Agenda

The following agenda is for the 2027 DRIVE meeting event.

Friday, March 12th, 2027

Time Event/Topic
6:30 AM - 7:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

Precursory Events

Session

Time Event/Topic
7:00 AM - 7:10 AM Putting the DRIVE Score into the Hands of Clinicians
Ruemu E. Birhiray, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Marian University - Wood College of Osteopathic Medicine
7:10 AM - 7:25 AM Ancestrally Determined Genomic Heterogeneity and its Practical Implementations in Hematological Malignancies
Andrew Hantel, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
7:25 AM - 7:40 AM SASP
Sanket Shaw, MD

Post Doctoral Fellow
Weill Cornell Medicine
7:40 AM - 7:55 AM Duffy-null Phenotype and Clinical Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma**
Paul G. Richardson, MD
Director of Clinical Research
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
7:55 AM - 8:10 AM Coming Soon
8:10 AM - 8:30 AM Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM Coffee Break
8:35 AM - 8:50 AM The Ancestral Voice of Medicine: Publication and Meeting Presentations
Catherine Lai, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
8:50 AM - 9:05 AM The Collision of Ancestry and Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Trial Development
Seungtaek Lee, MS

Vice President
Meangingful Insights Biotech Analytics
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Increasing Clinical Trial Education for Medical Students
Maya Birhiray, MS

Medical Student
Indiana University School of Medicine
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION
9:40 AM - 9:45 AM Coffee Break
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Coming Soon
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Implications For The Patient
Merlin Chowkwanyun,PhD

Donald H. Gemson Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION
10:35 AM - 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Keynote Conversation- Coming Soon
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Coming Soon
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Coming Soon
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM National Organizations on Data Publication and Abstract Selections
Belinda Avalos, MD

Immediate Past ASH President
American Society of Hematology
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Biostatistics and Updates to the Drive Calculator
Todd Burus, PhD, MASc

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center
12:30 PM- 1:00 PM Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION
1:00 PM Luncheon