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2026 ESMO USA in Focus: Breast Cancer - WEST

  • The Grand America Hotel 555 South Main Street Salt Lake City, UT, 84111 United States (map)

In-Person Access Only | 5.00 CE/CME Credits & MOC Points

Please read: All programs remain free. Registrations will require a credit card as a cancellation hold. A fee of $50 will only be incurred in the event of a no-show or cancellation within 5 days without written confirmation to the Total Health Program Team. Industry representatives—defined as any individual who is employed by, contracted with, owns, or represents a drug, device, diagnostic, or other healthcare-related commercial entity, regardless of clinical credentials or licensure—are not permitted to attend Total Health events as general attendees. Members of industry must contact exhibits@totalhealthoncology.com

Total Health, in partnership with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)—a global authority representing more than 50,000 oncology professionals— is proud to present a state-of-the-art program designed to deliver exclusive U.S.-based updates from the ESMO Breast Cancer Annual Congress.

This free, 1-day symposium for healthcare providers will spotlight the most important advances across the breast cancer continuum.

 

Conference Agenda
Saturday, May 16, 2026

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7:30 AM
Coffee and Exhibits

8:00 AM
Program Chair Welcome

8:10 AM
Escalation vs de-escalation (HER2+, ER+)

Jairam Krishnamurthy, MD | Huntsman Cancer Institute

8:30 AM
Mechanisms of resistance to HER2-directed therapies
& strategies to overcome (bispecifics, switching, combination strategies)

Jairam Krishnamurthy, MD | Huntsman Cancer Institute

8:50 AM
MRD/ctDNA in early breast cancer

James Shortridge, DO | Utah Cancer Specialists

9:10 AM
Endocrine therapy & next-gen SERDs

Justin Call, MD | Utah Cancer Specialists

9:30 AM
Breakfast and Exhibits

9:45 AM
Non-CME Breakfast - Natera - Clinical utility of ctDNA testing for MRD with Signatera in breast cancer

Angel Rodriguez, MD | Natera

10:30 AM
CDK4/6 inhibitors across disease stages
Lee Schwartzberg, MD | Renown Health

10:50 AM
HER2-low and ultralow categories (ADC expansion)
Alexis LeVee, MD |University of California Los Angeles - Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

11:10 AM
Survivorship and QOL
Daphne Stewart, MD | University of Southern California

11:30 AM
Emerging ADCs and novel targets in metastatic
disease
Hemali Batra-Sharma, MD | University of California San Francisco

11:50 AM
Lunch and Exhibits

12:05 PM
Non-CME Lunch - Pfizer Breast - Treatment Considerations for Patients With HR+/HER2- mBC

Anne O’Dea, MD | University of Kansas Cancer Center
Norma N. | Patient Ambassador

12:50 PM
Housekeeping and Survey

1:00 PM
Neoadjuvant IO in TNBC
Julie Williamson, MD | Huntsman Cancer Institute

1:20 PM
Biomarkers beyond ctDNA: TILs, immune signatures, tumor microenvironment in breast cancer

Mark Jesus Magbanua, PhD | University of California San Francisco

1:40 PM
Liquid biopsy–guided therapeutic escalation
(e.g. ESR1 mutation detection, early switch strategies)
Maria Hafez MD | St. Lukes University

2:00 PM
PI3K/AKT pathway inhibition: new agents, sequencing, combination strategies
Elena Shagisultanova, MD, PhD |Thomas Jefferson University

2:20 PM
Break and Exhibits

2:40 PM
AI / radiomics / imaging biomarkers in breast cancer
(predictive models, virtual biopsies)

Sarah Colonna, MD | Huntsman Cancer Institute

3:00 PM
Management of brain metastases in HER2+ and triple-negative breast cancer
Milana Dolezal, MD | Stanford Medicine

3:20 PM
Special populations: pregnancy-associated breast cancer, male breast cancer, BRCA mutation carriers
Sarah Colonna, MD | Huntsman Cancer Institute

3:40 PM
ADJOURN

All times are PST.

 
 
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