The Agenda

Agenda – What’s on when

12:00 – 1:00

Registration and Check-in

1:00 – 1:20

Opening Conference Remarks

David Swoboda, MD – Director, Leukemia Program, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

Gustavo Rivero, MD, – Director, Translational Research for Hematologic Malignancies, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD – Executive Director, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Center Institute

1:20 – 2:20

Session: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Malignant Hematology

Session Chair Introduction

1:20-1:40

Gene Ontogeny That Explains Inferior Outcome in African AML

1:40-2:00

Connecting Socio-Economic Status and Aggressive Genomics In Africans AML-The Trial Perspective

2:00-2:20

Panel Discussion

2:20 – 2:30

Coffee Break

2:30 – 4:10

Session: AI/Computational Biology in Hematology

Session Chair Introduction

2:30-2:50

Prioritizing AML Neopeptides by Machine Learning Prediction

2:50-3:10

Cutting-Edge Artifical Intelligence AML Tools to Translate Biological Data

David Swoboda, MD – Director, Leukemia Program, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

3:10-3:30

Approaching AI/ML Language Input to Diagnose MDS

David Swoboda, MD – Director, Leukemia Program, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

3:30-3:50

Presentation

3:50-4:10

Panel Discussion

4:20-4:50

Abstract Session 

Friday – May 8, 2026

7:30-8:00

Registration and Check-in – Light Breakfast

8:00-8:10

Welcome & Housekeeping

Steering Committee

David Swoboda, MD – Director, Leukemia Program, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

Gustavo Rivero, MD – Director, Translational Research for Hematologic Malignancies, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

8:10 – 10:10

10:10 – 10:25

Coffee Break

10:25-12:25 

Session: Lymphoid

10:25-10:35

Lymphoid – Case 1 Discussion

10:35-10:55

Lymphoid – Talk 1

10:55-11:15

Lymphoid – Talk 2

11:15-11:25

Lymphoid – Case 2 Discussion

11:25-11:45

Lymphoid – Talk 1

Alan Kerr, II, MD, PhD – Physician Scientist, Hematology/Oncology, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

11:45-12:25

Panel & Q&A

Alan Kerr, II, MD, PhD – Physician Scientist, Hematology/Oncology, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute

12:25-1:25

Lunch 

12:25-1:05

Keynote

3:30-3:40

Final Remarks

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