8:00 AM          Registration, Buffet Breakfast and Exhibits

8:50 AM          Welcome and Introductions/Supporter Acknowledgement
.......................Joseph Phillips, DO – Symposium Medical Director

9:00 AM          Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Improving Outcomes thorough Progress in Therapy
.......................Stephanie A. Gregory, MD

10:00 AM        Multiple Myeloma: Making Treatment Decisions in an Evolving Field
.......................Steven Treon, MD, PhD

9:50 AM          Coffee Break / Exhibits

11:05 AM        New Approaches in the Treatment and Management of MDS and AML
.......................Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD

12 NOON        Luncheon / Exhibits

1:00 PM          Clinical Aspects in the Treatment of Chronic Leukemia
........................Hagop Kantarjian, MD

2:00 PM          Addressing the Most Common Questions in Consultative Hematology
.......................Thomas Ortel, MD, PhD

3:00 PM          Challenging Case Presentations/Panel Discussion

5:00 PM          Closing Remarks – Adjourn

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY

Stephanie A. Gregory, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director
Section of Hematology
Rush Medical College
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Steven Treon, MD, PhD
Director
Bing Center for WM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Section of Myelodysplastic Syndromes
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Hagop Kantargian, MD
Chairman and Professor
Department of Leukemia
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Thomas L. Ortel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center
Duke University Health System
Durham, NC

Course Director

Joseph Phillips, DO
Ochsner Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University
New Orleans, LA