The largest conference dedicated to the gynecologic cancer community. Free and open to all.
OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference is the largest online event dedicated to education, support, and connection for those impacted by ovarian, endometrial, cervical, and other gynecologic cancers—bringing the experts to you, wherever you are.
This year’s conference offers dedicated programming for ovarian, endometrial, cervical, and rare gynecologic cancers, so you can spend your time on the updates and conversations that speak directly to your experience. And for the first time, each of these diagnoses has its own individual Ask the Experts session.
Join us to learn from the top clinicians, hear what’s on the horizon in clinical trials, and connect with a community that understands.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed, in treatment, off treatment, or supporting someone you love, there’s a place for you here.
Agenda is current as of August 26, 2026 and is subject to change. All times are listed in EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Sponsored by Lilly
(11:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Welcome! Audra Moran, President & CEO of Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, and other colleagues will share updates as we kick off two days of science and support.
-Audra Moran, OCRA’s President & CEO
Navigating Survivorship
Sponsored by Lilly
(12:00 pm – 1:00 pm)
Life after a cancer diagnosis and treatment can bring new questions, challenges, and opportunities. This session will provide a clear foundation for navigating survivorship and building a life focused on the best quality of life for you. Topics will include emotional, physical, and sexual health, alongside practical strategies for care for yourself and adapting to life after treatment.
-Jill Aldredge, MD
Ask the Experts Part 1 (Dedicated Sessions)
(1:00 pm – 1:45 pm)
In these four dedicated sessions, our live panels of experts answer your important questions about research, treatment, and survivorship specific to diagnosis of ovarian, endometrial, cervical, or rare gynecologic cancer.
Ovarian Cancer
Sponsored by AbbVie
-Kevin Elias, MD
-Ursula Matalonis, MD
-Oladapo Yeku, MD, PhD, FACP, FASCO
Endometrial Cancer
Sponsored by Genmab
-Vickie Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
-Stephanie Gaillard, MD, PhD
-Tarik Silk, MD
Cervical Cancer
Sponsored by Merck
-Steven Holloway, MD
-Leslie Randall, MD
-Ana Tergas, MD
Rare Gynecologic Cancers
Sponsored by PMV Pharmaceuticals
-Jubilee Brown, MD
-Amanda Fader, MD
-John Farley, MD
Ask the Experts Part 2 (Dedicated Sessions)
(1:50pm-2:30pm)
Ovarian Cancer
Sponsored by Zentalis
-Kevin Elias, MD
-Ursula Matalonis, MD
-Oladapo Yeku, MD, PhD, FACP, FASCO
Endometrial Cancer
Sponsored by Natera Oncology
-Vickie Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
-Stephanie Gaillard, MD, PhD
-Tarik Silk, MD
Cervical Cancer
Sponsored by Pfizer
-Steven Holloway, MD
-Leslie Randall, MD
-Ana Tergas, MD
Rare Gynecologic Cancers
Sponsored by Verastem
-Jubilee Brown, MD
-Amanda Fader, MD
-John Farley, MD
The Role of Lifestyle and Caregivers in Your Cancer Care – Moving, Eating, and Caring Well
Sponsored by Eisai
(2:30 pm – 3:30 pm)
Learn how everyday choices, alongside strong caregiver support systems, can play a meaningful role throughout a gynecologic cancer journey. This session will explore the latest research on nutrition, movement, and exercise during and after treatment, including how these practices may support outcomes, recovery, and overall well-being. We’ll also discuss the important role that caregivers can play in supporting health and longevity after a cancer diagnosis.
-Shannon Armbruster, MD, MPH
-Abigail Zamarano, MD, MPHS
Talking Clinical Trials (Dedicated Sessions)
(3:30 pm – 4:00 pm and 4:00-4:30pm)
Easing the Burden: Symptom Management for Gynecologic Cancer
Sponsored by AstraZeneca
(4:30 pm – 5:30 pm)
Symptoms and treatment side effects can significantly impact a patient’s quality of life, but you do not have to simply live with them. This session will explore how and when to involve a palliative care team alongside oncology care to address symptom management early. This session will discuss practical strategies for managing common challenges such as gastrointestinal symptoms, early menopause, fatigue, and “chemo brain”, and offer guidance on talking to your care team throughout your cancer journey.
-Lisa Landrum, MD, PhD
Community Connections
Sponsored by AstraZeneca
(5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
Take a moment to pause, connect, and reflect on the first day of conference with the OCRA community. The Patient Support Team will guide this interactive activity and conversation, focused on gratitude and the moments that bring meaning to our lives, both big and small. In this space, you may reconnect with friends, meet someone new, share highlights of the day, and reflect on what you’re looking forward to tomorrow, while staying centered in gratitude.
-OCRA Support and Education Team
Reflections
Sponsored by Lilly
(10:00 am – 11:00 am)
A meaningful opportunity to pause, remember, and honor those people who have touched our lives. This memorial gathering invites us to remember those who have died, those we are missing, those we have lost touch with, and those we want to send our love and energy to. Together, we will create a space for remembrance, reflection, and connection.
-OCRA Support Team
Dedicated Sessions
(11:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Ovarian Cancer: Managing Ovarian Cancer Recurrence
Sponsored by Corcept Therapeutics
A recurrence can bring new questions and uncertainty. This session will help participants understand what to expect when ovarian cancer returns, including how recurrence may be identified, current treatment options, and factors that may influence treatment decisions. The discussion will also address recognizing symptoms and developing strategies for navigating decisions and communicating with your care team.
-Sarah Adams, MD
Endometrial Cancer: Managing Endometrial Cancer Recurrence
Sponsored by AbbVie
A recurrence can bring new questions and uncertainty. This session will help participants understand what to expect when endometrial cancer returns, including how recurrence may be identified, current treatment options, and factors that may influence treatment decisions. The discussion will also address recognizing symptoms and developing strategies for navigating decisions and communicating with your care team.
-M. Yvette Williams-Brown, M.D., MMSc
Cervical Cancer: Radiation Therapy Updates and Advances
Sponsored by GSK
Explore the latest research and advances in radiation therapy for endometrial and cervical cancers. This session will provide an overview of emerging approaches, new data, and evolving treatment strategies, with a focus on how advances in radiation therapy may improve outcomes and care for patients.
-Lillie L. Lin, MD
Rare Gynecologic Cancers: LGSOC and Borderline Ovarian Tumor Updates
Sponsored by Verastem
This session brings attendees up to date on the latest advances in low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC) and borderline ovarian tumors (BOT). Presenter, Dr. Beryl Manning-Geist, will explore what researchers are learning about these diseases, what treatments are showing promise, the most recent scientific discoveries, and what may be on the horizon. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how the evolving landscape may shape hope and care in the future.
-Beryl Manning-Geist, MD, FACOB
From Bench to Bedside Panel: How Do We Go From Research to Treatment?
Sponsored by GRAIL
(12:00 pm – 1:00 pm)
This session will discuss the process of translating scientific discoveries into new cancer treatments, how findings from laboratory research are used to develop new interventions, and how these are tested, evaluated, and then integrated into clinical practice.
-Alessia Baccarini, PhD
-Roisin O’Cearbhaill, MD
-Madeline Merrill, MSN, AGNP-BC
-Kay Ertmanis
-Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD
FDA Listening Session
Sponsored by Regeneron
(1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
This special session is an opportunity to ask questions about the FDA’s role in drug development and approval, learn how patient perspectives inform decision-making, and help shape the future of gynecologic cancer care. The panel will answer questions submitted in advance as well as live questions from attendees.
-Michelle Olson, DO
-Christy Osgood, MD
-Gwynn Ison, MD
-Sakar Wahby, PharmD
Talking Clinical Trials
(2:00 pm – 2:30 pm and 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm)
Talking through Tough Moments: Navigating Difficult Conversations
Sponsored by GSK
(3:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
Some of the most difficult moments in a cancer journey are the conversations we have with our healthcare teams, friends and family, and ourselves. This session will offer practical tools for navigating these moments: from processing and responding to news from your doctor to communicating when you need a break or a change in treatment to talking with loved ones about what you are experiencing. You will leave this session with strategies for expressing your needs clearly, asking difficult questions, and having honest conversations with confidence.
-Rachel Montague, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, ACHPN
A Conversation With Tig Notaro
(4:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
Please note, this session will not be available for replay.
We are honored and excited to welcome comedian, actor, and filmmaker Tig Notaro for a special conversation about her film, Come See Me in the Good Light, and the many ways we can learn to live beyond a cancer diagnosis. Tig will share reflections on love showing up in unexpected ways, the role of humor for her in difficult moments, and finding hope in times of uncertainty. This candid conversation will also explore what it means to “live well”, not by having all the answers, but by embracing connection, perspective, and the moments that matter.
Closing Remarks
Sponsored by Genelux
Community Connections
Sponsored by Lilly
(4:45 pm – 5:45pm)
Close out your conference experience by connecting, reflecting, and looking ahead together. The OCRA Patient Support Team will guide an interactive conversation on the meaningful moments, insights, and gratitude of the past two days. Share your thoughts, highlights, reflect on how the experience may have impacted you, and what will you do differently in the days ahead. Referring back to yesterday’s Community Connections, we will close with a moment that you are grateful for.
-OCRA Support Team
A Conversation With Tig Notaro
We are honored and excited to welcome comedian, actor, and filmmaker Tig Notaro to speak at OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference®. In this special conversation to close our Conference, Tig will share her perspective as a cancer survivor, lessons from the film, and the many ways we can learn to live beyond a cancer diagnosis. This conversation will only be available to watch live at the Conference, so you don’t want to miss it.
The Role of Lifestyle and Caregivers in Your Cancer Care: Moving, Eating, and Caring Well
Discover how nutrition, physical activity, and caregivers can support well-being during and after treatment for both patients and loved ones. Bring your questions for a live Q&A with the experts.
FDA Listening Session
Join leaders from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an interactive conversation about living with gynecologic cancer. Share your experiences with diagnosis, biomarker and genetic testing, treatment decisions, side effects, quality of life, and the challenges you’ve faced along the way.
From Bench to Bedside: How Research Becomes Treatment
Gain a better understanding of how scientific discoveries move from the laboratory to clinical trials and ultimately become standard treatments. Experts will also discuss the patient treatment experience and the important role clinical trials play in advancing care.
Ask the Experts: Ovarian, Endometrial, Cervical, and Rare Gynecologic Cancers
Choose from four diagnosis-specific expert panels offering in-depth discussions on treatment options, research advances, biomarker testing, survivorship, side effect management, supportive care, and more. Submit your questions in advance or ask them live during the sessions.
Navigating Survivorship
Explore practical strategies for living well beyond diagnosis, with guidance on emotional well-being, physical health, sexual health, and finding the support you need throughout survivorship.
And much more, including dozens of educational sessions, inspiring stories, interactive discussions, and opportunities to connect with a compassionate community that truly understands the gynecologic cancer experience. Join us!
OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference is the largest and longest running conference focused on ovarian cancer, now with expanded sessions for those affected by gynecologic cancers. The conference brings together patients, caregivers, survivors, advocates and friends to learn about the latest developments in research, diagnosis, treatment and quality of life. All members of the gynecologic cancer community are welcome. Opportunities are also available for sponsorship.
Yes, this is the same annual conference. We have updated the conference name to reflect all the sessions, support and resources offered for those facing ovarian cancer, as well as the broader gynecologic cancer community.
OCRA’s conference is held online, so anyone from anywhere can join.
OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference is free for all attendees.
If you registered for the Conference, you can continue to log in to watch sessions. Videos will be posted on OCRA’s website in the coming weeks.
Please view our sponsorship prospectus to discover opportunities for your company/organization to support the International Conference. For questions or more information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact elizabeth@meetingexpert.org.
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OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Interested in sponsoring OCRA’s International Conference? View sponsorship details or contact elizabeth@meetingexpert.org.
OCRA’s International Gynecologic Cancer Conference is the largest and most trusted conference devoted to the ovarian and gynecologic cancer community. It is the epicenter for researchers, clinicians, survivors, and friends to come together and learn from one another about developments in diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life for women with ovarian or gynecologic cancer.
Through your sponsorship, you play a key role in alerting women to the risk factors of ovarian cancer, helping researchers learn how better to screen and treat the disease, and giving power to ovarian cancer survivors’ voices. Together, we can work to bring awareness to ovarian cancer, increase the number of survivors in this country, and ultimately save more lives.
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