2024 GOA MEETING AGENDA

Day 1 - Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Executive Board, Committee and Working Group Meetings plus Education Sessions

Education Sessions: all Annual Meeting attendees are eligible to register to attend. Cost: $50 fee - includes access to ALL Education Sessions. This fee is in addition to the Annual Meeting registration fee. Pre-registration is required for the Education Day.

* Indicates closed session
^ Indicates advance registration required

0830 - 0900	Opening Remarks^
0900 - 1000	Executive Board Meeting* HLH Steering Committee Meeting* Pathology of Histiocytosis^
1000 - 1030	Coffee Break
1030 - 1200	Executive Board Meeting* Rare Education Session^
1200 - 1300	Lunch
1300 - 1400	Executive Board Meeting*
1300 - 1430	LCH Education Session^
1400 - 1530	Rare Histiocytic Disorders Steering Committee Meeting* LCH Steering Committee Meeting*
1430 - 1600	HLH Education Session^
1600 - 1630	Coffee Break
1630 - 1730	LCH-IV Study Management Group* Education Day Roundtable Discussions^
1730 - 1800	Closing Remarks^
1900 - 2100	Collaboration and Networking Reception^ Note: This event is in addition to our Welcome Reception, which will be held on Thursday evening, November 7.

Day 2 - Thursday, November 7, 2024
Main Meeting Day 1

0800 - 1700	Meeting Registration & Check-in
0800 - 1000	LCH Disease Discussion Session
1000 - 1030	Coffee Break
1030 - 1230	HLH and MAS Disease Discussion Session
1230 - 1330	Lunch
1230 - 1330	Young investigators & New Members Lunch with Executive Board^
1330 - 1530	Rare Histiocytic Disorders Discussion Session
1530 - 1600	Coffee Break
1600 - 1700	Educational Session - Malignant Histiocytosis Gaurav Goyal Jennifer Picarsic
1700 - 1800	Education Committee Meeting* Scientific Committee Meeting* - CANCELLED
1900 - 2100	Welcome Reception^

General Meeting

Day 3 - Friday, November 8, 2024
Main Meeting Day 2

0800 - 1700	Meeting Registration and Check-In
0800 - 1200	Poster Presentation Setup
0800 - 0815	Opening Ceremonies: Histiocyte Society President
0815 - 0915	Guest Speaker Presentation: They are not just big children: Presentation and management of histiocytosis in adults Naval Daver - TBD Ronald Go - Adult Histiocytosis: Diagnostic Challenges and Therapeutic Opportunities
0915 - 1045	Scientific Session I: Oral Presentations
1030 - 1115	Judging of Posters 1-5 for Arceci Prize
1045 - 1115	Coffee Break
1115 - 1245	HLH Symposium: How pathogens fuel the fire of hyperinflammation: Biology and treatment of infection-associated HLH Mihai Netea - Trained immunity: a memory for innate host defense Murali Kaja - Human immunity and disease severity to dengue viral infections Zhao Wang - Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus disease
1245 - 1345	Lunch
1245 - 1345	Meet the Expert – HLH^ Melissa Hines
1345 - 1515	Scientific Session II: Presidential Symposium
1515 - 1600	Coffee Break
1515 - 1600	Judging of Posters 6-10 for Arceci Prize
1600 - 1700	General Assembly Meeting
1900 - 0100	Histiocyte Society Annual Banquet^ Awarding of Scientific Prizes

Day 4 - Saturday, November 9, 2024
Main Meeting Day 3

0830 - 1300	Meeting Registration and Check-In
0830 - 1030	Poster Presentation Session w/ breakfast
1030 - 1230	LCH Symposium: CNS histiocytosis: Novel insights into disease pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic strategies Tony Letai - BH3 profiling and targeted senescent cells Nicole Coufal - Understanding biology by modeling the disease using iPSC Elena Sieni - Clinical course and assessment of ND-LCH
1230 - 1330	Lunch
1230 - 1330	Meet the Expert – LCH^ Mark Fluchel
1230 - 1330	Meet the Expert – Rare Histiocytoses^ Gaurav Goyal
1330 - 1500	Scientific Session III: Oral Presentations
1500 - 1530	Coffee Break
1530 - 1700	Speaker: Jon Pritchard Lecture on the Nikolas Symposium
1700 - 1715	Closing Ceremonies

* Indicates closed session
^ Indicates advance registration required

POSTER GUIDELINES

For guideline information for the poster presentations (both in person and online), please download our guidelines document below.

About the Society

The Histiocyte Society is a nonprofit organization of more than 200 physicians and scientists from around the world committed to improving the lives of patients with histiocytic disorders by conducting clinical and laboratory research into the causes and treatment of this disease.

Contact

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Phone: +1 856 589 6606
Fax: +1 856 589 6614
332 N Broadway
Pitman, NJ 08071 USA