Dear SIOP Nursing Network Members,

Thank you for voting in the recent elections for SIOP Nursing Network leadership posts. We are writing to update you on the results.

Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Sullivan on being re-elected Chair of the SIOP Nursing Network. Dr. Sullivan attained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Michigan State University. She earned both her master’s degree as an Acute and Continuing Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is presently a postdoctoral research fellow at UAB where her research focuses on measuring pediatric oncology nursing quality and establishing an evidence-base of nursing-sensitive outcomes internationally. Her passion and focus are to support and enable nurses to improve practice and outcomes. Dr. Sullivan has worked with nurses internationally through St. Jude Global and other avenues for nearly a decade. While at St. Jude Global, she expanded its nursing outreach from 12 to more than 40 countries, transitioning from a twinning to a network approach. She established the Latin American Nurse Educator Network; St. Jude-VIVA Asia Pacific Nursing Institute; and co-led the development of the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON) Spanish chemo/biotherapy certificate courses in Latin America and laid the groundwork for Portuguese and Russian versions. As past chair of the APHON Global Outreach Committee, she led strategic planning efforts and transformed the International Task Force into a robust and productive committee with several work streams. She is presently the SIOP Nursing Network Chair and has been active in the Young SIOP Educational Day Working Group, Membership Committee, Global Health Nursing Working Group, and Baseline Nursing Standards. Dr. Sullivan is also engaged in the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) and is passionate about integrating nursing priorities within national childhood cancer control planning.

Congratulations to Lorena Segovia Weber who was elected Vice-Chair of the SIOP Nursing Network. Lorena is a nurse from the University of Chile, trained in HSCT in Curitiba, Brazil, and Certified in Pediatric Hemato-oncology by the ONCC. She was the Director of the Latina American Center for Pediatric Oncology Nursing Education: A St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital initiative, collaborating with Dr. Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital in Santiago, Chile, aiming to enhance pediatric oncology nursing education across Latin America. Currently, she is Program Coordinator in the St Jude Global Nursing Department. Member of the Association of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Nurses (APHON) Spanish Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Subcommittee, who introduced the Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Provider and Instructor course in Latin American countries. She received the APHON “Patricia Greene Leadership Award” (2016) and the “APHON Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Instructor of the Year Award” (2019). Lorena was a member of the SIOP Nursing Steering Committee (2021-2024).

Feel free to email the SIOP Nursing Network leaders (programs@siop-online.org) with any suggestions for activities or events that the Network can offer in 2024.

Warm regards,

Steering Group of the SIOP Nursing Network

Courtney Sullivan, Chair

Lorena Segovia Weber, Vice-Chair

Marilyn Hockenberry, Steering Group Member

Elianeth Kiteni, Steering Group Member

Mohammad Alqudimat, Steering Group Member

Natalie Bradford, Steering Group Member

Shelby Schroeder, Steering Group Member

Shenila Anwarali, Steering Group Member

Dee Ann Omatsu, Steering Group Member

Tadala Mulemba, Steering Group Member