2026 SCGU | E-Syllabus

Friday, February 13, 2026

8:00 - 8:30 AM	REGISTRATION / BREAKFAST / EXHIBITS / POSTERS
8:30 - 8:40 AM	Introduction to the 3rd Annual Southern California Genitourinary Cancer Research Forum Sumanta K. Pal, MD \| City of Hope Sia Daneshmand, MD \| University of Southern California
8:40 - 9:00 AM	Key Updates in Kidney Cancer Rana R. McKay, MD \| Moores Cancer Center, University of San Diego
9:00 - 9:05 AM	Case-Based Trial Discussion: Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Front-line RCC Salvage RCC Non-Clear Cell RCC Moderator: Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD \| City of Hope Yu-Wei Chen, MD, MS \| University of San Diego Nataliya Mar, MD \| University of California Irvine Brian Shuch, MD \| UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology Hyung Kim \| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wesley Yip, MD \| City of Hope
9:50 - 10:30 AM	REFERESHMENT BREAK / EXHIBITS / POSTERS
10:30 - 10:50 AM	Key Updates in Urothelial Cancer Abhishek Tripathi, MD \| City of Hope
10:50 - 11:40 AM	Panel: Bladder Cancer Studies Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) Metastatic, 1st Metastatic, Salvage Moderator: Sia Daneshmand, MD \| University of Southern California Aditya Bagrodia, MD \| University of California San Diego Nataliya Mar, MD \| University of California Irvine Leslie Ballas, MD \| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nikita V. Baclig, MD, MPH \| University of California Los Angeles Abhishek Tripathi, MD \| City of Hope
11:40 - 11:50 AM	Group Picture
11:50 AM - 1:30 PM	LUNCH / EXHIBITS / POSTERS
1:30 - 1:50 PM	Key Updates in Prostate Cancer Jun Gong, MD \| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1:50 - 2:35 PM	Panel: Prostate Cancer Studies Localized Salvage Radiotherapy/Biochemical Recurrence (BCR) Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC) Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) Moderator: Tanya Barauskas Dorff, MD \| City of Hope Arash Rezazadeh, MD \| University of California Irvine Amar U. Kishan, MD \| University of California Los Angeles John Shin, MD \| Loma Linda University Health David J. Benjamin, MD \| Hoag Family Cancer Institute Przemyslaw Twardowski, MD \| Providence Saint John’s Health Center Alex Chehrazi-Raffle, MD \| City of Hope
2:35 - 3:00 PM	Summary of Thoughts from the Uromigos Thomas Powles, MD, MRCP \| Barts Cancer Centre at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Brian Rini, MD \| Vanderbilt University Medical Center
3:00 PM	ADJOURN FORUM

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