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.

All sessions will be held at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. Learn more about the venue and hotel reservations.

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

  • Opening Remarks: Welcome & Opening Address (8:00am)
    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)
    Bradford Casey, PhD | Howard M. Eisenberg, MD | Paul Fishman, MD, PhD | Michael Kaplitt, MD, PhD | Ashwini Oswal, MD, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Bobby Krause | Ronald Nickelson

  • Break (10:30am)

  • Fireside Chat: Uterine Fibroids & Adenomyosis - Expanding Access to Noninvasive Treatment (11:00am)
    Martijn Boomsma, 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 | Michael Canney, 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

  • Panel: Psychiatric Conditions (3:15pm)
    Benjamin Davidson, MD, PhD, FRCSC | Renana Eitan, MD | Halmurat Parhat, MD | Noah S. Philip, MD | Jennifer Rabin, PhD, C.Psych | Lennart Verhagen, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Monica Russell

  • 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: Julie Chertow and Jennifer Margulis

  • Fireside Chat: Prostate Cancer and BPH - Scaling Clinical Adoption (8:45am)
    David Cranston, MBChB, MA, DPhil, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed) | Vera Khokhlova, PhD | Christian Pavlovich, MD | Stephen Scionti, MD | Peter Sinaiko, MD, FACS
    Patient Perspective: Robert Palmer

  • Fireside Chat: Alzheimer’s Disease - Opening New Pathways to Treatment (9:15am)
    Isabelle Aubert, PhD | Roland Beisteiner, MD, MA | Manish Ranjan, MBBS, Mch | Bomin Sun, 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 (11:00am)
    Maurice Delplanque, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Jonathan

  • Treatment Spotlight: Varicose Veins (11:10am)
    John Fritz Angle, MD | 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 | Arik Hananel, MD, MBA | Jan Kubanek, PhD | Wynn Legon, PhD
    Patient Perspective: Colin Matthews

  • A Message from Capitol Hill (12:00pm)
    Senator Mark Warner

  • Lunch (12:15pm)

  • 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 | Lian Zhang, MD

  • 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
    Patient Perspective: Leia and her owner Adrianne

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

  • 20th Anniversary Gala: “The Power of Sound” (6:00pm)

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

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

  • Emerging Indications Panel: Substance Use Disorders (8:45am)
    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.