Georgia Tumor Registrars Association {GATRA} |
ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
2025 Georgia Tumor Registrars Association Annual Education Conference
Zoom In or Walk In: Two Ways to Learn, All in One Day!
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom | In-Person Locations throughout Georgia & Pensacola, FL
Registration Deadline: October 31, 2025 at 5pm EST
Join us for an AMAZING one-day conference to help meet your professional development goals, YOUR way. This will be a virtual conference with multiple sites across Georgia and one site in Pensacola, Florida to help fulfill the CEIP requirement. Note that each site has its own registration ticket as there are a max number of participants that can be at each location.
Register Here - 2025 GATRA Virtual Education Conference
Registration:
| CEIP Sites - Choose the site during Registration Albany Atlanta - GCR Gainesville Macon Marietta Savannah Augusta Lawrenceville Pensacola, FL Decatur Virtual Only - No CEIP available (CE Only) |
NCRA approved - 8 CE & CEIP hours of which 6.5 hours meet the Category A requirement
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:45am - 8:00am | Welcome | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Dissecting the Details: Pancreas, liver and bowel duct anatomy for coding with confidence | Dr. Troy Kimsey Colleen Vann |
| 9:00am - 9:15am | American Cancer Society - Cancer Registry Linkages | Anusila Deka |
| 9:15am - 9:30am | American Cancer Society - Machine Learning for Tissue Acquisition Project | Jullian Nelson |
| 9:30am - 10:00am | SEER SSF1 for HPV: from clinical rationale to registry best practices | Shalini Sahni |
| 10:15am - 11:15am | Registry Rollercoaster - Abstracting Shenanigans Ahead! | Janet Vogel |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Cancer Surveillance research at the American Cancer Society | Tyler Kratzer |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | GCR Update | Rana Bayakly |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Comprehensive Overview of Colon and Rectur:Anatomy, Physiology, Coding and Staging | Bridget Weiss Keri Grier |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Histologic Grading in Cancer: Basic Rules and common Pitfalls; Pre-Treatment, post challenge; Mastering Neoadjuvant therapy treatment effect coding | Elaine Turlington Nancy Ellor |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | A Cancer Registrar's Guide to Abstracting GYN Malignancies | Heather Donahue |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Keep calm and read the rules | Kathryn Zaitz |
| 5:00pm - 5:15pm | Closing Remarks | |
| 5:15pm - 5:45pm | GATRA Business Meeting - Installation of Officers |
2025 GATRA Virtual Education Conference Registration
Be sure to register today so you don't miss your chance to
learn your way - and earn your way.