Basser Center for BRCA 13th Annual Scientific Symposium Agenda for Tuesday, April 22, 2025


Located at the Smilow Center for Translational Research Auditorium/Commons at Penn Medicine (enter through Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine).

7:30-8:15 AM

Registration

8:15-8:30 AM

Welcome


 

MORNING SESSION


8:30-8:55 AM

Gad Rennert, MD, PhD

Young Onset of Breast Cancer in Jews and Arabs- Genetic Landscape and other Risk Factors
 

8:55-9:20 AM  

Sonja A Rasmussen, MD, MS 

Population Screening for Breast Cancer Predisposition Genes

 

9:20-9:45 AM

Alvaro N. Monteiro, PhD

The Universe of BRCA Variants
 

9:45-10:10 AM

Fergus Couch, PhD

Evidence for Moderate Risk Hypomorphic Missense Variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2

 

10:10-10:45 AM 

BREAK
 

10:45-11:10 AM

Mark Robson, MD

Management of Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk
 

11:10-11:35 AM

Douglas Stewart, MD 

Genomic Ascertainment of Breast Cancer Risk
 

11:35-12:00 PM

Jacquelyn Powers, MS, LCGC

Augmenting Reproductive Risk Conversations in Practice: Annotated Carrier Frequencies for Genes That Confer Both Autosomal Dominant Cancer Predisposition and Autosomal Recessive Infantile/Pediatric Disease
 

12:00-1:00 PM

LUNCH
 


AFTERNOON SESSION


1:00-1:25 PM

Heather Zierhut, PhD, MS, CGC

For Good: Shaping the Future of Genetic Counseling Using Health Communication, Service Delivery, and Community-Driven Research
 

1:25-1:50 PM  

Jacqueline Cappadocia, MS, LCGC

Year in Review
 

1:50-2:15 PM

Constance Lehman, MD, PhD

AI and Breast Cancer: Challenges and Opportunities


2:15-2:50 PM 

BREAK

 

2:50-3:40 PM

Gareth Evans, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCOG

BRCA Impact Award Recipient

BRCA1/2 Somatic and Other Germline Variants in Over 3,000 Ovarian Cancers and Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk
 

3:40-4:30 PM

Case Panel moderated by Susan Domchek, MD with: 

Joanna Mercado, MS, LCGC 
Mark Robson, MD
Gareth Evans, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCOG
 

End of accredited portion

 

4:30-5:15 PM

Poster Session