This webinar aims to expand the discussion from the session “How to Make High-Quality Evidence-Based Supportive Care a Reality,” presented at the SIOP Annual Congress in Ottawa (2023). We will share the video of this session in advance with all SIOP members who register for the webinar. The goal is to have an hour-long discussion about the implementation of supportive care guidelines, with active participation from the audience.
- Date: August 7, 2024
- Time: 9am EST
- Session: Advancing High-Quality Evidence-Based Supportive Care
- Network: Young SIOP Network
- Pre-Webinar Video Screening: click here (optional; prior to the webinar, attendees are strongly encouraged to view the video recording from a related session which took place at SIOP 2023 Annual Congress)
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Guest Speakers:
- Dr Lee Dupuis, Canada
- Dr Jason Freedman, USA
- Dr Gilbert Olbara, Kenya
- Dr Guzide Burca Aydin, Turkiye
- Callum Mullen
Dr. Lee Dupuis, SickKids, Canada: is a clinician scientist whose work focuses on the supportive care of children. She works at the Hospital fro Sick Children in Canada. She has used the results of her research to develop clinical practice guidelines regarding treatment-related symptom prevention and management that have been endorsed by the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO), the Children’s Oncology Group and groups in several other jurisdictions. Dupuis has also developed and validated important symptom-screening tools, such as the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics (SSPedi) tool, which evaluates 15 symptoms important for children with cancer, and the Pediatric Nausea Assessment Tool (PeNAT), which has changed the way clinicians evaluate nausea severity, a symptom important to patients and parents.
Dr Jason Freedman is an attending physician in the Division of Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His research focuses on epidemiologic and translational research within pediatric supportive oncology. He is currently involved in several national supportive care initiatives and trials within the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) and is the principal investigator/co-principal investigator of collaborative institutional trials focused on supportive care and organ toxicity (namely pulmonary and thrombotic microangiopathy) in HSCT. Dr. Freedman serves on the antiemetic steering committee at COG, and is vice-chair of the Pediatric Study Group within the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.
Dr. Gilbert Olbara, is a Paediatric Oncologist and Hematologist at MTRH/ Moi University Ampath. Dr. Olbara has participated in multiple collaborative research projects in the field of implementation science including use of flow cytometry to enhance diagnosis of hematological malignancies, use of targeted therapies for pediatric lymphoma , and in modelling a virtual cancer education program for primary healthcare workers in western Kenya. Dr. Olbara’s work includes building a pathway to optimal childhood cancer care at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and throughout western Kenya.The pathway includes education to improve rates of diagnosis, interventions to reduce treatment abandonment, development of treatment protocols for specific diseases and enhanced supportive care. The result has been an increase in the number of children diagnosed with cancer, reduced rates of treatment abandonment and increased survival rates.
Dr. Guzide Burca Aydin, She is the Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Oncology at the University of Havettepe in Turkey. In 2009, she worked as a guest scientist in the Pediatric Neuro-oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Units at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA. She became an Associate Professor at Hacettepe Hospital in 2012. She is interested in childhood lymphomas and solid organ cancers.
Callum Mullen is a childhood cancer survivor and Ph.D student in Epidemiology at McGill University. He is a member of McGill’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology where he studies time to diagnosis and treatment in children. As a survivor-turned-researcher, Callum is uniquely positioned to combine his lived and learned experiences to contribute to the improvement of cancer care for future generations.
This webinar aims to expand the discussion from the session “How to Make High-Quality Evidence-Based Supportive Care a Reality,” presented at Ottawa 2023. We will share the video of this session in advance with all SIOP members who register for the webinar. The goal is to have an hour-long discussion about the implementation of supportive care guidelines, with active participation from the audience.
