Register – 7th Saudi Lymphoma/Myeloma and 10th Hematopathology Overview

7th SAUDI LYMPHOMA/MYELOMA AND 10th HEMATOPATOLOGY OVERVIEW

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this conference are as follows

To provide updated information on the multidisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic options for lymphoproliferative disorders.
To facilitate increased communication, collaboration, and exchange of knowledge and experience among hematologists, oncologists, pathologists, scientists, and other healthcare providers in the region.
To promote education and awareness among hematopathologists regarding the diagnosis of various hematology disorders.
To enable hematopathologists to understand the classification and differentiation of various diagnostics.
To learn the utilization of various histopathological, flow cytometric, molecular, and other lab markers in the diagnosis of hematological disorders.
To update participants with the latest diagnostic tools in hematopathology.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This educational program is intended for Hematologists, Hemato-Pathologists, Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Nuclear Medicine Specialists, Fellows and Residents in Training, Lab Scientists, Lab Technicians and technologists, and other healthcare providers who are involved in and/or interested in hematological disorders and SCT. State-of-the-art lectures, evidence-based hematology sessions, and satellite symposia covering the latest technological developments will be the main features of the program.

Full program (PDF)

08:00 – 08:30

Registration

Break

08:30 – 08:35

Welcome Remarks and Program Overview

Mubarak Almansour

Highlight

08:35

Session One

Moderators: Abdullah Al Saleh / Solaf Kanfar / Wael Alanazi

Session

08:35 – 09:00

What are the frontline treatment strategies for Multiple Myeloma in 2026 for transplant-eligible and ineligible?

Khalil Farsi (OM)

Session

09:00 – 09:25

RRMM Current Landscape and Future Directions

Omar Al Abduljalil (KSA)

Session

09:25 – 09:50

CAR-T vs. Bispecific therapy for relapsed Multiple Myeloma, which one and when?

Majed Alahmadi (KSA)

Session

09:50 – 10:00

Discussion

Session

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee Break

Break

10:15 – 10:45

GSK Satellite Symposium

Supported by GSK · Moderator TBA

TBA

Symposium

10:45 – 11:15

Satellite Symposium (Pharma-Industry)

Moderator TBA

TBA

Symposium

11:15 – 13:30

Juma'ah Prayer and Lunch Break

Prayer at 12:00 PM

Break

13:30

Session Two

Moderators: Musa Al Zahrani / Abdulkareem Alqarni / Aamer Bugnah

Session

13:30 – 14:00

Frontline mantle cell lymphoma: do we still need autologous transplant?

Toby Eyre (UK)

Session

14:00 – 14:30

GSK Satellite Symposium

Supported by GSK

TBA

Symposium

14:30 – 15:00

Follicular lymphoma: second-line therapy is being rewritten

Ann Lacasce (USA)

Session

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee Break

Break

15:15

Session Three

Moderators: Ayman Alhejazi / Ghazi Alotaibi

Session

15:15 – 15:45

IASO Satellite Symposium

Supported by IASO

TBA

Symposium

15:45 – 16:15

Smoldering Multiple Myeloma

Maria Victoria Mateos (ES)

Session

16:15 – 16:45

Summary of new response criteria in Multiple Myeloma

Shaji Kumar (USA)

Session

16:45 – 17:00

Coffee Break

Break

17:00

Session Four

Moderators: Ayman Ibrahim / Manar Abdulbaqi / Khalid Aldosari

Session

17:00 – 17:30

Early-stage Hodgkin Lymphoma: How immunotherapy is changing the treatment landscape.

Stephan Ansell (USA)

Session

17:30 – 18:00

R/R CLL: best sequencing strategy

John Allan (USA)

Session

18:00 – 18:30

Best management strategy in R/R T-cell-rich B-cell lymphoma

Tycel Phillips (USA)

Session

18:30

Discussion – End of Day 1

Highlight

08:30

Session One

Moderators: Dr. Mohammed Al Mohammadi / Dr. Sameerah Al Safwani

Session

08:30 – 08:35

Welcome Remarks and Program Overview

Ahmed Al-Bahrani, MD

Highlight

08:35 – 08:55

Expect the unexpected: intriguing cases in hematopathology

Reem Al Rabeh, MD

Session

08:55 – 09:15

Flowcytometry in the diagnosis of hematological malignancies

Mariam Al Ghazal, MD

Session

09:15 – 09:35

Diagnostic classification of myeloid neoplasm: WHO 5th vs ICC 2022 for myeloid neoplasm

Maher Aljohani, MD

Session

09:35 – 09:45

Discussion

Session

09:45 – 10:00

Coffee Break

Break

10:00

Session Two

Moderators: Dr. Abdulmajeed Al Abdullateef and Dr. Fatema Al Ghanim

Session

10:00 – 10:20

From screening tests to precision diagnosis of acquired and congenital coagulopathies

Rabab Al Dawood, MD

Session

10:20 – 10:40

Diagnostic strategies and challenges in platelet function testing

Rahaf Altahan, MD

Session

10:40 – 11:00

The Evolving landscape of factor XIII testing: method, pitfalls, and best practices

Mohammed Al Sharif, MD

Session

11:00 – 11:20

Transfusion challenges in multiple myeloma

Ammar Alsughayir, MD

Session

11:20 – 11:30

Discussion

Session

11:30 – 13:00

Prayer and Lunch Break

Prayer at 12:00 PM

Break

13:00

Session Three

Moderators: Dr. Ahmed Al Bahrani and Dr. Haifa Al Muhtarish

Session

13:00 – 13:20

Distinguishing hairy cell leukemia from splenic marginal zone lymphoma: diagnostic pearls for the hematopathologist

Mona Alfaraj, MD

Session

13:20 – 13:40

New updates in AML, Measurable residual disease a consensus approach from ELN-MRD working group

Heba Raslan, MD

Session

13:40 – 14:00

MPD – Myelofibrosis

Ahmed Al Rajjal, MD

Session

14:00 – 14:10

Discussion

Session

14:10 – 14:25

Coffee Break

Break

14:25

Session Four

Moderators: Dr. Mukhtar Buhlaiga and Dr. Naif Bin Muhanaa

Session

14:25 – 14:45

The ultimate Transfusion puzzle: strategies for anti-Rh17 management.

Fatma Aldarweesh, MD

Session

14:45 – 15:05

Evolving Practice in Transplant & Cellular Therapies

Ahmed Al Bahrani, MD

Session

15:05 – 15:25

Updates on mismatch unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Mohammed Awaji, PhD

Session

15:25 – 15:35

Discussion and Closing Remarks

Ammar Alsughayir, MD

Session

15:35

End of Day 2

Highlight

Speaker (Local) (13)

Ahmed Taher Al-Bahrani

Consultant, Pathology (Hematology), Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Processing, KFSHD | Head, Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory, KFSHD | Head, Therapeutic Apheresis Unit, KFSHD

Hematopathology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital –Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Reem Ala Alrabeh

Section Head- Hematology, Coagulation and Flowcytometry Lab at King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Hematopathology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Maher M. Aljohani, MD, MSc

Consultant and Assistant Professor of Hematopathology | Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Prince Mohammad Bin Abdul Aziz Hospital (PMBAH) of National Guard Health Affairs, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

Hematopathology

Prince Mohammad Bin Abdul Aziz Hospital (PMBAH)

Medina, Saudi Arabia

Rabab A. Al Dawood, MBBS

Hematopathology Consultant/Coagulation and Hemostasis, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Hematopathology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Rahaf Altahan

Consultant Hematopathologist at King Fahad Medical City and the Program Director of the King Saud University Board in Hematopathology and Transfusion Medicine

Hematopathology

King Fahad Medical City

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ammar Hasan Alsughayir, MBBS, KSUPATH, JBH,EMBA

Chairman, Transfusion Medicine Service Department Pathology, Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, King Fahad Medical City

Hematopathology

King Fahad Medical City

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mona M. Alfaraj, MD, KSUF

Consultant Hematopathologist & Blood Transfusionist at Qatif Health Network QHN

Hematopathology

Qatif Health Network QHN

Qatif, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Heba Nabil Ismail Raslan

Consultant Hematopathology, King Fahad Specialist Hospital – Dammam (KFSH-Dammam) and Professor of Hematopathology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University

Hematopathology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital – Dammam (KFSH-Dammam)

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Ahmed Alrajjal, MD

Associate Consultant Pathologist at Princess Noorah Oncology Center National Guard Hospital- Jeddah

Hematopathology

Princess Noorah Oncology Center National Guard Hospital- Jeddah

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Omar Zeid Abduljalil, MBBS, SF-AH, SB-Med, MHQS

Consultant in Adult Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam

Hematology/Oncology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Awaji

Principal Director of the Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory at King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam

Pathology & Lab Medicine

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Abdullah AlSharif

Hematopathology Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh

Hematopathology

King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Ibrahim M Aldarweesh

Consultant, Adult Hematology

Hematology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Speaker (International) – Virtual (6)

Shaji Kunnathu Kumar, MD

Consultant - Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnes

Hematology

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester, United States

TOBY A. EYRE, MD

Haematology Consultant (Lymphoma and CLL), CLL Lead, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Haematolog

Hematology

Oxford University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford, United Kingdom

Ann Steward LaCasce, , MD, MMSc

Program Director, Dana Farber/MGB Heme/Onc Fellowship and Associate Professor of Medicine Lymphoma Program

Hematology

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, United States

Maria-Victoria Mateos, , MD, PhD

Consultant Physician in the Haematology Department and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Salamanca, Spain

Hematology

University of Salamanca, Spain

Salamanca, Spain

Fatima Aldarweesh, MD, QIA

Program Director, Transfusion Medicine Fellowship and Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago

Hematopathology

The University of Chicago

Chicago, United States

John Allan

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, NYC

Hematology/Oncology

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, United States

Moderator (9)

Musa Fares Alzahrani, MD

Assistant Professor and Consultant Hematologist, King Saud University Hospital

Hematology

King Saud University Hospital

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ayman Alhejazi, MD

Assistant Professor of Hematology/Oncology King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, KSA | Consultant, Div. of Adult Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Department of Oncology King Abdulaziz Medical City

Hematology

King Abdulaziz Medical City - Riyadh

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ayman Mubarak Habiballa Ibrahim, FRCPath, MRCP, MSc Haematopathology, MBBS

Consultant Hematologist, King Abdulaziz Medical City - Riyadh

Hematology

King Abdulaziz Medical City - Riyadh

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Manar Mohammad Abdulbaqi, MD

Hematology Consultant at King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Hematology

King Fahad Specialist Hospital - Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Sulaiman Alsaleh

Section Head, Division of Adult Hematology & HSCT, Department of Oncology, King Abdulaziz Medical City - Riyadh

Hematology/Oncology

King Abdulaziz Medical City - Riyadh

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Hassan Sulaiman Almohammadi

• Medical Director of Laboratory Services at Dr Sulaiman Alahbib Medical Group (HMG), Western Region, KSA

Hematopathology

Dr Sulaiman Alahbib Medical Group (HMG), Western Region, KSA

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sameera Abdulkareem Alsafwani

Hematopathology Consultant and Blood Bank, QCH, MOH Director of Laboratory

Hematopathology

Qatif Health Network/ Qatif Central Hospital

Qatif, Saudi Arabia

Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Alabdullateef, MD

Director of Transfusion Medicine & Cellular Therapy Fellowship program at King Saud University Riyadh

Hematopathology

King Saud University Riyadh

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mukhtar Mohammedfayez Buhlaiga

Consultant Transfusion Medicine, Immunohematology and Blood Banking at Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Dammam

Hematopathology

Maternity and Children’s Hospital in Dammam

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

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7th Saudi Lymphoma/Myeloma and 10th Hematopathology Overview

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