Day 1: Thursday, 16th April – 

Skills and Foundations  

9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome - Conference Chair and EACE President

9:30 – 10:15 | Opening Keynote Session  

"Precision Oncology Meets Precision Education: Shaping the Future of Cancer Care".

Kathleen Heneghan - RN, MSN, PHD, FAACE - American College of Surgeons

10:15 – 11:00 | Plenary Session 1

"The Evolution of Precision Medicine: Translating Discovery into Practice".

James Hamilton - MD - President of the American Association for Cancer Education

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee & Networking Break

11:30 – 12:00 |  Plenary Session 2

"Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Cancer Education and Research".

Luis Moreira - PhD - Insight Research Center, Piaget Institute

12:00 – 13:00 |  Thematic Session 

"The 2024-2025 European Publication Portfolio in the Journal of Cancer Education (JCE)"

Amr Soliman - MD, PhD - City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine and the Journal of Cancer Education (JCE).

"Behavioral Phenotypes of  Cancer-Related Distress Among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer".

Joaquim Reis - PhD - Insight Research Center, Piaget Institute

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 | Interactive Educational Workshop 

Communicating Precision Medicine: Co-Creation with LSP^®.

Filipe Santos Silva - PhD, MSc, FAACE - i3S - Institute for Research and Innovation in Health

15:30 – 16:30 | Thematic Session

"Sociodrama in promoting cancer literacy among university students"

Arijana Medvedec - Piaget Institute

"Growing crisis in postgraduate medical training — an (un)expected consequence of the increase in the number of medical universities in Poland?"

Krzysztof Szewczyk - MD, PhD - Department of Oncology and Surgical Oncology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.

"Education of hereditary breast cancer previvors"

Radoslaw Tarkowski - MD - Department of Oncology and Surgical Oncology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee & Networking Break

17:00 – 18:00 | Thematic Session

"Public Awareness and Knowledge regarding Cancer Prevention among Polish Population - a pilot study"

Urszula Staszek-Szewczyk - MD - Department of Brachytherapy, Lower Silesian Oncology, Pulmonology and Hematology Center, Wroclaw, Poland.

"From Awareness to Action: Psychological Determinants and Educational Strategies to Bridge the Knowledge-Behavior Gap in Cancer Prevention"

Marco Miniotti - Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy.

"Precision Cancer Care in Limited Settings"

Joy Notter - University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

18:00 – 19:30 | Welcome Reception  - Porto wine and "Natas" 

Day 2: Friday, 17th April – 

Research, Application, and Equity

09:00 – 09:45 | Plenary Session 3 

"From Clinical Research to Personalized Patient Education: Lessons from the CINDERELLA Project".

Maria João Cardoso - MD, PhD - Champalimaud Breast Cancer Research Program Director
Associate Professor, Lisbon University, Faculty of Medicine.

09:45 – 10:30 | Plenary Session 4 

"The New Special Collections of the Journal of Cancer Education "

Amr Soliman - MD, PhD - City University of New York (CUNY) School of Medicine and the Journal of Cancer Education (JCE)

10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee & Networking Break

11:00 – 12:00 | Thematic Sessions

"Beyond Information Delivery: Behavioural Mechanisms Shaping Cancer Primary Prevention Education in Portugal, Ukraine and Romania"

Helena Sousa - Aveiro University.

"Psychosocial attitudes towards melanoma prevention in medical students: a pilot study"

Paolo Leombruni - Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy.

12:00 – 13:00 | Plenary Session 5

"The Evolution of Precision Medicine: Translating Discovery into Practice"

Rui Medeiros - PhD - Deputy Director of the Research Center of IPO Porto.
 

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 | Plenary Session 6 

"Patients at the Centre of Precision: Literacy, Psychosocial Care, and Communication".

Luzia Travado - PhD - Piaget Institute, Champalimaud Foundation. 

"Precision Medicine: The Patient's Perspective."

Tiago Costa - National Coordinator of Barnabas and Young Adults Group - Association of Parents of Children and Young People with Cancer 

16:30 – 18:30 | Site Visit - Champalimaud Clinical Center

19:30 | Conference Dinner 

Day 3: Saturday, 18th April – 

Synthesis and Action - The Lisbon Manifesto

09:15 – 10:00 | The Milly Haagerdoorn Lecture

"From Data to Practice: Implementing Precision Strategies Across the Care Continuum".

Charles Kelly - MD, PhD - Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

10:00 – 11:00 | Focus Groups for the Manifesto  

- Moderated, parallel working groups focused on the Manifesto's pillars: 

Personalized Prevention Education

• Integrate genomics, risk stratification, and lifestyle interventions into education.
• Promote individualized screening and behavioral risk-reduction awareness.

Precision Professional Training

• Teach genomic literacy, bioinformatics, and data-driven decision-making.
• Encourage interdisciplinary learning across medicine, data science, and communication.

Patient and Public Empowerment

• Co-develop resources explaining personalized diagnostics and therapies.
• Build trust and transparency in data sharing and consent.

Digital and Technological Innovation

• Use AI-driven adaptive learning platforms for clinicians and patients.
• Create open, accessible repositories for precision oncology education.

Equity and Global Reach

• Support capacity-building in low-resource settings for genomic education.

• Promote fair access to learning, technology, and precision care.

   

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break and Moderators Synthesis 

11:30 – 12:30 | Collaborative Session "The LISBON MANIFESTO"

- Presentation of the synthesis from the Focus Groups. Plenary debate and voting on priority recommendations to agree on the 5-7 core principles of the manifesto.

12:30 – 13:00 | Closing Plenary

- Presentation of the Manifesto's conclusions and principles. Awards (Best Speed Talk). Closing Remarks & Announcement of the Next Conference.