Today’s profile is of Ms. Laura Tan, who works at the VIVA-University Children’s Cancer Centre at the National University Hospital as an Outreach Program Senior Nursing Lecturer where she focuses on expanding Nursing Training in the Asia Pacific Region.
Registration Open: 2023 iPOG Network Virtual Conference
2023 iPOG Network Virtual Conference, 21 and 22 November 2023
LATAM Master Course of Pediatric Oncology 2024
Karpelowsky Jonathan, Prof
MBBCH, FCS, CERT PAED SURG, FRACS, PHD Jonathan is a paediatric surgeon and Senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. His main appointment is at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where he commenced as a specialist in 2010. He also holds appointments at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Private Hospital. Following a period training […]
Barakat Lamia, Dr
Dr. Barakat’s research focuses on the evidence-based assessment of psychosocial risk and resilience in families of children newly diagnosed with cancer. She also investigates the transition off treatment and family interventions to improve disease management and health-related quality of life, identifying strategies to increase recruitment and retention in pediatric clinical trials, and strategies to promote […]
Launch of the special issue on childhood cancer in the Pan American Journal of Public Health
This special supplement is a joint effort of the Pan American Health Organization, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the Member States
Call for Quality Improvement (QI) Nurse Scholar Applications 2024
The SIOP Nursing Network is calling for applications from SIOP nurses to apply to the SIOP Nursing Quality Improvement Program. This 11-month program is designed to foster development of team projects to promote excellence in care of the child with cancer and their families. Development of a QI program will provide an organized approach to integrating evidence-based practice that will have an ultimate benefit of improving care for children with cancer and their families. This program supports multidisciplinary QI teams, led by a QI nurse scholar, at childhood cancer centers around the world.