Scientific Programme

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Inaugural session

Moderators: Hiba Altarrah & Ibraheem Abo Aoudah

08:00 – 08:10
speaker-1

Hiroki Hori 🇯🇵

Welcome remarks

08:10 – 08:20
speaker-1

Gevorg Tamamyan 🇦🇲

Message from SIOP Asia President

08:20 – 08:30
speaker-1

Guillermo Chantada 🇪🇸

Message from SIOP President

08:30 – 08:40
speaker-1

Ali Alomari 🇸🇦

SAPHOS Chair

08:40 – 08:50
speaker-1

Hiba AlTarrah 🇸🇦

LOC Chair

08:50 – 09:00
speaker-1

Mushabbab Asiri

Saudi Health Council (SHC) opening announcement

Key Note 1

Moderators: Ibraheem Abusoadah

09:00 – 09:30
speaker-1

Hiroki Hori 🇯🇵

Current Landscape of Childhood Cancer in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

09:30 – 09:40

Discussion

09:40 – 10:10

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Access to care – opportunities & challenges in Asia

Moderators: Abdullah Baothman , Scott Howard

10:10 – 10:25
speaker-1

Muhammad Shamvil 🇵🇰

Community Outreach and Education to Improve Early Detection and Access to Pediatric Cancer Care

10:25 – 10:50
speaker-1

Catherine Lam 🇺🇸

Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Southeast Asia

10:50 – 11:15
speaker-1

Chi Kong Li 🇭🇰

Challenges in Access to Clinical trials in Asia

11:15 – 11:40
speaker-1

Ramandeep Singh Arora 🇮🇳

Drug shortage- challenges in Asia

11:40 – 12:00

Q&A

12:00 – 13:20

SAPHOS/UMBRELLA group meeting

Session: Neuro-oncology

Moderators: Amani Alkofedi , Shaker Abdullah, Sarah Khan

13:20 – 13:40
speaker-1

Naureen Mushtaq 🇵🇰

Building a NO program: Pakistan experience

13:40 – 14:00
speaker-1

Malak Al Thgafi 🇸🇦

Molecular diagnostics in pediatric brain tumors: The challenges

14:00 – 14:20
speaker-1

Eric Bouffet 🇨🇦

Infant brain tumor

14:20 – 14:40
speaker-1

Murali Chintagumpala 🇺🇸

Low grade glioma therapeutic options

14:40 – 15:00
speaker-1

Eric Bouffet 🇨🇦

Brain repair and rehabilitation

15:00 – 15:20

Q&A

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Free Paper Session 1

Moderators: Nisreen Amayiri , Abdulrahman Alsultan

15:50 – 16:05

16:05 – 16:20

16:20 – 16:35

16:35 – 16:50

16:50 – 17:05

17:05 – 17:20

17:20 – 17:50

Q&A

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Cancer Genetics

Moderators: Omar Chamdaine , Rawad Rihani

10:10 – 10:35
speaker-1

Michael Pulsipher 🇺🇸

NF1 OPG: Disease burden and approach to managemnt

10:35 – 11:00
speaker-1

Anirban Das 🇮🇳

Latest updates on CMMRD IRRDC

11:00 – 11:20
speaker-1

Nisreen Amayiri 🇯🇴

Surveillance in limited-resource settings

11:20 – 11:40
speaker-1

Abdulrahman Alsultan 🇸🇦

Regional data on cancer predisposition

11:40 – 12:00

Q&A

12:00 – 13:20

Lunch Break & Poster Viewing

12:00 – 13:20
speaker-1

Micheal Fisher

Astrazeneca: NF1 Plexiform neurofibroma management and treatment outcomes

Session: Leukemia

Moderators: Mohamad Waleed Balourah , Fahad Almanjomi

13:20 – 13:40
speaker-1

Janine Stutterheim 🇳🇱

Treatment of infant ALL, what is new?

13:40 – 14:00
speaker-1

Stephen Hunger 🇺🇸

Treatment of low risk ALL

14:00 – 14:20
speaker-1

Wasil Jastaniah 🇸🇦

Leukemia in Down's syndrome

14:20 -14:40
speaker-1

Deepak Bansal 🇮🇳

How we treat pediatric AML treatment in low resource settings

14:40 – 15:00
speaker-1

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan 🇮🇳

Improving Outcomes in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in India through clinical trials

15:00 – 15:20

Q&A

15:20 – 15:50

Lunch Break/Poster Viewing/Industry Symposia

Session: Bone marrow transplantation & cellular therapy

Moderators: Dania Monagel , Ibrahim Ghemlas

14:40 – 15:00
speaker-1

Michael Grimley

Optimizing conditioning regimens for haploidentical transplantation for malignant disorders

16:10 – 16:30
speaker-1

Sunil Bhat 🇮🇳

Haploi-identical stem cell transplant in sickle cell

16:30 – 16:50
speaker-1

Stephen Hunger 🇺🇸

Gene therapy for SCA

16:50 – 17:10
speaker-1

Suradej Hongeng 🇹🇭

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Thalassemia Patients

17:10 – 17:30
speaker-1

Hawazen Alsaedi 🇸🇦

BMT for immunodefficiency

17:30 – 17:50

Q&A

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

8:00 – 9:00

Session: Nursing

Moderators:

10:10 – 10:25
speaker-1

Naemeh Farhan

Precision medicine in Pediatric Leakemia – Nursing Implication and challenges

10:25 – 10:45
speaker-1

Diana Bushnaq

Implementing MIBG therapy for High Risk Neuroblastoma: Nursing Roles

10:45 – 11:00
speaker-1

Wesam Nayef

Assessment and management of Patient Fatigue

11:00 -11:15
speaker-1

Reem Almutairi

Neutropenic sepsis – Challenges and strategies

11:15 – 11:30
speaker-1

Nouf Shwikan

Skin toxicities – Identification and management

11:30 – 11:45
speaker-1

Rehana Punjwani

Baseline Nursing standards For Pediatric Oncology

11:45 – 12:00

Q&A

12:00 – 13:20

Lunch Break & Poster Viewing

Session: Nursing Survivorship : Navigating the Journey beyond Pediatric Oncology

Moderators: TBD

13:20 – 13:40
speaker-1

Amna Alshelal

Assessing Patient and family needs in Oncology – Research study (local)

13:40 – 14:00
speaker-1

Nuha Mahdi

Quality of life of care givers

14:00 – 14:20
speaker-1

Shara Alharbi

Impact of Nurse-Led clinics on patient satisfaction

14:20 – 14:40
speaker-1

Noura Alowaidi

PHO Patient Journey – A pathway to patient engagement and improved outcomes

14:40 – 15:00
speaker-1

Yousef Musleh

Parents Lived experience with child cancer – KSA experience

15:00 – 15:20

Q&A

15:20 : 15:50

Coffee Break & Exhibition viewing

Session: Nursing and CCI joint session – A Collaborative and Holistic Approaches in Strengthening Survivorship Care Models

Moderators:

15:50 – 15:55

Session introduction

15:55 – 16:15
speaker-1

Shernila Ali

The Role of Nurses in Survivorship

15:50 – 16:05
speaker-1

KIV

Nursing abstract related to survivoship

16:15 – 16:35
speaker-1

Vandana Dhamankar

A Collaborative and Holistic Approach to Childhood Cancer Survivorship Care in India

16:35 -16:55
speaker-1

Preeya Bajaja

Collaborative Approaches in Redefining Survivorship Care within the Community

16:55 – 17:15
speaker-1

Patrick Yip

Survivorship inititaive from CCI global and Asia

17:15- 17:45
speaker-1

Scoot Howard

speaker-2

Shernila Ali

Panel Discussion – Multidisciplinary Perspective on survivorship

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

CCI program

12:00 -13:20

Lunch Break/Poster Viewing/Industry Symposia

CCI program

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Bridging the Gap in Precision Oncology

Moderators: Abdulrahman Alsultan , Nahla Mobarak

07:30 – 07:45
speaker-1

Yizhuo Zhang

Advances in Precision Oncology of Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma

07:45 – 08:05
speaker-1

Scoot Howard

Targeted agents in NHL

08:05 – 08:25
speaker-1

Nisreen Amayiri 🇯🇴

Precision oncology in LMIC

08:25 – 08:45
speaker-1

Mohamed Abdelbaki 🇺🇸

The impact of Precision Medicine on Pediatric Brain Tumors

08:45 – 09:00

Q&A

Key Note 2

Moderators: Dr. Hiroki Hori.

09:00 – 09:30
speaker-1

Carlos Rodriguez Galindo 🇺🇸

Global efforts to accelerate progress in childhood cancer care and control

09:30 – 09:40

Discussion

09:40 – 10:10

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Leukemia & Lymphoma

Moderators: Mohamad Walid Ballourah , Saadiya Khan

10:10 – 10:30
speaker-1

Yongmin Tang 🇨🇳

NGS-sequencing MRD as a diagnostic tool for the management of pediatric ALL

10:30 – 10:50
speaker-1

Scoot Howard

Therapeutic drug monitoring in Leukemia and lymphoma

10:50 – 11:10
speaker-1

Kara Kelly

The North America of How I Treat Hodgkin Lymphoma

11:10 -11:25
speaker-1

Kara Kelly

Relapsed hodgkin's lymphoma therapeutic options

11:25 -11:40
speaker-1

Asim Belgaumi 🇵🇰

Pediatric mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in LMIC setting

11:40 – 12:00

Q&A

12:00 -13:20

Lunch Break/Poster Viewing/Industry Symposia

Session: Survivorship & Late Effect

Moderators: Khaled Alghamdi

13:20 – 13:45
speaker-1

Chi Kong Li 🇭🇰

Long-Term Follow-Up and Care Strategies for Childhood Cancer Survivors

13:45 – 14:10
speaker-1

Purna Kurkure

Enhancing Survivorship and Quality of Life for Childhood Cancer Patients: Insights from the Asia

14:10 -14:30
speaker-1

Kimikazu Matsumoto 🇯🇵

Fertility preservation

14:30 – 14:50
speaker-1

Laura Lee Dupuis 🇨🇦

Safeguarding Survivors: Preventing Treatment-Related Toxicity in Pediatric Cancer Patients

14:50 – 15:20

Q&A

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Free Paper Session 2

Moderators: Zaheer Ullah, Shaker Abdullah

15:50 – 16:05

16:05 – 16:20

16:20 – 16:35

16:35 – 16:50

16:50 – 17:05

17:05 – 17:20

17:20 – 17:50

Q&A

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Radiation Oncology

Moderators: Ali Balbaid , Ghufran Aljawi

07:30 – 07:45
speaker-1

Bilal Mazhar 🇵🇰

state of pediatric radiotherapy in the region- access to technology

07:45 – 08:00
speaker-1

Daniel Indelicato 🇺🇸

The role of proton therapy in CNS tumors

08:00 – 08:15
speaker-1

Eman Eldebawy 🇪🇬

Palliative Radiotherapy in Pediatric Oncology: Approaches, Challenges, and Outcomes

08:15 – 08:30
speaker-1

Karen Goddard

Establishing the Late Effects, Assessment, and Follow-Up (LEAF) Clinic: A Comprehensive Program for Cancer Survivors

8:30 – 8:45
speaker-1

Siddhartha Laskar 🇮🇳

Outcomes of definative radiation therapy in pediatric sarcomas

08:45 – 9:00

Q&A

9:00 – 10:10

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Supportive Care & Palliative Care

Moderators: Aeshah AlAzmi , Eman Alshamsi

10:10 – 10:30
speaker-1

Michael Sullivan 🇦🇺

Ototoxicity and the evidence behind Sodium thiosulfate

10:30 – 10:50
speaker-1

Jolia Mehany 🇪🇬

Psychosocial Support in Oncology

10:50 – 11:10
speaker-1

Kirill Kirgizov 🇷🇺

Supportive care in HSCT& cellular therapy

11:10 – 11:30
speaker-1

Spandana Rayala 🇮🇳

Cultural Challenges and Best Practices in Pediatric Palliative Care in Oncology

11:30 – 11:45
speaker-1

Elena Ladas 🇺🇸

Nutrition in End of life Care

11:35 -12:00

Q&A

SIOP Asia business meeting

Session: Abdominal solid tumors

Moderators: Afshan Ali , Murtada Alsultan

13:20 -13:40
speaker-1

Jaume Mora

Advances in NBL treatment

13:40 – 14:00
speaker-1

Akihiro Yoneda 🇯🇵

Current Strategies in the Management of Pediatric Neuroblastoma Japansese experience

14:00 – 14:20

TBA

APHOG

14:20 – 14:40
speaker-1

Guillermo Chantada 🇪🇸

Advances in Retinoblastoma Management: From Diagnosis to Survivorship

14:40-15:00
speaker-1

Motohiro Kano

Approach to Extracranial Germ Cell Tumor

15:00 – 15:20

Q&A

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Solid tumors and local control

Moderators: Lulwah Abduljabbar, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Mohammed Sajid Qureshi

15:50 – 16:10
speaker-1

Wen Shen Looi 🇸🇬

Modern radiotherapy for paediatric sarcomas

16:10 – 16:30
speaker-1

Hiroshi Fuji 🇯🇵

Advances in radiation therapy in solid tumors

16:30 – 16:50
speaker-1

Simone Abib 🇧🇷

Global Collaboration in Pediatric Oncology Surgery

16:50 – 17:10
speaker-1

Abdelhafeez Abdelhafeez 🇺🇸

New Technologies in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Childhood Cancer Surgery/ Surgery Oncology

17:10 – 17:30
speaker-1

Simone Abib 🇧🇷

Pediatric solid tumors with intravascular expansion

17:30 – 17:45

Q&A

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Surgery & IPSO

Moderators: 

07:30 – 07:35

Opening

Moderators:All

07:35 – 08:05
speaker-1

Simone Abib 🇧🇷

Advancements in Wilms Tumor Surgery

08:05 – 08:35
speaker-1

Mohammed Sajid 🇮🇳

Advancements in Soft Tissue Surgery

08:35 – 09:00
speaker-1

Abdelhafeez Abdelhafeez 🇺🇸

Advancements in Hepatoblastoma Surgery

09:00 – 10:00

Coffee Break & Exhibition viewing

Session: Surgery & IPSO

Moderators:

10:10 – 10:30
speaker-1

Akihiro Yoneda 🇯🇵

Advancements in Neuroblastoma Surgery

10:30 – 11:00
speaker-1

Abid Qazi

Advancements in Germ Cells Tumor Surgery

11:00 – 11:30
speaker-1

Amos Loh

Multidisciplinary collaboration and Quality Improvement

11:30 – 12:00
speaker-1

Abdelhafeez Abdelhafeez 🇺🇸

Advancements in Image-Guided Tumor Resection

12:00 – 12:15

NexPoS Referral Pathways & Systems meeting

12:00 -13:20

Lunch Break & Poster Viewing

Session: Nutrition

Moderators: Elena Ladas & Nahla Alkarim

13:20 – 13:40
speaker-1

Elena Ladas 🇺🇸

Keynote: Microbiome and Metabolome

13:40 – 14:00
speaker-1

Nita Radhakrishnan 🇮🇳

Diet diversity and nutrition status in survivors of cancer

14:00 – 14:20
speaker-1

Sinam Papyan 🇦🇲

Developing a Nutrition Program for Pediatric Cancer Patients: Lessons from Armenia

14:20 – 14:40
speaker-1

Abeer Almudaiheem

speaker-2

Dalal Aldeghaither

Impact of Nutritional Intake and Microbiome Dynamics on Treatment Outcomes in Pediatric ALL Patients in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia

14:40 – 15:00
speaker-1

Nahla Alkarim 🇸🇦

Nutritional challenges in pediatric Neuro-Oncology

15:00 – 15:20

Q&A

Session: Benign Hematology

Moderators: 

15:50 – 16:10

Novel therapies for sickle cell disease

16:10 – 16:30

Hemophilia prophylaxis in the era of non-factor therapy

16:30 – 16:50

Rare inherited bleeding disorders: Saudi Arabian Experience.

16:50 – 17:10

An approach to inherited thrombophilia disorders.

17:10 – 17:30

DOACs therapy in children: where do we stand.

17:30 -17:50

Q&A

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Nursing Central Venous Access device management

08:00 – 08:20
speaker-1

Maryah Abuamarah

Reduction of CLABSI rates in PHO units in a tertiary hospital

08:20 – 08:40
speaker-1

Afaf Almutairi

Strategies and intervention to reduce accidental xentral line removal or dislodgement

08:40 – 10:10

Central Line Management Workshop

Speakers: Cesar & Norah

ANY ADDISIONAL SPEAKERS FROM ANY GROUP CAN USE REST OF DAY

Q&A

Session: Pharmacology: Empowering Pediatric Oncology Pharmacists by networking and Collaboration

Moderators: Mohammed Ashoor

13:20 – 13:35
speaker-1

Saba Mazhar

Medication related Challenges in pediatric patients undergoing HSCT

13:35 – 13:50
speaker-1

Sameh Awwad 🇺🇸

Transition of Care: from hospital to home

13:50 – 14:05

13:05 – 14:20
speaker-1

Aeshah AlAzmi 🇸🇦

Harmonization of chemotherapy protocols to bedside: Role of clinical pharmacist

14:20 – 14:35
speaker-1

Razan Za’tara 🇯🇴

Managing Toxicities & Side Effects: Role of pharmacists in supportive care

14:20 – 14:40

Keynote panel discussion: Approving anti-cancer drugs and outreach to oncology practices: pharma representatives overlooking pharmacy Role Role

SFDA, NUPCO, SHC

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Bridging the gap in Immunotherapy

Moderators: Mohammad Essa , Asim Belgaumi

07:30 – 07:20
speaker-1

Michael Pulsipher 🇺🇸

Immunotherapy for Childhood Hematological Malignancies: Established Approaches and Future Directions

07:20-08:00
speaker-1

Ali AlAhmari 🇸🇦

CAR T-Cell Therapy: Experience from Saudi Arabia

08:00 – 08:15
speaker-1

Benshang Li

CAR T cells China Experience- ask CKLI/Tang/Akira

08:15 – 08:30
speaker-1

Gaurav Narula

Increase the accessibility of affordable CAR T cell in india

08:30 – 08:45
speaker-1

Nabil Ahmed 🇺🇸

CART in brain tumors

08:45 – 09:00

Q&A

Key Note 3

Moderators: Musa Alharbi

09:00 – 09:30
speaker-1

Eric Bouffet 🇨🇦

TBD

09:30 – 09:40

Discussion

09:40 – 10:10

Coffee Break/Exhibition/Industry Symposia

Session: Solid tumors

Moderators: Ali Alshehri , Omar Alshareef

10:10 – 10:30
speaker-1

Norbert Graf 🇩🇪

Advanced stage Wilms tumor

10:30 – 10:50
speaker-1

Naveed Ahmad 🇬🇧

Relapsed Wilm's tumor

10:50 – 11:10
speaker-1

Catherine Lam 🇺🇸

Nasopharngeal carcinoma- The updates

11:10 – 11:25

TBD

11:25 – 11:40

TBD

11:40 – 12:00

Q&A

12:00 – 13:20

Lunch Break/Poster Viewing/Industry Symposia

Session: Regional and International Collaborations

Moderators: Saad Aldaaama , Asim Bulgami

13:20 – 13:35
speaker-1

Michael Sullivan 🇦🇺

Adapted therapy ARIA

13:35 – 13:50
speaker-1

Carlos Rodriguez Galindo 🇺🇸

St Jude led global international initiatives

13:50 – 14:05
speaker-1

Vitaly SMELOV 🇫🇷

WHO: Cancer inequalities in pediatric oncology 1

14:05 – 14:20
speaker-1

Lamia Eltigani 🇸🇩

speaker-2

Giuseppe Troisi 🇮🇹

WHO: Cancer inequalities in pediatric oncology 2

14:20 – 14:35
speaker-1

Gevorg Tamamyan 🇦🇲

Pediatric Oncology East Mediterranean (POEM)- initiatives to improve outcomes/ Advancements in Pediatric Oncology: Insights from the Middle East POEM

14:35 – 14:50
speaker-1

Rashmi Dalvi 🇮🇳

SIOP's advocacy programs

14:50 – 15:05
speaker-1

Catherine Lam 🇺🇸

Cure4Kids global initiative

15:05 – 15:20
speaker-1

Akira Nakagawara 🇯🇵

APHOG- clinical trials

15:20 – 15:35

Q& A

15:35 – 16:35

Closing Session/Acknowledgements/Awards

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

APHOG Session 1: towards the future: Establishing the structure and blood cancers

Moderators: Godfrey Chan, Bharat Agarwal and Akira Nakagawara

07:30 – 07:45
speaker-1

Miho Kato 🇯🇵

APHOG Prospects of International Collaboration from the Organizational Aspects: ~Childhood Cancer Registration and Data Management

07:45 – 08:00
speaker-1

Kenneth Tou En Chang 🇸🇬

“Pathology of rare pediatric cancers in Asia” (video)

08:00 – 08:15
speaker-1

Godfrey Chan 🇭🇰

Cocktail immunotherapy strategies for neuroblastoma

08:15 – 08:30
speaker-1

Ruzanna Papyan 🇦🇲

POEM-OS Study- the First Multicenter Study on Osteosarcoma in the POEM Region

08:30 – 08:45
speaker-1

Akihiro Yoneda 🇯🇵

Surgical Management of Pediatric Solid Tumor in Asia: Regional Challenges and Solutions

08:45 – 09:00
speaker-1

Siddhartha Laskar 🇮🇳

Radiation Therapy Advances for Pediatric Solid Tumors in Asia

9:00 – 10:10

Coffee Break & Exhibition viewing

APHOG Session 1: towards the future: Establishing the structure and blood cancers

Moderators: Muhammad Saghir Khan, Hiroki Hori and Rashmi Dalvi

10:10 – 10:25
speaker-1

Hsiu-Ju Yen 🇹🇼

Results of the large-scale long-term follow-up in Taiwan. Introducing future collaboration idea

10:25 – 10:40
speaker-1

Carlos Rodriguez Galindo 🇺🇸

Possible Collaboration between APHOG and St. Jude Global on Childhood Cancer

10:40 – 11:25

Pannel Discussion: Partnering among APHOG, POEM, SIOP, St. Jude Global and WHO for the sake of pediatric oncology in Asia

Panelists:

  • Gevorg Tamamyan
  • Vitaly Smelov
  • Godfrey Chan
    Commentators:
  • Kirill Kirgizov
  • Muhammad Saghir Khan

11:25 – 11:40
speaker-1

Sami Althubaiti 🇸🇦

Pediatric blood cancer in Middle East region

11:40 -11:55
speaker-1

Yongmin Tang 🇨🇳

Clinical trials in Pediatric HLH-related disorders in China

12:00 -13:20

Lunch Break & Poster Viewing

12:00 – 12:30

APHOG Annual Business Meeting (ABM) 2025

07:00 – 08:00

Registration

Session: Neurooncology hub

Moderators: Amani Alkofide , Shaker Abdullah, Nahla Mubarak , Sarah Khan, Musa Alharbi

10:10-10:30
speaker-1

Eric Bouffet 🇨🇦

10:30-10:50
speaker-1

Murali Chintagumpala 🇺🇸

10:50-11:10
speaker-1

Mohamed Abdelbaki 🇺🇸

11:10-11:25
speaker-1

Nisreen Amayiri 🇯🇴

11:25-11:40
speaker-1

Naureen Mushtaq 🇵🇰

11:40-12:00
speaker-1

Malak Al Thgafi 🇸🇦

speaker-1

Omar Chamdine

07:00 – 08:00

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