2025 Melanoma & Skin Cancer Innovations Symposium: Advancing Research, Treatment, and Patient Care
This virtual and in-person symposium is presented by AIM at Melanoma and the University of California Melanoma and Skin Cancer Consortium. This event brings together 5 UC NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, leveraging state-of-the-art research and clinical expertise to address disparities in access to clinical trials and to develop new treatment options for melanoma and skin cancer.
The UC Melanoma and Skin Cancer Consortium (UCMSCC) applies state-of-the-art research and clinical expertise from all five of UC’s NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers to disparity in access to clinical trials, and to discovery and development of new treatment options.
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Time: 11:30 am ET, 10:30 am CT, 9:30 am MT, 8:30 am PT
Format: Presented both in-person and virtually
Location: Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center & Ambulatory Care
19208 Jamboree Rd, Irvine, CA 92612
Parking: Gold Parking Structure – No charge
Wayfinding information: Enter UCI Health Irvine from the Birch Street light. Turn right onto the campus. The Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care will be on your right. The Gold Parking structure entrance for the cancer center will be just ahead on your left.
Presenters & Topics
7:30 AM PT
In-Person Registration
8:30 AM PT
Welcome
Warren A Chow MD
Clinical Professor,
Division of Hematology/Oncology Medicine
School of Medicine
Associate Director for Clinic Sciences,
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California Irvine
8:40 AM PT
Prevention of Skin Cancers
Iwei Yeh, MD PhD
Professor
Dermatology and Pathology
USCF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California San Francisco
9:00 AM PT
Topical Therapies for Skin Cancers
Kenneth Linden, PhD, MD
Professor
Department of Dermatology and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Co-Director, University of California Irvine Melanoma Center
Co-Director, Skin Disease Oriented Team
Chair, University of California Irvine Institutional Review Board B
University of California Irvine
9:20 AM PT
Oncolytic Viral Therapy
Thuy Tran, MD
Assistant Professor
Surgery School of Medicine
University of California Irvine
9:40 AM PT
Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy
Poorva Vaidya, MD
Assistant Professor
Surgery School of Medicine
University of California Irvin
10:00 AM PT
Q&A
10:15 AM PT
Coffee Break
10:30 AM PT
Acral and Mucosal Melanomas
Adil Daud, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dermatology
Director, Melanoma Clinical Research
UC San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
10:50 AM PT
Ocular Melanoma
Kapil Mishra MD
Assistant Clinic Professor
Ophthalmology School of Medicine
University of California Irvine
11:10 AM PT
Neurosurgical Interventions(s) for Brain Metastases
Ahmed Mohyeldin, MD, PhD
Assistant Health Sciences Professor
Neurosurgery School of Medicine
University of California Irvine
11:30 AM PT
Radiation for Melanoma
Jeremy Harris, MD MPhil
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology School of Medicine
University of California Irvine
11:50 AM PT
AIM at Melanoma Patient Resources
Ann Garst Taylor
Director Community Engagement
AIM at Melanoma
11:55 AM PT
Round Table Discussion
12:15 PM PT
Final Q&A
REGISTRATION