Dear SIOP Leaders,

Sincere thanks to our SIOP leaders for your hard work and dedication to SIOP and SIOP members. Please take a few minutes to see the variety of activities that has been developed and offered last month as well as a few updates and opportunities.

Updates on the Wonderful Work and Initiatives across the Society

  1. The SIOP GHN AYA Working Group, in collaboration with SLAOP, held an educational webinar on 7/11/2024.
  2. The SIOP GHN Psychosocial Wellbeing Working Group held an educational webinar on “Integrated Psychological Care: Promoting Positive Mental Health across the Pediatric Oncology Illness” on 7/10/2024 with a guest lecturer Dr. Niki Jurbergs.
  3. The SIOP Nutrition Network held an educational webinar on “Medical management and nutritional implications in children with neutropenic enterocolitis” on 7/31/ 2024, with guest lecturer Dr. Daniel Hailu Kefenie.
  4. Eric Bouffet gave a lecture on “Targeted Therapies for Pediatric Low Grade Gliomas” on 7/25/2024, a collaboration between Seminars in Preventive Oncology of the Istanbul University Oncology Institute and SIOP Supportive Care Network. More than 200 colleagues attended!
  5. SIOP Asia 2025 Congress (Saudi Arabia) will take place on April 12-15, 2025. Please save the dates!
  6. The SIOP SCN Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine SIG shared an update about their recent in-person meeting in Turin and the progress achieved at that meeting.
  7. The “Proud to be a SIOP Member” Campaign in social media was launched and is ongoing. Please learn more about how to participate here.
  8. The SIOP Supportive Care Network held an update meeting for its Network members on 7/18/2024.
  9. The Governance Committee met to review the TOR of the GHN Partnerships WG and a draft of the GHN TOR was developed.
  10. The SIOP WHO NSA Committee successfully submitted their comments to the WHO’s web-based consultation phase 1 on the NCD agenda.
  11. The Essential Medicines WG is running a survey to understand global access to rituximab for children with cancer targeting North America and Canada.
  12. The SIOP Global Mapping Project is drafting its TOR.
  13. The SIOP Scientific Committee announced the late breaking abstract submission deadline (Aug 14, 2024) for highly relevant, impactful research whereby the data became available in the last three months.
  14. The SIOP Advocacy Committee has planned 2024 Gold September campaign jointly with CCI has started based on our activities from previous years.
  15. The SIOP Congress Development Committee finalized the planning for the SIOP Annual Congress 2028 Call for Bids (Europe) as well as the 2029 process which will move away from the geographic rotation and allow bids from around the world.
  16. The SIOP Standardization Group held the First kick-off meeting, and the group will continue to meet on a monthly basis until the project is finalized.

If you wish to join any of the SIOP Networks or Working Groups, please join them through SIOP CONNECT > Groups.

Leadership Positions at SIOP: Nominations and Elections Coming Up

  1. SIOP Survivorship Network: Please apply by Aug 15, 2024.
  2. SIOP Nursing Network: Please apply by Aug 31, 2024
  3. SIOP Nutrition Network: Please apply by Sept 4, 2024
  4. Young SIOP Network: Please apply by Aug 31, 2024
  5. SIOP Supportive Care Network: Please apply by Aug 31, 2024
  6. SIOP Epidemiology and Outcomes Network: selection completed, announcement to the Society is pending.
  7. SIOP Nutrition Network SG Member: Please apply by Sept 4, 2024
  8. SIOP GHN Research & Innovations WG: Please apply by Sept 8, 2024
  9. SIOP GHN Traditional & Complementary Medicine WG: Please apply by Sept 8, 2024

For your general SIOP Knowledge

  1. SIOP CONNECT has opened a group with useful information for anyone attending the Hawaii Congress. Search for “Annual Congress” under the Groups in SIOP CONNECT and join!

Upcoming Congresses

  1. SIOP 2024 Congress (Hawaii) registration is now open. Those who attended the Asia Congress and Europe Congress and wish to register for the Hawaii Congress receive 10% discount. Codes have been emailed to all attendees.

If you have offered any member activities in July 2024 and this summary does not capture it, please update the Secretariat so that we can highlight your work in the future! We look forward to your activities and member engagement offerings in Aug 2024! Feel free to reach out if you need any help with your activities.

 

Warm regards,

SIOP Secretariat