Session Agenda

The Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO) 2026 agenda offers practical interventional oncology education focused on image-guided cancer care, including IO evidence and algorithms, liver-directed therapy, Y90, ablation, MSK IO, hands-on workshops, and real-world case-based learning.

November 14 - 15 | Fort Lauderdale, FL

- Moderator
  - Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh MD
- Room
  - Atlantic IV
- 8:15 AM – 8:25 AM
  
  HCC Fundamentals: Building the Core Treatment Algorithm
- 8:25 AM – 8:35 AM
  
  Cholangiocarcinoma Basics: Systemic Therapy & Locoregional Treatment Fundamentals
- 8:35 AM – 8:45 AM
  
  Fundamentals of Liver Metastases Management: Patient Selection for Resection, Ablation, SBRT & Y90
- 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM
  
  Hepatic Vascular Anatomy Fundamentals: Key Variants, Angiographic Pitfalls & Non-Target Prevention
- 8:55 AM – 9:05 AM
  
  Embolization Basics: Understanding Bland Embolization, DEB-TACE & TARE
- 9:05 AM – 9:15 AM
  
  Hepatic Ablation Fundamentals: Core Concepts & Current Applications
- 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM
  
  Ablation Fundamentals: Margins, Modalities & When Ablation Beats Surgery
- 9:25 AM – 9:35 AM
  
  Immunotherapy Fundamentals for the Interventional Oncologist
- 9:35 AM – 9:45 AM
  
  External Beam Radiation Fundamentals for Hepatic Malignancies
- 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Moderator
  - Ripal Gandhi MD
  - Constantino Peña MD, FSIR
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 10:45 AM – 10:50 AM
  
  Welcome and Opening Remarks
- 10:50 AM – 11:00 AM
  
  HCC 2026: Year in Review
- 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM
  
  HCC Systemic Therapy + LRT: Sequencing Frameworks
- 11:10 AM – 11:20 AM
  
  Liver Metastases 2026: Oligometastatic Strategy & Conversion Pathways
- 11:20 AM – 11:30 AM
  
  Ablation After COLLISION: Where It’s First-Line and Where It Isn’t
- 11:30 AM – 11:40 AM
  
  Cholangiocarcinoma: Contemporary LRT Role and How to Sequence with Systemic Therapy
- 11:40 AM – 11:50 AM
  
  NETs in the Lutathera Era: A Sequencing Playbook for IR
- 11:50 AM – 12:15 PM
  
  (Roundtable) Multidisciplinary Tumor Board 2026: HCC, mCRC, CCA & NET
- Moderator
  - Ripal Gandhi MD
  - Robert Lewandowski MD, FSIR
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 1:35 PM – 1:45 PM
  
  Y90 2026: Year in Review
- 1:45 PM – 1:50 PM
  
  Personalized Glass Y90 Dosimetry: How I Do It
- 1:50 PM – 1:55 PM
  
  Personalized Resin Y90 Dosimetry: How I Do It
- 1:55 PM – 2:05 PM
  
  Y90 in HCC: Which BCLC Patients Should Be Treated?
- 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM
  
  Metastatic Liver Disease: Where Y90 Adds Value (and Where It Doesn’t)
- 2:15 PM – 2:20 PM
  
  When Not to Use Y90: The Hard Decisions
- 2:20 PM – 2:30 PM
  
  Radiation Segmentectomy and Lobectomy
- 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM
  
  Beyond the Vial: New Radioembolics, Imaging Visibility & Platform Evolution
- 2:40 PM – 2:50 PM
  
  Extrahepatic & Emerging Applications: What’s Real vs What’s Next
- 2:50 PM – 2:55 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Moderator
  - Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh MD
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 2:55 PM – 3:00 PM
  
  Flow Redistribution & Angiosome Optimization: Getting the Map Right
- 3:00 PM – 3:05 PM
  
  Extrahepatic Feeders & Challenging Anatomy: What Experts Do Differently
- 3:05 PM – 3:10 PM
  
  Conventional TACE: How and When I Do It
- 3:10 PM – 3:15 PM
  
  DEB TACE and Bland Embolization: How and When I Do It
- 3:15 PM – 3:20 PM
  
  Portal Vein Embolization: How and When I Do It
- 3:20 PM – 3:25 PM
  
  Hepatic Venous Deprivation: How and When I Do It
- 3:25 PM – 3:30 PM
  
  Pressure-Enabled Delivery & Advanced Catheter Techniques: When It Matters
- 3:30 PM – 3:35 PM
  
  Challenging Ablations - Dome, Subcapsular & Perivascular Lesions: How I Do It
- 3:35 PM – 3:40 PM
  
  Protection Strategies That Save You - Thermocouples, Hydrodissection & Balloon Displacement: How I Do It
- 3:40 PM – 3:45 PM
  
  Ablation of Poorly Visualized Tumors: How and When I Do It
- 3:45 PM – 3:50 PM
  
  Software for Ablation Planning and Confirmation: How and When I Use It
- 3:50 PM – 3:55 PM
  
  Percutaneous Endobiliary RFA: How and When I Do It?
- 3:55 PM – 4:00 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Room
  - Atlantic V/VI
- Moderator
  - David Liu MD, FSIR, FRCPC
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 4:55 PM – 5:05 PM
  
  Intermediate Stage HCC: Locoregional Therapy (LRT) + Systemic Therapy vs LRT Alone
- 5:05 PM – 5:15 PM
  
  2.5 cm HCC in Setting of Portal Hypertension: Thermal Ablation vs Histotripsy
- 5:15 PM – 5:25 PM
  
  Personalized Dosimetry in Y90: Mandatory vs Waste of Time
- 5:25 PM – 5:35 PM
  
  Cholangiocarcinoma: Systemic Therapy Alone vs Systemic Therapy Plus Y90
- 5:35 PM – 5:45 PM
  
  Early Stage Lung Cancer: Ablation vs SBRT
- 5:45 PM – 5:55 PM
  
  T1a and T1b RCC: Radiation Therapy vs Locoregional Therapy
- 5:55 PM – 6:05 PM
  
  Painful Spinal Metastases- SBRT vs Ablation + Vertebral Augmentation
- 6:05 PM – 6:10 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A

- Moderator
  - Nainesh Parikh MD/MBA
  - Nainesh Parikh
  - Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh MD
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 8:15 AM – 8:25 AM
  
  Lung Ablation 2026: Year in Review
- 8:25 AM – 8:35 AM
  
  Lung Ablation Technical Mastery: Planning, Margins & Pneumothorax Management
- 8:35 AM – 8:40 AM
  
  Which Lung Lesions are Ideal for Ablation?
- 8:40 AM – 8:50 AM
  
  Renal Ablation 2026: Year in Review
- 8:50 AM – 8:55 AM
  
  Renal Hard Cases: Central Tumors, Collecting System Protection & Recurrence Salvage
- 8:55 AM – 9:00 AM
  
  Emerging Role of External Beam Radiation for Renal Cancer
- 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM
  
  Pancreatic Ablation: IRE, Histotripsy & the Next Wave
- 9:10 AM – 9:20 AM
  
  Breast Cryoablation: From Niche to Mainstream?
- 9:20 AM – 9:30 AM
  
  Thyroid Ablation and Embolization: Clinical Indications and Technical Pearls
- 9:30 AM – 9:35 AM
  
  Adrenal Ablation: How and When I Do It
- 9:35 AM – 9:40 AM
  
  Current Role of Embolization in Prostate Cancer
- 9:40 AM – 9:55 AM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Moderator
  - Ripal Gandhi MD
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM
  
  Histotripsy 2026: Indications, Evidence & Adoption Reality
- 10:55 AM – 11:05 AM
  
  Robotics in IO: Where It Improves Precision Today
- 11:05 AM – 11:15 AM
  
  Intratumoral Immunotherapy & Oncolytic Agents: Is IO the Delivery Platform?
- 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM
  
  Endovascular Approaches to Pancreatic Cancer: Is this the New Frontier?
- 11:25 AM – 11:30 AM
  
  Interventional Nuclear Oncology: Theranostics Meets the Cath Lab
- 11:30 AM – 11:35 AM
  
  Liquid Embolics for IO Interventions: Where Do We Stand?
- 11:35 AM – 11:45 AM
  
  Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion: Where Does It Truly Fit in 2026?
- 11:45 AM – 11:50 AM
  
  Pulsed Electric Field Ablation: Competing Indications & Practical Integration
- 11:50 AM – 12:05 PM
  
  Big Picture IO: How We Got Here and Where We're Headed
- 12:05 PM – 12:15 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Moderator
  - Gina Landinez MD
  - Jason Levy MD, FSIR
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 1:35 PM – 1:45 PM
  
  MSK IO 2026: Year in Review
- 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM
  
  From Benign to Malignant: When to Intervene
- 1:55 PM – 2:05 PM
  
  Extra-Spinal MSK Ablation: The Anatomy That Gets You in Trouble
- 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM
  
  Cryoneurolysis & Nerve Ablation: How I Do It
- 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM
  
  Desmoid, Sarcoma & Soft Tissue Tumors: When Does Ablation Win?
- 2:25 PM – 2:35 PM
  
  Spine Ablation in 2026: Beyond Simple Vertebral Mets
- 2:35 PM – 2:45 PM
  
  Top Shelf Vertebral Augmentation & Cementoplasty: How to Do it Right
- 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM
  
  Screw Fixation & Implants: When to Stabilize — and When Not To
- 2:55 PM – 3:05 PM
  
  MSK Toolbox 2026: Imaging, Navigation & Energy — Practical Setup for Consistency
- 3:05 PM – 3:30 PM
  
  MSK Case Review
- Room
  - Atlantic V/VI
- Moderator
  - Brian Schiro MD
  - Merve Ozen MD
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 4:40 PM – 4:50 PM
  
  Most Influential Publications in the Last Year that May Change Your Practice
- 4:50 PM – 4:55 PM
  
  Intractable Ascites & Pleural Effusions: Tunneled Catheters, Denver Shunt, and Alfapump
- 4:55 PM – 5:00 PM
  
  Cancer Pain Pathways in 2026: Blocks, Neurolysis & Pumps
- 5:00 PM – 5:05 PM
  
  Lymphatic Interventions: The Overlooked Oncology Lifeline
- 5:05 PM – 5:10 PM
  
  The Cancer Patient in Crisis: DVT, PE & Hypercoagulability
- 5:10 PM – 5:15 PM
  
  Building a Profitable IO Practice: How I Did It
- 5:15 PM – 5:20 PM
  
  Establishing IO in the the OBL Setting: Lessons Learned
- 5:20 PM – 5:25 PM
  
  CIO Oral Abstract
- 5:25 PM – 5:30 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A
- Moderator
  - Varshana Gurusamy MD
- Room
  - Atlantic I/II/III
- 5:30 PM – 5:35 PM
  
  Rapid Fire Morbidity and Mortality: Case 1
- 5:35 PM – 5:40 PM
  
  Rapid Fire Morbidity and Mortality: Case 2
- 5:40 PM – 5:45 PM
  
  Rapid Fire Morbidity and Mortality: Case 3
- 5:45 PM – 5:50 PM
  
  Rapid Fire Morbidity and Mortality: Case 4
- 5:50 PM – 5:55 PM
  
  Rapid Fire Morbidity and Mortality: Case 5
- 5:55 PM – 6:00 PM
  
  Discussion and Audience Q&A

Agenda

Agenda

November 14 - 15 | Fort Lauderdale, FL

CME Breakfast Session

Focused Symposium: Building the Foundation: Core Concepts in Clinical Interventional Oncology

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 1: IO in 2026 — Evidence, Algorithms & Multidisciplinary Reality

Innovation Theater Lunch (non-accredited)

Lunch in Exhibit Hall (non-accredited)

Session 2: Y90 in 2026 — Dosimetry, Segmentectomy & Real-World Strategy

Session 3: Liver Therapy Masterclass: The Technical Edge

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 4: IO Face-Off: High-Stakes Debates & Clinical Showdowns

Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Innovation Theater Dinner (non-accredited)

CME Breakfast Session

Session 5: Ablation Nation - Organ-Specific Strategy & Technical Mastery

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 6: What’s New, What’s Next - The Future of IO

Innovation Theater Lunch (non-accredited)

Lunch in Exhibit Hall (non-accredited)

Session 7: MSK IO Mastery — Ablation, Stabilization & Beyond

Hands On Workshop and Refreshment Break

Session 8: Managing the Oncology Patient - Beyond the Procedure

Session 9: What Would You Do Differently? Rapid-Fire M&M

Agenda

Agenda

November 14 - 15 | Fort Lauderdale, FL

Saturday November 14, 2026

CME Breakfast Session

Focused Symposium: Building the Foundation: Core Concepts in Clinical Interventional Oncology

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 1: IO in 2026 — Evidence, Algorithms & Multidisciplinary Reality

Innovation Theater Lunch (non-accredited)

Lunch in Exhibit Hall (non-accredited)

Session 2: Y90 in 2026 — Dosimetry, Segmentectomy & Real-World Strategy

Session 3: Liver Therapy Masterclass: The Technical Edge

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 4: IO Face-Off: High-Stakes Debates & Clinical Showdowns

Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Innovation Theater Dinner (non-accredited)

Sunday November 15, 2026

CME Breakfast Session

Session 5: Ablation Nation - Organ-Specific Strategy & Technical Mastery

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall

Session 6: What’s New, What’s Next - The Future of IO

Innovation Theater Lunch (non-accredited)

Lunch in Exhibit Hall (non-accredited)

Session 7: MSK IO Mastery — Ablation, Stabilization & Beyond

Hands On Workshop and Refreshment Break

Session 8: Managing the Oncology Patient - Beyond the Procedure

Session 9: What Would You Do Differently? Rapid-Fire M&M