Invited Talks and Presentations

A video archive of Dr. Gyawali’s talks can be found here.

2025

NATIONAL

• Common Sense Oncology. Conference Organizer and Co-Host – CSO Annual Leadership Meeting. Montreal, Québec.

INTERNATIONAL

• Common Sense Oncology: Evidence, Economics, and Access. Invited Speaker. The 43rd Mexican National Congress of Oncology. Cancún, Mexico.
• Origins of Common Sense Oncology – The Why and The How. Invited Keynote Speaker. ANZUP25 Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney, Australia.

• Cancer Groundshot: Going Global Before Going to the Moon. Invited Keynote Speaker. ANZUP25 Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney, Australia.

• Common Sense Communication of Evidence: Balancing Power, Clarity, and Accuracy. Invited Keynote Speaker. ANZUP25 Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney, Australia.

• ASCO-AIOM Research Methods Course. Invited International Faculty. Rome, Italy

• ESMO-EORTC Meeting on Nearequivalence Trials. EORTC Headquarters, Brussels

• ASCO Guidelines Panel for G-CSF. Chair. ASCO Headquarters, Alexandria, VA

• WHO Essential Medicine List for Cancer Drugs. WHO Headquarters, Geneva.

2024

NATIONAL

• How to get Involved in Global Oncology. Invited Speaker – Atlantic Canada Oncology Group (ACOG) Annual Meeting. Halifax, Nova Scotia.

• The Way Forward in Common Sense Oncology. Departing Lecture – Common Sense Oncology Annual Meeting. Montreal, Québec.

INTERNATIONAL

• Mentorship and Life Lessons. Cancer GRACE Patient Ambassadors.

• Reason for CSO to Exist. Chair and Speaker – CSO-RIO Joint Symposium. Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona.

• Role of PFS in Regulatory Approval. Invited Faculty – MCBS Session. ESMO Annual Meeting. Barcelona, Spain.

• Integrating Crossover Issues Into MCBS. Invited Faculty – ESMO-MCBS Working Group Meeting. ESMO Headquarters, Lugano.

• Common Sense Oncology. Invited Faculty – ESMO-MCBS Working Group Meeting. ESMO Headquarters, Lugano.

• Cancer Policy in LMICs. Panelist – Health Policy Community of Practice. ASCO Annual Meeting.

• How GO YIA Shaped my Career. Speech to donors – Conquer Cancer Foundation Donors Gathering. ASCO Annual Meeting.

• Role of MCBS Scores in Value Assessment. JSMO-ESMO Joint Symposium. JSMO Annual Meeting. Nagoya, Japan.

• Interpreting Clinical Evidence. ASCO- GI Annual Symposium. San Francisco, US.

2023

NATIONAL

• Common Sense in Oncology: How not to be misled by Headlines and Editorials. Grand Rounds Lecture – London Cancer Program, Western University London, Ontario

• The final translational cancer research: improving patient outcomes in the real world. Keynote speaker – Inaugural Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Clinical Translational Annual Meeting Toronto

INTERNATIONAL

• Plenary Session: Overcoming the hazards of survival analysis. Invited speaker and panelist – AAADV meeting.

• Invited speaker – 25^th AGITG Annual Meeting. New Zealand

• Cancer Groundshot. Global Oncology Lecture Series – Mass General Cancer Center. DFCI. MD Anderson Cancer Center. Joint Program.

• Equity in Cancer Care. Keynote Speaker – Medical Oncology Group of Australia Annual Meeting. Perth, Australia.

• Global needs in Lung Cancer Treatment and Research. Invited Speaker – Thoracic Oncology Munich: State of the Art 2023.

• Financial Toxicity of Cancer Treatment: From Acknowledgment to Solutions. Keynote Speaker – Japanese Society of Medical Oncology, Annual Meeting

• Regulatory and recruitment barriers to clinical trials. Advanced Breast Cancer- 7 meeting. Lisbon, Portugal

• Value in Cancer Care and Role of CDK 4/6 inhibitor in breast cancer. Keynote Speaker – Sri Lanka College of Oncology Annual Meeting. Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• Invited faculty – Royal Society of Medicine. Global Cancer Control: Building Bridges. London Global Cancer Week.

• Scientific Committee Member and Invited Speaker – Ecancer India. Choosing Wisely.

• Conference organizer, conference president, and faculty – Ecancer Nepal. Research Methods Workshop.

2022

NATIONAL

• What is the best control arm for cancer drug RCTs in LMICs? Canadian Global Oncology Workshop Montreal, Canada

• Value of Cancer Drugs. Keynote speaker – Ottawa Breast Cancer Retreat.

• Best of ASCO Vancouver 2022. Health Services Research and Health Policy. Oncology Education

INTERNATIONAL

• Choosing Clinical Trials Wisely. KESHO Annual Meeting Kenya

• Common Sense in Oncology. Houston Methodist Cancer Center Texas, USA.

• Assessing the Quality of Control Arm in Cancer Drug RCTs in LMICs. Barcelona, Spain. Session Chair and Invited Speaker – Session on Drug Development in LMICs. ENA 2022: EORTC-NCI-AACR joint meeting.

• Pitfalls in Interpretation of Clinical Trials. Congress President – Ecancer Critical Appraisal course Kathmandu, Nepal.

• How to read a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ecancer Critical Appraisal course Kathmandu, Nepal

• Organizing Committee Member and Invited Faculty. Ecancer Choosing Wisely meeting Mumbai, India

• Invited Speaker. Long term follow-up of Single Arm Registration Trials ESMO 2022 Annual Congress

• Faculty. Webinar to NBCC Advocates. National Breast Cancer CoalitionWhat to look out for when reading a clinical trial report?

• Queen’s Global Oncology Masterclass for Oncologists in Africa.How I read a clinical trial publication?

• Invited Speaker Cancer Groundshot. Clinical Trials in LMICs. ASCO 2022 Annual Meeting.

• Chair. Cancer Groundshot. ASCO 2022 Annual Meeting

• Clinical trials in LMICs: a priority? eCancer Bolivia

• Outstanding young researcher from Asia- Presidential talk. Japanese Society of Medical Oncology From Nepal to Nippon to the North: My Journey of Common Sense in Oncology

• Featured Speaker. New Zealand Society of Oncology Annual Meeting. Introduction to Global Oncology

2021

NATIONAL

• Journey of Common Sense in Oncology. A talk delivered at the Board meeting of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

• Best of ASCO Vancouver 2021. Oncology Education.

• Global Daily Highlights from ASCO. Summary of the plenaries. Oncology Education.

• The four forgotten skills of a medical oncologist. Invited Speaker -Atlantic Canada Oncology Group Virtual Meeting

INTERNATIONAL

• Panelist. Cancer vaccines and trial designs. World Vaccine Congress

• Keynote Speaker – European Cancer Summit 2021. Cancer Groundshot.

• Oncocorner. Sharing Progress in Cancer with ASCO. Examples of Telemedicine Application worldwide.

• Queen’s Global Oncology Masterclass for Oncologists in Africa.How to critically appraise a clinical trial report?

• Nepal Health Research Council. My journey of common sense in oncology.

• Ecancer Argentina. The importance of communication skills in oncology.

• Ecancer Choosing Wisely India Meeting. Choosing Trials Wisely: What type of clinical trials should be a priority for LMICs?

• Cancer GRACE Patient Education Ambassador’s Meeting. The Road Less Traveled- A Talk on Mentorship and Life Lessons

• ESMO 2021 Annual Meeting. WHO-ESMO Special session.Access to cancer drugs in LMICs.

• Tata Medical Center, Kolkata. Annual Research Week. Invited faculty. How to read phase 3 RCTs?

• World Conference on Lung Cancer. Chair, Education Session on Health Services Research and Health Economics.

• Consilium Scientific. Invited Faculty. Is Evidence-Based Medicine being hijacked in Oncology?

• ASCO Project ECHO in Nepal. Session 2: Treatment of Advanced EGFR + NSCLC. June 28,2021. Invited international faculty.

• Reading between the lines-Understanding trial design issues that can distort the appraisal of clinical benefit of cancer drugs. Grand Rounds Lecture in Department of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago

• Systematic Reviews workshop hosted by Nepal Health Research Council. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis- Perspectives of an Author/Editor Invited faculty.

• Early Phase Clinical Trials and Global Oncology. A symposium hosted by Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille | APHM. Early Phase Clinical Trials- A need for Global Oncology? Invited speaker

• Kolkata ecancer conference. Communication in oncology: Does it matter? Keynote address.

• Assessing the value of new cancer drugs Evidence based Management of Cancers in India-EBM 2021 Mumbai, India.

• Common Sense in Lung Cancer. Invited Faculty. World Conference on Lung Cancer IASLC, Singapore.

2020

NATIONAL

• Common Sense in Global Oncology and Cancer Groundshot. Global Health Education Initiative University of Toronto.

INTERNATIONAL

• Cancer Groundshot– The concept of prioritization in oncology. Keynote lecture at the 2020 Kenya International Cancer Conference organized by the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology (KESHO).

• Seminar on Financial Toxicity in Cancer: From Italy to Worldwide. Invited Faculty for the launch of PROFFIT tool to measure financial toxicity of cancer in Italy.  

• Cancer Groundshot– The need for prioritization in Global Oncology. Invited talk and discussant at the Presidential Symposium of the 2020 Annual ASTRO meeting.

• What Patients and Advocates should know about Clinical Trials? Brazilian Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Online invited talk.

• Implementation issues skewing the MCBS Scores. Invited Faculty, ESMO 2020 Annual Meeting.  

• Poor study design – should they be penalized in the MCBS scores? Invited online talk to the ESMO-MCBS Working Group Annual Meeting.

• Online lecture on RCT Methodologies to the participants of the TMC Kolkata Research Methodology Workshop. India.

• Surrogate Endpoints in Breast Cancer. Webinar to the patient advocates from Breast Cancer Research Advocacy Network.

• Surrogate Endpoints in Oncology and their role in regulatory approval. Webinar for the patient advocates at National Breast Cancer Coalition.

• How to read a P3 RCT publication? Webinar series delivered to oncologists and trainees in Africa.    

• Webinar on drug repurposing for cancer in the COVID19 era. Panelist – Organized by the Anticancer Fund, Belgium.  

• Why patients with cancer continue to have poor outcomes despite multiple drug approvals? A dose of caution. Webinar for the patient advocates at National Breast Cancer Coalition

2019

NATIONAL

• Centre for Sense in Oncology: Why oncology needs more common sense and less cheerleading? Invited speaker – Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health. Ottawa, Canada

INTERNATIONAL

• Repurposing of Drugs in Oncology. Annual Scientific Congress of Malaysian Oncological Society (ASCOMOS 2019).

• Why FDA Approval doesn’t necessarily mean you should use the drug? Grand Rounds Lecture. Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India.

• Challenges of Implementing Western Cancer Care Guidelines in LMICs. Ecancer Choosing Treatments Wisely Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India  

• Challenges of Implementing Western Cancer Care Guidelines in LMICs. Choosing Wisely India Ecancer conference, New Delhi, India.  

• Cancer Groundshot. Choosing Wisely India Ecancer conference, New Delhi, India.  

• Regulatory barriers for cancer drug approvals: are they really necessary? Invited Speaker, ESMO ASIA Congress 2019 Singapore.

• Cost-effective chemotherapy use in low-resource setting Invited Faculty. AORTIC meeting, Mozambique.

• Choosing Wisely in LMICs: Colorectal cancer and Lung cancer. Invited Faculty AORTIC meeting, Mozambique.  

• Balancing access to therapy with overtreatment in Low And Middle Income Countries. ASCO Invited Faculty ASCO-AORTIC joint conference, Maputo, Mozambique.

• Cancer patients’ expectations from participation in clinical trials. Invited Faculty, Education session ASCO 2019 Annual Meeting, Chicago.

• The Conundrum of Cancer Screening. Harvard Medical School-School of Bioethics, Policy ethics symposium. Panel moderator Harvard Medical School, Boston, US.  

• Advances in Anticancer Therapy Delivery and Cancer Health Disparities. Panel moderator – 2019 Summit on National and Global Cancer Health Disparities. Binaytara Foundation, Seattle, US.

• On Prioritization in Medicine/Oncology. Keynote speaker. 3^rd international meeting of the Forward Project. Department of Epidemiology, University of Rome, Italy.   

2018

NATIONAL

• Surrogate measures in oncology: challenges and opportunities. Talk in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

• Common Sense in Oncology. Grand Round Speaker. Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU), Portland

• The Path to Publications in Medicine: Personal Experiences and Encounters. Invited inspirational talk to the attendees of the 6th Annual conference of Health Foundation Nepal, Staten Island University Hospital, New York.

• How to publish a paper? Invited talk to medical students. Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal

INTERNATIONAL

• Mini-oral and poster sessions on public policy. Moderator and Discussant, ESMO Asia Congress 2018 Singapore.

• Research Capacity building in low-and-middle-income countries. Invited Speaker, ESMO Asia Congress 2018 Singapore.

• BHGI Global Summit on International Breast Health and Cancer Control: Improving Breast Health Care through Resource-Stratified Phased Implementation Invited Panelist Seattle, USA

• Financial toxicity and out of pocket costs. Invited speaker at the World Conference on Lung Cancer IASLC, Toronto, Canada

• Do we need a center for sense in Oncology? Grand rounds, Queen’s University Hospital Kingston, ON, Canada

• New Technologies in cancer care: hope or hype? Invited speaker and panel moderator 6th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research, a satellite symposium of the Consortium of Universities on Global Health (CUGH), New York, US

2017

INTERNATIONAL

• How (and why) similar data are interpreted differently by the oncology community. Grand rounds, Oncology Center, UZ Brussels, Belgium

• Cancer Groundshot: Going Global before Going to the Moon. Invited Speaker, 2^nd global oncology meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK

• Same Data; Different Interpretations in Oncology. Grand Round Speaker. Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Kentucky.