Program
ATA Annual Meeting Program
The ATA Annual Meeting Program Committee is actively planning the Plenaries, Symposia and Meet the Professor/Scientist Sessions. Check back soon for specific details on speakers/sessions.
Important Dates
February 13 – May 6, 2022:
Abstract Submissions Open
May 16, 2022:
Registration Opens
September 12, 2022:
Housing Deadline
Schedule at a Glance
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
6:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Registration Open
7:00 AM – 4: 30 PM
Endocrine Neck Advanced Ultrasound Course (additional registration)
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
E. Chester Ridgway Trainees’ Conference
Clinical Track
- How Do Thyroid Hormones Work
- Hypothyroidism Case Discussions
- Thyroid & Neck Ultrasound
- Bethesda System and Management of Thyroid Nodule with Indeterminate Cytology
- Pre-op Evaluation of Patients with Thyroid Cancer
- ATA Risk Stratification, RAI Treatment and Response to Therapy
- How to Get Published
- Long Term Follow Up of Thyroid Cancer
- Graves’ Eye Disease
- Hyperthyroidism Case Discussions
Basic Science Track
- How Do Thyroid Hormones Work
- Modeling Thyroid Cancers in Zebrafish
- Cellular and Animal Models for Studying Thyroid Hormone
- Thyroid Hormone Agonists (Thyromimetics) as Tools for Research
- Workshop: Presenting your science to a general audience
- How to Get Published
- Unusual Suspects
- Thyroid Hormone Action in Testes
- Thyroid Hormone Action in Adrenal Gland Development
- Thyroid Hormone and Microbiome
- Thyroid Cancer and Immuno-oncology
3:15 PM – 5:30 PM
ATA Committee and Task Force Meetings
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM
ATA Welcome Reception
Thursday, October 20, 2022
6:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Registration Open
10:30 AM – 4:30PM
Exhibit Hall Open
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Year in Thyroidology
Co-Chairs: Christopher McCabe, PhD, Maria Papaleontiou, MD
Faculty: Alexandra M. Dumitrescu, MD, PhD, “Basic Science Year in Review”, Angela M. Leung, MD, “Clinical Science Year in Review” and Kepal Patel, MD, “Surgical Year in Review”
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Highlighted Oral Abstracts
Highlighted Posters
Highlighted Posters
Clark T. Sawin Historical Vignette: Neonatal Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Break & Poster Review
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Expo Theater
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Van Meter and Braverman Award Lectures
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Poster Review and Lunch on Your Own
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Expo Theater
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Networking Session
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Arthur Bauman Clinical Symposium: ATA Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Nodule Guidelines: Changes on the Horizon?
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Highlighted Posters
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Networking Break
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
ATA Research Grants Session
Priya Dedhia, MD, PhD − “Stem cell and patient-derived models of medullary thyroid cancer”
Meredith Hartley, PhD – “Thyroid hormone signaling during remyelination”
Jennifer Kuo, MD − “RFA of Thyroid Nodules: Clinical Outcomes in the United States”
Melissa Lechner, MD – “Pathogenic T cells Mediate Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Thyroid Disease”
Megan Ritter, MD − “The role of nuclear corepressor 1 in thyroid hormone signaling”
Symposium: Thyroid Disease in Women: Understanding Sex-based Differences
Co-Chairs: Chrysoula Dosiou, MD, MS and Sun Lee, MD, MSc
Faculty: Robin Peeters, MD, PhD – Women and biological risk of thyroid disease
Louise Davies, MD, MS, FACS – Over-detection of thyroid cancer in women
Erik Alexander, MD – Fertility issues with thyroid disorders
MTP: Molecular landscape of pediatric thyroid cancer
Chair: Vivian Weiss, MD, PhD
Faculty: Aime Franco, PhD and Jonathan Wasserman, MD, PhD
MTP: Subclinical hypothyroidism: when, how, and why to treat
Chair: Kristien Boelaert, MD, PhD
Faculty: Spyridoula Maraka, MD, MS and Anne Cappola, MD, ScM
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
ATA Annual Business Meeting
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Trainee Poster Presentations (Trainees Only)
Friday, October 21, 2022
6:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Registration Open
10:30 AM – 4:30PM
Exhibit Hall Open
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Radiation-Related Genomic Profile of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma After the Chernobyl Accident
Speaker: Stephen J. Chanock, MD, Senior Investigator, Office of the Director, NCI/DCEG
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Oral Abstracts – Basic
Oral Abstracts – Clinical
Symposium: Highlighting Disparities in Access to Care for Patients With Thyroid Disease and Cancer
Co-Chairs: Sanziana Roman, MD, FACS and Joanna Miragaya, MD, PhD
Faculty: Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc – Barriers to optimal thyroid disease management in pregnancy
Michael Yeh, MD – Disparities in access to high-volume surgeons and specialized care
Megan Haymart, MD – Strategies for overcoming barriers to specialty care for thyroid disease and cancer
MTP: Management of Thyroid Cancer Patients After Lobectomy
Chair: Jennifer Perkins, MD, MBA
Faculty: Eyal Robenshtok, MD and Stephanie Fish, MD
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Break & Poster Review
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Expo Theater
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Galton and Ingbar Award Lectures
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Poster Review and Lunch on Your Own
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Expo Theater
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Oral Abstracts – Basic
Oral Abstracts – Clinical
MTP: Defining I-131 Refractory Disease in DTC and When to Start Systemic Therapy
Chair: James Fagin, MD
Faculty: Christine Spitzweg, MD and Mimi Hu, MD
MTP: For and Against T3/T4 Combination Therapy in Hypothyroidism
Chair: Elizabeth McAninch, MD
Faculty: Bernadette Biondi, MD and Francesco Celi, MD, MHSc
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Highlighted Posters
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Networking Break
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Symposium: Novel Animal Models of Thyroid Disease
Co-Chairs: Yun-Bo Shi, PhD and Inigo Landa, PhD
Heike Heuer, PhD – Novel mouse models of TH function in the brain
TBD – Single cell sequencing analysis of zebrafish thyroid
Daniel Buchholz, PhD – TR-GR crosstalk in regulation of frog development
Symposium: Living Beyond Thyroid Cancer: Improving Thyroid Cancer Survivorship
Co-Chairs: Melanie Goldfarb, MD, MS, FACS, FACE and Kaniksha Desai, MD
Faculty: Susan Pitt, MD – Emotional support at thyroid cancer diagnosis
Anna Sawka, MD, PhD – Quality of life implications
Cord Sturgeon, MD, MS, FACS – Financial toxicity and hardship in thyroid cancer survivors
MTP: Long-term Methimazole in Graves’ Disease – Yay or Nay?
Co-Chairs: David Cooper, MD and Carol Greenlee, MD
Faculty: Fereidoun Azizi, MD and Adriano Cury, MD, PhD
MTP: Surgical Approach to Thyroid Cancer Informed by Molecular Testing
Co-Chairs: Gerard Doherty, MD
Faculty: Masha Livhits, MD and Martha Zeiger, MD
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
ATA Meeting Attendee Party (separate registration required)
Saturday, October 22, 2022
6:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Registration Open
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Interesting Cases (Non-Cancer)
Chair: James Hennessey, MD
Faculty: Douglas Ross, MD and Jennifer Mammen, MD, PhD
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM
Precision Thyroid Care: Avoiding Over-and Under Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
Speaker: R. Michael Tuttle, MD, Chief, Endocrinology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Oral Abstracts – Basic
Oral Abstracts – Clinical
MTP: Iodide prophylaxis and nuclear exposure: mechanisms and utility
Co-Chairs: Sissy Jhiang, PhD and Peter Kopp, MD
Faculty: Matthias Port, MD and TBD
MTP: Universal Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction in Pregnancy: An Ongoing Debate
Chair: Alex Stagnaro-Green, MD, MHPE, MHA
Faculty: Caroline T. Nguyen, MD andTim I. M. Korevaar, MD, PhD
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Surgical Symposium
Difficult Benign Thyroid Cases
Moderator: Kevin Brumund, MD
Panel: Elizabeth Cottrill, MD, Merry Sebelik, MD, FACS, and Phil Smith, MD
Reoperation for Thyroid Cancer
Moderator: Jennifer Rosen, MD
Panel: Keith Forwith, PhD, MD, Jesse Pasternak, MD, MPH, FRCSC, and Pinar Smith, MD
Five Years of NIFTP: Impact on Thyroid Cancer Incidence and Patient Management
Co-chairs: F. Thurston Drake, MD, MPH and Thomas Giordano, MD, PhD
Faculty:
Antoine Eskander, MD, Sc.M., CIP, FRCSC – Talk Title TBD
Yuri Nikiforov, MD, PhD – Diagnostic criteria and how to evaluate difficult pathologic cases
Heather Wachtel, MD, FACS – Talk Title TBD
10:30 AM – 2:30PM
Exhibit Hall Open
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Break & Poster Review
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Expo Theater
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Plenary: Women in Thyroidology Program & Networking
Chair: Angela M. Leung, MD
Faculty: Jennifer Sipos, MD, Talk TBD
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Poster Review and Lunch on Your Own
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Expo Theater
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Oral Abstracts – Basic
Oral Abstracts – Clinical
MTP: Metastatic Thyroid Cancer-Stepwise Management
Faculty: Kate Newbold, MD and Bryan Haugen, MD
MTP: Management of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy and New Monoclonal Treatments
Chair: Lilly H. Wagner, MD
Faculty: Bijay Vaidya, PhD and Michael Kazim, MD
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Parallel Sessions (4 available)
Symposium: Tumor/Immune Environment in Thyroid Cancer: Its Exploitation in Immunotherapy
Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Knauf, PhD and Anupam Kotwal, MD
Faculty: Melissa Lechner, MD, PhD – Immune profiles of thyroid cancer and implications for immunotherapeutic approaches
Alan Ho, MD, PhD – Targeting immune suppressive microenvironment in anaplastic thyroid cancer
Mabel Ryder, MD – Application of immunotherapy to the spectrum of aggressive thyroid cancers
Symposium: Thyroid Disease, Endocrine Disruptors, Nutrition and Health
Co-Chairs: Leonidas Duntas, MD and Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, MD, DMSc
Faculty: Maaike Van Gerwen, MD – Endocrine disruptors, heavy metals and thyroid cancer: Epidemiology and potential pathways of disease.
Mary Gilbert – Thyroid disrupting chemicals and the developing brain
MTP: Minimally Invasive Approaches to Thyroid Nodules and Cancer, Including RFA
Chair: Catherine Sinclair, MD
Faculty: Insoo Suh, MD and Julia Noel, MD
MTP: Ambulatory Thyroid Surgery and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chair: David Steward, MD
Faculty: Brenessa Lindeman, MD, MEHP, FACS and Jonathon Russell, MD, FACS
Sunday, October 23, 2022
7:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Registration Open
7:15 AM – 10: 15 AM
Parallel Sessions (2 available)
Pediatric Thyroid Symposium
- Management of Graves’ Disease: Where Are We Now?
- Co-Chairs: Hilary Seeley, MD and Ari Wassner, MD
- Maggie Chan, MD, “Optimizing Medical Treatment”
- Jake Dahl, MD, “Surgical Management”
- Adina L. Alazraki, MD, “The Pros and Cons of RAI”
- Pediatric Abstract Highlights
- Pediatric Tumor Board
- Co-Chairs: Sarah Hensley, MD and Steven G. Waguespack, MD, FACE
- Faculty
- Endocrine: Pallavi Iyer, MD
- Surgical: Kara Meister, MD
- Oncology: Priya Mahajan, MD
- Nuclear Medicine: TBD
- Thyroid Dysfunction in Genetic Syndromes
- Laura Page, MD
Thyroid Hormone Tests Symposium & Workshop
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Thyroid Cancer Tumor Board
Moderator: Laura Boucai, MD
Endocrinology: Steven Hodak, MD
Community Endocrinologist: Jules Aljammal, MD
Surgery: Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
Medical Oncology: Jonathan Wadsley
Nuclear Medicine: Markus Luster, MD
Interventional Radiology: Gilles Russ, MD
Radiation Oncology: Nancy Lee, MD