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 | Cofee 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 |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | 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 | Cofee 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 |
| 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM | Leveraging Our Medical Community to Promote Inclusive Clinical Trials
Belinda Avalos, MD
Immediate Past ASH President
American Society of Hematology |
| 9:25 AM - 9:35 AM | Global Cancer Care Disparities: Scarcity, Abundance, and the Value of Care
Omar Ahmed, MD
Clinical Oncologist
Garissa Regional Cancer Center, Kenya |
| 9:35 AM - 9:50 AM | Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Vox Medica: A DRIVE Approach to Medical Publication
Catherine Lai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Atlas and Nexus: The Role of the Statistician in Promoting Clinical Trial Representativeness
Todd Burus, PhD, MASc
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Beyond The Treatment Protocol:Mitigation of Financial Toxicity & Access Barriers to Enhance Clinical Trial Equity
Karla Goins, MBA
Founder & Principal Advocate
AdVICE Group LLC |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Rural Health Matters: Ensuring No Community is Left Behind
Electra Paskett, PhD, FACE
Marion N. Rowley Chair in Cancer Research
The Ohio State University |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | DRIVEing the Next Generation of Medical Researchers and DRIVE Expansion
Maya Birhiray, MS1; Sam Ranger, MS2
1Medical Student; 2Chief Program Officer
1Indiana University School of Medicine; 2Indy Hematology Education |
| 12:10 PM - 12:25 PM | Q/A and PANEL DISCUSSION |
| 12:25 PM - 12:55 PM | Open Discussion on Strategies Moving Forwards |
| 12:55 PM - 1:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Thank You |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Luncheon |