Program ANZTCT ASM 2024

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Thursday 5 September 2024
ANZTCT ASM 2024 - DAY 1

From 7:30am

Registration – Foyer, Endeavour Ballroom, Level 2

8:00am

Opening of ANZTCT ASM 2024

Chairs: Prof Nada Hamad and Prof David Yeung

  • Welcome to Country: Michael West
  • Maori Address: Nadene Edmonds
  • President’s Address

TCT takes a village - Chairs: Prof Nada Hamad and Prof David Yeung

8:40am

Keynote Presentation - Transplantation and Cellular Therapy: they take a village

  • Prof Stephanie Lee - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre

9:30am

The ‘ village people’

  • Dermatologist / Skin Care: Prof Pablo Fernandez-Penas
  • Cardiologist: Dr Mark Nolan
  • Gynecologist: Dr Jennifer Bradford
  • Respiratory: Prof Peter Middleton

10:30am

Morning Tea - Sponsored by Arovella Therapeutics

11:00am

The ‘village people’ cont.

Chairs: Dr Shanti Ramachandran and Yvonne Panek-Hudson

  • Oncofertility: A/Prof Antoinette Anazodo
  • Benign Transplant: Dr Alisa Kane and AYA transition to adult care: Dr Melissa Gabriel
  • Supportive Care for Paeds & AYA post CAR-T: Maddie Gilsenen

11:45am

Delegate Lunch

TCT Stakeholders Networking Lunch (11:45am - 12:45pm) - with Guest Speaker, The Hon Ged Kearney MP, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care - Sirius Room

(ANZTCT / ABMDR / ARROW / LF / Commonwealth / HPCC/ CHOs/Industry and Centre CEOs/HoDs) by invitation

Lunch ‘n’ Learn (12:45pm - 1:15pm) with Dr Bartlomiej Getta - Endeavour Ballroom

Sponsored by Astellas Pharma
Chairs: A/Prof Ashish Bajel and A/Prof Andrea Henden

Chairs: John Coutsouvelis and Maddie Gilsenen

1:15pm

Oral Abstracts: Presidential

  • Heather Dunckley - Matched unrelated donor haematopoietic cell transplants in Aotearoa New Zealand and the impact of HLA diversity
  • Zulekha Khan - Rural/regional place of residence impacts post allogeneic bone marrow transplant overall survival of Australian patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: an ANZTCT Registry study
  • Midori Nakagaki - A randomised trial of topical polaprezinc to prevent oral mucositis in patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Robert Weinkove - A Phase 1 Dose Escalation and Expansion Trial of Third-Generation CD19-Directed CAR T-Cells Incorporating CD28 and Toll-like Receptor 2 (TLR2) Co-Stimulation for Relapsed or Refractory B-Cell Non- Hodgkin Lymphomas (ENABLE-1)
  • Mark Dowling - ANZTCT CART in NHL national outcomes report
  • Valeriya Kuznetsova - Subacute cognitive and psychological recovery from the immune effector cell associated neurotoxicity syndrome following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy

2:15pm

The ‘village people’ cont.

  • TBI is not all the same: Dr Jennifer Chard
  • Ocular GVHD & dry eye disease: Prof Peter McCluskey
  • Infection and IV Access: Prof Claire Rickard
  • Getting rid of the neutropenic diet: Josephine Campbell
  • International long term follow up guidelines: Nicole Loft and Alia Cibich

3:30pm

Afternoon Tea

Sponsored by Ontime Couriers GmbH

4:00pm

Oral Abstracts: TCT

  • Trung Ngo - The role of salvage cellular therapy in primary graft failure post allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  • Ashish Bajel - Desensitisation therapy for donor specific antibodies prior to allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  • David Ritchie - Nivallo: A prospective phase I study of Nivolumab to promote the graft versus tumour effect in haematological malignancies persisting or progressing after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  • Nisha Thiagarajah - Real-world treatment outcomes in non-favourable risk AML - Data linkage between the ALLG National Blood Cancer Registry (NBCR) and the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapy (ANZTCT) Registry
  • Hilary Cahill - A single institute experience of secondary malignancies in survivors of childhood cancer: a retrospective review

5:00pm

Posters and Welcome Drinks

Friday 6 September 2024
ANZTCT ASM 2024 - DAY 2
Quality in TCT - Chairs: A/Prof Adam Nelson and Annette Trickett

8:00am

Keynote Presentation

  • Prof Bronwen Shaw - CIBMTR, Medical College of Wisconsin

8:50am

ANZCTC Registry Updates

  • Committee update: Leonie Wilcox - Registry Manager

9:00am

National Clinical Quality Registries Updates

  • Clinical Quality Registries Framework Update: Suchit Handa - Program Director, Safety and Quality Improvement Systems

9:10am

FACT accreditation and ANZTCT Partnership

  • Dr Phyllis Warkentin - FACT Chief Medical Officer

9:25am

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Safety and Quality Improvement Systems at ACSQHC: Suchit Handa

9:40am

NZ TCT Quality achievements

  • Dr Alwyn D’Souza - Capital & Coast District Health Board, NZ

10:00am

Morning Tea - Sponsored by Arovella Therapeutics

10:30am

Panel Discussion: Maintaining Quality in the Face of Increasing Demand
Moderated by : Prof Nada Hamad
Panellists:

  • Prof David Ritchie - Royal Melbourne Hospital
  • Prof Joy Ho - University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred
  • Dr Clinton Lewis - Auckland City Hospital
  • Peter Jansen - Chief Executive, NZ HQSC

11:30am

ARROW Scholarship announcements

Chairs: Richelle Koller and Yvonne Panek-Hudson

  • Awardee announcements
  • Arrow Scholarship abstract - Leah Peters
  • Arrow Scholarship abstract - Sanjana Rangi

12:00pm

Delegate Lunch

ANZTCT AGM (12:00pm - 12:45pm) - Sirius Room
Lunch ‘n’ Learn (1:00pm - 1:30pm) with Prof Stephanie Lee - Endeavour Ballroom
Sponsored by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Chairs: A/Prof Andrea Henden and Prof David Ritchie

CAR T in Clinical Context - Chairs: Dr Salvatore (Sam) Fiorenza and Prof Joy Ho

1:30pm

Keynote Presentation: CAR-T in Myeloma

  • A/Prof Andrew Cowan - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre

2:10pm

Panel Discussion

Moderated by Dr Salvatore (Sam) Fiorenza
Panelists:

  • Prof Andrew Spencer - The Alfred
  • Nurse: Dr Tracy King - Royal Prince Alfred and University of Sydney
  • Patient: Dr Nigel Rosen

2:30pm

Afternoon Tea

Sponsored by Ontime Couriers GmbH

3:00pm

The sequence of events: Novel agents and TCT

Chair: Prof Paula Marlton

  1. CAR-T is already dying in NHL?: Dr Ed Abadir (Affirmative) vs Dr Rob Weinkove (Negative)
  2. Only Allo BMT cures ALL: Dr Ashley McEwan (Affirmative) vs Dr Seong Lin Khaw (Negative)
  3. Cellular Therapy is Required to cure CLL: A/Prof Mary Ann Anderson (Affirmative) vs Dr Othman Al-Sawaf (Negative)

4:30pm

Oral Abstracts: Multidisciplinary TCT
  • Nicole O'Leary - Pre-infusion risk factors in LBCL and considerations for outpatient delivery of Axicabtagene
  • Sam van der Linde - Nursing-led model of care for cytopenias post CAR T-cell therapy in R/R large b-cell lymphoma - a single centre experience
  • Yi Vee Chew - Long-distance transport of HPC followed by cryopreservation does not adversely impact post-thaw viable CD34 recoveries and patient outcomes
  • Tania Wallace - Psychological distress in allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant patients with graft-versus host disease - A systematic review
  • Daniel Kilmartin - Quality improvements in the digital age

5:30pm

Delegate break

6:30pm

ASM Dinner at Le Sands Restaurant

Paint The Town RED with Arrow

Saturday 7 September 2024
ANZTCT ASM 2024 - DAY 3

From 8:00am

Registration

Beyond the Cells: The Future and Sustainability of TCT - Chairs: Dr Rob Weinkove and Rhys Hibbert

8:30am

Patient opening statement

  • Rhys Hibbert

8:40am

Donor Sourcing - how that works

  • Lisa Smith - ABMDR on donor recruitment

9:00am

Equity, diversity and inclusion in TCT

  • Intersectionality in TCT: Prof Nada Hamad
  • Australian Indigenous perspectives: Prof Maree Toombs
  • New Zealand Indigenous perspectives: Dr Myra Ruka

9:45am

Advocacy Initiatives

  • Vaccination access and advocacy: Megan Hogg
  • Immigration challenges in TCT: Dr Jessica Ling
  • Access to resources - GvHD and long term follow up: Nicole Loft

10:30am

Morning Tea - Sponsored by Arovella Therapeutics

11:00am

Panel Discussion: The future of TCT - Policy and strategic planning

Moderated by: Prof Nada Hamad
Panellists:

  • Economist: Prof Richard De Abreu Lourenco
  • Government Rep: Dr Alicia Veasey
  • Nurse: Yvonne Panek-Hudson
  • Scientist: Dr Annette Trickett
  • Medical: Prof David Ritchie

12:00pm

Delegate Lunch

Heads of TCT units Networking Lunch (12:00pm - 1:00pm - by invitation) - Sirius Room
Nursing Committee Meeting (12:30pm - 1:15pm) - Endeavour Ballroom

Setting ANZ standards in Clinical Practice - Chairs: Prof Rosemary Harrup and Bill Stavreski from Leukaemia Foundation

1:30pm

Clinical Practice Position Statements updates

  • GVHD, VOD, CMV: A/Prof Andrea Henden
  • Other Practice Statements: Prof Nada Hamad
    – Optimisation of pre BMT AML disease response, Auto/Allo/CAR-T in NHL, Infection/EDI/Consent

1:50pm

ANZTCT Committees and Special interest groups

  • Nursing Committee: Megan Hogg
  • Pharmacy interest group: Dr John Coutsouvelis
  • TBI interest group: Dr Lotte Fog
  • Quality Manager interest group: Elissa Northridge
  • Data Manager interest group: Dr Xiaobin Zhan

2:20pm

ANZTCT ASM Close

2:30pm

Afternoon Tea

Sponsored by Ontime Couriers GmbH (followed by the CLL Satellite Symposium)

Saturday 7 September 2024
ANZTCT CLL SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM

2:30pm

Registration and Afternoon Tea - Foyer, Endeavour Ballroom, Level 2

Sequencing in CLL - Chair: Dr Gavin Cull

3:00pm

1L Strategies

  • Dr Othman Al-Sawaf

3:20pm

RR CLL

  • Dr Sasanka Handunnetti

3:40pm

Panel Discussion

  • Dr Gavin Cull, Dr Xavier Badoux, Dr Othman Al-Sawaf, Dr Sasanka Handunnetti
Richters Transformation - Chair: Dr Philip Thompson

4:00pm

The current state of play for RT

  • Dr Masa Lasica

4:15pm

Panel Discussion

  • Dr Philip Thompson, Dr Masa Lasica, Dr Othman Al-Sawaf, Dr Denise Lee

Curative Strategies in CLL - Chair: Prof Paula Marlton

4:30pm

Allograft

  • Prof David Ritchie

4:45pm

CAR-T

  • Dr Rob Weinkove

5:00pm

Novel combinations including bispecifics

  • Prof Stephen Mulligan

5:15pm

Panel Discussion

  • Prof Paula Marlton, Prof David Ritchie, Dr Rob Weinkove, Prof Stephen Mulligan, Dr Othman Al-Sawaf, Prof Rosemary Harrup

From 5:30pm

Closing drinks followed by faculty dinner

Kindly note this is a working draft and speakers and session times are subject to change.