Friday, May 1
All HOPE Summit times are listed in Central Time.
*= Live Streamed Sessions
| Time | Activity |
| 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM | Small Cell SMASHERS Live* |
| 12:30 - 9:00 PM | Get Your Trail Pass |
| 1:00 - 5:00 PM | Frontier Support Fair |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Sharpening Your Spurs with the Basics of Lung Cancer* Kim Faught, MSN, APRN, FNP-C at Texas Health Fort Worth Shandy Grisham, APRN, FNP-C, AOCNP at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders |
| 2:05 - 3:00 PM | Wrangling Work and Cancer/Caregiving* Scott Sinclair at Cancer and Careers |
| 3:15 - 4:00 PM | The Price of the Trail: Navigating the Costs of Lung Cancer* Amanda Goodstadt, JD at Triage Cancer |
| 4:05 - 5:00 PM | Saddled with Strength: Improving Quality of Life with Lung Cancer* Catherine Powers-James, PhD at MD Anderson |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Welcome Dinner |
| 7:00 - 8:00 PM | The Survivor's Roundup: Texas Line Dancing |
Saturday, May 2
All HOPE Summit times are listed in Central Time.
*= Live Streamed Sessions
| Time | Activity | |
| 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM | Get Your Trail Pass | |
| 7:00 - 8:45 PM | Sunrise Chow | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Trail Partners Gather | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | HOPE 2026: Wagons Roll* D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD at University of Colorado | |
| 10:05 - 11:05 AM | Triumph on the Trail: Advances in Early Stage NSCLC* Eric K. Singhi, MD at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | |
| 10:05 - 11:05 AM | Survivorship Trail Blazers* Courtney Campbell, MD at Baylor Scott & White Health Meghan Heberton, MD at UT Southwestern Medical Center | |
| 10:05 - 11:05 AM | Small Cell SMASHERS Live Session | |
| 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Back in the Saddle: Reclaiming Strength and Living Well* Patricia Branham, ADN, RN, OCN at UT Southwestern Medical Center - Redbird Karthik Jayaraman, PT, DPT, OnCS at Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation Lillie Anna Loncar, LPC-Associate at Cancer Support Community North Texas | |
| 12:15 - 2:00 PM | Midday Grub | |
| 12:30 - 1:30 PM | Midday Grub and Huddle for Early Stage (1 and 2) Patients | |
| 12:45 - 1:45 PM | Holding the Reins as a Caregiver Julie Larson, LCSW | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | I'm Fine: Men, Cancer and the Cowboy Culture Joe Bullock at Man UP to Cancer | Cowgirl Ways: Keeping the Campfire Burning Traci A. Owen, RN, BSN, CSC-S, SE at Intimate Pathways Center for Sexual Health |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Small Cell SMASHERS Live Focus Group | |
| 3:15 - 4:15 PM | Stronger Than the Storm: Managment of Central Nervous System Disease in Lung Cancer* Tu Dan, MD at UT Southwestern Medical Center Dr. Emmanuel Mantilla at BSW Neuro Oncology Associates Aaron Plitt, MD at UT Southwestern Medical Center | |
| 4:30 - 5:30 PM | Campfire Conversations: ALK with David Gerber, MD EGFR with Shandy Grisham, APRN, FNP-C, AOCNP and Bibas Reddy, DO KRAS with Sheena Bhalla, MD and Jill Boudreaux, APRN, AOCNP Rare Mutations with Eric K. Singhi, MD Non-Mutated with Arthi Sridhar, MD Long Term with Jonathan E. Dowell, MD and Ashley Griffin, MSW, LCSW | |
| 6:00 - 6:30 PM | Group Photo Roundup | |
| 6:30 - 7:30 PM | Supper by Sundown | |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM | Sundown Activities: Wranglin' the Results: A Food Experiment to Learn Research Advocacy Upal Basu Roy, MD and Bellinda King-Kallimanis, PhD at LUNGevity Foundation Trails & Tales: Storytelling for Advocates Brandon Leonard and Lauren Humphries at LUNGevity Foundation The Skin Saloon La Roche-Posay The Creative Coral Dallas Art Therapy | |
Sunday, May 3
All HOPE Summit times are listed in Central Time.
*= Live Streamed Sessions
| Time | Activity | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 AM | Sunrise Chow | |
| 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Keeping the Family Circle Strong: Parenting with Lung Cancer* Kelsey Mora, CCLS, LCPC at Pickles Group Leah Phillips, M.Ed. at Young Lung Cancer Initiative | Weathering the Storm Together: Managing Relationships* Ashley Griffin, MSW, LCSW at Texas Oncology |
| 9:45 - 10:45 AM | Experts Around the Campfire* Kim Faught, MSN, APRN, FNP-C at Texas Health Fort Worth Shandy Grisham, APRN, FNP-C, AOCNP at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders Melissa Mayer, RN, OCN at UT Southwestern Medical Center | |
| 10:50 - 11:50 AM | Charting New Territory with Palliative Care Partners* Pamela Green, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC at Baylor Scott & White Health Erika Diniz-Borkar, APRN-BC at Baylor Scott & White Health | |
| 11:55 AM - 12:30 PM | Community Connections Across the Horizon* Frank Sierawski, Patient Advocate Aurora Lucas, Patient Advocate | |
Friday, May 1
All HOPE Summit times are listed in Central Time.
*= Live Streamed Sessions
| Time | Activity |
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | SMASHERS Live Check-in and Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:15 AM | SMASHERS Live Welcome* Misty Dawn Shields, MD, PhD at Indiana University Ann Steagall, BSN, RN at LUNGevity Foundation |
| 9:15 - 10:15 AM | The New Frontier: FDA Approvals for SCLC* Eric K. Singhi, MD at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 AM | Blazing New Trails in SCLC: Exploring Genetics & Biology* Carl M. Gay, MD, PhD at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | SMASHERS Live Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Healing on the Range with Supportive Oncology Partners* Pamela Green, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC at Baylor Scott and White Health Ashley Griffin, MSW, LCSW at Texas Oncology |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Trail Tested Treatments for Brain Metastasis* Molly Tate, PhD at MD Anderson Cancer Center Zachary Bownlee, MD at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders |
Saturday, May 2
All HOPE Summit times are in Central Time.
| Time | Activity |
| 10:05 - 11:05 AM | Charting New Territory in SCLC Clinical Trials Arthi Sridhar, MD at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Small Cell SMASHERS Live Focus Group Misty Dawn Shields, MD, PhD at Indiana University |