00 Cohort Consortium Working Group Meetings Refer to Working Group Schedule
11:00 – 12:30 Steering Committee Working Lunch
Attendees are responsible for meals and light refreshments on their own, at their own cost.
 
12:30 – 5:15 Cohort Consortium Main Meeting Seminar 406/408/410
SESSION I Opening Plenary Session
12:30 – 12:35 Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Anthony Swerdlow, University of London Institute of Cancer Research
12:35 – 12:45 Opening Remarks and NIH Updates
Dr. Debbie Winn, National Cancer Institute
Dr. Stephen Chanock, National Cancer Institute
12:45 – 1:10 Keynote Address
Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health
1:10 – 1:20 Open Discussion
SESSION II Setting New Directions for the Cohort Consortium
1:20 – 4:15 Moderators
Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer, National Cancer Institute
Dr. Susan Gapstur, American Cancer Society, Inc.
Ms. Nonye Harvey, National Cancer Institute
1:20 – 1:25 World Café – Introduction
Dr. Susan Gapstur, American Cancer Society, Inc.
1:25 – 1:30 Charge to the World Café Table Groups
Ms. Shannon Connolly, NCI Office of Workforce Planning and Planning
1:30 – 2:00 World Café – Round 1 (30 min)
2:00 – 2:05 Transition
2:05 – 2:20 Break (15 min)
2:25 – 2:45 World Café – Round 2 (20 min)
2:45 – 2:50 Transition
2:50 – 3:05 World Café – Round 3 (15 min)
3:05 – 3:20 Break (15 min)
Table Hosts and Scribes will convene and synthesize ideas during time
3:20 – 4:10 World Café Report Out and Open Discussion
Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer, National Cancer Institute
Dr. Susan Gapstur, American Cancer Society, Inc.
Ms. Shannon Connolly, NCI Office of Workforce Planning and Development
4:10 – 4:15 Next Steps
Ms. Nonye Harvey, National Cancer Institute
SESSION III Methodologic Insights to Cohort Consortium Studies
4:15 – 5:25 Moderator
Dr. Meir Stampfer, Harvard School of Public Health
4:15 – 4:40 Ghost-Time Bias from Imperfect Mortality Ascertainment in Aging Cohorts
Dr. Eric Jacobs, American Cancer Society, Inc.
4:40 – 4:50 Open Discussion
4:50 – 5:15 Innovative Data Capture for Cancer Surveillance and Cohort Studies
Dr. Lynne Penberthy, National Cancer Institute
5:15 – 5:25 Open Discussion
5:25 Adjourn
6:00 Networking Social / Happy Hour Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center
DAY 2 Tuesday, November 14, 2017  
8:30 – 12:00 Cohort Consortium Main Meeting Seminar 406/408/410
SESSION III
(continued)		 Methodologic Insights to Cohort Consortium Studies
8:30 – 9:00 Moderator
Dr. Lynne Wilkens, University of Hawaii Cancer Center
8:30 – 8:55 Cohort Consortium Data for the Development, Validation and Estimation of the Utility of Risk Models for Disease Prevention
Dr. Mitchell Gail, National Cancer Institute
8:55 – 9:05 Open Discussion
SESSION IV Cohort Consortium Project / Working Group Reports
9:05 – 10:05 Moderators
Dr. Julie Palmer, Boston University School of Public Health
Dr. Celine Vachon, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
9:05 – 9:15 Liver Cancer Pooling Project
Dr. Katherine McGlynn, National Cancer Institute
9:15 – 9:25 Open Discussion
9:25 – 9:35 Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer
Dr. Stephanie Smith-Warner, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Jeanine Genkinger, Columbia University
9:35 – 9:45 Open Discussion
9:45 – 9:55 Biomarkers and Breast Cancer Risk Prediction
Dr. Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, New York University School of Medicine
9:55 – 10:05 Open Discussion
SESSION V Poster Session
10:05 – 11:15 Presenters are asked to be by their posters during this time (2nd Floor Atrium)
SESSION VI New Concept Proposals and Next Steps
11:15 – 12:00 Moderators
Dr. Anthony Swerdlow, University of London Institute of Cancer Research
Dr. Roger Milne, University of Melbourne Cancer Council Victoria
11:15 – 11:25 Poster Awards
11:25 – 11:50 Open Mic – New Concept Proposals
11:50 – 12:00 Wrap Up
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
Attendees are responsible for meals and light refreshments on their own, at their own cost.
1:00 – 5:00 Cohort Consortium Working Group Meetings (see working group schedule)
5:00 Adjourn