2025 Liver Cancer Symposium Agenda
SALCS 2025: celebrating 5 years!
October 9 - 11, 2025, San Antonio, Texas
Note: This is a preliminary agenda and is subject to change.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
| 7 - 7:50 am | Registration, Breakfast, and Exhibits |
| 7:55 - 8 am | Welcome and Introductions Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, Executive Director of Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio. Sukeshi Arora, MD, symposium co-chair, associate professor in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at The University of Texas Health San Antonio, and leader of the gastrointestinal malignancies and geriatric oncology program at Mays Cancer Center. Danielle Fritze, MD, symposium co-chair and Associate Professor/Clinical of Surgery and holder of the Valero President’s Distinguished Chair in Transplantation at UT Health San Antonio. |
| Session 1 Epidemiology Moderator: Amelie Ramirez, MD, Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio | |
| 8 - 8:25 am | Texas/South Texas Liver Cancer Data Edgar Munoz, UT Health San Antonio |
| 8:25 - 8:50 am | Title TBD Subhash Chauhan, UT Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine |
| 8:50 - 9:15 am | Texas Collaborative Center for Hepatocellular Cancer Hashem El-Serag, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 9:15 - 9:35 am | Q&A |
| 9:35 - 9:55 am | |
| 9:55 - 10:10 am | Break, Networking, and Exhibition |
| Session 2 Year in Review Rapid Fire: HCC Moderator: Sukeshi Arora | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 am | Imaging Diagnostics TBD |
| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Hepatology TBD |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Hepatocellular Carcinoma - IR Updates Rajeev Suri, UT Health San Antonio |
| 11:10 - 11:30 am | Radiation Oncology Updates Neil Newman, UT Health San Antonio |
| 11:30 -11:50 am | Surgical/Transplant Oncology TBD |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Medical Oncology Updates Ahmed Kaseb, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
| 12:10 - 1:30 pm | LUNCH |
| 12:40 - 1:25 pm | Sponsored Satellite Symposium Details TBD |
| Session 3 Top 3 Oral Abstracts Moderator: Danielle Fritze | |
| 1:30 -1:45 pm | Abstract 1 |
| 1:45 - 2 pm | Abstract 2 |
| 2 - 2:15 pm | Abstract 3 |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm | Award Presentation and Q&A |
| Session 4 Tumor Board Case: Metastases to Liver Moderator: Lei Zheng Panel: Nicolas Vathuey, TBD, and TBD | |
| 2:30 - 3 pm | Case 1: Net with Liver Mets |
| 3 - 3:30 pm | Case 2 mCRC to the liver (bilobar) |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break, Networking, and Exhibition |
Session 5 Survivorship: Living with Liver Cancer Moderators: Sherri Cervantez, MD, and Michael Halpern, PhD, MD, MPH | |
| 3:45 - 4:05 | Symptom Support for Patients with Liver Cancer Sherri Cervantez, UT Health San Antonio |
| 4:05 - 4:25 pm | The Role of Rehabilitation in Cancer Cachexia Madeline Flores, UT Health San Antonio |
| 4:25 - 4:45 pm | Survivorship and Transplantation Jennifer Milton, UT Health San Antonio |
| 4:45 - 5 pm | Patient Advocate Story Jerry Drennan |
| 5 - 5:15 pm | Q&A |
| 5:15 pm | Day 1 Adjourns |
Friday October 10, 2025
| 7 - 8 am | Registration, Breakfast, and Exhibits |
Session 1 Plenary Speaker: Milind Javle, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas Moderator: Sukeshi Arora | |
| 8:45 - 9 am | Q&A |
Session 2 Translational/Pre-Clinical Liver Tumors Moderators: LuZhe Sun, PhD, UT Health San Antonio, and Peng Zhao, MD, PhD, UT Health San Antonio | |
| 9 - 9:20 am | Risk prediction and prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma Yujin Hoshida, UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am | Targeting MASH to prevent HCC Peng Zhao, UT Health San Antonio |
| 9:40 - 10 am | Immunotherapeutic barriers in the hepatic tumor microenvironment Won Jin Ho, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine |
| 10 - 10:20 am | ER Stress Exploitation in Cancer Cells: Innovative Strategy for HCC Therapy Ratna Vadlamudi, UT Health San Antonio |
| 10:20 - 10:40 am | Q&A |
| 10:40 - 10:55 am | Break, Networking, and Exhibition |
Session 3 Cholangiocarcinoma: Present and Future Moderator: Prabhleen Chahal, MD, MASGE, FACG, AGAF, UT Health San Antonio | |
| 10:55 - 11:15 am | Diagnostics - Advanced Endoscopy Matheus Franco, MD, MBA, MSc, PhD, UT Health San Antonio |
| 11:15 - 11:35 am | Radiation Oncology Smith “Jim” Apisarnthanarax, University of Washington |
| 11:35 - 11:55 am | IR TBD |
| 11:55 am - 12:15 pm | Surgery TBD |
| 12:15 - 12:30 pm | Q&A |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | LUNCH |
| 12:40 - 1:30 pm | Breakout Session: Advanced Practice Provider Session Moderators: Kathy Crow, and Jake Sekula |
Session 4 Liver Tumor Board: HCC Outside Milan - Road to Transplant Moderator: TBD Panel: Maen Abdelrahim, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center TBD TBD | |
| 1:30 - 2 pm | Case 1: Low-dose Radiation Therapy to HCC |
| 2 - 2:30 pm | Case 2: BCLC C |
| 2:30 - 3 pm | Case 3: Adjuvant Immunotheraphy After Transplant |
| 3 - 3:15 pm | Break, Networking and Exhibits |
| 3:15 - 5 p.m. | Poster Reception |
| 5 p.m. | Day 2 Adjourns |
Saturday, October 11, 2025: Update in Diagnostics and Management of Pancreatic Tumors
| 7 - 8 am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8 - 9 am | Session 1 Diagnostics Details and speaker(s) TBD |
| 9 - 10 am | Session 2 Management of Localized Pancreatic Cancer Details and speaker(s) TBD |
| 10 -10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 am | Session 3 Management of LAPC Details and speaker(s) TBD |
| 11:15 am - 12 pm | Session 4 Management of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Details and speaker(s) TBD |
| 12 - 1 pm | Lunch |
| 1 pm | Symposium Adjourns |
San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium
7979 Wurzbach Road | San Antonio, TX 78229 US
Telephone: +1 210-450-1550
Email: UTHealthMTG@uthscsa.edu