Program

The program will feature patient testimonials, expert keynotes, interviews and fireside chats, panel sessions, and opportunities for collaboration and networking.   

Programming begins at 8:00am Eastern every day following breakfast at 7:00am.

To learn more about the participants listed below, visit our Speakers page.

Wednesday, November 11 | 8:00am - 7:30pm

  • Opening Remarks: Welcome and Greetings from Virginia (8:00am)
    Neal F. Kassell, MD | Senator Mark Warner

  • The Unheard Opportunity: How Focused Ultrasound Inspired a Foundation (8:15am)
    Neal F. Kassell, MD

  • Keynote: From Physics to Surgery - How Sound Became Medicine (8:30am)
    David Cranston, MBChB, MA, DPhil, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed) | Gail ter Haar, PhD

  • Panel: Essential Tremor (9:00am)
    G. Rees Cosgrove, MD | Howard M. Eisenberg, MD | W. Jeffrey Elias, MD | Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Jeff Eagle

  • Panel: Parkinson’s Disease (9:45am)
    Paul Fishman, MD, PhD | Michael Kaplitt, MD, PhD | Ashwini Oswal, MD, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Bobby Krause

  • Break (10:30am)

  • Fireside Chat: Uterine Fibroids & Adenomyosis - Expanding Access to Noninvasive Treatment (11:00am)
    Martjin Boomsa, MD, PhD | Jessica Foley, PhD | Loes Knorren, MD | Matthias Matzko, MD | Alexander Mustea, MD | Lian Zhang, MD

  • Treatment Spotlight: FUS Babies (11:30am) 
    Rosie Xing, PhD

  • Treatment Spotlight: Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (11:45am) 
    Gail ter Haar, PhD
    Patient Perspective: The Scoglio Family

  • Lunch (12:00pm)

  • Panel: Neuro-Oncology - Blood-Brain Barrier Modulation and Sonodynamic Therapy (1:15pm)
    Costas D. Arvanitis, PhD | Alexandre Carpentier, MD, PhD | Michael Lim, MD | Nathan Judson McDannold, PhD | Ying Meng, MD, PhD | Shayan Moosa, MD | Roger J. Packer, MD | Francesco Prada, MD | Graeme F. Woodworth, MD

  • Panel: Neuro-Oncology - Liquid Biopsy (2:15pm)
    Hong Chen, PhD | Scott Davis, PhD | Suzanne LeBlang, MD | Lauren Leiman | Graeme F. Woodworth, MD | Mark Youngblood, MD, PhD

  • Break (2:45pm)

  • Expert Talk: Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation (3:00pm)
    Jean-François Aubry, PhD | Renana Eitan, MD

  • Panel: Psychiatric Conditions (3:15pm)
    Benjamin Davidson, MD, PhD, FRCSC | Noah S. Philip, MD | Jennifer Rabin, PhD, C.Psych | Lennart Verhagen, PhD

  • Welcome Reception and Poster Session (5:00 pm)

Thursday, November 12 | 8:00am - 9:00pm

  • Panel: Liver Tumors (8:00am)
    Clifford S. Cho, MD | Allan Tsung, MD | Feng Wu, MD, PhD | Zhen Xu, PhD
    Patient Perspective: TBD

  • Fireside Chat: Prostate Cancer and BPH - Scaling Clinical Adoption (8:45am)
    Ken Dychtwald, PhD
    Kyrollis Attalla, MD | David Cranston, MBChB, MA, DPhil, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed) | Christian Pavlovich, MD | Stephen Scionti, MD

  • Fireside Chat: Alzheimer’s Disease - Opening New Pathways to Treatment (9:15am)
    Isabelle Aubert, PhD | Jin-Woo Chang, MD, PhD | Manish Ranjan, MBBS, Mch | Pablo Villoslada, MD, PhD | George Vradenburg, JD

  • Expert Talk: Role of Focused Ultrasound in Gene and Cell Therapy (9:45am)
    Bob Smith, MBA

  • Break (10:00am)

  • Panel: Epilepsy (10:30am)
    Ellen J. Bubrick, MD | Nathan B. Fountain, MD | Vibhor Krishna, MD | Laura S. Lubbers, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Thatcher Carr

  • Treatment Spotlight: Aortic Valve Stenosis Treatment (11:00am)
    Jonathan Cohen

  • Treatment Spotlight: Varicose Veins (11:10am)
    Sergi Bellmunt, MD, PhD

  • Fireside Chat: Pain - Expanding the Therapeutic Possibilities (11:20am)
    W. Jeffrey Elias, MD | Dheeraj Gandhi MD, FACR | Lauren Hadley, MD, MBA | Jan Kubanek, PhD | Wynn Legon, PhD

  • Lunch (12:00pm)

  • Panel: Pancreatic Cancer (1:15pm)
    Keaton Jones, BMBS, BMedSci, MSc, PGDip, DPhil, FRCS | Tatiana Khokhlova, PhD | Jae Young Lee, MD, PhD | Tohru Satoh, PhD, MBA | Joan Vidal-Jové, MD, PhD

  • Fireside Chat: Breast Cancer - From Bench to Bedside (1:45pm)
    Lynn T. Dengel, MD | Elisa E. Konofagou, PhD | Allison H. Payne, PhD | Natasha Diba Sheybani, PhD

  • Expert Talk: Role of Focused Ultrasound in Cancer Immunotherapy (2:15pm)
    Timothy N.J. Bullock, PhD

  • Break (2:30pm)

  • Panel: Comparative and Veterinary Medicine (2:45pm)
    Sophie H. Bogers, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, DACVS–Large Animal | Nikolaos G. Dervisis, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Oncology) | Adam Maxwell, PhD | Ashish Ranjan, BVSc, PhD | Joanne Tuohy, DVM, PhD, DACVS–Small Animal | Eli Vlaisavljevich, PhD

  • Treatment Spotlight: Dystonia (3:45pm)
    Shiro Horisawa, MD

  • 20th Anniversary Gala: “The Power of Sound” (6:30pm)

Friday, November 13 | 8:00am - 12:00pm

  • Emerging Indications Panel: Soft Tissue Tumors  (8:00am)
    Matthew Bucknor, MD, MFA | Lynn T. Dengel, MD | Gurcharanjeet (Bonnie) Kaur, MD | AeRang Kim, MD, PhD | Paul Lyon, FRCR, DPhil | Richard J. Price, PhD | Lian Zhang, MD

  • Emerging Indications Panel: Substance Use Disorders (8:45am)
    Jin Woo Chang, MD, PhD | James J. Mahoney III, PhD | Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD | Ali Rezai, MD, FAANS | Daisy G. Y. Thompson-Lake, PhD

  • Emerging Indications Panel: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (9:15am)
    Agessandro Abrahao MD, MSc, CSCN (EMG) | Suzanne LeBlang, MD | Pablo Villoslada, MD, PhD

  • Break (9:45am)

  • Keynote: Scaling Innovation - The Role of Major Medical Device Manufacturers (10:00am)
    Neal F. Kassell, MD | Geoff Martha | Gary Shapiro, JD

  • Panel: Inventing the Future of Focused Ultrasound (10:30am)
    Hong Chen, PhD | Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD | Kullervo Hynynen, PhD | Neal F. Kassell, MD | Elisa E. Konofagou, PhD | Cyril Lafon, PhD | Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD | Hao-Li Liu, PhD | Kelly Wei, PhD, CPCC, ACC | Rosie Xing, PhD | Zhen Xu, PhD | Eyal Zadicario, PhD

  • Closing Remarks (11:30am)
    Neal F. Kassell, MD

The topics, times, and participants indicated above are subject to change.