2016 International Congress for Hyperthermic Oncology
April 12-15, 2016 ◊◊◊ Intercontinental Hotel, New Orleans, LA

Monday, April 11thRegistration – La Salle C Foyer available all day
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Room TBDSTMESHO Council
8:00 am Council
Meeting
Noon
Meeting

Room TBDASHO Council
Meeting

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Committee
Meeting

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PyrexarUser’sMeeting

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User’sMeeting(9:30 am –5:30 pm)

Noon 1:00 pm

1:00 pm 4:00 pm

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Buffet Luncheon for Committee Members
Room TBDIAHOCouncil
Meeting

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Committee
Meeting

Room TBDCommittee
Meeting

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Lunch for User’s Group
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Committee
Meeting

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PyrexarUser’sMeeting

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User’sMeeting(9:30 am –5:30 pm)

4:00 pm 6:00 pm

International Journal of Hyperthermia Editorial Board Meeting

Tuesday, April 12thRegistration – La Salle C Foyer
Exhibit Hall and Poster Set-up – Le Salon (pre-function to La Salle A/B/C)
La Salle A (3rd floor)
EDUCATION DAY with CME CREDITS
8:00 AM - Thermal Ablation in the Clinic - Where are we and where areAn additional registration fee of $75 is requiredto participate –Breakfast and lunch will be provided

Image-Guided Tumor Ablation: Fire & Ice –What’s hot and what’s not –8:00 am 3:00 pm

FACULTY: David Woodrum John Bischof
 Robert Griffin
 Sharon Evans R. Jason Stafford
 Aradhana M Venkatesan
 Muneeb Ahmed
 Mark Hurwitz

we headed? - with David Woodrum
8:30 AM - Biological Concepts in Thermal Biology and Dosimetry forAblation – with John Bischof & Rob Griffin
9:30 AM - Overview of the immune system, immunotherapy and systemic
effects – with Sharon Evans
10:30 AM - COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - Physical Mechanisms of Ablation Delivery and Devices with R. Jason Stafford
11:30 AM - Overview of Clinical Cryoablation – with Aradhana Venkatasen
12:00 PM – Lunch (Box lunch as part of registration)
1:00 PM - Advances and Opportunities in Radiofrequency & Microwave
Ablation – with Muneeb Ahmed
2:00 PM - Clinical Applications of Laser Ablation – with David Woodrum
2:30 PM - Progress in High Intensity Ultrasound Ablation – with MarkHurwitz
3:00 PM - Adjournrd

3:00 pm 6:00 pm

La Salle A/B (3 floor)
Opening General Session
 STM Robinson Award – TBD
 2016 ESHO/BSD Award Lecture – TBD
 ASHO Award - Dr. Hideki Matsumoto6:00 pm 9:00 pm

Frenchman Ballroom
Opening Reception – with Jazz Sextet - Louis Ford & His New Orleans Jazz Flairs

Wednesday, April 13thRegistration – La Salle C Foyer
Speaker Ready Room – Acadian I available all day
La Salle C (3rd floor)
7:00 am Posters
5:00 pm
6:45 am 8:15 am
7:15 am 8:00 am
8:15 am 9:00 am

9:15 am 11:45 am

Noon 1:00 pm
1:00 pm 1:30 pm

1:30 pm 3:30 pm

Le Salon (pre-function to La Salle A/B/C)
Exhibits

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Breakfast Buffet
Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Refresher Course: Tumor Immunology
Speaker: Elizabeth Repasky

Algiers Room
Refresher Course: 20 Years of Thermal Ablation:
Progress, Challenges, Opportunities
Speaker: David Woodrum

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
General Session Room -- Plenary: Damian Dupuy – Clinical Applications of Thermal Ablation
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Algiers Room
Session: Thermal Ablation
Session: Nanotechnology #1 – Session: ImmunologyChair(s): Nahum Goldberg
Ferro Fluids
Chair(s): Sharon Evans & Gabi
•Chris Brace
Chair(s): Robert Ivkov & John
Multhoff•Nahum Goldberg
Bischof•Sharon Evans•Muneeb Ahmed•Andris Bakuzis•Gabriele Multhoff•Proffered Paper•Dimitri Artemov•Steven FieringPresentations•Jack Hoopes•Proffered Paper Presentations•Eleni Liapi•Proffered Paper Presentations
Coffee will be available in the morning at a central coffee station, rather than a scheduled break.
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Buffet Luncheon
Vendor Presentations
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Algiers Room
Session: Pediatrics & Pelvic
Session: Bladder Cancer
Session: HIFU #1
Chair(s): Rudiger
Chair(s): Brant Inman &Chair(s): Gail ter Haar & Mark
Wessalowski & Pavel
Hideyuki Sakurai
Hurwitz
Yarmolenko•Hans Crezee•Joan Vidal•Ruediger Wessalowski•Brant Inman•Eleanor Stride•Andrea Hayes-Jordan•John Kelly•Proffered Paper Presentations•Karun Sharma•Proffered Paper Presentations•Proffered Paper
Presentations
Coffee will be available all afternoon at a central coffee station, rather than a scheduled break.

3:30 pm 5:00 pm

5:00 pm 6:00 pm
6:30 pm 9:00 pm

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Breaking Advances in Hyperthermia Clinical Trial Results – Session Chair: Gerard van Rhoon
 Dr. Ludy Lutgens, Maastro, Netherlands - Results of the Radchoc phase III-trial in locallyadvanced cervical cancer
 Prof. Rolf Issels, LMU, Munich, Germany - 5yrs survival gain in phase III-Trial comparing chemo± HT in advanced soft tissue sarcoma
 Dr. Rudiger Wessalowski, Dusseldorf, Germany - An open-label, non-randomized, singleinstitution, phase 2 study, DHT for salvage treatment of children with refractory or recurrent
non-testicular malignant germ-cell tumors
La Salle C and Le Salon (pre-function) (3rd floor)
Poster Session 1 with Wine & Cheese Reception
Free evening

Thursday, April 14thRegistration – La Salle C Foyer
Speaker Ready Room – Acadian I available all day
La Salle C (3rd floor)
7:00 am Posters
6:00 pm
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
6:45 am 8:15 am
7:15 am 8:00 am
8:15 am –9:00 am

9:15 am 11:45 am

Noon –
1:00 pm
1:00 pm 1:30 pm

Le Salon (pre-function to La Salle A/B/C)
Exhibits

Breakfast Buffet
Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Algiers Room
Refresher Course: Novel Drug Delivery
Refresher Course: Clinical Hyperthermia Trials
Approach
Speaker: Pirus Ghadjar
Speaker: Christine Allen
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
General Session Room -- Plenary: Chrit Moonen – State of the Art in HIFU
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)

Pelican I/II (3rd floor)

Algiers Room

Session: HIFU #2
Chair(s): Kim Butts Pauly &Chris Diederich•Joo Ha Hwang•Kathy Ferrera•Proffered Paper
Presentations

Session: Emerging
Hyperthermia Biology
Chair(s): Chang Song & MikeHorsman•Robert Griffin•Przemek Krawczyk•Wonwoo Kim•Proffered Paper Presentations

Session: HIPEC & Upper
Abdominal
Chair(s): Zeljko Vujaskovic &Nadar Hanna•Nadar Hanna•Paul Sugarbaker•John Stewart•Proffered Paper Presentations

Coffee will be available in the morning at a central coffee station, rather than a scheduled break.
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Buffet Luncheon
Vendor Presentations

1:30 pm 3:30 pm

3:45 pm 5:00 pm
5:15 pm 6:15 pm

7:00 pm 10:00 pm

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
ICHO President’s SymposiumSpeakers to include: Christopher Contag – Dynamic assessments of heat shock response and thermotolerance areenabled by use of novel reporter genes
 Niloy Datta – Review of meta-analysis of phase 3 trials
 Bradford J. Wood – Integration of functional imaging with interventional oncology
 Sylvia Formenti – Converging Hyperthermia and Ionizing Radiation (IR) to Convert theTumor into an In Situ Vaccine
La Salle C and Le Salon (pre-function) (3rd floor)
Poster Session 2 with Coffee and Beignet BreakLa Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Sugahara Award Presentation and Talk – Dr. Yoko Harima

ICHO Banquet Dinner – Audubon Aquarium
Those who wish to attend this dinner will purchase their tickets separately from the registration.

Friday, April 15thRegistration – La Salle C Foyer
Speaker Ready Room – Acadian I available all day
La Salle C (3rd floor)
7:00 am Posters
5:00 pm
6:45 am 8:15 am

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Breakfast Buffet

7:15 am 8:00 am

Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Refresher Course: Cryotherapy Overview
Speaker: John Bischof

8:15 am 9:00 am

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
General Session Room -- Plenary: Michael Yaffe

9:15 am 11:45 am

Noon –1:00 pm
1:00 pm 1:30 pm

Le Salon (pre-function to La Salle A/B/C)
Exhibits

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Session: Hot Abstracts #1
Chair(s): Lars Lindner & Paul
Stauffer•Proffered Paper
Presentations

Algiers Room
Refresher Course: Evolving Technology for
Superficial and Deep Hyperthermia
Speaker: Paul Stauffer

Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Session: Nanotechnology #2
Chair(s): Nicole LeviPolyachenko & Jason Stafford•Aaron Mohs
• Konstantin Sokolov•Mark Smeltzer•John Stewart•Proffered Paper Presentations

Algiers Room
Session: Treatment Planning
Chair(s): Margarethus Paulides &Kagayaki Kuroda & DieterHaemmerich•Hiroyuki Fukuda•Yoed Rabin•Esra Neufeld•Proffered Paper Presentations

Coffee will be available in the morning at a central coffee station, rather than a scheduled break.
La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Buffet Luncheon
Vendor Presentations

1:30 pm 3:30 pm

La Salle A/B (3rd floor)
Pelican I/II (3rd floor)
Algiers Room
Session: Breast, Head & Neck Session: Hot Abstracts #2
Session: Cryotherapy
CancerChair(s): Hans Crezee, Robert
Chair(s): Dieter Manstein
Chair(s): Nagrag Huilgol, Joe
Griffin, & Seongtae Bae• Aaron Katz
Hsu, and Geertjan van•Proffered Paper Presentations • John BaustTienhoven•Proffered Paper Presentations• Geertjan van Tienhoven• Nagraj Huilgol•Proffered PaperPresentations
Exhibits and posters may tear down mid-afternoon. Must be out of the space by 5 p.m.
Room TBD
Debates - 45 minutes per debate
1st Session - HIFU is best for small deep tumors whereas EM phased arrays are best for large volumetumors
HIFU

3:30 pm 5:00 pm

Chrit MoonenJoo Ha Hwang
Rajiv ChopraEM

Rolf Issels
Ruediger Wessalowski
Margarethus Paulides

2nd Session – The house believes that measurement of thermal dose is essential for thermal therapy
In Favor
 Gerard van Rhoon
 John Pearce
Opposed Peter Corry Elizabeth Repasky
5:00 pm –5:30 pm

Closing Ceremony