#CGAIGC24

Scientific Program

Legend Scientific Sessions
Industry Symposium
Abstract Sessions
Session TimeSessions
07:00 – 07:45 
08:00 – 08:10Welcome & Housekeeping
Bryson Katona, CGA-IGC President
08:10 – 09:55

Session I: Genetic Counseling Conundrums

Moderators: Zach Foda & Michelle Savage McSweeny

Genetic counseling and genetic testing challenges at the end of life, Lisa Madlensky
Q&A
Germline genetic testing and transplant eligibility, Katie Lang
Q&A
Impact and implications of variant reclassification in cancer genetics, Sukh Makhnoon
Q&A
How We Do It – Mainstreaming Genetic Testing for CRC Patients, Matthew F Kalady & Josie Baker & Kathryn Baker

09:55 – 10:15Break
10:15 – 11:15

Debate: Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection

Debate: BRCA1/2, PALB2, ATM carriers without a family history of pancreatic cancer: To screen or not to screen the pancreas?

Moderators: Dana Zakalik & Shenin Sanoba

Yes, Aimee Lucas
No, Randy Brand
Rebuttals and Q&A

11:15 – 12:15

Named Lecture: Lemuel Herrera Lecture

Moderator: Hannah Campbell & Michelle Springer

Introduction, Hannah Campbell
Diversity in Genetic Counseling, Erica Ramos
Q&A
Reflections From A Patient And Research Advocate, Wenora Johnson
Q&A

12:15 – 13:45LUNCH BREAK
13:45 – 15:15

Presidential Plenary I

Moderators: Peter Stanich & Bryson Katona

Trends in Lifespan and Cause of Death Among Patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Brian Christopher Brajcich
Reproductive Decision Making and Maternal and Fetal Risk in Individuals with Germline {CDH1} Variants, Cassidy Rose Bowden
Gastric and lobular breast cancer prevalence in {CTNNA1} heterozygotes identified via multigene panel testing, Jennifer Herrera Mullar

Clinicopathologic and allele-specific analysis of germline and somatic MUTYH alterations in a pan-cancer cohort, Matteo Repetto
Outcomes of Intestinal Transplantation for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Associated Intraabdominal Desmoid Disease, Mohamed Elshawy
Predictors of Invasive Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma in {CDH1} Carriers – Results from the GASTRIC Consortiumact, Ophir Gilad

15:15 – 16:00PM Break
15:25 – 15:55

CCARE Lynch Syndrome Poster Walk

Moderators: Zsofia Stadler & Megha Ranganathan

Small Bowel Surveillance Assessed by Video Capsule Endoscopy in Asymptomatic Lynch Syndrome Subjects,
Giulia Martina Cavestro

Genotype Specific Lynch Associated Cancer Risk Compared to the General Population: Results from a Nationwide Database,
Timothy Yen

Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia (EIN) as a Precursor in Lynch Syndrome-Associated Endometrial Carcinoma,
Hadley Reid

Efficacy of Urinary Tract Cancer Surveillance Among Patients with Lynch Syndrome,
Mehul Trivedi
Immunogenic Profiles in Lynch Syndrome Colorectal Cancers are Consistent Across Different Mismatch Repair Gene Defects,
Noah Cornelis Helderman

16:00 – 17:00

Named Lecture: Henry Lynch Lecture

Moderators: Jacquelyn Powers & Dan Li

Introduction, Jacquelyn Powers
Cancer risk management and interception opportunities in BRCA1/2 carriers, Susan Domchek
Q&A
Assessment of Pancreatic Cancer Screening in High-Risk Patients: Experience from a Community Health System, Jacqueline Neminski
Outcomes of Risk Assessment and Genetic Testing for Patients with Early-onset Adenomas, W. Curtis Weaver
A Blood-based, Multiplex Protein Biomarker Signature Shows Superior Performance in Detection of Early-stage Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC), Norma Palma
Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome and Lung Cancer Risk: Does the Risk Meet the Threshold for Lung Cancer Screening?, Jennifer M. Weiss
Insurance Coverage and Denials of Guideline-Recommended Colorectal Cancer Genetic Testing, Edward Esplin

17:00- 18:00

Hereditary Live

Moderator: Joshua Sommovilla

Panelists: Swati Patel, Matthew Yurgelun, Jessica Long

Case Presentation 1, Ophir Gilad & Christine Drogan
Case Presentation 2, Asaf Maoz

18:00 – 19:00Poster Session 1
20:00 – 22:30Social Session
Session Time Sessions
07:00 – 07:45 Sponsored Breakfast
12:30 – 13:30 Sponsored Lunch
Session TimeSessions
07:00 – 07:45 
08:00 – 08:10Welcome & Housekeeping
Bryson Katona, CGA-IGC President
08:10 – 09:40

Session II: Lynch syndrome

Moderators: Mohammad Abbass & Veroushka Ballester

Gynecologic controversies in Lynch syndrome: utility of screening, contraceptive use, and surgical timing and extent, Lee-May Chen
Q&A
Segmental colectomy is the preferred surgical approach in Lynch syndrome, Carlos Vaccaro
Extended colectomy is the preferred surgical approach in Lynch syndrome, Jose Guillem
Rebuttals and Q&A

09:40 – 10:00AM Break
10:00 – 10:45

Named Lecture: Jeremy Jass Lecture

Moderators: Sanjeevani Arora & Aparajita Singh

Introduction, Sanjeevani Arora
25 years of CDH1: history, current controversies, and future opportunities, Jeremy Davis
Q&A

10:45 – 12:00

Session III: International Updates

Moderators: Pooja Dharwadkar & Tatiana Johnson

Updates from the 2024 IGCLC Meeting, Carla Oliveira, Portugal
Q&A
Updates from the 2024 Insight Annual Meeting, Francesc Balaguer, Spain
Q&A

Comprehensive characterization of screening strategies for Lynch syndrome from a large cohort of colorectal cancer individuals of Latin American,
Mev Dominguez Valentin, Norway

12:00 – 13:20LUNCH BREAK
13:20 – 14:50

Presidential Plenary II

Moderators: Bryson Katona & Beth Dudley

Development And Validation Of An Exosome-Based And Machine Learning Powered Liquid Biopsy For Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: The {ENCODE} Study, Alessandro Mannucci
“It would just make everything easier”: Patient perspectives on the potential of mHealth to reduce the burden of care management in Lynch syndrome, Jordan Clawson
Parent-of-origin assignment of pathogenic variants without parental data, Kasmintan A Schrader
Influence of Preoperative Lynch Syndrome Diagnosis on the Extent of Surgery in Patients with Colon Cancer, Mohammad Ali Abbass
Modeling uptake of aspirin (ASA) and NSAIDS in Lynch syndrome (LS) to elucidate barriers to chemoprevention of hereditary cancers, Michael Hall
Risks of Colorectal Cancer Among TP53 Mutation Carriers in the LiFT-UP Study, Stephen B Gruber

14:50 – 15:10PM Break
15:10 – 16:55

Session IV: Polyposis

Moderators: Douglas Riegert-Johnson and Julie Moskowitz

Thyroid cancer risk and surveillance across hereditary polyposis syndromes, Steven Waguespack

Q&A

Juvenile polyposis syndrome with and without a driver gene mutation: Same syndrome different phenotypes or different syndromes?, Suzanne MacFarland
Q&A
Emerging polyposis syndromes: risks and management both within and outside the colon, Melyssa Aronson
Q&A
How We Do It: Management of complex upper gastrointestinal lesions in FAP: selection, technical considerations, benefits, and limitations, Carol Burke & Amit Bhatt & Michael Cruise

17:00 – 18:00

Jeopardy

Moderators: Michael Hall & Maegan Roberts

Hereditary or not, Here We Come, Eve Karloski, Paul Wise, Carol Burke

The Mismatch Mavericks, Timothy Yen, Alicia Latham, Kimberly Hilfrank

CHEK2 Yo Self, Jill Genua, Greg Idos,Catherine Neumann

18:00 – 19:00Poster Session 2
Session Time Sessions
07:00 – 07:45 Sponsored Breakfast
12:10 – 13:10 Sponsored Lunch
Session TimeSessions
07:00 – 07:45 
08:00 – 08:10Welcome & Housekeeping
Bryson Katona, CGA-IGC President
08:10 – 10:10

Session V: Hot Topics in Hereditary GI Cancer

Moderators: Gautam Mankaney & Kristin Zelley

Hepatobiliary cancers: germline genetic associations and when to test, Kirk Wangensteen
Q&A
Gastrointestinal cancer risks and management in Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Kara Maxwell
Q&A
Care for transgender individuals with a hereditary GI cancer Syndrome, Rachel Hodan
Q&A
Genetic discrimination: Updates and implications for genetic counseling, Jennifer Wagner
Q&A

10:10 – 10:30AM Break
10:30 – 11:30

Session VI: Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection

Moderators: Lisen Axell & Joel Gabre

MRI for pancreatic cancer screening: pros, cons, and other considerations, Carla Harmath
Q&A
Blood-based tests for pancreatic cancer screening in high-risk individuals: What should be used and how?, Fay Kastrinos
Q&A

11:30 – 12:15

Named Lecture: Bert Vogelstein Lecture

Moderators: Jennifer Weiss & Daniel Luba

Introduction, Jennifer Weiss
Non-invasive colorectal cancer screening and the potential application to hereditary GI cancer syndromes, Aasma Shaukat
Q&A

12:15 – 13:45LUNCH BREAK
13:45 – 15:15

Presidential Plenary III

Moderators: Beth Dudley & Elana Levinson

The Incidence of Pancreatic Cancer in Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, Bryson W Katona
The At-Risk Cancer Genetic Syndrome Identification (ARCAGEN-ID) project: A systems approach to scale-up Lynch syndrome identification, Xavier Llor
Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Risk Assessment for Trans and Gender-Diverse Patients with Lynch Syndrome, Joyce Gong
Predictors of Positive Genetic Testing in Adenomatous Polyposis, Peter P Stanich
Patient preferences for selective exclusion of high-risk genes on multigene panel testing, Samuel Levy
Impact of RNA Sequencing on Variant Classification: Experience at a High-Volume Cancer Genetics Center, Sydney Rudowski

15:15 – 16:15

CGA-IGC Business Meeting & Presidential Transition

Bryson Katona & Michael Hall
Post Meeting Wrap Up
Beth Dudley

Session Time Sessions
07:00 – 07:45 Sponsored Breakfast
12:30 – 13:30 Sponsored Lunch