Programme  Titles  Presenters  Topics  Advanced Devices Advances in Radio Frequency Ablation/Microwave Hyperthermia, Laser and Conductive Ablation Advances in Thermal Ablation Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy Clinical Hyperthermia Trials Update Drug Delivery Invited Speakers (Keynote Addresses, Robinson Lecture, NCI / NIH Updates) Miscellaneous Topics Nano-technology and Thermal Medicine New Investigator Entries New Concepts in Thermal Therapy of Cancer New Developments in MR-guided HIFU New Trends in High Temperature Therapies Non-oncology Applications of Hyperthermia Poster Presentations (All Topics) President’s Symposium Refresher Course Presentations Revisiting Radio/Chemo-Sensitization – New Understandings and Opportunities Thermal Impact on Tumor Biology Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning Thermal Effects on Inflammation and Immune Mechanisms Thermal effects on Vascular Biology Advanced Devices Oncothermia - new results form laboratory to clinics Oliver Szasz* Sunday April 15:  Advances in Devices  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Tumor temperature as a function of power during regional hyperthermia: a comparison between the AMC-4 and AMC-8 system Hans Crezee*, Petra Kok, Martijn de Greef, Gerard van Stam, Paul Zum Vorde Sive Vording, Arjan Bel, Debby Geijsen, Geertjan van Tienhoven, Maarten Hulshof Sunday April 15:  Advances in Devices  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Wideband conformal metamaterial antenna for pediatric bladder hyperthermia Sara Salahi*, Paolo Maccarini, Paul Stauffer Sunday April 15:  Advances in Devices  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm ^Top     Advances in Radio Frequency Ablation/Microwave Hyperthermia, Laser and Conductive Ablation A new 1-D model for pulsed KTP laser tissue ablation Hossam Elkhalil, Gal Shafirstein, John Bischof* Sunday April 15:  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Concurrent thermal ablation and spatially fractionated radiotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer in rat model Beata D Przybyla*, Gal Shafirstein, Sunil Sharma, Jessica S Webber, Klressa Barnes, Robert J Griffin Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Devices for generating uniform alternating magnetic fields for non-invasive cancer therapy Robert Ivkov*, Robert Goldstein, Valentin Nemkov, Theodore DeWeese Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Hyperthermia-enhanced Indocyanine Green delivery for laser light-induced thermal ablation of carcinomas Klressa Barnes*, Robert Griffin, Olena Romenska, Nathan Koonce, Jessica Webber, Gal Shafirstein Monday April 16:  Nanoparticles and Other New Directions in Thermal Therapy  -  10:30 - 12:00 pm Influence of blood vessel and perfusion on the thermal lesion formation during radio frequency ablation for liver tumors Huang-Wen Huang*, Chiang Chi-Feng Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Intravenous injection of indocyanine green to enhance laser assisted thermal coagulation of blood vessels in skin - an animal study Wolfgang Bäumler, Uwe Paasch, Annette Klein, Michael Landthaler, Ran Friedman, Gal Shafirstein* Sunday April 15:  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Kalman filtered temperature imaging for monitoring MRgLITT procedures David Fuentes*, Joshua Yung, John Hazle, Jeffrey Weinberg, Jason Stafford Sunday April 15:  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Numerical simulation of bioheat transfer in liver with explicit perfusion using continuous mixture theory Yusheng Feng*, Cliff J. Zhou, Carlos Acosta, J. Tinsley Oden Sunday April 15:  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Probing RF tissue fusion induced thermal damage on porcine small bowel by optical fluorescence spectroscopy Lei Su*, Shobhit Arya, Vincent Sauvage, Martina Bargeman-Fonseca, Nancy Hadjievangelou, Daniel Elson, George Hanna Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Software-assisted access path planning and optimization of image-guided radiofrequency ablation Sabrina Haase, Christian Rieder, Christian Schumann, Philipp Suess, Katrin Teichert, Karl-Heinz Kuefer, Tobias Preusser* Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Transcutaneous microwave thermal therapy for breast cancer treatment using image based time-reversal focusing John Stang*, Mark Haynes, Mahta Moghaddam, Paul Carson Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Uncertainty quantification for planning MR-guided laser induced thermal therapy procedures Samuel Fahrenholtz*, David Fuentes, John Hazle, R. Jason Stafford Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm ^Top     Advances in Thermal Ablation Interventional thermoablative therapies for cancer-current clinical approach and future directions Aradhana Venkatesan*, Matthew Dreher, Ari Partanen, Pavel Yarmolenko, Bradford Wood Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Investigation of interstitial ultrasound for ablation of paraspinal and osteolytic spinal tumors Serena Scott*, Punit Prakash, Peter Jones, Richard Cam, Vasant Salgaonkar, Clif Burdette, Chris Diederich Monday April 16:  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients  -  8:30 - 9:30 am Physiological factors in optimizing thermal ablation with radiation therapy Robert J. Griffin*, Xin Chen, Beata Przybyla, Nathan A. Koonce, Jessica S. Webber, Klressa Barnes, Gal Shafirstein Monday April 16:  Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm The utility of OsiriX imaging software v. 3.9.4 for intracranial tumor volume estimation in the context of MRI guided Laser-Induced Thermal Therapy (LITT) Nitesh Patel*, Eric Hargreaves, Shabbar Danish Sunday April 15:  Laser Induced Thermal Ablation  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm ^Top     Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy Protein kinase A regulates molecular chaperone transcription and protein aggregation Stuart Calderwood*, Yue Zhang, Ayesha Murshid, Thomas Prince Sunday April 15:  Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Restoring metabolic homeostasis in type 2 diabetes with hyperthermia or hyperthermic mimetics Philip Hooper* Sunday April 15:  Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm ^Top     Clinical Hyperthermia Trials Update A randomized phase II study of reirradiation and hyperthermia versus reirradiation and hyperthermia plus chemotherapy for locally recurrent breast cancer in previously irradiated area Merel Willemijn Kolff*, Geertjan van Tienhoven, Hans Crezee, Anneke Westermann Sunday April 15:  Clinical Trials Update  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Chaperone-rich cell lysate (crcl) anti-cancer vaccine update: trials, trilobites, and triangulations Michael Graner* Sunday April 15:  Immune Regulation by HSPs and Thermal Stress  -  9:30 - 10:45 am Deep regional hyperthermia combined with gemcitabine (G) and cisplatin (CIS) in pancreatic cancer Katharina Lechner*, Nelli Dieterle, Sultan Abdel-Rahman, Lars Lindner, Christoph Salat, Volker Heinemann, Bernhard Weber, Ulrich Mansmann, Christiane Bruns, Rolf-Dieter Issels Sunday April 15:  Clinical Trials Update  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Future strategies in clinical research on reirradiation and hyperthermia for locally recurrent breast cancer Geertjan van Tienhoven*, M Willemijn Kolff, Hans Crezee Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm Hyperthermia equipment for multicentre trials Hans Crezee*, Geertjan van Tienhoven, Petra Kok, Debby Geijsen, Gerard van Stam, Maarten Hulshof Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm Hyper-PEI-protocol: a programme with regional deep hyperthermia (RHT) in combination with PEI-chemotherapy - final report Ruediger Wessalowski*, Verena Erven, Oliver Mils, Pablo Landgraf, Christiane Matuschek, Mariana Santos, Gabriele Calaminus, Uta Dirksen, Ulrich Göbel Saturday April 14:  Presidential Symposium: What's on the Horizon for Thermal Medicine  -  9:30 - 10:45 am Lyso-thermosensitive liposomal doxorubicin: a nanodelivery adjuvant to increase the cure rate of thermal ablation in liver cancer Gary Renshaw*, Larry Deetz, Henry Li, Christine Swensen Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm Pilot study of catheter-based ultrasound hyperthermia in conjunction with hdr brachytherapy for treatment of locally advanced or recurrent cancer of the prostate and cervix I-Chow Hsu*, Chris Diederich, Jeff Wootton, Punit Prakash, Vasant Salgaonkar, Serena Scott, Peter Jones, Richard Cam Sunday April 15:  Clinical Trials Update  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Re-irradiation plus hyperthermia for breast cancer recurrence in previously irradiated area; the importance of size! Sabine Oldenborg, Vanessa Griesdoorn, Yoka Kusumanto, Rob van Os, S Bing Oei, Jacques LM Venselaar, Hans (J) Crezee, Paul J zum Vörde sive Vörding, Kees (C) Koedooder, Geertjan van Tienhoven* Saturday April 14:  Presidential Symposium: What's on the Horizon for Thermal Medicine  -  9:30 - 10:45 am Towards appropriate use of existing technology for clinical hyperthermia trials Paul Stauffer* Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm What we learned from completed trials, and perspective on future clinical trials. Jacoba van der Zee* Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm ^Top     Drug Delivery Drug transport kinetics of intravascular triggered temperature-sensitive liposomes Dieter Haemmerich*, Li Li, Timo ten Hagen, Matt Dreher Monday April 16:  Nanoparticles and Other New Directions in Thermal Therapy  -  10:30 - 12:00 pm Launching the thermosensitive chemo bombs for advanced drug delivery to solid tumors Li Li*, Timo ten Hagen, Jeremy Yatvin, Gerard van Rhoon, Alexander Eggermont, Lars Lindner, Martin Hossann, Dieter Haemmerich, Gerben Koning Monday April 16:  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients  -  8:30 - 9:30 am Proteins and cholesterol lipid vesicles are mediators of drug release from thermosensitive liposomes Martin Hossann, Zulfiya Syunyaeva, Rebecca Schmidt, Anja Zengerle, Hansjörg Eibl, Michael Peller, Maximilian Reiser, Rolf D. Issels*, Lars H. Lindner Monday April 16:  Nanoparticles and Other New Directions in Thermal Therapy  -  10:30 - 12:00 pm Targeting Hsp27 in breast cancer tumors using combined lentivirus-RNAi technology Ganachari Nagaraja, Punit Kaur, Alexzander Asea* Sunday April 15:  Immune Regulation by HSPs and Thermal Stress  -  9:30 - 10:45 am ^Top     Invited Speakers (Keynote Addresses, Robinson Lecture, NCI / NIH Updates) Clinical trial funding: issues and opportunites Mark Hurwitz* Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm Clinically relevant biologic questions for human clinical trials Mark Dewhirst* Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia: Magnetic requirements for non-invasive cancer therapy Robert Ivkov*, David Bordelon, Michele Wabler, Jana Mihalic, Theodore DeWeese Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm New insights into the biologic impact of thermal therapy: lessons from prospective thermal dosimetry trials Mark Dewhirst* Meeting Gets Underway!:  Opening Lecture by Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD: New Insights into the Biologic Impact of Thermal Therapy: Lessons from Prospective Thermal Dosimetry Trials  -  6:30 pm Radiation and immunology: beneficial or dangerous liaisons? Ralph Weichselbaum, MD* Sunday April 15:  Keynote Address by Ralph Weichselbaum, MD: Radiation and Immunology: Beneficial or Dangerous Liaisons  -  8:30 - 9:15 am Systemic thermal therapy overcomes vascular impediments to adaptive anti-tumor immunity Daniel Fisher, Jason Muhitch, Joseph Skitzki, Michelle Appenheimer, Sharon Evans* Sunday April 15:  Immune Regulation by HSPs and Thermal Stress  -  9:30 - 10:45 am The growth and development of HIFU Franco Orsi, MD* Saturday April 14:  Keynote Address by Franco Orsi, MD: The Growth and Development of HIFU  -  8:30 - 9:15 am The high molecular weight stress proteins: identification, cloning and utilization in cancer therapy John R. Subjeck, PhD* Sunday April 15:  J. Eugene Robinson Award & Lecture  -  5:45 - 6:45 pm The use of biomedical optics and medical lasers as it relates to the treatment of cancer and cancer biology Steven Jacques, PhD* Monday April 16:  Keynote Address by Steven Jacques, PhD: The Use of Biomedical Optics and Medical Lasers as it Relates to the Treatment of Cancer and Cancer Biology  -  9:30 - 10:15 am Update on clinical thermochemotherapy - clinical results and new aspects Rolf D. Issels* Saturday April 14:  Presidential Symposium: What's on the Horizon for Thermal Medicine  -  9:30 - 10:45 am Update on the 2011/2012 NIH/NCI grant initiatives Rosemary Wong, PhD* Sunday April 15:  Rosemary Wong, PhD - Update on the 2011/2012 NIH/NCI Grant Initiatives  -  5:00 - 5:30 pm ^Top     Miscellaneous Topics Focused ultrasound - adoption and development landscape Ari Hananel* Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Hyperfractionated Thermoradiotherapy (HTRT) is more effective and less invasive than radiation or chemoradiation in heatable cancers - a meta analysis Haim Bicher* Sunday April 15:  Clinical Trials Update  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Today's view of whole-body thermochemotherapy Joan Bull* Sunday April 15:  Clinical Trials Update  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     Nano-technology and Thermal Medicine Development of targeted iron oxide nanoparticles for Prostate Cancer Amarnath Mukherjee*, Prakash Kulkarni, Sage Olson, Richard Baldwin, Thomas Darlington, Steve Oldenburg, Michele Wabler, Jana Mihalic, Haoming Zhou, Robert Getzenberg, Theodore DeWeese, Donald Coffey, Robert Ivkov, Shawn Lupold Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Differential cellular responses to sub-lethal hyperthermia: comparing magnetic nanoparticle with water-bath heating Amarnath Mukherjee, Mohammad Hedayati, Robert Getzenberg, Theodore DeWeese, Robert Ivkov, Shawn Lupold* Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Drug delivery to solid tumors through combination of hyperthermia and liposomal nanocarriers Timo L.M. ten Hagen* Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Gold nanoparticle-bound TNF to augment delivery of themosensitive liposomes for multi-modality therapy Nathan Koonce*, Mohammad Atiq, Michael Borrelli, Laura Bernock, Robert Griffin Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Immunomolecular characteristics of triple-negative breast cancer stem cells: role of Hsp72-containing exosomes Punit Kaur*, Alexzander Asea Sunday April 15:  Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Improved therapeutic ratio for hyperthermia chemotherapy cancer treatment Alicia Petryk*, P. Jack Hoopes Monday April 16:  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Intracellular nanoparticle hyperthermia: Is it possible to treat a single cancer cell? Mohammad Hedayati*, Owen Thomas, Budri Abubaker-Sharif, Haoming Zhou, Yonggang Zhang, Christine Cornejo, Jana Mihalic, Alison Geyh, Theodore DeWeese, Robert Ivkov Sunday April 15:  Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Novel determination of magnetic nanoparticle collective behavior for cancer therapy Robert Stigliano*, Fridon Shubitidze, P. Jack Hoopes Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Predictive model for temperature distribution during magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia cancer treatment Robert Stigliano*, Fridon Shubitidze, Allan Foreman, Andrew Giustini, Alicia Petryk, Jennifer Tate, P. Jack Hoopes Monday April 16:  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Preliminary assessment of murine hepatic and splenic injury from inadvertent heating of systemically delivered non-targeted magnetic nanoparticles Carmen Kut, Yonggang Zhang, Mohammad Hedayati, Haoming Zhou, Christine Cornejo, David Bordelon, Jana Mihalic, Elizabeth Burghardt, Michele Wabler, Cordula Gruettner, Alison Geyh, Cory Brayton, Theodore DeWeese, Robert Ivkov* Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Synergistic potentiation of cisplatin with magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) in caco-2 cells Merlis Alvarez, Amalchi Castillo, Orlando Soto, Janet Mendez, Karem Court, Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, Anil K Sood, Carlos Rinaldi, Madeline Torres-Lugo* Sunday April 15:  Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm The effects of radiation and nanoparticle surface coating on tumor biodistribution and cellular uptake Andrew Giustini*, Alicia Petryk, P. Jack Hoopes Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm The relationship of magnetic nanoparticle biodistribution and imaging with hyperthermia-based cancer treatment efficacy P. Jack Hoopes*, John Bischof, Andrew Giustinia, Robert Stigliano, Jennifer Tate, Barjor Gimi, John Weaver, Alicia Petryk, Ryan Chamberlain, Michael Garwood, Alicia Petryk, Michael Etheridge Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Ultrasound enhancement of nanoparticle accumulation is dependent on tumor biology Katherine Watson*, Chun-Yen Lai, Shengping Qin, Dustin Kruse, Yue-Chen Lin, Jai Seo, Lisa Mahakian, Julie Beegle, Elizabeth Ingham, Fitz-Roy Curry, Rolf Reed, Katherine Ferrara Saturday April 14:  Nanomedicine: The new big thing in thermal therapy?  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Ultrasound sonication with microbubbles enhances thermo-chemotherapy for tumor treatment Heng-Ruei Shiu, Chi-Feng Chiang*, Hsiao-Ching Tseng, Fu-Hsiung Chang, Win-Li Lin Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm ^Top     New Investigator Entries A temperature optimization technique for localized heating in small animals Dario Rodrigues*, Sara Salahi, Pedro Pereira, Paulo Limao-Vieira, Paolo Maccarini, Paul Stauffer Sunday April 15:  Advances in Devices  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm A chaperone-rich cell lysate used to treat state III broncoalveolar adenocarcinoma in a dog:  a case study Laura Epple*, Michael Graner Sunday April 15:  Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm A role for ctr1 in the synergistic interaction between mild hyperthermia and cisplatin treatment Chelsea Landon*, Mark Dewhirst Monday April 16:  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients  -  8:30 - 9:30 am Enhanced heating and lesion formation using phase-shift nanoemulsions vaporized by high intensity focused ultrasound Jonathan Kopechek*, Peng Zhang, Tyrone Porter Monday April 16:  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Large volume, conformal hyperthermia with magnetic resonance-guided high intensity focused ultrasound Pavel S. Yarmolenko*, Elma N. Carvajal Gallardo, Ari Partanen, Ashish Ranjan, David Woods, Caitlin Burke, L.W. Bartels, Bradford J. Wood, Matthew R. Dreher Sunday April 15:  Advances in Devices  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Obligate role of CXCR3 chemokine receptor for trafficking of tumor-specific T cells during systemic thermal therapy Maryann Mikucki*, Joseph Skitzki, Daniel Fisher, Andrew Luster, Sharon Evans Sunday April 15:  Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm Patient-specific models for radiofrequency ablation Christian Rossmann*, Frank Rattay, Dieter Haemmerich Monday April 16:  Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Thermal activation of IL-6 trans-signaling licenses mouse and human tumor microvascular gateways for trafficking of cytotoxic T cells Daniel Fisher*, Qing Chen, Joseph Skitzki, Jason Muhitch, Eric O'Connor, Wan-Chao Wang, Mark Dewhirst, Stephan Rose-John, Elizabeth Repasky, Heinz Baumann, Sharon Evans Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Thermal enhancement of docetaxel efficacy in a xenograft murine model of prostate cancer Ashish Ranjan*, Dmitry Volkin, Nitin Yerram, Saurin Chokshi, Compton Benjamin, Ayele Negussie, Paul Chung, Marston Linehan, Peter Pinto, Bradford Wood, Matthew Dreher Sunday April 15:  Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     New Concepts in Thermal Therapy of Cancer Decreased blood flow associated with higher risk of cytotoxic heat transfer in microwave tumor ablation Jason Chiang*, Kieran Hynes, Chris Brace Monday April 16:  Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Investigation of interstitial and endogastric approaches for MR-guided thermal ablation of pancreatic tumors with high intensity ultrasound: a simulation study Punit Prakash*, Vasant Salgaonkar, Serena Scott, Graham Sommer, Chris Diederich Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     New Developments in MR-guided HIFU Magnetic resonance-guided HIFU SAR estimation Christopher Dillon*, Nick Todd, Douglas Christensen, Dennis Parker, Robert Roemer Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Predictive HIFU simulations by model calibration to MR thermometry measurements Michael Schwenke*, Hanne Tiesler, Yoav Levy, Timur Saliev, Stefan Braunewell, Andreas Melzer, Tobias Preusser Sunday April 15:  Advances in HIFU and Thermal Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Sector-vortex phased-array transducer system for magnetic resonance guided high-intensity focused ultrasound mediated hyperthermia Caitlin Burke*, Ari Partanen, Matti Tillander, Marcelino Bernardo, Pavel Yarmolenko, Peter Choyke, James Mitchell, Bradford Wood, Matthew Dreher Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Targeted prostate hyperthermia with an MR–guided endorectal ultrasound phased array to facilitate thermally mediated drug delivery: a computational study to assess feasibility and energy delivery strategies Vasant Salgaonkar*, Punit Prakash, Chris Diederich Monday April 16:  Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     New Trends in High Temperature Therapies Cryolipolyis - A Novel Method of Non-Invasive Fat Removal by Controlled Cold Application Dieter Manstein* Monday April 16:  Nanoparticles and Other New Directions in Thermal Therapy  -  10:30 - 12:00 pm Overview of Recently FDA-Approved Devices in Aesthetic Dermatology Dieter Manstein* Saturday April 14:  Assessing the Biological Goals, Capabilities, and Possibilities for Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials  -  2:00 - 5:00 pm The scientific rationale for the immunological enhancement and long-term remissions obtained in HIV patients exposed to heatheal a high-level whole body hyperthermia procedure Milton Yatvin*, A. Suvernev, G. Ivanov Sunday April 15:  Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm ^Top     Non-oncology Applications of Hyperthermia A novel warming strategy for improving neutrophil recovery following total body irradiation Maegan Capitano*, Michael Nemeth, Thomas Mace, Christi Salisbury-Ruf, Brahm Segal, Philip McCarthy, Elizabeth Repasky Sunday April 15:  Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Comparison of electrically conductive polymer nanotubes to single-wall nanotubes for photothermal ablation of bacteria Nicole Levi-Polyachenko*, Amy Braden, Tabitha Rosenbalm, Thomas Smith, David Carroll, William Wagner Monday April 16:  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     Poster Presentations (All Topics) Ambient housing temperature of mice affects response of tumors to therapeutics Jason Eng*, Rama Dey-Rao, Rose Pitoniak, Elizabeth Repasky, Bonnie Hylander Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm An improved cryosurgical probe testbed based on convective exchange boundary conditions Michael Etheridge*, Jeunghwan Choi, Stephanie Zastrow, Satish Ramadhyani, John Bischof Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Correction for skull phase aberration in transcranial brain HIFU Scott Almquist, Robert Roemer, Dennis Parker, Douglas Christensen* Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Investigating electromagnetic field, nanoparticle design, and treatment volume for magnetic nanoparticle thermal therapy Michael Etheridge*, Rhonda Franklin, John Bischof Monday April 16:  Nanotechnology and Thermal Medicine  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Role of Akt/mTOR and AMPK/mTOR signaling in the response of cancer cells to hyperthermia and ionizing radiation Chang W. Song*, Hyemi Lee, Eun Jung Kim, Heon Joo Park Sunday April 15:  Biological and Stress Responses to Thermal Therapy  -  3:30 - 4:45 pm Role of pluronic block copolymers in modulation of heat shock protein 70 expression Reshani Perera*, Hanping Wu, Tianyi Krupka, Eric Silverman, Agata Exner Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm The anti-cancer effect of metformin is enhanced by hyperthermia Hyemi Lee*, Eun Jung Kim, Chang W. Song, Heon Joo Park Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm Trabectedin and heat-shock in human sarcoma cells in vitro Eric Kampmann*, Berit Otremba, Sigrid Barth, Elwira Strozyk, Rolf Issels Saturday April 14:  Poster Presentations and Reception  -  6:00 - 8:00 pm ^Top     President’s Symposium The future of clinical hyperthermia in the United States Leonard Prosnitz* Saturday April 14:  Presidential Symposium: What's on the Horizon for Thermal Medicine  -  9:30 - 10:45 am ^Top     Refresher Course Presentations Computation tools in the service of cryosurgery Yoed Rabin, DSc* Saturday April 14:  Refresher Course: Computation Tools in the Service of Cryosurgery  -  7:30 - 8:15 am Investigating nanoparticle mediated thermal therapy with MRI R. Jason Stafford, PhD* Saturday April 14:  Refresher Course: Investigating Nanoparticle Mediated Thermal Therapy with MRI  -  7:30 - 8:15 am Laser thermal therapy Gal Shafirstein, DSc* Monday April 16:  Refresher Course: Laser Thermal Therapy  -  7:30 - 8:15 am Refresher course: introduction to bioheat transfer and thermotherapeutic outcome prediction Yusheng Feng, PhD* Sunday April 15:  Refresher Course: Introduction to Bioheat Transfer and Thermotherapeutic Outcome Prediction  -  7:30 - 8:15 am Understanding the immunological principles of  new immunotherapies and the rationale for  combining them with radiation and thermal therapies Elizabeth A. Repasky, PhD* Sunday April 15:  Refresher Course: Understanding the Immunological Principles of New Immunotherapies and the Rationale for Combining Them with Radiation and Thermal Therapies  -  7:30 - 8:15 am Vascular function and tumor microenvironment influence on thermal medicine Robert J. Griffin, PhD* Monday April 16:  Refresher Course: Vascular Function and Tumor Microenvironment Influence on Thermal Medicine  -  7:30 - 8:15 am ^Top     Revisiting Radio/Chemo-Sensitization – New Understandings and Opportunities Hyperthermia sensitizes glioblastoma stem cells to ionizing radiation Jocelyn Shoemake, Monica Venere, Jeremy Rich, Jennifer Yu* Sunday April 15:  Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm Selective intracellular acidification of human melanoma by lonidamine, A 31P MRS study Dennis Leeper*, Kavindra Nath, David Nelson, Rong Zhou, Ronald Coss, Jerry Glickson Sunday April 15:  Revisiting Radio/Chemo Sensitization  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top     Thermal Impact on Tumor Biology An unexpected linkage between the energy used for body temperature regulation and energy available for activation of the CD8+ T cell-dependent control of tumor growth Kathleen Kokolus*, Maegan Capitano, Chen-Ting Lee, Christopher Gordon, Chi-Chen Hong, Elizabeth Repasky Monday April 16:  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients  -  8:30 - 9:30 am ^Top     Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning Clinical benefit of on-line HTP guided hyperthermia using a complaint adaptive approach Gerard van Rhoon*, Richard Canters, Martine Franckena, Maarten Paulides Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Complaint-adaptive steering in head and neck hyperthermia: implementation and early analysis of clinical benefit Margarethus Paulides*, Zef Rijnen, Paolo Togni, Jurriaan Bakker, Peter Levendag, Gerard Van Rhoon Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Fast thermal modeling including 3D vessel networks using GPU calculations Petra Kok, Arjan Bel, Hans Crezee* Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Review of mathematical models for cell death and thermal damage processes John Pearce*, Praneeth Mandavilli Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm Simultaneous administration of ultrasound hyperthermia and intensity modulated radiotherapy: technical feasibility Robert Myerson*, Beth Pierberg, William Straube, Marie Taylor, Imran Zoberi Saturday April 14:  Thermal Dosimetry and Treatment Planning  -  10:45 - 12:15 pm ^Top     Thermal Effects on Inflammation and Immune Mechanisms Promoting immune recognition of cancer and therapeutic outcomes by targeting the innate immune receptor SRA/CD204 on dendritic cells Xiang-Yang Wang*, Chunqing Guo, Xiaofei Yu, John Subjeck Sunday April 15:  Immune Regulation by HSPs and Thermal Stress  -  9:30 - 10:45 am Toll-like receptor agonists augment febrile-range hyperthermia-induced heat shock protein 72 expression and extracellular release Mohan E. Tulapurkar*, Aditi Gupta, Zachary A. Cooper, Jeffrey D. Hasday, Ishwar S. Singh Sunday April 15:  Control of Inflammation and Immunity by Mediators of Thermal Stress  -  11:00 - 12:30 pm ^Top     Thermal effects on Vascular Biology Immunoprotective role of an IL-6/sIL-6R/gp130/STAT3 signaling axis controlling lymphocyte trafficking during fever Trupti Vardam*, Michelle Appenheimer, Lei Zhou, Jason Muhitch, Minhyung Kim, Daniel Fisher, Qing Chen, Wan-Chao Wang, Stephen Rose-John, Matthias Ernst, Heinz Baumann, Sharon Evans Monday April 16:  Presentations from New Investigator Travel Award Recipients  -  8:30 - 9:30 am Response of blood flow to hyperthermia in prostate cancer patients H. Frederick Bowman*, Daniel Sidney, Gregory Martin, Charles Welch, Jorgen Hansen, Bruce Bornstein, Irving Kaplan, Mark Hurwitz Monday April 16:  Biological Realities and Combined Regimen Rationales from Hyperthermia to Ablation  -  2:00 - 3:30 pm ^Top