The workshop will be held on 15 - 16 March 2019 in Hotel La Palma, Stresa, Italy.

In this workshop, theoretical and practical aspects of Minimal Residual Disease analysis in CLL will be discussed, with special emphasis on data interpretation and reporting.

AGENDA

Day 1, March 15, 2019

12.00 - 13:00 Registration and light lunch
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome (Chair: Paolo Ghia, Università Vita-salute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy)
Session: MRD in CLL - clinical and methodological considerations
              Chair: Kostas Stamatopoulos, CERTH, Thessaloniki (Greece)
13.10 - 13.40 Treatment landscape of CLL by Peter Hillmen, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds (UK)
13.40 - 14.10 The role of MRD in CLL by Paolo Ghia, Università Vita-salute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy)
14.40 - 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 - 18.00 Session: Exercises I
                      Chair: Andy Rawstron, Leeds, Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds (UK)
15.00 - 16.00 Introduction to MRD by flow cytometry by Andy Rawstron, Leeds, Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds (UK)
16.00 - 18.00 Hands on: basic data analysis
19.00 - 22.00 Social event: Dinner

Day 2, March 16, 2019

09.00 - 12.00 Session: Exercises II
09.00 - 10.30 Group A: “atypical CLL” cases
                      Group B: novel agents
10.30 - 12.00 switch groups
12.00 - 13.00 Session: Interactive case presentations
                      Chair: Peter Hillmen, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds (UK)
                      Speakers: Paolo Ghia, Università Vita-salute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy)
                                       Andy Rawstron, Leeds, Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds (UK)
                                       Kostas Stamatopoulos, CERTH, Thessaloniki (Greece)
13.00 - 13.10 Concluding remarks by Paolo Ghia, Università Vita-salute San Raffaele, Milan (Italy)
13.10 - 14.00 Lunch

FREE REGISTRATION is open until 21 February 2019. 

Please note that this Workshop is free of charge and includes all coffee breaks and meals and transfers from Malpensa Airport to Hotel La Palma and vice-versa. You have to cover all other travel and accommodation expenses yourself.

For more information and to register: http://www.workshop-eric.airon.it/