SEER PI MEETING
DRAFT AGENDA

March 16th

8:15-9:00: Introduction

  • Welcome -- Chuck Wiggins PhD and Cheryl Willman MD
  • NCI update -- Bob Croyle, PhD

9:00-10:00: Highlighting Research Performed at the UNM Cancer Center Incorporating Registry Data

  • SEER-Medicare: Investigating Endometrial Cancer Disparities by Hispanic Ethnicity in New
    Mexico and California -- Linda Cook, PhD
  • Population-based cancer registries: A valuable tool for documenting and reducing cancer
    disparities -- Anita Kinney, PhD, RN

10:00-10:15: Break

10:15-11:45: Highlighting Research Performed at the UNM Cancer Center Incorporating Registry Data
(Continued)

  • KRAS Testing Disparities in the State of New Mexico -- Alissa Greenbaum, MD
  • The Move for Your Health (MY Health) Study -- Cindy Blair, PhD
  • Fifty Years of Cancer Surveillance in New Mexico, 1966-2016 -- Charles Wiggins, PhD

11:45-12:00: Discussion of morning presentations

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-3:00: Natural Language Processing

  • How Can NLP Be Incorporated Into the Registries, A Vision for the Future -- Paul Fearn, MBA
  • Overview of Clinical NLP and the Deep Phe Project -- Rebecca Jacobson MD, MS
  • Web Crawlers of Obituaries -- Georgia Tourassi, PhD
  • NLP Contest --Valentina Petkov, MD, MPH
  • Auto-Populating Variables from Text Documentation in DMS -- Linda Coyle
  • Discussion

3:00-3:30: Break

3:30-4:00: Linkage and Evaluation of National Cancer Data Base -- Elizabeth Ward PhD and Ahmedin
Jemal, DVM, PhD

4:00-5:30: Recurrence and Progression

  • Defining recurrence -- What is Progression? What is Recurrence? -- Chuck Lynch, MD, PhD
  • Can Health Claims Be Used to Identify Recurrence? -- Joan Warren , PhD
  • Methods for Capturing Recurrence --Mei-Chin Hsieh, MSPH, CTR
  • Ability to Identify Biochemical Recurrence -- Marc Barry, MD
  • Discussion

6:30: Transportation to evening activity (details to be provided)

March 17th

8:00-8:40: Transitioning from CS to TNM

  • Results from TNM/CS study -- Annie Noone, MS
  • Changes In the Stage Being Collected and Implication for Data -- Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH

8:40-9:25: Staging of the Future

  • Update from AJCC 8th -- Kim Jessup, MD
  • Update from UICC -- Jim Brierley, MRCP(UK), FRCR
  • Discussion

9:25-9:40: Break

9:40-10:00: Expanding Healthcare Delivery Research at the National Cancer Institute - Ann Geiger, PhD, MPH

10:00-11:00: Data capture from non-traditional sources: results from two pilot studies

  • Incorporation of Claims Data In the Georgia Registry, A Pilot with Unlimited Systems -- Kevin Ward, PhD, MPH, Linda Coyle and Quyen Tran, PharmD
  • Results of GHI Linkage – Steve Shak, MD

11:00-11:45: News From NAACCR

  • Update on Pooled Registries and Central IRB -- Betsy Kohler, MPH, CTR
  • Update on Proposed Changes to the Common Rule --Tom Tucker PhD

11:45-12:00: Wrap up