SSO 2025 Countdown
MARCH 27
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Preliminary Program

Join us at #SSO2025 for an opportunity to engage deeply with the latest research, innovative techniques, and collaborative approaches that are shaping our practices.

Additional details will be published in the Final Program coming December 2024.
 Wednesday, March 26
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM    Speaker Ready Room TCC
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM    Registration TCC
7:15 AM - 3:00 PM    Pre-Course: Hands-on Robotics in Gastrectomy, Esophagectomy, Pancreas, Liver (Non-CME)
This hands-on course will include lectures from leaders in the field on technical approaches, training and learning curve considerations and tips on starting a robotic program. Hands on didactics utilizing cadavers, live animal surgeries, and bio-tissue anastomotic drills will educate participants on necessary operative steps and develop the robotic skillset to complete pancreatic, liver and gastric resections with direct feedback from robotic HPB/UGI experts. The course is designed for faculty who have preliminary robotic case experience but seek to perform more complex hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal procedures.
CAMLS
8:00 AM - 4:05 PM    Research & Quality: Surgical Clinical Trials Primer: Designing Your Study (Non-CME) TCC
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Board of Directors’ Meeting TCC
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM    Pre-Course: SSO Women in Cancer Surgery: Leading Beyond the Operating Room (Non-CME) TCC
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM    Career Catalyst Mentorship Program TCC
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM    Joint Committee Conference TCC
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM    Welcome Reception Anchor and Brine - Marriott Water Street
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM    President’s Dinner (Invite Only) Tampa Club
 Thursday, March 27
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM    Morning Coffee TCC
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM    Registration TCC
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM    Speaker Ready Room TCC
7:30 AM - 7:45 AM    Welcome Remarks TCC
7:45 AM - 8:15 AM    James Ewing Featured Lecture TCC
8:20 AM - 9:50 AM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Symposium: Biomarkers in Gastric and Esophageal Cancers
Ballroom BC
Great Debate: Immuno-Oncology
Ballroom A
Abstract Presentations
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Resident/Fellow Programming: Poster Presentations
Room 124-125

9:00 AM - 5:15 PM    HUB HUB - TCC
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM    Networking Break Beverage Service HUB - TCC
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM    HUB Sessions
 
Breast/Endocrine
HUB Zone
Immuno-Oncology
HUB Zone
Upper GI/HPB/Colorectal
HUB Zone
Pan-Tumor
HUB Zone

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Symposium: Individualizing Breast Cancer Management
Ballroom BC
Symposium: Biomarker Based Treatment Stratification for Peritoneal Surface Malignancies
Ballroom A
Abstract Presentations
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Global Partner Posters
Room 124-125

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM    Complimentary Lunch HUB - TCC
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM    Resident Meet & Greet TCC
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM    Surgeons Leading Outside the OR HUB Theater - TCC
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM    SSO Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Featured Lecture TCC
1:50 PM - 3:20 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Great Debate: Evidence vs Reality: Will Pancreas Cancer Neoadjuvant RCTs Change Practice?
Ballroom BC
Symposium: Impact of Contemporary High-Impact Trials on Surgical Management of Patients with Sarcoma
Ballroom A
Symposium: Top Advances in Surgical Oncology: Breast, Melanoma, and HPB
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Resident/Fellow Programming: Becoming a Surgical Oncologist: What Trainees Should Know for a Successful Match
Room 124-125

3:25 PM - 3:55 PM    Networking Break Beverage Service HUB - TCC
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM    HUB Sessions
 
Breast/Endocrine
HUB Zone
Immuno-Oncology
HUB Zone
Upper GI/HPB/Colorectal
HUB Zone
Pan-Tumor
HUB Zone

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Great Debate: Is Resident/Fellow Trainee Education Adversely Effected by APP Involvement in Patient Care?
Ballroom BC
Great Debate: Colorectal
Ballroom A
Symposium: Quality Metrics in Cancer Surgery: A Global Perspective
Ballroom D
CIA/YIA Research Presentations
Room 122-123
Resident/Fellow Programming: Poster Presentations
Room 124-125

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM    HUB Reception HUB - TCC
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM    SurgOnc Bowl HUB Theater - TCC
 Friday, March 28
7:00 AM - 5:15 PM    Registration TCC
7:00 AM - 5:15 PM    Speaker Ready Room TCC
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM    Morning Coffee TCC
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Best Papers I
Ballroom BC
Symposium: Uncommon Colorectal Malignancies & Challenging Clinical Situations
Ballroom A
Symposium: Cross Disciplinary Patient Care in Surgical Oncology
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Abstract Presentations
Room 124-125

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM    HUB HUB - TCC
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM    Networking Break Beverage Service HUB - TCC
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM    HUB Sessions
 
Breast/Endocrine
HUB Zone
Immuno-Oncology
HUB Zone
Upper GI/HPB/Colorectal
HUB Zone
Pan-Tumor
HUB Zone

10:25 AM - 10:55 AM    John Wayne Featured Lecture TCC
10:55 AM - 11:55 AM    SSO Awards and Presidential Assembly
 
10:55 - 11:05 a.m.
Charles M. Balch Distinguished Service Award
11:05 - 11:15 a.m.
James Ewing Layperson's Award
11:15 - 11:25 a.m.
CIA/YIA Awards
11:25 - 11:55 a.m.
Presidential Address: Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD

Ballroom BC - TCC
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM    Surgeons Leading Outside the OR HUB Theater - TCC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM    Complimentary Lunch HUB - TCC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM    Resident Meet & Greet TCC
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM    Women in Cancer Surgery Lunch (Registration Required) TCC
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Best Papers II
Ballroom BC
Great Debate: Gastroesophageal Cancers
Ballroom A
Symposium: Updates in Therapeutics
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Abstract Presentations
Room 124-125

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM    Global Summit Panel TCC
2:35 PM - 3:35 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Symposium: Pushing Boundaries of Colorectal Liver Metastases Management: How Far Can We Go?
Ballroom BC
Great Debate: Breast Cancer Surgery: How More Is Less, Or Is It?
Ballroom A
Tailoring Treatment for Patients with Thyroid Cancer: Less is More, Or Is It?
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Resident/Fellow Programming: Stressors in Your First Attending Job: What Every Trainee & Young Attending Should Know
Room 124-125

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM    Networking Break Beverage Service HUB - TCC
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM    HUB Sessions
 
Breast/Endocrine
HUB Zone
Immuno-Oncology
HUB Zone
Upper GI/HPB/Colorectal
HUB Zone
Pan-Tumor
HUB Zone

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Symposium: Innovative Approaches to Enhancing Diversity and Reducing Disparities in Surgical Oncology
Ballroom BC
Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Therapy Standard of Care 2025: Pembro or IPI/NIVO?
Ballroom A
Symposium: Discovery to Practice: International Insights on Implementing Surgical Innovation
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Resident/Fellow Programming: Poster Presentations
Room 124-125

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM    Ice Cream Social Hour HUB - TCC
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM    Annual Business Meeting HUB Theater - TCC
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM    Fundraiser
 Saturday, March 29
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Registration TCC
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Speaker Ready Room TCC
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM    Morning Coffee TCC
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Global Partner Meetings TCC
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Symposium: Newly Approved FDA Therapies for Melanoma
Ballroom A
Symposium: Advances in Endocrine Surgery
Ballroom D
Abstract Presentations
Room 122-123
Great Debate: HIPEC for High Grade Appendiceal Carcinoma
Room 124-125

10:05 AM - 10:35 AM    Networking Break Beverage Service TCC
10:35 AM - 12:00 PM    Concurrent Breakout Sessions
 
Abstract Presentations: Top-Rated Videos
Ballroom A
Great Debate: Newest Treatments for Desmoid Fibromatosis
Ballroom D
Symposium: Safe Dissemination of New Technologies or Treatments in Practice
Room 122-123
Symposium: SITC
Room 124-125