2025 ASTRO | Alumni Reception

Be sure to mark your calendar now to attend the 67th ASTRO Annual Meeting, being held in San Francisco, CA, September 27 ‒ October 1, 2025!

The Annual Meeting program offers the top science and education related to the field of radiation oncology.

2025 Alumni Reception

Please join us for a reception at the Annual ASTRO Meeting on

Monday, September 29th, 2025 in San Francisco, California

from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

LOCATION

Canopy by Hilton San Francisco SoMa

1 250 4th St Place, San Francisco, California 94103

Social Bar & Lounge

**please RSVP by Monday, September 19th 2025

Hosted by:

Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, FASTRO
Peter Wootton Professor and Chair

Department of Radiation Oncology | UW Medicine

Senior Vice President |Division of Radiation Oncology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Faculty | Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

ASTRO Speakers and Events

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Keynote Speaker
Luncheon
Poster
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Quick Pitch
Reception
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9/27: ARRO 01 - ARRO Workshop: Principles and Skills of Brachytherapy: A Resident-Focused Workshop

Workshop – open to everyone

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 8:30am – 11:30am	Location: Early Career and Mentoring Lounge; North Lobby

9/27: PRO 03 - Bones of Contention: Navigating Innovations in Real-World Management of Non-Spine Bone Metastases/ Targeting Precision: Harnessing SBRT for Non-Spinal Bone Metastases

Presentation– Winston Vuong

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 11:02am – 11:12am	Location: Room 301-304

9/27: PRO 03 - Bones of Contention: Navigating Innovations in Real-World Management of Non-Spine Bone Metastases/ Prophylactic Palliation: Radiation Asymptomatic Bone Metastases as the Evidence Still Emerges

Presentation– Jonathan Yang

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 11:12am – 11:32am	Location: Room 301-304

9/27: PRO 07 - Indolent Lymphomas: Radiation Oncology Considerations/ Nuts and Bolts of Indolent Lymphomas (clinicopathology, staging, prognosis)

Presentation– Yolanda Tseng

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 3:47pm – 4:07pm	Location: Room 301-304

9/27: Workshop 02 - Moving Beyond the Basics: Implementation of a Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Program/ Newer Isotopes and Future Indications for RPT

Workshop – Michael Folkert

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 4:45pm – 5:05pm	Location: Room 155/157

9/27: ARRO 04 - ARRO Networking Reception

Reception – Open to Everyone

Date: Saturday, September 27	Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm	Location: Golden Gate Taproom

9/28: Welcome 01 - ASTRO CEO Update

Address – open to everyone

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 8:20am – 8:45am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/28: PRO 09 - Precision Radiotherapy for Liver and Pancreatic Malignancies: Indications, Techniques and Response Evaluation/ Post Radiotherapy Imaging and Response Evaluation in Hepatobiliary Cancer/Metastases

Presentation – Smith Apisarnthanarax

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 8:42am – 9:02am	Location: Room 301-304

9/28: SS 03 - GU 1: Advances in Localized Prostate Cancer/ GU 1: Advances in Localized Prostate Cancer

Scientific Session– Emily Weg

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 2:30pm – 2:45pm	Location: Room 24

9/28: EDU 05 - Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Dose Escalation for Prostate Cancer: Lessons from Randomized Trials and the MARCAP Consortium/ Sequencing Short-Term Hormonal Therapy With Radiotherapy For Prostate Cancer: What is Best?

Educational Session– Ting Ma

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 3:02pm – 3:17pm	Location: Room 20/21

9/28: SS 01 - CNS 1: Novel Approaches in Brain Metastases/ Discussant

Scientific Session– Jonathan Yang

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 3:40pm – 3:50pm	Location: Room 152

9/28: ARRO 05 - ARRO Mentoring and Networking Reception

Reception– open to everyone

Date: Sunday, September 28	Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm	Location: Early Career and Mentoring Lounge; North Lobby

9/29: QP 01 - GU 3: Quick Pitch: Reducing Toxicities of Prostate Radiation/ GU 3: Quick Pitch: Reducing Toxicities of Prostate Radiation

Quick Pitch– Ting Ma

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 8:00am – 9:00am	Location: Room 307/308

9/29: Address 01 - ASTRO CEO Address

Address– open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 9:05am – 9:15am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/29: Keynote 01 - My Brain Tumor: Why I Got Better Care Than my Neighbors

Keynote– open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 9:15am – 10:15am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/29: Keynote 01 - My Brain Tumor: Why I Got Better Care Than my Neighbors/ Introduction

Keynote– Shilpen Patel

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 9:15am – 9:17am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/29: EDU 19 - Contemporary Multi-Disciplinary Management of Bladder Cancer

Educational Session– Omar Mian

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 10:45am – 12:00pm	Location: Room 155/157

9/29: Luncheon 01 - Women of ASTRO Luncheon - Safe at Work: Implementing Effective Strategies to Address Harassment in the Radiation Oncology Workplace

Luncheon – open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm	Location: Room 24

9/29: Address 02 - Presidential Address

Address – open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/29: PQA 05 - Breast Cancer, Health Services Research, International/Global Oncology 2966 - Nursing in Radiation Oncology: International Needs Assessment in Africa"

Poster– Benjamin Li

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/29: EDU 26 - Advanced Treatment Techniques of Stereotactic, Adaptive and Protons for Gynecologic Cancer - Tips, Tricks and Patient Selection/ Workflow and Optimal Gynecologic Cancer Patients for CT and MRI Adaptive Radiation Therapy

Educational Session– Jyoti Mayadev

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 3:17pm – 3:32pm	Location: Room 22/23

9/29: Reception 01 - Exhibit Hall Networking Reception

Reception– open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm	Location: Halls A-D

9/29: Reception 02 - ASTRO Communities Reception

Reception– open to everyone

Date: Monday, September 29	Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm	Location: Room 153

9/30: SS 33 - GI 2: Giving Radiation a Boost in Pancreatic Cancer and Responding to the Call for Esophageal Cancer

Scientific Session– Jamie Takayesu

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 8:00am – 9:00am	Location: Room 156/158

9/30: EDU 35 - Revisiting Post-Prostatectomy Salvage Radiation in the Age of Precision Oncology

Educational Session– Emily Weg

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 8:00am – 9:00am	Location: Room 20/21

9/30: Keynote 02 - Hope, Research, and the Cancer Patient

Keynote– open to everyone

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 9:00am – 10:00am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/30: Awards 01 - Awards Ceremony

Special Session– open to everyone

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 10:00am – 11:30am	Location: San Francisco Ballroom

9/30: Luncheon 02 - Business Meeting and Luncheon

Luncheon– open to everyone

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 11:00am – 12:45pm	Location: Room 301-304

9/30: PQA 07 - Genitourinary Cancer, Patient Safety, Nursing/Supportive Care/ 3225 - Long-Term Bowel, Urinary, and Sexual Dysfunction Following Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer with or without Rectal Spacer

Poster– Michael Folkert

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/30: PQA 07 - Genitourinary Cancer, Patient Safety, Nursing/Supportive Care/ 3282 - Preliminary Outcomes of a Phase II Trial of Focal Salvage LDR Brachytherapy for Local Recurrence of Prostate Cancer following External Beam Radiation Therapy

Poster– Ting Ma

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/30: PQA 07 - Genitourinary Cancer, Patient Safety, Nursing/Supportive Care

Poster– Mark Nguyen

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 12:45pm – 2:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/30: EDU 42 - The Role of Radiotherapy in Modern Treatment of Endometrial Cancer - The Great Debate/ The Role of Radiotherapy in Modern Treatment of Endometrial Cancer - the Great Debate

Educational Session– Shauna McVorran

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 1:32pm – 1:47pm	Location: Room 159

9/30: SS 36 - GI 3: Liver - Checking in on Inhibitors, inSPECTing Liver Function, and Making Progress Oligo-ly/ 311 - Sulfur Colloid SPECT/CT Tracking for Evaluation of Liver Function: Longitudinal Assessment During Radiation Therapy (STELLAR) Prospective Study

Scientific Session– Smith Apisarnthanarax

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 1:35pm – 1:45pm	Location: Room 22/23

9/30: SS 41 - Radiation and Cancer Physics 7: AI-Driven Imaging and Predictive Modeling/335 - Predicting Voxel-Level Local Progression for Locally Advanced NSCLC following Chemoradiation Using Multi-Task Deep Learning

Scientific Session– Jie Fu

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 2:40pm – 2:50pm	Location: Room 20/21

9/30: SS 40 - Hem 2: New Protocols, New Paradigms: Clinical Trials Shaping the Future of Hematologic RT

Scientific Session– Maryam Ebadi

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 3:00pm – 3:10pm	Location: Room 314

9/30: PQA 09 - Hematologic Malignancies, Digital Health Innovation and Informatics/ 3611 - Impact of CNS-Directed RT before Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (alloHCT) Among Patients with Acute Leukemia and CNS Involvement

Poster– Maryam Ebadi

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/30: PQA 09 - Hematologic Malignancies, Health Services Research, Digital Health Innovation and Informatics

Poster– Mark Nguyen

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm	Location: Hall F

9/30: SS 42 - Gyn 4: GYN Clinical Trials - Challenging the Paradigm in Gynecologic Cancers/343 - Phase 3 Study of Pembrolizumab (Pembro) + Adjuvant Chemotherapy (CT) ± Radiotherapy (RT) for Newly Diagnosed, High-Risk Endometrial Cancer (EC): Exploratory Analysis of Disease-Specific-Free Survival (DSFS) and Safety by Radiation Usage

Scientific Session– Jyoti Mayadev

Date: Tuesday, September 30	Time: 4:20pm – 4:30pm	Location: Room 156/158