Cancer Club Meeting Summer 2023
Minnesota Genetic Counselors Association
Friday, August 18th, 2023
Wilder Foundation and Zoom
This event has been approved by the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) for a 0.6 Category 1 CEUs and 6.0 Contact Hours. The American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) accepts CEUs approved by NSGC for purposes of recertification.
Agenda
7:45 - 8:30 am
Arrival
8:30 - 8:45 am
Welcome and housekeeping
8:45 - 9:45 am
Chromosomes and Conversations: Psychosocial interventions for genetic counseling practice
Haily Hassel, MSW, LICSW (she/her) and Ben Tweeten, MSW, LICSW (he/him) - Senior Social Workers at National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match
9:45 - 10:45 am
A Revolution in Early Cancer Detection
Aishwarya Arjunan, MS, MPH, CGC (she/her) - Sr. Medical Science Liaison at GRAIL
10:45 - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Time Toxicity of Cancer Treatment
Arjun Gupta, MD (he/him) - Assistant Professor in the Division of Hem/Onc/Transplant, Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Lunch Break
12:45 - 1:45 pm
How We Handle CHIP: A panel discussion
Terra Lasho, Ph.D. (she/her) - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Myeloid Biologist in the Division of Hematology at Mayo Clinic; Laura Ongie, MS, CGC (she/her) - Genetic Counselor in the Department of Clinical Genomics at Mayo Clinic; Sarah Bray, MS, CGC (she/her) - Genetic Counselor in the Molecular Diagnostic Lab at Fairview; Megan Hanson, MS, CGC (she/her) - Cancer Genetic Counselor at Park Nicollet; Caitlin Reid, MS, CGC (she/her) - Genomic Science Liaison at Ambry Genetics
1:45 - 2:45 pm
Skin Findings of Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Nessa Aghazadeh, MD (she/her) - Dermatologist and Pediatric Dermatologist in the Departments of Dermatology and Clinical Genomics at Mayo Clinic
2:45 - 3:00 pm
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Break
The CTNNA1 Conundrum: Cancer risk and surveillance strategies for loss-of-function carriers
Bryson Katona, MD, PhD, AGAF, CGAF (he/him/his) - Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics Program, President-Elect of CGA-IGC, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Dana Farengo Clark, MS, CGC (she/her) - Senior Genetic Counselor at Penn Medicine
4:00 - 4:15 pm
Closing and Evaluation