Academy of Next Wave of Investigators Conference
Venue
Hilton North Scottsdale at Cavasson
18700 N Hayden Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85255
Travel Information
Coming Soon!
Venue
This activity has been designed for practicing oncologists, advanced nurse practitioners, physician assistants, residents, fellows, nurses, pharmacists, and the other health professionals interested in the treatment and diagnosis of lymphoma.
This activity has been designed for oncology/hematology fellows and junior faculty remove actively, participants must meet the criteria:
- Be in their final two years of a fellowship program or within five years post-fellowship
- Be US-based and currently employed in active patient care or lab-based research in CLL or NHL or being trained at, an institution in the United States. Applicants must not be employed by a commercial pharmaceutical or other biomedical company.
- Hold a MD, PhD, DO or MBBS degree.
- Commit to actively participating in the program for the full year of activities.
Agenda
The program for the Next Wave Academy Conference is coming soon.
Day 1
Keynote Presentation: Leadership Development
Program Co-Chairs
John P. Leonard, MD and Matthew S.
Davids, MD, MMSc
Discussion of expectations, goals, and objectives of the academy
Co-Chairs
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner
- Interactive, open discussion to develop an article or other output that recaps the key findings from the meeting
Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP (Emory University)
Day 1
Co-Chairs
- Review of therapeutic landscape
- Case presentations
- Discussion of clinical trial design, clinical impact, and approaches to challenges encountered
- Navigating the academic career path
- Networking with future peers and collaborators
- Fundamentals of clinical trial design
- Grant writing
Mentor Breakout
Each faculty member will meet with a junior investigator
- Review of therapeutic landscape
- Case presentations
- Applying the latest data to clinical cases that reflect the decision making that takes place in the clinic
- How to work with industry
- Best practices in designing clinical trial protocols
- Integrate translational evidence-based research findings into practice
- Publication of a manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal
- Sourcing funding and development of a research grant
- Congress publication/presentation development
The top 5 abstract presenters chosen based upon expert investigator scoring will present their research.
Each presentation is limited to 10 minutes with 5 minutes for Q&A
